ZURICH (Reuters) -Holcim shareholders on Wednesday approved the separation and spinoff of the cement maker's North American business in a transaction designed to benefit from ramped up construction spending in the United States. Nearly all shareholders voted for the separation to create a new company called Amrize, focussed on North America, with Holcim providing building materials for the rest of...

04:59 AM EDT, 05/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Google's ( GOOG ) response in the fifth and sixth paragraphs.) Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google ( GOOG ) is facing at least 12 billion euros ($13.33 billion) in legal claims from dozens of European Union price comparison websites that claim the search engine stole their customers, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing court...

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,...

ZURICH, May 14 (Reuters) - Holcim shareholders on Wednesday approved the separation and spinoff of the cement maker's North American business in a transaction designed to benefit from ramped up construction spending in the United States. Nearly all shareholders voted for the separation to create a new company called Amrize, focussed on North America, with Holcim providing building materials for...