08:53 AM EDT, 04/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks edged higher pre-bell Monday as the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) advanced by 0.2% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY) was up 0.1% recently. Domino's Pizza (DPZ) shares were down 1.8% even after the company reported higher fiscal Q1 earnings and revenue. ...

08:52 AM EDT, 04/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Mitek Systems ( MITK ) said Monday that it has appointed Garrett Gafke as chief operating officer. The company said Gafke has decades of experience scaling and transforming technology businesses across risk, fraud, and digital identity. ...

08:52 AM EDT, 04/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Rigetti Computing ( RGTI ) said Monday it will further develop its chip fabrication technology, Alternating-Bias Assisted Annealing or ABAA, under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research award it has received. The $5.5 million Rigetti-led consortium aims to have a deeper understanding of how ABAA lowers defects in superconducting qubits, a challenge...

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,...