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,...

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - CEOs and other executives from Nvidia ( NVDA ), Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ), Toyota Motor ( TM ), Eli Lilly ( LLY ) and SoftBank Group are among the more than two-dozen senior business leaders slated to visit the White House on Wednesday as part of an event highlighting U.S. investments, officials told...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The first 27 satellites for Amazon's ( AMZN ) Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday, kicking off the long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network that will rival SpaceX's Starlink. The satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon ( AMZN ) plans to send into low-Earth orbit for Project Kuiper, a $10...

* The first batch of a planned 3,236 Kuiper satellites launches from Florida * Mission kicks off race to rival SpaceX's massive Starlink network * Amazon ( AMZN ) could launch five more Kuiper missions this year By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - The first 27 satellites for Amazon's ( AMZN ) Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched...