April 29 (Reuters) - Tobacco company Altria ( MO ) on Tuesday beat first-quarter profit estimates but flagged an $873 million impairment at its e-cigarette business, where shipments dropped 70% amid a patent dispute. Rising demand for its smoking alternatives, such as on! nicotine pouches and NJOY vapes, helped the company counter the impact from lost cigarette sales as smokers...

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,...

08:08 AM EDT, 04/29/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Africa Energy ( HPMCF ) on Tuesday said it appointed Phindile Masangane as head of strategy and business development. Masangane, who will also join Africa Energy's ( HPMCF ) board and has over 15 years of executive management experience in the energy sector, most recently was part of the leadership team at Sasol...

08:08 AM EDT, 04/29/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. ( BHC ) , a global, diversified pharmaceutical company, and its aesthetic business, Solta Medical, announced Tuesday that Health Canada has granted medical device license clearance for Thermage FLX, the latest generation of the globally-recognized Thermage system for non-invasive skin tightening and contouring. The clearance of Thermage FLX in...