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,...

Revvity, Inc. ( RVTY ) shares are trading higher on Wednesday. The company announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its Auto-Pure 2400 liquid handling platform, integrated with the T-SPOT.TB test for latent tuberculosis detection. First launched outside the U.S. in 2024, this combination is now available to improve laboratory productivity while maintaining superior clinical performance...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com ( AMZN ) has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, a U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, just days ahead of an April 5 deadline for the short-form video app to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the country. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to discuss TikTok's fate at an Oval...

April 2 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google is replacing Sissie Hsiao, who led the development of the artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, now known as Gemini, the company told staff in its AI division on Wednesday. Hsiao will step down immediately, a company spokesperson confirmed. Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs and oversaw the launch of NotebookLM - the company's popular tool...