NEW YORK, June 30 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms ( META ) and TikTok owner ByteDance must face a wrongful death lawsuit by the mother of a 15-year-old Manhattan boy who died while subway surfing on a moving train, a New York state judge ruled. Justice Paul Goetz ruled on Friday that Norma Nazario can try to prove Meta and ByteDance...

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,...

June 30 (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker AbbVie ( ABBV ) said on Monday it will acquire cell therapy developer Capstan Therapeutics in a cash deal worth up to $2.1 billion, expanding its pipeline with experimental treatments for autoimmune diseases. AbbVie ( ABBV ) has been diversifying its portfolio to make up for a steep decline in the sales of Humira,...

MILAN, June 30 (Reuters) - Ares Management ( ARES ) has appointed Alessandro Verdirrame as Italy country chief for its wealth management solutions, a newly created role, it said on Monday. Verdirrame will be based in Milan, where Ares has recently opened an office. He joins from Goldman Sachs ( GS ), where he has spent just over a decade,...