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,...

PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's securities regulator warned crypto companies on Friday not to mislead customers about the extent to which their products are regulated - the latest sign of European authorities trying to limit crypto-related risks. The European Union's crypto regulation, MiCA, includes various measures to protect investors, such as rules around how client assets are safeguarded and requirements for handling...

05:43 AM EDT, 07/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ) , Stonepeak and Air Liquide have been shortlisted by Macquarie Asset Management for the final bidding round for South Korean industrial gas firm DIG Airgas, Reuters reported Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter. Binding bids are likely to come in around the end of...

05:54 AM EDT, 07/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Goldman Sachs Group ( GS ) is testing an AI-powered coding tool developed by startup Cognition to join the company's 12,000 human developers, CNBC reported Friday, quoting Goldman's tech chief, Marco Argenti. The program, named Devin, will essentially operate as an autonomous software engineer and has displayed capabilities to operate as a full-stack...