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LinkedIn appoints Deepak Agarwal as Chief AI Officer

Professional networking giant LinkedIn has announced the appointment of Deepak Agarwal as its new Chief AI Officer (CAIO). Bringing 24 years of experience in engineering and artificial intelligence to the role, Agarwal's return to LinkedIn marks a pivotal step in the company’s AI journey, IANS reported. ...

Sonal Gupta joins Zee as SVP syndication

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (ZEEL), one of India's leading media and entertainment companies, has announced the appointment of Sonal Gupta as its new Senior Vice President - Syndication through their Linkedin post. Effective November 2024, Gupta brings over 15 years of industry expertise to her new role, st...

Netflix surpasses 300mn subscribers in Q4

Streaming giant Netflix has wrapped up 2024 with extraordinary milestones, reporting record-breaking growth in revenue, subscribers, and profitability. The company added a staggering 19 million paid subscribers in the fourth quarter, bringing its global total to 301.6 mil...

‘Mirzapur’ S3, ‘Panchayat’ S3,‘Heeramandi’ most-watched 2024 Hindi shows: Ormax

‘Mirzapur’ S3, ‘Panchayat’ S3 and ‘Heeramandi’ were the top three most viewed Hindi web series of 2024 in India with viewership of 30.8 million, 28.2 million and 21.5 million, respectively, while ‘Squid Game’ second season (19.6 million) was the most watched international show, acc...

Hansal Mehta, Vinod Bhanushali, Parag Sanghvi in mega content pact

Acclaimed filmmaker Hansal Mehta has taken a significant step forward in his creative journey by launching his own production house, True Story Films, in collaboration with producer Sahil Saigal, The Variety has reported. The company, focused on delivering c...

Trump suggests US govt own 50% of TikTok’s American biz

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of a ban of popular short-video app TikTok that was slated to be shuttered on January 19.

While signing the order, Trump suggested the United States government should be a half owne...

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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!