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,...

ROME, April 4 (Reuters) - A pool of banks led by Goldman Sachs ( GS ) is ready to give Prada a 2.5-billion-euro ($2.77 billion) financing line to help the Italian fashion group in its acquisition of Capri Holdings ( CPRI )-owned Versace, Italian daily MF reported on Friday. Some 1.5 billion euros would be used for the acquisition, while...

April 4 (Reuters) - UK's Competition and Markets Authority: * UK'S CMA SAYS BELIEVES REMEDIES OFFER IN SAFRAN / COLLINS MAY ADDRESS COMPETITION CONCERNS * UK'S CMA: CONSIDERING SAFRAN'S OFFER OF UNDERTAKINGS, INCLUDING SALE OF SUBSTANTIALLY ALL OF ITS BUSINESS IN DESIGN, PRODUCTION OF THSA SYSTEMS * UK'S CMA SAYS WILL NOW PROCEED TO CONSIDERING THEM IN MORE DETAIL, INCLUDING...

(Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it believes that remedies offered by aerospace equipment manufacturer Safran could resolve competition concerns relating to its acquisition of a part of aerospace business Collins. (Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru) ...