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,...

08:31 AM EDT, 06/20/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Aptose Biosciences ( APTOF ) on Friday said it secured a new loan of up to US$8.5 million with Hanmi Pharmaceutical to advance clinical development of tuspetinib-based triple drug frontline therapy to treat patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The clinical-stage precision oncology company said data to date reveal promising antileukemic...

08:25 AM EDT, 06/20/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The broad market exchange-traded fund, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( SPY ) , was up 0.2% and the actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) rose 0.2% in Friday's premarket activity, as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East intensify and uncertainty surrounding tariffs and Fed interest-rate guidance adds to investor nervousness. US stock...

08:30 AM EDT, 06/20/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google ( GOOG ) suffered a setback after the European Court of Justice's advocate general recommended that the court dismiss the tech giant's appeal to overturn an antitrust fine of 4.12 billion euros ($4.75 billion), the Court of Justice said Thursday. Advocate General Juliane Kokott proposed that the court confirm...