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,...

01:06 PM EDT, 07/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- A majority of US banks have surpassed Wall Street's second-quarter expectations amid broad-based revenue growth, driving a potential upside bias for 2025 and 2026 consensus estimates, Raymond James & Associates said Monday. Around 295 of 462 publicly traded banks with more than $750 million in assets have reported their latest quarterly results in...

01:04 PM EDT, 07/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Michael L Hansen, Director, on July 24, 2025, sold 37,426 shares in Waterstone Financial ( WSBF ) for $517,725. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Hansen has control over a total of 228,987 common shares of the company, with 79,872 shares held directly and 149,115 controlled indirectly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1569994/000143774925023605/xslF345X05/rdgdoc.xml Price:...

(Reuters) -Microsoft ( MSFT ) on Monday launched a new Copilot Mode on its Edge browser that uses artificial intelligence to improve the browsing experience, as the tech giant rushes to compete with rivals launching AI-based browsers and web search features. Copilot Mode can help carry out tasks, organize browsing into topic-based queries and compare results across all open tabs...