Net earnings at Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant and media owner, dropped by 50% to $3.40 billion (RMB22.7 billion) in the three months between April and June, the first quarter of its current financial year. Revenues were unchanged at $30.7 billion (RMB206 billion). Using Alibaba’s preferred non-GAAP methodology for calculating profitability, the quarter’s net earnings […]

Paramount+ kept hiking up the streaming mountain in the second quarter as some rivals have stumbled. In announcing Q2 earnings, Paramount Global said its flagship Paramount+ service now has more than 43 million paid customers, a net add of 4.9 million for the June quarter. The company’s other streaming services, however, declined in aggregate — […]

A woman has highlighted the tricks influencers use to look slimmer. Brooke Sherbert, known as Raising Romey on Instagram, works to promote self love and mid-size fashion to her 8,000 followers. She regularly shares body positive snaps and encourages women to learn to love all their wobbly bits. READ MORE: Plus size model wears racy […]

Video content budgets across India, Korea and Southeast Asia climbed 21% to reach $10.4bn in 2021, and are forecast to grow 15% to $12bn in 2022, according to a report from Media Partners Asia (MPA). Asian content investment surged last year as key operators “replenished content pipelines after the initial waves of Covid depleted programming […]

The mega-rift between UK trade body Pact and union Bectu over the soon-to-elapse TV Drama Agreement has taken another turn with Pact inviting commissioners from streamers and broadcasters to a “summit” to discuss next steps. With the agreement set to run out on September 1 and no resolution in sight, Pact said “independent producers” can […]

Rebecca Vieira recently celebrated her hen do in London ahead of her wedding to Marcel Somerville, which is set to take place in August. Rebecca, 26, is due to marry former Love Island star Marcel, 36, in a matter of weeks and after he headed to Ibiza for his stag do earlier this year, the […]

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German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate is inspired by the experiences of French writer Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the Bataclan nightclub during the November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks, leaving him to raise their young son alone. Leiris became a symbol of quiet defiance in the face […]

Young woman who was left with HORNS after cosmetic surgery sees her forehead turn black with infection: ‘It’s my biggest regret’ Australian woman Jessie Carr underwent a ‘fox eye’ cosmetic procedure But the area around her temples have since turned black with infection The 21-year-old from Sydney made headlines in March after sharing video She […]

It’s time once again for our weekly Sex Column, our regular series where experts advise struggling daters on navigating the sticky world of romance. Last week, we helped someone who cannot un-see their parents having kinky sex after he walked in on them when he was 17. This week, we have a woman who is worried about what […]