In this article ROKU Roku shares dropped in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company reported a third-quarter revenue that missed expectations. The company’s revenue came in at $680 million, just below a Refinitiv forecast of $683.4 million. That’s still up 51% from a year earlier. Roku’s earnings per share of 48 cents, however, topped expectations
Month: November 2021
Scores of major coal using countries like Poland, Ukraine and Vietnam have committed to phase out the fossil fuel, in a series of commitments announced at the COP26 climate talks. The countries who have signed up will rapidly scale up the deployment of clean power generation, the UK government said. It includes a commitment by
America’s central bank has confirmed that it is to start scaling back its emergency support for the US economy. The US Federal Reserve said that it will start reducing its $120bn a month programme of bond purchases by $15bn a month, which should mean they will end altogether by June. It comes a day before
More than 28 million “extra years of life” have been lost during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study has found. By comparing the lives cut short by COVID-19 and the estimated normal life spans of those who died, researchers, led by a team at Oxford University, calculated that millions of years of life have been
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer has claimed her client’s treatment in a New York jail “rivals scenes of Hannibal Lecter’s incarceration in the movie Silence of the Lambs, despite the absence of the cage and plastic face guard”. In a letter to a federal judge, Bobbi C. Sternheim yet again requested bail for Ms Maxwell. Five previous bail
Play video content TMZ.com Nick Lachey says what we’re seeing on FOX’s new singing show, “Alter Ego,” might be really cool onstage, but it could also be the future of entertainment … period. We got the 98 Degrees singer — who’s been tapped as one of the celeb judges for ‘Ego’ — and asked how
Tips for Teachers is a monthly column in which experienced teacher and children’s librarian Emmie Stuart shares book recommendations and a corresponding teaching guide for fellow elementary school teachers. I have never lived on a farm, and I don’t really like animals. So why do Carl Larsson’s farm paintings hang on my living room and
Wolfgang Van Halen’s solo band Mammoth WVH is teaming up with Dirty Honey for a co-headlining winter 2022 North American tour. The two rising rock acts will hit the road together for 29 shows beginning in late January. Tickets can be purchased via Ticketmaster. Both bands are coming off high-profile opening slots. Mammoth WVH supported
Agnikul Cosmos, an Indian space tech startup looking to take advantage of the massive space travel opportunity of the next decade, has been grabbing headlines in the recent times. From signing deals with Alaska Aerospace Corporation in the US, to signing an MoU with ISRO for accessing its infrastructure and technical expertise, Agnikul Cosmos has made giant leaps
Richard ‘Rich’ Barton, co-founder and CEO of Zillow Inc. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Zillow, the digital real estate company, said on Tuesday that it’s exiting its business that buys and flips homes and eliminating 25% of its workforce. The announcement was attached to Zillow’s third-quarter earnings report. The company’s revenue and earnings
Boris Johnson has been accused of delivering “one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us” ahead of a Conservative bid to save a Tory ex-minister from an immediate House of Commons suspension. Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner attacked the prime minister over his support for an overhaul of MPs’ standards rules
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has declared a “watershed” moment in financing the world’s move to net zero following news that $130 trillion of private capital was waiting to be deployed. “Right here right now is where private finance draws the line,” Mark Carney said on “finance day” at the COP26 summit in
Police who found missing Cleo Smith in a locked house in Australia say they were “shocked” and then “elated” when the four-year-old confirmed: “My name is Cleo.” Detective Sergeant Cameron Blaine told reporters they were not prepared for such a happy outcome despite “always” hoping for it. “It was absolutely fantastic. To see her sitting
Children as young as five will be offered coronavirus vaccines in the US, after health officials gave the final sign-off to Pfizer’s jab. Children aged between five and 11 will receive a third of the size of dose given to teens and adults, delivered in two jabs, three weeks apart. The decision marks the first
It was a celebration for the ages as EDC made its triumphant return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway after almost two-and-a-half years. There were many milestones to be celebrated, aside from the return of the event itself. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Electric Daisy Carnival, and the 10th anniversary of the
It’s been three years since we bid farewell to the Pretty Little Liars of Rosewood, and it’s taken all that time to unravel every twist from the Freeform series. Just as (we think) we’ve figured it out, a new reboot of the show is headed to HBO Max. Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin has received