OSLO (Reuters) -Equinor's ( EQNR ) second-quarter profit fell as expected by 13% from a year earlier, its earnings report showed on Wednesday, as declining oil prices outweighed a rise in the price of gas. The Norwegian energy group's adjusted earnings before tax for April-June fell to $6.54 billion from $7.48 billion a year earlier, in line with the $6.53...

MUMBAI, July 23 (Reuters) - Payments firm PayPal ( PYPL ) has partnered with the operator of India's popular unified payments interface and others to launch a global platform through which consumers can make cross-border payments to businesses. The platform, PayPal World, will enable interoperability between local payment platforms and PayPal ( PYPL ), the firm said in a statement...

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,...

PARIS (Reuters) -Renault reported zero growth in second-quarter sales volume on Wednesday, after a plunge in demand for vans in Europe offset growth in passenger cars. The French automaker, which had warned last week of weaker than expected June sales volumes, said its second-quarter sales were down 0.1%, despite a raft of new vehicle launches. That compared with growth of...