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,...

04:38 AM EDT, 07/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the latest stock price movement in the headline and the last paragraph.) Nuwellis ( NUWE ) said late Tuesday it received a patent related to advancements in fluid management from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, titled 'Extracorporeal Blood Filtering Machine and Methods,' covers mechanisms for enhancing the accuracy...

04:30 AM EDT, 07/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Corrects the headline and first paragraph to clarify that this is Tesla's first federal jury trial tied to the autopilot system.) Tesla (TSLA) is heading to its first federal jury trial involving its autopilot system, the New York Times reported Monday. The case stems from an April 2019 fatal crash in South Florida...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation into Universal Music Group unit Virgin Music Group's $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music because of concerns about its impact on competition, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Virgin had until Tuesday to offer remedies to address regulatory worries during the deal's review but did not...