JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Audio streaming giant Spotify's ( SPOT ) royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - spiked to around $59 million last year as performers rode a wave of growing interest in music from the continent. The Swedish company paid out some $10 billion in royalties worldwide in 2024. And...

08:36 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Foremost Clean Energy ( FMST ) on Friday said it began the 2025 exploration drill program at the Hatchet Lake Uranium Project, located in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan. The company said the drill testing is expected to evaluate the project's top exploration prospects at both the Tuning Fork target area and...

08:30 AM EDT, 04/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Cintas ( CTAS ) said Friday that Scott Garula has been named chief financial officer, succeeding Mike Hansen, who is retiring. Hansen will move to a new role as assistant to the chief executive officer on May 31 to support the transition to Garula, who currently serves as president of the company's rental...

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,...