May 9 (Reuters) - Sony Pictures said on Friday it had entered into a multi-year contract extension with its motion picture group's chairman and CEO, Tom Rothman. Rothman joined the studio in 2013 as chairman of TriStar Pictures, before being named chairman of the motion picture group in February 2015. His contract was extended in 2021, with the CEO role...

May 9 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to their lowest since January, energy services firm Baker Hughes ( BKR ) said in its closely followed report on Friday. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by six to 578 in the week...

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,...

01:11 PM EDT, 05/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Banco Santander (SAN) rejected an 11 billion pounds ($14.64 billion) bid from NatWest Group ( NWG ) for its UK retail bank earlier this year, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The offer, which fell within a range of 10 billion to 12 billion pounds, was considered too...