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,...

April 30 (Reuters) - Tesla board members reached out about a month ago to several executive search firms to find a successor to CEO Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The current status of the board's push, which, according to the report, was sparked by Musk's heavy involvement with the Trump...

(Reuters) -S&P Global Ratings revised the credit outlook for Australia's Woodside to negative from stable on Thursday after the energy company reached a final investment decision of $17.5 billion on its Louisiana liquefied natural gas project. Woodside deciding to proceed with the project without a material sell-down of its offtake exposure has eroded ratings headroom, the rating agency said. However,...

MELBOURNE, May 1 (Reuters) - Alcoa's ( AA ) order book for the second quarter remained strong and the company is yet to see a drop in orders related to the tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, CEO William Oplinger said on Thursday. The aluminum producer said last month during its first-quarter post-earnings conference call it expects U.S. tariffs...