June 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of joint air-to-ground missiles and related equipment to the Netherlands for an estimated cost of $215 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The principal contractor for the sale is Lockheed Martin Corp ( LMT ), the Pentagon said in a statement. ...

04:52 PM EDT, 06/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- MP Materials ( MP ) may be the prime beneficiary of a Trump administration plan to boost US rare earth production, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The Trump administration is developing a plan to use Cold War-era powers to support rare earth projects that it sees as critical to national security, the report said, quoting...

04:49 PM EDT, 06/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Amazon.com's ( AMZN ) Amazon Web Services unit, Snap (SNAP) and Spotify Technologies ( SPOT ) are facing outages or technical issues Thursday, affecting tens of thousands of users, according to Downdetector. Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google Cloud unit also appeared to suffer an outage with thousands of users affected. Downdetector, which gathers outage...

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,...