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,...

CAPE TOWN, June 17 (Reuters) - African energy explorer Rhino Resources and its partner Azule Energy will drill the new Volans-1X exploration well offshore Namibia in late July or early August, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday. The Volans prospect is being investigated soon after Rhino Resources struck light oil in April at its second successful exploration well, Capricornus 1-X,...

07:03 AM EDT, 06/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Alibaba Group Holding ( BABA ) -backed artificial intelligence startup MiniMax launched Tuesday its MiniMax-M1 open source large-scale hybrid architecture inference model. According to MiniMax, its M1 model supports a context input of 1 million, exceeding that of DeepSeek R1 and matching the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro from Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google (...

June 17 (Reuters) - Kraft Heinz ( KHC ) said on Tuesday it would not launch products with artificial colors in the United States effective immediately, and would aim to eliminate synthetic dyes from existing items by the end of 2027. The Ketchup maker said that nearly 90% of its U.S. product net sales are already free of food, drug...