on well established platforms such as facebook and instagram in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. for more on meta s results and what they say about the state of big tech let s bring in ray wang, founder of tech advisory firm, constellation research. yeah, they showed that the digital add is fine, yeah, they showed that the digitaladd is fine, and i think that s a really important piece. and what you mentioned earlier is important. advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there. they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost at 3 billion intact, and they were able to drive sales up 3% and give guidance that was much higher in between the 29.5 billion to 32 billion range. and that is coming on the heels of 20
dies at age 96. welcome to bbc news. we start in sudan. in the last few hours, the government has urged british passport holders to had to an airfield to join a ventilation evacuation flights. the first plane has landed in cyprus, where onward flights will be organised to the uk. those trying to leave sudan are confronted with a series of possible routes out. those who reached the many living in the east of khartoum involves crossing the nile with at least some of the bridges reported to be under the control of rival russia. one of those trying to escape is a british citizen in sudan. yes, we try to go to a safer place, and then there, we received an e mail. as soon as possible. now we are on the way now, hopefully we will be there in the next couple of hours. this is an incredibly frightening situation. are you travelling by yourself? i know you re in a coach, butjust yourself? i know you re in a coach, but just from your own yourself? i know you re in a coach, butjust fr
Or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. And can you answer the big question why we can get on planes and trains and sit next to each other wearing a mask but cant do it in a theatre . Lockdown restrictions continue to be eased around the uk beer gardens reopen in scotland, in wales the five mile travel restriction is lifted, and in Northern Ireland nail bars and tattoo parlours can reopen. As people worry about getting and keeping a job, the government promises 30,000 traineeships to get young people in england into work. Delays in cancer diagnosis or treatment because of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to tens of thousands deaths in the uk, according to research seen by bbc panorama. Coming up in the next hour campaigners call for all Sexual Violence cases dropped because of the so called rough sex defence to be reviewed. And ennio morricone, one of hollywoods most iconic film score composers, had died at the age of 91. A £1. 5 billion government rescue package has been announced for the
Because the weather is queueing up at the moment. This cloud is coming on tuesday to bring wet weather, more rain from wednesday and then out in the atlantic, this cloud is Tropical Storm edward. That will be coming to skies near you perhaps on thursday. Monday, shower is continuing, not many across wales and southern england, are largely dry afternoon with spells of sunshine, batch i was most frequent across Eastern England and Northern Areas of scotland, where you have quite a high chance of seeing one or two through the afternoon. Showers and lengthier breaks delete outbreaks of rain working into scotla nd outbreaks of rain working into scotland over night. Elsewhere, dry. Northern ireland dry for a time but later in the night the next area of rain arriving from the west. This area cure is associated with our first area of low pressure, just sliding in here. Weatherfronts stretching quite a way to the west. With the rain getting into Northern Ireland quickly tomorrow morning, before
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