BERLIN, April 30 (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday reported lower profitability in its cars business in the first quarter and warned that tariffs could impact its full-year earnings, as trade tensions forced the luxury carmaker to scrap its outlook. The German luxury carmaker reported a profit margin for its car segment of 7.3%, slipping from 9% in the first quarter...

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) -Volkswagen said on Wednesday it expects annual operative profit at the bottom end of its forecast, the latest carmaker to dampen its outlook as an industry already pressured by costs and competition grapples with tariff uncertainty. The carmaker, which suffered a 40% drop in earnings in the first quarter, now sees annual operating profit closer to 5.5%,...

STUTTGART, Germany, April 30 (Reuters) - Volkswagen expects its operative profit, net cash flow and net liquidity to land at the bottom end of annual forecasts, it said on Wednesday, citing growing trade barriers, rising competition and emissions regulations. Battery-electric car sales, which more than doubled in Europe in the first quarter, had also weighed on its margin, the company...

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,...