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,...

May 28 (Reuters) - A second person died from their injuries in hospital following a fire at a Chevron ( CVX )-operated oil platform offshore Angola, bringing the number of fatalities to three, government and company officials said late on Tuesday. Two workers were initially transferred to specialist units at hospitals in South Africa, while the body of a third...

(Reuters) - Chile's SQM, the world's second-largest lithium producer, on Wednesday missed quarterly profit estimates and warned of lower realized prices in the next quarter due to oversupply of the metal that is crucial for electric vehicle batteries. The company posted first-quarter net profit of $137.5 million, or 48 cents a share, compared to analysts' estimates of $171.20 million, or...

04:24 AM EDT, 05/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile ( SQM ) reported Q1 net income Wednesday of $0.48 per share, swinging from a loss of $3.04 a year earlier. Two analysts polled by FactSet expected EPS of $0.62. Revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was $1.04 billion, compared with $1.08 billion a year earlier....