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Abundantia Entertainment elevates Shikhaa Sharma as COO

Abundantia Entertainment has elevated Shikhaa Sharma to the chief operating officer. She previously held the position of the senior vice president leading the creative and content development verticals for the company. Sharma has been a part of the founding team in the young journey of Abundantia Entertainment and has been part of the core te...

Prime Video collaborates with NBCUniversal’s hayu

Streaming service Prime Video has collaborated with hayu, NBCUniversal's ad-free OTT platform, to bring popular reality TV shows such as ‘The Real Housewives’, ‘Below Deck’ and ‘Top Chef’ to the Indian audiences. hayu will be available on Amazon's streaming service as an add-on subscription. hayu brings to Prime Video an ...

Airtel launches Xstream Premium aggregator content

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced the launch of its new video streaming aggregator service – Airtel Xstream Premium. The company is targeting 20 million subscriptions through the new offering. Aggregating content f...

Zee Café announces Korean drama shows

The international, English Channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Zee Café has announced multiple Korean drama shows in their original language. The channel received continuous requests from the

ShareChat buys local rival MX TakaTak; deal size $ 600-700 mn.

The valuation comes as a big surprise as it seems to be on the higher side, but then two media reports state figures that are in three figures million dollars --- so the deal would actually likely be somewhere in between.

That Indian social media platform ShareChat’s parent company h...

Twitter testing playback speed options for videos

Micro-blogging site Twitter is working on a new feature to introduce a way to adjust the playback speed of videos on the micro-blogging platform. As per ANI, the company announced that it is testing video

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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!