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,...

BEIJING, June 16 (Reuters) - China's market regulator has granted conditional approval for global agribusiness Bunge Global SA's ( BG ) merger with Glencore ( GLCNF )-backed grain handler Viterra, it said on Monday, clearing the final hurdle for the $34 billion mega-deal announced two years ago. Confirmation came after Bunge announced it had received regulatory approval from China last...

08:00 AM EDT, 06/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Microsoft ( MSFT ) said Monday that it has launched Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, which it said will ensure that European customer data stays in Europe, under European Law. The tech giant said in a blog post that the operations and access will be controlled by European personnel with customers fully controlling encryption. This...

June 16 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery ( WBD ) bondholders overwhelmingly approved a plan to split the corporation and put in place a new capital structure related to the deal, the company said Monday. Bondholders voted to remove restrictions that could have prevented the company from carrying out its plan to cleave itself into two publicly traded entertainment companies,...