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,...

05:27 PM EDT, 06/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- John B Hess, Director, Chief Executive Officer, on June 05, 2025, sold 475,000 shares in Hess (HES) for $63,967,935. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Hess has control over a total of 1,734,679 common shares of the company, with 1,734,679 controlled indirectly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4447/000095017025083259/xslF345X05/ownership.xml ...

June 6 (Reuters) - Missouri authorities are investigating a fake press release about the damaging livestock pest New World screwworm that sparked a selloff in U.S. cattle futures markets last week, the state's agriculture department said on Friday. U.S. agriculture officials and farmers are on high alert for screwworm as it has moved north in Mexico from Central America, arriving...

SAO PAULO, June 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's Agriculture Ministry authorized a plant operated by a Coca-Cola bottler to restart production on Friday after ordering a stoppage earlier this week. Production and bottling at Brazilian soft drink firm Solar's Maracanau plant, located in the northeastern state of Ceara, was halted out of precaution earlier this week after authorities determined that a...