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,...

(Reuters) -Vertex Pharmaceuticals ( VRTX ) missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly results on Monday, due to lower-than-expected sales of its cystic fibrosis (CF) drug Trikafta. However, the drugmaker raised the lower end of its revenue forecast as it looks to its acute pain drug, Journavx, and newer CF drugs to drive growth beyond its established line of treatments. In...

04:18 PM EDT, 05/05/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Ford Motor ( F ) reported Q1 non-GAAP earnings Monday of $0.14 per diluted share, down from $0.49 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected breakeven adjusted EPS. Revenue in the quarter ended March 31 fell to $40.66 billion from $42.78 billion a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $38.02 billion....

May 5 (Reuters) - U.S. pipeline operator Williams beat first-quarter profit estimates on Monday, and said Alan Armstrong will step down as the chief executive officer, effective July 1. The company posted an adjusted profit of 60 cents per share for the quarter ended March 31, compared with average analysts' estimate of 56 cents per share, according to data compiled...