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Shemaroo partners Amagi for FAST platform in US

Shemaroo, a leading entertainment company in India, has partnered with Amagi, a SaaS (Software as a Service) company, to create, distribute and monetize a new channel for the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) platform, Plex, in the US. Shemaroo won’t ...

YouTube testing new Zoom in feature

Video sharing platform YouTube has been testing a new mobile app feature with its premium subscribers that will allow them to zoom in on any video. According to ANI, the latest opt-in experimental feature enables a pinch-to-zoom gesture for videos and it works both in portrait and full-screen landscape views. As per the company, the zoom f...

aha announces new psychological thriller movie

India’s Telugu-language OTT platform aha, announces ‘Highway’, a psychological thriller starring Anand Devarakonda and Abhishek Banerjee. Directed and written by K.V. Guhan, and produced by Venkat Talari, the film will hit aha...

Instagram to soon test ultra-tall photos

Photo and video sharing platform Instagram will begin testing ultra-tall 9:16 photos "in a week or two." CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed the news, he said, "You can have tall videos, but you cannot have tall photos on Instagram. So we thought maybe we should mak...

MX VDesi brings new K-Drama in August

Leading super app for entertainment, MX Player's new category - MX VDesi which hosts India’s largest catalog of dubbed shows in local Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, has announced new shows every Wednes...

Guest Column: As telcos ready 5G services, DPOs need to protect themselves

By Rajiv Khattar

With the 5G spectrum auction over and the Indian government having generated a good amount of revenue, now the telcom companies are gearing up to launch their services --- both

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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!