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,...

TOKYO, May 2 (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp ( MSBHF ) forecast on Friday its net profit for the year ending March would fall 26% to 700 billion yen ($4.82 billion), citing the absence of major capital gains. Mitsubishi ( MSBHF ) posted 950.7 billion yen in net profit for the year ended in March, down 1.4% from...

(Reuters) - Amazon ( AMZN ) on Thursday tried to temper investor concerns about the impact of the Trump administration's tariffs on its e-commerce business, but the company may have few options left to ensure small third-party sellers stay put in the face of crushing levies. U.S. President Trump has imposed 145% duties on imports from China, a move that...

LONDON (Reuters) -Shell on Friday reported a 28% drop in first-quarter net profit to $5.58 billion, beating analyst expectations, and kept the pace of its share buyback programme steady amid falling oil prices and lower refining margins than last year. It said it would buy back $3.5 billion worth of shares for the next three months, the fourteenth consecutive quarter...