Vivendi Posts 5% Revenue Increase During First Quarter of 2021

Smart TV maker Vizio exceeded Wall Street analyst forecasts for its first quarterly report as a public company, posting revenue of $505.7 million and earnings of 2 cents a share.

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Meghan Markle made her first TV appearance since her controversial Oprah Winfrey interview on Sunday – and an expert has now explained how the Duchess of Sussex's demeanour revealed that she was feeling "nervous" about the segment. Meghan, 39, gave a speech via videolink at the Vax Live event and according to body language exert Judi James, she wasn't her usual relaxed self.

Josh Duggar‘s sister Joy-Anna Duggar, 23, and her husband Austin Forsyth, 27, are speaking out about his child pornography charges for the first time as he awaits his trial. The reality stars shared the same message to their Instagram stories on May 8 and it revealed how “heartbroken” they are about the situation and also asked for “prayers.”

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Yahoo Finance. Cinemark actually posted a loss of $1.75 per share on $114.4 million in revenue.Of that revenue figure, $56.1 million came from ticket sales and $39.5 million at the concessions stand.For the sake of a comparison, Cinemark lost $59.4 million in the first quarter of 2020, or -51 cents per share.

She's currently expecting her first child with fiancé Ben Bhanvra, and now mum-to-be Louisa Lytton has shared her regret over not documenting her growing baby bump with pictures.The Eastenders star, who announced her pregnancy in March, took to Instagram to share a picture of a woman taking part in a pregnancy shoot.

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Britain's biggest building society has discovered that households ramped up their spending on dating websites, pets and gardening at the start of this year. Nationwide Building Society said that, overall, household spending in the first three months of 2021 was down compared with a year earlier, however, it said that life in lockdown has led to more money being spent on building relationships with people, pets and plants.

Giant-screen exhibitor Imax posted higher first-quarter revenues as it was lifted by a recovery in the Asian box office. The company, led by CEO Richard Gelfond, reduced its loss attributable to shareholders to $14.8 million, compared with a loss of $49.4 million last year when Imax was hit hard by movie theater closures during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Dish Network reported that it lost about 230,000 net pay TV subscribers in the first quarter, compared with a decline of 413,000 in the year-ago period and a drop of 133,000 in the fourth quarter of 2020. The latest quarter's figures include subscribers to the traditional Dish pay TV service, as well as the Sling TV streaming service.

NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock had 42 million signups in the first quarter — up from the 33 million it reported three months ago — benefiting from the recent addition of exclusive domestic streaming rights to WWE Network and The Office.

Yahoo Finance. Comcast reported adjusted EPS of 76 cents on $27.2 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31.In other good news, Comcast reported that its young streaming service Peacock has now hit 42 million sign-ups in its first quarter as home to “The Office” and WWE Network programming.“We are off to a great start in 2021.

YouTube continues to grow at a torrid pace, with any sign of pandemic slowdown seemingly behind it. The Google-owned video platform brought in more than $6 billion in advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2021, according to the quarterly earnings report of parent company Alphabet.

Miranda Lambert is glad to be back on stage with her fans.

Live concerts are slowly coming back and Miranda Lambert had an emotional return to the stage.

Miranda Lambert over the weekend. The 37-year-old country singer shared a tearful moment from her first live concert since the COVID-19 pandemic began last March at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, Texas. Posting a video of herself crying onstage during her song, «The House That Built Me,» Lambert wrote, «First show back in over a year.

Telecom giantVerizonon Wednesday reported that it lost 82,000 net pay TV subscribers for its FiOS consumer video service in the first quarter, compared with a loss of 84,000 in the year-ago period and a loss of 72,000in the fourth quarter.

Netflix shares fell on Tuesday, after the streaming giant disclosed that it had added only 3.98 million subscribers worldwide during the first quarter of 2021. The company says it expects to add only 1 million new subscribers for the current quarter.