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,...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -China's practice of securing its loans to low-income nations through commodity revenue streams and cash held in restricted escrow accounts is curbing their ability to manage their finances effectively, a study published on Thursday showed. China has lent hundreds of billions of dollars for infrastructure and projects in developing countries, but has been criticised for using earnings of...

(Reuters) -Zak Folkman, the co-founder of U.S. President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency platform World Liberty Financial, said on Wednesday that the company will issue an audit of its stablecoin within days and that it planned a new app. Folkman also hinted that WLF's governance token, known as WLFI, could soon become tradable in an interview at the Permissionless conference on Wednesday,...

STOCKHOLM, June 26 (Reuters) - Tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Alphabet, Meta and Apple ( AAPL ), on Thursday urged European Union to pause implementation of the AI Act, saying a rushed roll-out risks jeopardizing the continent's AI aspirations. Europe's landmark AI rules entered into force in June last year with various provisions to be implemented in...