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JioSaavn appoints Sahas Malhotra as CEO

Music app firm JioSaavn has appointed former Amazon Music director and entertainment industry veteran Sahas Malhotra as its new CEO. Malhotra has earlier worked with Sony Music India and Tips Industries. At Tips Industries, Sahas was leading the business at Tips Music and marketing for Tips Film production, PTI reported from Mumbai. "Ba...

Zee Telugu launches new show ‘Devathalara Deevinchandi’

Zee Telugu from the ZEEL family is all set to launch a new fiction show ‘Devathalara Deevinchandi’. Featuring Chaitra Sakkari as Srivalli, Yashwanth as Samrat, and Nirosha as Bhavani, the show will take you on a roll...

Coinbase appoints Durgesh Kaushik

Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. has appointed the former head of Snap India, Durgesh Kaushik, to lead the company’s growth in emerging markets. According to Economic Times, Kaushik, who joined Snap Inc. in 2019 had quit Snap, whereas Coinbase confirmed Kaushik’s appointment. Durgesh is joining Coinbase to scale its oper...

Akshaye Khanna joins the team of ‘Drishyam 2’

Actor Akshaye Khanna is the latest addition to the cast of the Hindi remake of Mohanlal-starrer 'Drishyam 2’, which features Ajay Devgn and Tabu in the lead roles. In an Instagram post, Tabu shared the news of the casting of Khanna, best known for films ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, ‘Hungama’, ‘Race’ and ‘Mom’, PTI reported from Mumbai. "Delighted to ...

Bhuvan Bam to digital debut on Disney+Hotstar

Comedian, writer, songwriter, and YouTube personality Bhuvan Bam is all set for his new project which is going to be his digital streaming debut. He will be seen donning a novel character in an untitled web show. Sharing his excitement, Bhuvan said: "I am pumped to be making my digital streaming debut with an extraordinary project." Bhuvan...

Rohit Shetty, Reliance Entertainment to produce biopic on Rakesh Maria

Filmmaker Rohit Shetty and Reliance Entertainment on Saturday announced they are teaming up to produce a biopic on Mumbai’s former Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria. The upcoming feature film will be based on the experiences of Maria and his career. Shetty said he feels honored to bring the real-life cop’s brave journey to the screen. “R...

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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!