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-Zoom Video Communications raised its forecast for fiscal 2025 revenue and adjusted profit on Monday, anticipating robust demand for its online video conferencing software as it expands its product portfolio, and clients embrace hybrid working models. Zoom also said it would expand its share repurchase plan by $1.2 billion. The company expects revenue in the range of $4.65 billion to $4.66 billion, from its earlier forecast of between $4.63 billion and $4.64 billion. Zoom's online meeting services continue to see strong spending from its large enterprise client base as hybrid working models become the norm in many firms and its push to integrate artificial intelligence makes it a staple for many companies' operations. It raised its forecast for full-year adjusted earnings per share to a range of $5.41 and $5.43 per share, compared with the $5.29 to $5.32 previous range. However, the company faces stiff competition from rival video conferencing services such as Microsoft's Teams and Cisco's Webex as they battle for client dollars in a crowded market. Zoom launched an upgraded version of its AI companion in October, which allows users to get meeting insights, get data from other applications and helps them complete tasks. The company reported revenue of $1.18 billion for the third quarter, beating estimates of $1.16 billion, as per data compiled by LSEG. For the fourth quarter, the company forecast revenue between $1.17 billion and $1.18 billion, compared with estimates of $1.17 billion. Shares of the San Jose, California-based company were marginally down in extended trading after closing up over 3.5%. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024Greg Dulcich’s Broncos tenure has arrived at an unceremonious end. The Broncos waived the third-year tight end Monday. Dulcich, , had been a healthy scratch since Week 5 after a slow start to the regular season. Dulcich showed much promise as a rookie, catching 33 passes for 411 yards and a pair of touchdowns. He began and ended the season with hamstring injuries, though, and those persisted into his second year. In fact, multiple right hamstring injuries kept Dulcich from finishing a game healthy. He had confidence that his work this offseason would pay off and he’d get back to being a play-maker, but that never materialized. Dulcich was active the first four games of the season but caught just five passes (12 targets) for 28 yards. Then he was bumped from the gameday dress list in favor of Lucas Krull. Krull hasn’t wowed, but he, Adam Trautman and Nate Adkins have settled into a regular rotation and at least have provided a bit of stability, if not big-time production, at the tight end spot. The Broncos also have veteran pass-catcher and red zone target Donald Parham on the practice squad. Any team will have a chance to claim Dulcich on waivers and take on the final year-plus of his rookie contract. If he clears the waiver process Tuesday, he’ll be free to sign with any team he wants. The 24-year-old overall in his Broncos career caught 41 passes for 464 yards and two touchdowns. Denver has imminent roster decisions to make that may have precipitated the decision to waive Dulcich. The Broncos must either return linebacker Drew Sanders (Achilles) to the 53-man roster by Wednesday or see him revert to the physically unable to perform list for the rest of the season. Sanders is reaching the end of his 21-day practice window. The Broncos must make a similar decision on activating receiver Josh Reynolds (finger) from injured reserve by Dec. 4. Either move would require a 53-man roster spot to be open. Now Denver has one.London, Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pixalate , the market-leading fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform for Connected TV (CTV) and mobile advertising, today released the November 2024 United Kingdom Publisher Trust Index (PTI) for apps across the web, Apple App Store and the Google Play Store , and CTV apps across the Roku , Amazon Fire TV , Samsung Smart TV , and Apple TV app stores, bringing unprecedented transparency to the open programmatic advertising ecosystem. Pixalate uses its proprietary algorithms to measure quality metrics, including invalid traffic (IVT or ad fraud), Made For Advertising (MFA) risk, brand safety, ad density, viewability, reach, and more. The Publisher Trust Indexes spans rankings for 235+ countries across all four global regions: North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, and provides breakdowns by 20+ different IAB taxonomy website categories. Pixalate’s methodology can be found at Publisher Trust Index: Methodology UK Website PTI Rankings (November 2024) spotify.com telegraph.co.uk sky.com Download the full rankings here . UK Mobile PTI Rankings (November 2024) Apple App Store OneFootball Words With Friends Wordscapes Download the full rankings here . Google Play Store Daily Mail: Breaking News Pixel Art - Color By Numbers Met Office Weather Forecast Download the full rankings here . UK Connected TV PTI Rankings (November 2024) Amazon Fire TV Pluto TV GB News TalkTV Download the full rankings here . Apple TV NBC Sports Pluto TV NFL Download the full rankings here . Samsung Smart TV SAMSUNG TV tvplus Sling TV Download the full rankings here . Pixalate’s data