* UniCredit has 28% stake in Commerzbank, ECB clearance to own up to 29.9% * Merger would be best outcome for all parties, UniCredit CEO Orcel says * Orcel calls for talks, says solution needs to be found in any case By Tom Sims, Andreas Rinke, Valentina Za FRANKFURT, July 2 (Reuters) - The CEO of UniCredit renewed his push...

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,...

July 2 (Reuters) - An Instagram outage that affected thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday had eased, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. As of 12:10 p.m. ET, there were 849 incidents compared with 16,747 reports earlier, according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources. Instagram parent Meta Platforms ( META...

12:43 PM EDT, 07/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Dr. Phone Fix Canada (DPF.V) on Wednesday said it is expanding a partnership with Assurant (AIZ), to secure supplies of used phones for its retail network. The company said Assurant partners with leading brands, unlocking a nation-wide supply of certified pre-owned smartphones for the company's 35 retail locations across four provinces. This deeper...