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WhatsApp is testing ‘last seen’ feature from specific users

WhatsApp has decided to include an option of letting users hide their ‘last seen’ from particular users, in the most recent update of the iOS app. Turning off the ‘last seen’ a status is a privacy option allowing users to select whether or not to let their contacts know since they last used the app. According to ANI, WhatsApp could limit w...

Elon Musk secures $ 46.5 bn in funding to buy Twitter

The Twitter-Musk drama continues to throw up new twists and turns, almost every day. A filing with US regulators showed on Thursday that Elon Musk has secured $ 46.5 billion in funding to buy Twitter Inc. and is considering a tender offer for its shares, Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion, which will include $21billion of ...

Google introduces new Chrome Web Store extension badges

American tech giant, Google has announced two new extension badges for the Chrome Web Store to help users find better extensions. It has announced the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge. Both badges are live on the Chrome Web Store. “As our goal is to help users find great extensions, publishers cannot pay to receive either...

Google launches ‘Switch to Android’ app on iPhone

American tech giant, Google, has launched a new ‘Switch to Android’ app for iOS users. The application will enable users to transfer data from iPhone wirelessly using the Android handset as a hotspot. The application is said to be a counterpart to the ‘Move to iOS’ app introduced in 2015 to transfer data from an Android device to an iPhone...

Musk tweets ‘Love Me Tender’ days after Twitter offer

Elon Musk tweeted ‘Love Me Tender’, an Elvis Presley song, a day after Twitter Inc. adopted a "poison pill" to protect itself from the billionaire's $43 billion cash offer to buy the social media company. After Musk's TED talk on Thursday last, according to a Reuters report on Monday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he ...

Twitter’s edit feature may keep digital traces of earlier tweets

Twitter is working on the edit button, as requested by its users as well as Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk. As the micro-blogging platform is reportedly going to keep a digital trace of your earlier tweets. App researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said in a tweet that the edit button may have an "immutable" quality. ...

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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!