Mastercard Inc ( MA ) shares are trading higher by 2.06% to $553.54 Tuesday morning following the announcement of a partnership with Chainlink. What To Know: Per Mastercard ( MA ), the collaboration aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the evolving world of decentralized finance (DeFi). This new initiative will allow Mastercard’s global network of cardholders to...

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,...

GEORGETOWN, June 24 (Reuters) - Guyana's oil output rose to 667,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May from 611,000 bpd in April, fueled by increases at two of the three production facilities operated by major Exxon Mobil ( XOM ), the government said in a bulletin seen by Reuters on Tuesday. ...

ProCap BTC, a cryptocurrency financial services firm founded by investor Anthony Pompliano, wasted no time putting new money to work. Less than 24 hours after revealing a $1 billion merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp. (CCCM) and a separate $775 million capital raise, the firm snapped up 3,724 bitcoin BTC at a time-weighted average price of $103,785 per coin. The...