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,...

July 17 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Thursday: ** Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard ( ANCTF ) pulled its $46 billion bid to buy Seven & i Holdings ( SVNDF ), saying the retailer refused to engage constructively on the deal, which would have been Japan's largest ever foreign buyout. ** Swedish...

July 17 (Reuters) - PepsiCo ( PEP ) said on Thursday that it was expecting a smaller drop in annual core profit as resilient demand for its energy drinks and healthier soda brands offsets broader weakness in consumer spending. The company now expects full-year core earnings per share to fall 1.5%, compared with a 3% decline expected previously. Our core...

05:52 AM EDT, 07/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Amazon.com ( AMZN )-backed (AMZN) Anthropic is in the preliminary stages of planning a new round of investment that could value the artificial intelligence startup at more than $100 billion, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The rival of Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed (MSFT) OpenAI is not formally...