science team analyzed over 30 billion global open programmatic ad impressions across 12.5 million websites, Google Play Store and Apple App Store mobile apps, and connected TV (CTV) apps across Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, and Apple TV app stores in November 2024 to compile the global Publisher Trust Indexes. Download the Report UK Publisher Trust Index About Pixalate Pixalate is a global platform specializing in privacy compliance, ad fraud prevention, and digital ad supply chain data intelligence. Founded in 2012, Pixalate is trusted by regulators, data researchers, advertisers, publishers, ad tech platforms, and financial analysts across the Connected TV (CTV), mobile app, and website ecosystems. Pixalate is accredited by the MRC for the detection and filtration of Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT). pixalate.com Disclaimer The Publisher Trust Index (PTI) reflects Pixalate’s opinions with respect to factors that Pixalate believes November be useful to the digital media industry. Our reports and indexes examine programmatic advertising activity on mobile apps and Connected TV (CTV) apps. Any insights shared are grounded in Pixalate’s proprietary technology and analytics, which Pixalate is continuously evaluating and updating. Any references to outside sources in the Indexes and herein should not be construed as endorsements. Pixalate’s opinions are just that, opinions, which means that they are neither facts nor guarantees. This report is not intended to impugn the standing or reputation of any person, entity or app. Per the MRC , “'Fraud' is not intended to represent fraud as defined in various laws, statutes and ordinances or as conventionally used in UK Court or other legal proceedings, but rather a custom definition strictly for advertising measurement purposes. Also per the MRC , “‘Invalid Traffic’ is defined generally as traffic that does not meet certain ad serving quality or completeness criteria, or otherwise does not represent legitimate ad traffic that should be included in measurement counts. Among the reasons why ad traffic November be deemed invalid is it is a result of non-human traffic (spiders, bots, etc.), or activity designed to produce fraudulent traffic.” .
The real John Dutton?Jennifer Love Hewitt has been a bonafide Hollywood starlet since the 1990s — and she’s opening up about the unrealistic expectations that come with being in the spotlight for decades. “I feel like fans pick this age that they love that they think represents you, and you’re never supposed to grow beyond that,” Hewitt, 45, told Fox New Digital in an interview published on Thursday, December 26. “For me, it was like me and my 20s. People seem to have a really hard time accepting that I don’t look that way anymore.” While Hewitt started her acting career at a young age on Kids Incorporated , she had her first big break at 16 years old when she landed the role of Sarah Reeves on Fox’s Party of Five . Two years later, she became a global sensation with 1997’s slasher hit I Know What You Did Last Summer and its subsequent sequel. She has since starred in shows like Time of Your Life , The Client List and Ghost Whisperer , and released four studio albums. While some may have had trouble watching her evolve over the years, Hewitt — who shares kids, Autumn, 11, Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3, with husband Brian Hallisay — sees aging as a beautiful thing. “Age is age,” she explained. “I think women really come into this acceptance of themselves and comfortability in their 40s that is beautiful.” These days, she stars as Maddie Buckley on ABC procedural 9-1-1 and just released The Holiday Junkie , a TV film which she directed and starred in. “It’s hard because I think as humans, we want to evolve,” she continued. “We want to have lines on our faces, and you know our boobs be lower from breast-feeding our children, or, you know, our butt’s bigger.” However, Hewitt is only human, and can’t help but occasionally notice trolls’ comments on social media. “Whatever it is, you just want to have the freedom to be whoever you are at that age,” she explained. “And it’s hurtful sometimes when people reject you as you are verbally on Instagram or the internet because they’re having a hard time adjusting to it.” The criticism reached a boiling point last year when Hewitt posted a photo of herself with no makeup, leading to claims that she was “unrecognizable.” She addressed the photo on a December 2023 episode of Michael Rosenbaum ’s “Inside of You” podcast. You have successfully subscribed. By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Check our latest news in Google News Check our latest news in Apple News “The picture ended up somewhere. And a bunch of people were like, ‘Jennifer Love Hewitt is unrecognizable,'” she said. “’She’s unrecognizable and so she’s gone to filters because she doesn’t want us to know how bad she actually looks now in her 40s.’ And I was like, ‘This is crazy.’ Right?” Hewitt also took time to look back at her younger self and offer some advice to the teenager who graced the cover of Maxim at age 17. “Look, it’s going to work out. You’re going to start getting old, and they’re still going to let you do things,” she said. “It’s OK. You’re fine.”
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