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,...

12:22 PM EDT, 05/08/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) appointed Robert Fergus to head its artificial intelligence research lab, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing an announcement the company made internally. Fergus succeeds Joelle Pineau, who announced departure plans last month, the report said. The appointee had co-founded Facebook AI Research lab in 2014, and had been working at...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will urge Congress on Thursday to approve billions of dollars to replace aging radar, telecommunications equipment, towers and other facilities in an overhaul of the crumbling air traffic control system, airline officials said. Duffy, who will be joined by the CEOs of the five largest airlines and senior executives at Boeing and Airbus...

12:26 PM EDT, 05/08/2025 (MT Newswires) -- John Murphy, President and CFO, on May 07, 2025, sold 88,658 shares in Coca Cola (KO) for $6,391,710. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Murphy has control over a total of 316,330 common shares of the company, with 205,511 shares held directly and 110,819 controlled indirectly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21344/000112760225013653/xslF345X05/form4.xml Price: 72.05,...