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E-gaming body ropes in Aruna Sharma, Satish Mathur as advisors

E-Gaming Federation has recently appointed Dr. Aruna Sharma (former Secretary, of the Ministry of Electronics and IT and a development economist) and Satish Mathur (former DG of Maharashtra Police) to its advisory panel....

EA, Marvel in pact to develop games, starting with Iron Man

Electronics Art (EA) and Marvel have announced to collaborate on a long-term deal to develop at least three new action adventure games, based on the latter’s characters and superheroes, which will be available for consoles and PC.

Each of these games will be their own original storie...

Ofcom proposes removal of fax services from USO

British telecom and media regulator Ofcom is proposing rules changes that will mean

Saregama Q2 profit up 36% on increased licensing of songs

Saregama India reported a 36 percent increase in second-quarter profit on Monday, as the record label licensed more movie songs to its streaming partners following a rebound in the country's film industry.

TV’s ‘saas bahu’ shows outed progressive content: Ratna Pathak Shah

The influx of 'saas bahu' (kitchen politics) shows on Indian television in the early 2000s felt like a "planned" move to cut down on progressive content, says veteran actor Ratna Pathak Shah.

Excel promotes ‘Phone Bhooth’ with new campaign

Excel Entertainment's upcoming film ‘Phone Bhoot’ has become the talk of the town. The movie is a comedy of horrors and a crazy fun adventure that takes pop culture and film situations and turns them on its head to create a quirky world of ghosts and...

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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!