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,...

06:30 AM EDT, 05/27/2025 (MT Newswires) -- E2open (ETWO) shares jumped early Tuesday as the cloud-based software platform agreed to be acquired by Australian logistics-software provider WiseTech Global in an all-cash deal worth around $2.1 billion. Shareholders of e2open will receive $3.30 per share in cash, a premium of about 28% to the company's closing stock price on Friday, it...

May 27 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Tuesday: ** Harmony Gold, South Africa's top gold producer by volume, has agreed to buy Australian miner Mac Copper Ltd ( MTAL ) in a deal worth $1.03 billion as it steps up a diversification into copper. ** Malaysia-headquartered private equity firm Navis...

(Reuters) -Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings ( PDD ) missed Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as its domestic platform Pinduoduo suffered from weak consumer sentiment while its international business Temu was hit by uncertain global trade policies. U.S.-listed shares of the company fell close to 7% in premarket trading. Despite deep price cuts from retailers and government...