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YouTube Shorts has 200bn+ daily views: Neal Mohan

YouTube has hit a staggering new milestone with its short-form video feature, YouTube Shorts, now clocking nearly 200 billion daily views. The announcement was made by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan during his keynote address at the 2025 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, showcasing the platform’s explosive growth in just a year.

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Debt-ridden telecom operator Vodafone Idea yesterday announced a partnership with satcom firm AST SpaceMobile, a rival of Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, for delivering satellite service on smartphones directly.

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Meta launches gaming accelerator to boost emerging game developers in India

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Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ interface faces backlash over familiar aesthetics

Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) may have been packed with announcements, but the reception has been anything but unanimous. At the centre of the storm is the company’s new "Liquid Glass" interface—billed as a sweeping visual transformation across iOS 26, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and VisionOS—which has sparked a wave of online ...

Meta names Srinivas as new India chief

Meta Platforms said on Monday that Arun Srinivas has been appointed as the managing director and head for Meta in India, effective July 1. Srinivas currently heads, opens new tab the tech giant's India ads business, according to his LinkedIn profile, Reuters reported. His appointment comes at a time when

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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!