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,...

01:42 PM EDT, 07/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( HPE ) faces a long-awaited ruling from London's High Court on Tuesday on how much it's owed in damages over its 2011 acquisition of software firm Autonomy, Reuters reported Monday. HP sued Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch and former CFO Sushovan Hussain in 2015, accusing them of inflating the value...

(Reuters) -The UK government said it signed a strategic partnership with OpenAI on Monday, with plans to expand AI security research collaborations and explore investing in AI infrastructure such as data centres. The Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed AI startup will also expand its London office, building up its research and engineering teams at OpenAI's first international location opened two years...

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Three Republican House lawmakers on Monday asked the CEOs of Alphabet, Facebook-parent Meta, Amazon.com ( AMZN ) and Microsoft ( MSFT ) if the tech firms have adopted adequate safeguards to address growing concerns about China and Russia on submarine communications cables. Washington has been raising alarm about the network of more than 400 subsea...