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,...

08:48 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The wheels may be starting to fall off the Canadian labor market, with a 33,000 decline in jobs during March falling well short of consensus forecasts for a 10,000 gain, said CIBC. By sector, employment fell sharpest in wholesale & retail and information & culture, although the decline in the former only partly...

08:47 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Alphabet's (GOOGL, GOOG) Google ( GOOG ) and Amazon ( AMZN ) are seeking to weaken Microsoft's ( MSFT ) domination of government software contracts, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The technology companies' lobbyists are highlighting criticisms by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency that the awarding of software...

April 4 (Reuters) - Sarepta Therapeutics ( SRPT ) said on Friday it would temporarily halt three trials testing its gene therapy Elevidys. Last month, the company said a 16-year-old boy died from acute liver failure months after receiving the gene therapy for a rare muscular dystrophy. ...