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India’s Connekkt Media acquires Hollywood mktng firm Mob Scene

Connekkt Media, one of Asia's fastest-growing media and entertainment companies, yesterday said it has acquired Hollywood marketing agency Mob Scene for an undisclosed amount.

After this acquisition, Connekkt Media further strengthened its position in the global media and entertainme...

Is Tata Play, Airtel Digital TV merger now nearer?

India's Tata Group and Bharti Group are close to merging their satellite TV businesses, creating a nearly $1.6 billion entity with the aim of tiding over the sustained migration of subscribers to digital streaming, Reuters quoted an Economic Times as saying yesterday.

The merged enti...

Parineeti Chopra to star in Netflix’s thriller series

Parineeti Chopra set to star in an upcoming mystery thriller series on Netflix.The yet untitled project, to be directed by Rensil D'Silva, marks another collaboration of the actor with the streaming platform after her 2024 film ...

Devotion, tech, culture converge live today on JioHotstar’s Shivratri special

From real-time access to 20+ Mahashivratri aartis to sacred Jyotirlinga temples across India to live stream of Isha Foundation's all-night event from Coimbatore and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s spiritual words to musical dedications and chants in honour of Lord Shiv by top music artists led by singer, composer and...

Brain science powers Reliance’s IPL pitch to advertisers

After striking an $8.5-billion media merger with Walt Disney, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is targeting small businesses and promoting unconventional neuroscience studies to boost its revenues from the IPL, the world's most valuable cricket league, a Reuters report from Bengaluru stated yesterday.

WAVES opens up film poster-making contest

India’s deep connection to cinema is reflected in its iconic film posters, which capture stories and emotions. To celebrate this art form, the World Audio-Visual Entertainment Summit (WAVES) has introduced the Film Poster Making Challenge as part of the 'Create in India Challenge Season 1'.

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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!