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,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group ( UNH ) investors, stunned by missteps at the once predictable healthcare giant, are warily expecting strategic changes in its Medicare Advantage health insurance business over the next year. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that UnitedHealth ( UNH ) was the subject of a criminal probe at the Justice Department, just one day...

06:04 AM EDT, 05/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The euro has only been marginally impacted by domestic news this week, said ING. Q1 gross domestic product growth was revised a touch lower to 0.3% from 0.4% on Thursday, although March industrial production figures were stronger than expected. After a moderate hawkish repricing in the wake of the United States-China trade deal,...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Alexa, where are your users? More than six weeks after Amazon.com ( AMZN ) began rolling out the new Alexa+ generative artificial-intelligence-powered voice assistant to hundreds of thousands of people, there is scant evidence it is in regular customers' hands. The new service was meant to be a triumph for Amazon ( AMZN ) after several delays...