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,...

April 8 (Reuters) - Asset manager Janus Henderson ( JHG ) will manage Guardian Life Insurance's $45 billion investment-grade public fixed-income portfolio, the companies said in a statement. Insurance companies have turned to Wall Street firms to invest the premiums they collect from their clients, hoping asset managers will strike higher returns from the market. As part of the agreement,...

11:57 AM EDT, 04/08/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Adds comment and updates shares.) Montage Gold ( MAUTF ) on Tuesday released the results of its 2024 Kone project exploration program in Cote d'Ivoire, which boosted expectations of achieving a short-term exploration target of discovering more than one-million ounces of measured and indicated resources at a 50% higher grade compared to the...

11:54 AM EDT, 04/08/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with comment from Microsoft ( MSFT ) in the fifth paragraph.) Microsoft ( MSFT ) has fired two software engineers who protested against the company's sales of AI products to the Israeli military at a company event Friday, news outlets reported Monday. One Canada-based AI software engineer was fired Monday for just...