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,...

June 20 (Reuters) - Several fires were burning in a street in Israel's southern city of Beer Sheva, close to a tech park that houses a Microsoft ( MSFT ) office, CNN reported on Friday. ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Some age-checking applications collect too much data and no product works 100% of the time, but using software to enforce a teenage social media ban can work in Australia, the head of the world's biggest trial of the technology said on Friday. The view from the government-commissioned Age Assurance Technology Trial of more than 1,000 Australian school students...

* Australia plans to block under-16s from social media in December * Trial finds 'no significant tech barriers' to ban * Trial organisers say age identification software effective By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 20 (Reuters) - Some age-checking applications collect too much data and no product works 100% of the time, but using software to enforce a teenage social media...