(Reuters) -Google on Thursday began direct online sales of its popular hardware devices in India, including Pixel phones, watches and earbuds, ahead of an anticipated launch of its first physical stores in the South Asian nation. The Alphabet-owned firm said it has for the first time enabled direct online purchases for Indian users on the official Google Store website. The...

(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) * US drillers slow down operations following oil price drop * US oil output growth set to slow in 2025 * OPEC will need to deepen price war to significantly impact US output By Ron Bousso LONDON, May 29 - Oil drillers in the U.S. shale heartland...

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - The price of cobalt has fallen so far over the last couple of years that even Congo's artisanal miners have given up on the battery metal. They have been swept aside by a wave of production from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) formal sector and a secondary flood of metal from Indonesia. The market...

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,...