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Alibaba, Tencent likely to trim workforce by up to 30%

Chinese social media platform Weibo said that tech giants Alibaba and Tencent employees are expecting around 30 percent job cuts. On Mar 13 and 14, Alibaba and Tencent layoffs appeared on Weibo trends, ANI reported from Hong Kong. There was internal speculation among employees, that

Disney Star renews Premier League broadcast rights for the three seasons

Disney Star has renewed its exclusive broadcast rights for the Premier League for the next three seasons, from 2022-23 to 2024-25 for the Indian sub-continent. With this extension, the broadcaster will be associated with the biggest football league in the world for over two decades. Disney Star will continue to grow the viewership of the <...

Data centers to enable India’s trillion$ digital economy growth

India’s data center industry is poised for a sustained period of growth, driven by a diverse range of consumer and demographic trends, says Nxtra by Airtel, the data center subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider, in association

YouTube Vanced to shut down due to legal reasons

Android users will no longer be able to use the popular YouTube Vanced application. The creators of Vanced have decided to shut down the application in the coming days due to “legal reasons”, IANS reported. “Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the

Berenberg Bank says Russia-Ukraine war to have limited impact on media

A report from investment analysts at Berenberg Bank, which studied sectoral impact, and, in particular, on media, stated that while there are some broadcasters that have business interests in Russia, their exposure (to specific losses) are modest.

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Times Network to be the new Goafest presenting sponsor

The Goafest organizing committee has announced that Times Network has come on board as presenting sponsors of Goafest 2022. It is an apex industry event that celebrates milestones in the Indian media and advertising industry. Goafest will be held on May 5-7 May 2022 at the Grand Hyatt Goa, Economic Times reported. Speaking about the par...

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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!