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India, Madagascar sign pact to explore TV co-productions

India and Madagascar have signed a memorandum of understanding in Antananarivo between the public broadcaster of the two countries to explore the co-production of programmes, and training and exchange of personnel. The pact mandates collaboration between India’s Prasar Bharati and Madagascar’s ORTM (Office de la R...

Batjuban Nongbet rejoins Voot as VP

Amazon Prime Video's Batjuban Nongbet has rejoined Viacom18-owned Voot as Vice President & Head of Growth & Innovation, Partnerships & Revenue Strategy, Nongbet said in a LinkedIn post. Batjuban's stint at Amazon Prime Video lasted for eight months. He was managing IN Living Room Devices Partnerships for Amazon Prime Video. Pri...

Shemaroo Entertainment elevates Amit Haria to CFO

Shemaroo Entertainment has announced the elevation of Amit Haria as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to this, Haria was Vice President – Accounts and Finance, and a key member of the executive leadership team at the company. In his new role, he will be leading the financial and business affairs of the company, Economic Times reported. ...

DoT initiative to give fillip to 5G testing ecosystem

Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC), a technical arm of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with VVDN Technologies Private Limited, an Indian product engineering and manufacturing company working in various technology domains including 5G, Networking, IoT,...

Google Cloud appoints GitLab’s Anthony McMahan to lead APAC

Google Cloud announced the appointment of Anthony McMahon as its new managing director of partner and alliance for APAC. He will be responsible for leading the company’s growth partnership business, including overseeing and deepening key partner relationships across the region. McMahon has over three decades of global experience in the tec...

Satinder Bindra joins Meta as Policy Communications Director APAC

Satinder Bindra has joined Meta as Policy Communications Director APAC. Announcing his new role with Meta, Satinder wrote on LinkedIn, “I’m proud and pleased to share that I’m starting a new position as Policy Communications Director APAC at Meta!” Prior to this, he was associated with ShowReel as Business Advisor where he established syst...

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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!