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,...

03:33 PM EDT, 05/29/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Intel ( INTC ) could possibly escape over $3 billion in patent-infringement verdicts after the US District Court for the Western District of Texas determined Thursday that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, Bloomberg reported. The jury determined that VLSI and Finjan are both controlled by the asset management firm Fortress,...

03:38 PM EDT, 05/29/2025 (MT Newswires) -- American Water's (AWK) Pennsylvania subsidiary completed the acquisition of Audubon Water, which serves 2,900 customers in Lower Providence Township in Montgomery County. The transaction was valued at $8 million in stock in September 2023. Pennsylvania American Water plans to invest $21.5 million in Audubon system improvements in the next five years. They include...

CHICAGO, May 29 (Reuters) - Express Scripts and several of its affiliated pharmacies filed a lawsuit on Thursday asking an Arkansas federal judge to overturn a state law set to go into effect next year that would ban pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, says the...