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Goafest makes a return; sets ‘The Superpower Within’ as theme

Fifteen years of Goafest is truly a special milestone anniversary. What makes it more special is that after a gap of two years, Goafest returns like never before! The annual celebration that has been a part of our lives for a decade and a half, was on pause like so many other things in life, due to the pandemic. T...

‘Dr. Strange’ star Cumberbatch says would love to revisit India

Benedict Cumberbatch's connection with India goes back to his teenage years and the ‘Doctor Strange’ star says he hopes to return one day to interact with the country's "first superhero". The British actor, who took a gap-year after his school to travel to Darjeeling to teach English at a Tibetan monastery, fondly remembers his six mon...

InMobi readies for APAC growth; expands regional leadership

InMobi, a leading provider of content, marketing, and monetization technologies that help businesses fuel growth, has announced the expansion of its regional leadership team in Asia Pacific to double down on the growth of its advertising business in the region.

The move is aimed at s...

Rohit Shetty, Reliance Entertainment to produce biopic on Rakesh Maria

Filmmaker Rohit Shetty and Reliance Entertainment on Saturday announced they are teaming up to produce a biopic on Mumbai’s former Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria. The upcoming feature film will be based on the experiences of Maria and his career. Shetty said he feels honored to bring the real-life cop’s brave journey to the screen. “R...

Prime Video India unveils slate of 40 Indian shows; launches movie rental biz

Amazon's Prime Video launched a movie rental service in India on Thursday, promising to release more than 40 original series and movies, through various partnerships and licensing deals, over the next two years in a key market.

The world’s second-most populous nation with a populatio...

Ad group WPP raises outlook on booming digital demand

The world's largest advertising group WPP raised its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday, saying strong client demand had helped it to buck the gloomy mood gripping the global economy.

Britain's WPP, owner of the Ogilvy, Grey and GroupM agencies, said that while customers were cauti...

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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!