(Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scrapping a proposal issued under former President Joe Biden that would have sharply limited the sale of Americans' private information by data brokers, according to a Federal Register notice issued Wednesday. The agency also yanked proposals that sought to extend consumer protections to the use of new digital payment technologies including cryptocurrency,...

11:45 AM EDT, 05/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the latest stock movement in the first paragraph and headline.) NetEase ( NTES ) shares were up over 13% in recent Thursday trading after the company reported higher Q1 results. The company reported Q1 adjusted earnings Thursday of 17.51 Chinese renminbi ($2.43) per diluted American depositary share, up from 13.10 renminbi...

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,...

11:45 AM EDT, 05/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Chubb ( CB ) said Thursday its shareholders approved raising the quarterly dividend to $0.97 from $0.91 per share. The dividend is payable on July 3 to shareholders of record on June 13. The company also said its board approved a new $5 billion share buyback program starting July 1, with no expiration....