06:39 AM EDT, 07/18/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms' ( META ) WhatsApp faces potential exit from Russia, Reuters reported Friday, citing Anton Gorelkin, deputy head of the lower house parliament's IT committee. Gorelkin said it's time for WhatsApp to prepare to leave, noting Meta's designation as an extremist organization in Russia, the report said. Last month, Russia's President Vladimir...

(Reuters) -3M ( MMM ) on Friday raised its full-year profit forecast, as its cost-cutting measures and efforts to focus on high-margin products begin to pay off, sending shares of the industrial giant up 2.5% in premarket trading. In July 2024, CEO Bill Brown laid down a plan to improve the conglomerate's sales by shifting spending away from legal liabilities...

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,...

06:35 AM EDT, 07/18/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Comerica ( CMA ) reported Q2 earnings Friday of $1.42 per diluted share, down from $1.49 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.25. Revenue for the quarter ended June 30, expressed as the sum of net interest income and total interest income, was $849 million compared with $824 million a year...