SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

10:02 AM EDT, 08/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- StoneX Group ( SNEX ) said Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of The Benchmark Company, an investment banking services firm. Financial details weren't disclosed. The deal, first announced on March 11, brings Benchmark's investment banking, equity research, and institutional sales and trading services under StoneX's ( SNEX ) Institutional division, the company...

Aug 5 (Reuters) - EQV Ventures Acquisition Corp ( EQV ): * PRESIDIO PETROLEUM TO GO PUBLIC VIA BUSINESS COMBINATION WITH EQV VENTURES ACQUISITION CORP., CREATING A DIFFERENTIATED DIVIDEND YIELD-DRIVEN C CORP FOCUSED ON THE OPTIMIZATION, ACQUISITION AND PRODUCTION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS * EQV VENTURES ACQUISITION CORP ( EQV ) - PRESIDIO'S POST-DEAL ENTERPRISE VALUE ABOUT $660 MILLION...

SYDNEY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Australia's internet watchdog has said the world's biggest social media firms are still turning a blind eye to online child sex abuse material on their platforms, and said YouTube in particular had been unresponsive to its enquiries. In a report released on Wednesday, the eSafety Commissioner said YouTube, along with Apple, failed to track the...