08:03 AM EDT, 08/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Xtract One Technologies ( XTRAF ) Thursday said it has been awarded a US$2.6 million contract to expand its SmartGateway deployment at an international entertainment organization's venue. This award is in addition to the the initial three-year US$5.1 million deal. SmartGateway is an unobtrusive weapons and threat detection system deployed at points of...

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,...

08:06 AM EDT, 08/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- FirstCash ( FCFS ) said Thursday it has completed its acquisition of pawnshop operator H&T Group. Under the terms of the deal, FirstCash ( FCFS ) paid 6.50 pounds per H&T share, representing an equity value of 289 million British pounds ($383 million). FirstCash ( FCFS ) also took over H&T's net debt...

08:04 AM EDT, 08/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- TeraWulf (WULF) said Thursday it signed two 10-year colocation deals with Fluidstack for more than 200 megawatts of critical IT load at its Lake Mariner data center in New York. The agreements are valued at about $3.7 billion over the initial term, with two five-year extension options that could raise total revenue to...