06:04 AM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The European Union aims to raise purchases of US goods by 50 billion euros ($56.77 billion) in a bid to resolve trade tensions, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic. Europe seeks a fair agreement with the Trump administration, but does not consider a 10% tariff on its exports...

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,...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on Friday over concerns on how it protects user information and was ordered to suspend data transfers to China if its processing is not brought into compliance within six months. Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, failed to show...

06:05 AM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- ING Groep ( ING ) reported Q1 earnings Friday of 0.47 euros ($0.53) per share, down from 0.48 euros a year earlier. Four analysts polled by FactSet expected 0.46 euros. Revenue for the quarter ended March 31, expressed as total income, was 5.64 billion euros, compared with 5.58 billion euros a year earlier....