SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (Reuters) - Decagon, a startup providing customer service solutions powered by artificial intelligence, said on Monday it had raised $131 million in a funding round that valued it at $1.5 billion. The San Francisco company's Series C round was led by venture capital firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, with existing investors A*, Bain Capital Ventures and...

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,...

NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - General Mills ( GIS ) is introducing a fresh version of its Blue Buffalo pet food for dogs, aimed at competing with popular brands such as Freshpet ( FRPT ) and venture capital-backed The Farmer's Dog. The Minnesota-based packaged food maker is entering the fresh pet food market because it projects that over the...

08:00 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Getty Images' ( GETY ) proposed merger with Shutterstock ( SSTK ) has attracted potential scrutiny by the UK Competition and Markets Authority. The antitrust regulator said Monday it is considering whether the deal would lead to the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002...