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,...

03:53 AM EDT, 04/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with a statement from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations throughout.) European pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists warned European Union President Ursula von der Leyen that US President Donald Trump's tariffs will encourage more and more biotech firms to migrate to the US unless the bloc makes changes, the European...

LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - Peabody Energy ( BTU ) is reviewing all options related to its $3.78 billion acquisition agreement with Anglo American for some of its Australian steelmaking coal assets after a fire halted production at a mine included in the deal. The deal was signed last year and expected to close in mid-2025. Production at Anglo American's...

03:57 AM EDT, 04/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Broadridge Financial Solutions ( BR ) said Wednesday it formed a collaboration with blockchain-based payments firm Fnality to enable real-time delivery versus payment settlement for intraday repo transactions. The collaboration leverages Fnality's digital representation of funds held at central banks as a settlement rail for Broadridge's distributed ledger repo platform, the company said....