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Future of video in India bright & democratized, say industry leaders

The Asia Video Industry Association held its third Future of Video India virtual conference with much optimism as industry leaders remained bullish on India’s long-term view, after its fifth straight quarter of economic expansion, with all-around economic recovery and an economic rebound that is much broader-based an...

The ABBYs rope in 3 more international jury chairs

The ABBY Awards governing council has announced some of the world’s most awarded Jury Chairs who will be judging ABBYs 2022. They appointed three more international jury chairs to top off the highly decorated panel. Mariota Essery – Executive Creative Director, Doordash, has worked on a multitude of global award-winning campaigns including Ph...

UK to dump plans giving statutory powers to tech regulator

Britain is poised to shelve plans to provide statutory powers to a new technology regulator, in a blow to global efforts to curb the dominance of internet companies, including Google and Facebook, the Financial Times

Network18 consolidated revenue up 58% in Q4-22

Network18 Media & Investments on Tuesday reported 58.1 per cent year-on-year surge in its consolidated net profit to over Rs 61 crore during Q4FY22.

The media company reported a 14.6 per cent year-on-year rise in consolidated revenue from operations to over Rs 1,621 crore.

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JioSaavn appoints Sahas Malhotra as CEO

Music app firm JioSaavn has appointed former Amazon Music director and entertainment industry veteran Sahas Malhotra as its new CEO. Malhotra has earlier worked with Sony Music India and Tips Industries. At Tips Industries, Sahas was leading the business at Tips Music and marketing for Tips Film production, PTI reported from Mumbai. "Ba...

Coinbase appoints Durgesh Kaushik

Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. has appointed the former head of Snap India, Durgesh Kaushik, to lead the company’s growth in emerging markets. According to Economic Times, Kaushik, who joined Snap Inc. in 2019 had quit Snap, whereas Coinbase confirmed Kaushik’s appointment. Durgesh is joining Coinbase to scale its oper...

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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!