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,...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Global trade tensions could disrupt ocean goods trade and will push up the price of seafood in the United States, a major importer of fish, according to a report from the United Nations trade agency published on Wednesday.  U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed 10% tariffs on nearly all seafood, with China facing tariffs of 30%, according to...

Post Holdings, Inc. ( POST ) , on Tuesday, disclosed that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, Inc. Post will retire 8th Avenue’s outstanding net debt as part of the deal and purchase all equity interests, resulting in a net payment of around $880 million. The acquisition price includes an assumption of $111 million...

By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM, June 4 (Reuters) - Microsoft ( MSFT ) is offering free of charge to European governments a cybersecurity programme, launched on Wednesday, to bolster their defences against cyber threats, including those enhanced by artificial intelligence, it said. After a surge in cyberattacks in Europe, many linked to state-sponsored actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia,...