06:08 AM EDT, 06/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Walt Disney ( DIS ) -owned ESPN ( DIS ) is acquiring a minority stake in the Premier Lacrosse League, media outlets reported Wednesday. The deal reportedly includes a new five-year media rights agreement with the PLL, covering both the men's and women's leagues, though financial terms were not disclosed. All PLL matches...

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,...

06:08 AM EDT, 06/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Walmart ( WMT ) is piloting dark stores, which look like retail stores but are closed to the public, in a bid to accelerate deliveries, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The retail giant has opened a dark store in Dallas and intends to add another in Bentonville,...

(Reuters) -More than 40% of agentic artificial intelligence projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 due to escalating costs and unclear business value, according to a report by Gartner. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Tech giants such as Salesforce and Oracle have embraced AI agents, systems that can autonomously complete goals and take action, pouring billions into the technology in...