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,...

06:27 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- T1 Energy ( TE ) said Friday the recent tariffs announced by the US government align with its plans to develop a domestic solar and storage supply chain. It expects the policy to strengthen the competitiveness of US-based solar production, supporting growth of its Dallas facility and the proposed Austin solar cell plant,...

06:13 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US President Donald Trump said he is open to negotiating a reduction in tariffs if other countries are able to offer something phenomenal in return, media outlets reported. If somebody said that we're going to give you something that's so phenomenal, as long as they're giving us something that's good, he reportedly said....

06:29 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP-UN.TO, BIP) and its institutional partners late on Thursday agreed to acquire the midstream asset portfolio Colonial Enterprises, which includes the Colonial Pipeline, for an enterprise value of about $9 billion. Colonial is composed of the largest refined products system in the U.S., spanning about 5,500 miles between Texas and...