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Airtel, WhatsApp launches ‘Airtel IQ Hackathon’

Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider, and WhatsApp announced the launch of the first-ever “Airtel IQ” hackathon. The hackathon’s objective is to identify and build new-age business solutions using the WhatsApp Business Platform ...

Vi hosts ‘Vi Aagomoni’ in Kolkata

Pujo, the most prominent festival of Kolkata, is an occasion like no other. It is truly the soul and pride of West Bengal. To capture the spirit of Bengal’s biggest festival and formally usher in Durgotsav 2022, leading telecom brand, Vodafone Idea (Vi) will host ‘Vi Aagomoni’, one of Kolkata’s iconic and highly anticipated annual cultural event...

Instagram rolls out longer uninterrupted Stories

Meta-owned Instagram has rolled out a new feature globally that will allow users to upload longer uninterrupted Stories. Currently, if an Instagram user uploads a Story that’s under 60 seconds, it is broken up into 15-s...

Twitter to up content data sharing with research groups

Twitter Inc. plans to provide more data to external researchers who study online misinformation and moderation, the social media company said Thursday, part of what it says is an effort to increase transparency on the platform.

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Singtel arm sells 1.59% stake in Bharti Airtel

Pastel Ltd, an entity of Singtel, has divested a 1.59 percent stake in Bharti Airtel for Rs. 7,261 crore through an open market transaction.

The stake, sold on Thursday, has been picked by Bharti Airtel's promoter, Bharti Tel...

US bill aims to give news, b’cast firms more clout vs. Big Tech

The US Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to approve a bill aimed at allowing news organizations to band together to negotiate with Alphabet Inc's, Google and Meta's Facebook and win more revenue.

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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!