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Adobe initiatives to empower India’s creative future

Global software leader Adobe made a high-impact presence at WAVES 2025 in Mumbai, announcing a host of strategic initiatives aimed at empowering India’s rapidly expanding creator economy.

As the opening day of the summit came to a ...

WAVES: Murugan unveils white paper on India live events boom

On the opening day of WAVES 2025 Union Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. L. Murugan, prepares to release a groundbreaking white paper titled “India’s Live Events Economy: A Strategic Growth Imperative”. The formal unveiling is scheduled to take place on May 3, 2025, during the presti...

India can lead global entertainment revolution: Mukesh Ambani

In a landmark address at WAVES 2025, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani laid out a bold vision for India to lead the next global entertainment revolution on Thursday. Speaking at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai, Ambani described the event as both “pioneering” and “historic”, capturing the optimism of a nation ready to take ce...

Big B forays into gaming; unveils ‘Age of Bhaarat’ at WAVES

In a stunning revelation at the ongoing WAVES 2025 Summit, megastar Amitabh Bachchan announced his entry into the world of AAA gaming as the co-founder of Tara Gaming Studios, India’s ambitious new venture in the global gaming industry.

YouTube’s Rs.850cr plan to empower Indian content creators

In a major push to strengthen India’s vibrant creator economy, YouTube on Thursday announced that it will invest over Rs.850 crore in the country to support and scale up content creation across regional languages and formats.

The announcement was made during the ongoing

Stakeholder alignment media’s big media challenge: BARC Chairman

At the ongoing WAVES Summit 2025 in Mumbai, Shashi Sinha, Chairman of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), made a strong and candid pitch for better stakeholder management in India’s media measurement ecosystem, emphasising that the country’s core challenge isn’t about technological capability, but about aligning various ...

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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!