(Reuters) -Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to take the stand on Wednesday morning at a trial in Washington where antitrust enforcers seek an order forcing the company to sell its Chrome web browser and take other measures to boost competition among online search providers. Pichai will testify in the Alphabet unit's defense against proposals by the U.S. Department 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,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. congressional panel is set to consider legislation Wednesday that looks to drastically curtail existing government efforts to police consumer financial markets and scrutinize public company accounting. The House Financial Services Committee is set to consider draft legislation that would significantly trim the funding received by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and aims to effectively eliminate the...

06:03 AM EDT, 04/30/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Toyota Motor ( TM ) and Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Waymo said Tuesday that they reached a preliminary agreement to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform. The companies said they also plan to explore leveraging Waymo's autonomous technology and Toyota's ( TM ) experience in vehicles to enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles or POVs....