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,...

11:23 AM EDT, 05/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Novo Nordisk ( NVO ) shares fell intraday Friday after the Danish drugmaker said its chief executive, Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen, agreed to step down amid market challenges and share price declines. Jorgensen, who has been Novo Nordisk's ( NVO ) CEO since 2017, will continue to serve in the top role to ensure...

11:26 AM EDT, 05/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Snowflake (SNOW) is not immune to a declining spending trend as customers work around tighter budgets due to macroeconomic uncertainty, despite data analytics and machine learning being a priority, UBS Securities said in a note emailed Friday. The investment firm said that feedback from the data storage company's enterprise partners indicates decent performance,...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Coinbase Global Inc. ( COIN ) , the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, misrepresented its user numbers in past disclosures.  The Details: According to a Thursday report from the New York Times, the SEC's probe centers on the crypto exchange's claim of having over 100 million verified users, a figure prominently featured...