Shares of electric vehicle maker Volcon Inc ( VLCN ) are trading sharply higher Thursday morning after the company revealed it has secured over $500 million in a private placement and will pivot its corporate treasury strategy to focus on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). What To Know: Volcon ( VLCN ) entered into agreements with institutional investors to sell approximately 50.1...

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,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. auto safety agency is shedding more than 25% of its employees under financial incentive programs to depart the government offered by the Trump administration, according to data provided to Congress seen by Reuters. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Transportation Department, is shrinking from 772 employees as of May 31 to 555 under...

10:54 AM EDT, 07/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Zillow Group ( ZG ) continues to face a muted housing market with slow demand and rising inventory, RBC Capital Markets said Wednesday in a report. The company is transitioning from a market-based pricing model, where agents paid upfront for leads, to a Flex model, in which Zillow ( ZG ) earns a...