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Viacom CBS rebrands itself Paramount

The leading global media and entertainment company ViacomCBS officially changed its name to Paramount, effective Wednesday last. The announcement was made by Bob Bakish, President and CEO, and Shari Redstone, non-executive chair of the company’s board of directors. The company’s legal name will be Paramount Global...

‘Undekhi’ S2 to release March 4 on SonyLIV

Streaming platform SonyLIV on Thursday announced that the second season of their show ‘Undekhi’ will premiere on March 4. The crime-thriller series is produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Banijay Asia and directed by Ashish R Shukla, the streamer said in a press release. SonyLIV also ...

Spotify acquires 2 podcast tech companies

Swedish auto streaming platform Spotify has announced that it is acquiring two major podcast ad tech firms, Chartable and Podsights. With the acquisition of Podsights, Spotify will be able to help advertisers understand how podcast ads drive actions th...

Colors Tamil launches new show

Tamil Nadu’s youngest GEC, Colors Tamil, announced the launch of its new show, ‘Namma Madurai Sisters’, the journey of the three younger sisters. Set in the backdrop of Madurai, ‘Namma Madurai Sisters’ revolves around the life of four sisters, each with distinctive characteristics. Packed with...

Twitter to roll out new labels to pick out bot accounts

Micro-blogging site Twitter is now rolling out its new bot labels that will let bot accounts include a label to show they are automated.

According to Engadget, everyone who is running a bot ac...

India’s mobile, b’band user base decline in Dec-21: TRAI data

The mobile user count in India fell by 12.8 million in December 2021 compared to the previous month, with Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea suffering subscriber losses, even as Bharti Airtel added customers, TRAI data showed on Thursday.

Reliance Jio lost about 12.9 million wireless

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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!