June 20 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas producer Strathcona said on Friday it supports MEG Energy's ( MEGEF ) decision to initiate a strategic alternatives process and explore potential deals after MEG urged shareholders to reject Strathcona's C$6 billion ($4.38 billion) hostile takeover bid. On Monday, MEG Energy ( MEGEF ) advised shareholders to reject the offer, describing it...

(Reuters) -SoftBank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co ( TSM ) to build a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build robots and artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. ...

* Funding limit of EU's lending arm boosted by over 10 billion euros -sources * 3.5 billion euros to be spent of defence and security -sources * Increase in spending comes days ahead of key NATO meeting By Marc Jones and Jan Strupczewski LONDON/BRUSSELS, June 20 (Reuters) - EU governments have agreed to lift the annual spending of the bloc's...

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,...