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,...

10:40 AM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Mastercard's ( MA ) response in the fourth paragraph.) Visa (V) and Mastercard ( MA ) shares were edging lower Friday after Bloomberg reported EU antitrust authorities are looking into the two companies' fees, their overall transparency, and whether retailers have a choice in accepting Visa and Mastercard ( MA )...

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co ( ADM ) shares fell 1.1% to $47.42 Friday morning following renewed fears of a U.S.-EU trade war. The decline came after President Donald Trump proposed a sweeping 50% tariff on all European Union imports, igniting investor concern over potential retaliatory measures that could target American agricultural exports. What To Know: ADM, a global agribusiness powerhouse, relies heavily...

May 23 (Reuters) - A German consumer rights group on Friday failed to win a court injunction to stop Meta Platforms ( META ) from training its artificial intelligence models with Facebook and Instagram user posts. The court in the western city of Cologne said it did not grant an injunction sought by state-funded consumer rights group Verbraucherzentrale NRW. Meta...