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S. Sivanandan named new head of Disney+Hotstar

S. Sivanandan named new head of Disney+Hotstar

It’s sort of a homecoming for Sajith Sivanandan, named on Tuesday by Disney as the new head of Disney+Hotstar, as he had started his media career with Star TV in the mid-1990s, responsible for certain regional markets for music channel Channel V, which was shuttered by Star in 2018.

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Netflix partners IOC for new documentary

Netflix partners IOC for new documentary

International Olympic Committee (IOC) and streaming platform Netflix have collaborated on the iconic 2008 US Olympic Men’s Basketball victory as a documentary. This is Netflix’s first collaboration with the Olympic Channel, which is the media studio owned and ...

‘House of the Dragon’ debut crashes HBO Max site in US

‘House of the Dragon’ debut crashes HBO Max site in US

The hotly anticipated debut of the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel saw a vast number of users flock to HBO Max, overwhelming the service for some on Sunday night in the US.

More than 3,000 outages were reported across the global monitoring service Downdetector at 9 p.m. in New Yor...

Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams

Twitter tests special tag feature

Twitter is testing a feature to highlight accounts with a verified phone number. According to The Hindu, some users already have access to the ability to view counts for their own tweets under the ‘analytics’ label. W...