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,...

11:19 AM EDT, 05/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Seagate Technology Holdings ( STX ) is expected to see increased product supply, thanks to advancements in hard drive technology, BofA Securities said Wednesday in a report. The report cited a shift to heat-assisted magnetic recording, which allows hard drives to store more data by using a tiny laser to heat the disk...

11:18 AM EDT, 05/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Verint Systems ( VRNT ) said Wednesday it signed a $13 million multiyear deal with a US insurance firm to increase workforce capacity in its customer experience operations. The company said its artificial intelligence-powered bots will automate repetitive and manual workflows to help achieve the capacity gains. Verint ( VRNT ) said it...

11:18 AM EDT, 05/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- XPeng ( XPEV ) said Wednesday it launched the MONA M03 Max electric hatchback sedan in China at a $20,000 price point. The EV is powered by dual Nvidia ( NVDA ) Orin-X chipsets and comes with the AI Turing smart driving system for element detection, including complex obstacles, according to a statement....