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,...

09:46 AM EDT, 08/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Roku ( ROKU ) said Tuesday that it is launching its Howdy ad-free video subscription service in the US later the same day. The company said the service will give its subscribers unlimited access to its video library, without ads as interruption. Roku ( ROKU ) said Howdy's launch is already reflected in...

WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. government's central purchasing arm on Tuesday added OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude to a list of approved artificial intelligence vendors to speed use by government agencies. The move by the General Services Administration, allows the federal government advance adoption of AI tools by making them available for government agencies through a...

09:46 AM EDT, 08/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Atkore ( ATKR ) said Tuesday that Chief Executive William Waltz plans to retire and that the board started a succession planning process for a new CEO. Waltz has informed the company's board of his decision and will remain in his role until a successor is named, the electrical products manufacturer said. Shares...