By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM, June 17 (Reuters) - The Swedish Armed Forces on Tuesday joined Telia and Ericsson's 5G innovation program to strengthen military communications, logistics, security and support interoperability within the NATO alliance. Telecom operator Telia and mobile gear maker Ericsson partnered in 2023 to start the NorthStar 5G innovation program to experiment on the latest 5G technologies and...

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,...

* EU to propose legal measures to ban Russian gas on Tuesday * Aim is to completely halt Russian imports by end-2027 * Proposals need support from reinforced majority of EU countries * Some concerned about legal risk for importing companies By Kate Abnett LUXEMBOURG, June 17 (Reuters) - The European Commission is set to propose on Tuesday a ban...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The chief executive of top energy trader Vitol expects a slight reduction in U.S. oil production this year due to lower prices, he said on Tuesday. With slightly lower prices ... we're beginning to see some impact on investment and production. And there's nowhere more obvious for that than within the U.S. and within the shale industry,...