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Media icon Pradeep Guha passes away

Media icon Pradeep Guha, Managing Director of 9X Media and former President of The Times of India Group passed away on Saturday, 21st August due to liver cancer. He was 69 and survived by his family. He was suffering from liver cancer stage-4 and was put on a ventilator on Friday morning d...

Viacom18 bags broadcast, digital rights for Italian Serie A

Viacom18, on Friday, announced that it has acquired the broadcast and digital rights for Italian Serie A for the Indian sub-continent region for the next 3 seasons. The latest edition of Italian Serie A will kick off on Saturday, ...

Surekha Sikri last film ‘Kya Meri Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai’ to release on Zee5

Late actor Surekha Sikri’s last film ‘Kya Meri Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai’ will come out on streaming platform Zee5.

On Thursday, the makers unveiled the film’s poster, which features t

Netflix renews S3 of ‘Never Have I Ever’

Streaming giant Netflix has renewed Mindy Kaling’s comedy-teen drama ‘Never Have I Ever’ for its third season.

Co-creators Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher announced the same in a joint statement that read: “We are so grateful to Netflix and Universal Television for letting us c...

Twitter brings new updates to its direct messages

Micro-blogging site Twitter, on Thursday, announced that it will be introducing some updates to its direct messages, which will roll out to some users in the next few weeks.

According to ANI, the updates will include a feature that will let users send a direct message to multiple peo...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!