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,...

MEXICO CITY, June 13 (Reuters) - Mexico's antitrust watchdog said on Friday it had closed a case against Google, clearing the tech giant from any potential fines, after a multi-year investigation determined it did not engage in monopolistic practices in the country. The investigation by Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), which began in 2020, focused on Google's digital advertising...

(Removes duplicate dateline.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House earlier this month directed the Defense Department and NASA to gather details on billions of dollars in SpaceX contracts following the public blowout between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, four people familiar with the order told Reuters. Sparking an ongoing review, the administration ordered the agencies to scrutinize Musk's contracts...

June 13 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly's ( LLY ) experimental obesity drug, eloralintide, helped some patients lose 11.5% of their body weight at 12 weeks in an early-stage study, an investor note by brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald showed on Friday. The 12-week result was published in an abstract ahead of the American Diabetes Association conference in Chicago, the brokerage said. Cantor...