June 27 (Reuters) - U.S. energy company EQT agreed to pay $167.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by investors who claimed EQT overstated the benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy in 2017, according to a federal court filing on Thursday by the plaintiffs. Officials at EQT were not immediately available for comment. Plaintiffs in...

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,...

(Reuters) -U.S. energy company EQT agreed to pay $167.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by investors who claimed EQT overstated the benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy in 2017, according to a federal court filing on Thursday by the plaintiffs. Officials at EQT were not immediately available for comment. Plaintiffs in the case include...

02:37 PM EDT, 06/27/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Mastercard ( MA ) and Visa (V) violated European competition law by charging retailers default multilateral interchange fees, according to a ruling by London's Competition Appeal Tribunal on Friday. The tribunal dismissed the companies' proposed alternatives as unworkable and lacking legal merit, calling them an abuse of process. Instead, it backed a scenario...