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,...

06:49 AM EDT, 07/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Chevron ( CVX ) , TotalEnergies (TTE), Eni SpA ( E ) and Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) are on the list of companies competing in Libya's first oil and gas licensing round in over a decade, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing the state oil company. National Oil Corp Chairman Massoud Seliman reportedly...

July 2 (Reuters) - Netflix ( NFLX ) has held talks with Spotify ( SPOT ) to partner on projects such as music award shows or live concert series as part of its live TV push, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company has also discussed doing big celebrity interviews and shorter-turnaround...

06:45 AM EDT, 07/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Alibaba Group's ( BABA ) Taobao online shopping platform is offering 50 billion Chinese renminbi ($6.98 billion) of subsidies over the next 12 months to help consumers and merchants, it said in a WeChat post Wednesday. The unit has also introduced store subsidies, product subsidies, delivery subsidies, commission exemptions, and commission reductions to...