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,...

10:53 AM EDT, 06/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Google ( GOOG ) comment in the last paragraph.) The UK's Competition and Markets Authority began a consultation process on releasing Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google ( GOOG ) from its commitments related to its Privacy Sandbox initiative, the regulator said Friday. The commitments were made to assure the CMA that Privacy...

10:55 AM EDT, 06/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Thinkific Labs ( THNCF ) , a cloud-based software platform, on Friday closed the previously announced secondary bought deal offering of common shares in Thinkific ( THNCF ), held by the Rhino Group. A statement noted that the Rhino Group sold more than 6.4 million common shares at a price of C$2.25 each,...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved UroGen Pharma Ltd.’s Zusduri, the first and only FDA-approved medication for adults with recurrent low-grade intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (LG-IR-NMIBC). Zusduri consists of mitomycin and sterile hydrogel, using UroGen’s proprietary sustained-release RTGel technology. Zusduri has been designed to treat potent tumor ablation. The FDA approval is based on the...