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,...

09:55 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Couchbase's ( BASE ) definitive agreement to be acquired by Haveli Investments for around $1.5 billion in cash has a reasonable valuation, RBC Capital Markets said in a Friday note. The acquisition price of around $24.50 per share represents a 29% premium to the June 18 stock price and a 67% premium to...

09:56 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Standard Lithium ( SLI ) , a near-commercial lithium company, on Monday fell 4.9% after it appointed Daniel Rosen as vice president of strategy and investor relations, and Tim Sobel as vice president of health, safety, social and environment. Shares of the company were last seen down $0.14 at $2.54 on the TSX...

09:48 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Revolution Medicines ( RVMD ) said Monday the US Food and Drug Administration has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to its drug candidate daraxonrasib. The designation is based on data from a phase 1 clinical trial evaluating daraxonrasib in patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common form of pancreatic cancer,...