June 17 (Reuters) - Waymo will expand into more areas of the San Francisco peninsula and parts of Silicon Valley, as the sole commercial robotaxi operator in the U.S. seeks to scale up operations, the Alphabet unit said on Tuesday. The self-driving technology firm had received approval from California last month to expand operations, just as Tesla prepares to launch...

LONDON (Reuters) -War risk insurance premiums for shipments to Israel are as much as three times higher than a week ago as the war between Israel and Iran entered its fifth day, industry sources said on Tuesday. The cost of a seven-day voyage to Israeli ports was quoted between 0.7% and 1.0% of the value of a ship, versus around...

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,...

MEXICO CITY, June 17 (Reuters) - The Mexican association that groups major global oil services companies warned that it is going through an unprecedented crisis due to the lack of payments from the state-owned oil company Pemex, the world's most indebted energy company. In a letter sent to President Claudia Sheinbaum and released on Monday afternoon, the association warned that...