(Reuters) -Zak Folkman, the co-founder of U.S. President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency platform World Liberty Financial, said on Wednesday that the company will issue an audit of its stablecoin within days and that it planned a new app. Folkman also hinted that WLF's governance token, known as WLFI, could soon become tradable in an interview at the Permissionless conference on Wednesday,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wells Fargo has hired a senior banker from Citigroup to lead its activism defense practice, as corporations scramble to build out business units to help clients facing pressure from activist investors. The bank confirmed to Reuters that it is bringing on Muir Paterson as a managing director and head of shareholder advisory and defense from Citigroup where...

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,...

05:31 AM EDT, 06/26/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) has hired three OpenAI researchers for its advanced artificial intelligence efforts, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The social media giant has hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who were working in OpenAI's office in Zurich, the unnamed sources...