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,...

(Reuters) -Packaged food makers in the U.S. have rolled out plans to eliminate the use of FD&C colors - a category of synthetic dyes - from their products, responding to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again initiative and changing consumer preferences.    In April, Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency aims to remove...

05:38 AM EDT, 08/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Block (XYZ) said late Wednesday it priced a private placement of $1.2 billion of 5.625% senior notes due Aug. 15, 2030, and $1 billion of 6% senior notes due Aug. 15, 2033. The offering was upsized from a previously planned $1.5 billion. The company expects the offering to close Monday and plans to...

05:38 AM EDT, 08/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates to include a statement from Chevron Phillips Chemical throughout the article.) Chevron Phillips Chemical, a 50-50 joint venture between Chevron ( CVX ) and Phillips 66 (PSX), confirmed to MT Newswires in a Wednesday statement that it has cut about 130 jobs to improve operational efficiency and manage costs. Bloomberg News reported...