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,...

HOUSTON (Reuters) -U.S. net imports of crude oil rose to 4.6 million barrels per day (bpd), its highest since June 2024, data from the Energy Information Administration showed, as export tumbled due to a narrow spread between U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude and Brent. Net imports rose by 2.94 million bpd in the week to June 27, the highest increase...

12:11 PM EDT, 07/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Highland Copper ( HDRSF ) on Wednesday said its 100%-owned Copperwood Project in Michigan continues to make significant progress toward a near-term construction decision. The company said the Copperwood project is under consideration for a $50 million grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and is awaiting final approval from the Senate Appropriations...

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms' Instagram was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were 16,747 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 11.40 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. ...