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,...

04:54 AM EDT, 06/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Kimberly-Clark ( KMB ) is close to selling its Kleenex and tissue businesses outside of North America to Brazil's Suzano (SUZ) for about $3.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The transaction could be completed as soon as Thursday, according to the report. Kimberly-Clark ( KMB...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, which the ChatGPT maker described in a report released Thursday. While the scope and tactics employed by these groups have expanded, the operations detected were generally small in scale and targeted limited audiences, the San Francisco-based startup said. Since ChatGPT...

05:06 AM EDT, 06/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the latest stock price movement in the headline and the last paragraph.) Planet Labs (PL) reported late Wednesday fiscal Q1 non-GAAP net income of $0.00 per share, compared to a net loss of $0.05 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected a loss of $0.04. Revenue for the three months...