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Warner Bros. Discovery to shutter CNN+

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced it would shut down its CNN+ streaming news service less than a month after its highly touted launch. The service, which sought to capitalize on the popularity of streaming video and the growth of digital news subscriptions, will cease operations on April 30. The executive who helped design CNN's strea...

Havas Media Group launches Havas Content

Havas Media Group India has announced the launch of its specialized content division, Havas Content. The unit aims to focus on leveraging dynamic content to help brands create meaningful media experiences and make a meaningful difference in consumers’ lives. Havas Content seeks to bridge the gap by offering meaningful content solutions tha...

Elon Musk secures $ 46.5 bn in funding to buy Twitter

The Twitter-Musk drama continues to throw up new twists and turns, almost every day. A filing with US regulators showed on Thursday that Elon Musk has secured $ 46.5 billion in funding to buy Twitter Inc. and is considering a tender offer for its shares, Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion, which will include $21billion of ...

Vidyut’s ‘Khuda Haafiz Chapter II’ to release June 17

'Khuda Haafiz: Chapter II - Agni Pariksha', starring Vidyut Jammwal, is slated to be released in theatres on June 17. A follow-up to the 2020 action-thriller 'Khuda Haafiz', the upcoming movie is written and directed by Faruk Kabir who penned and helmed the first film in the franchise as well. Jammwal took to Twitter to share the release d...

SonyLIV, Evergent extend subscription management partnership

Evergent, the monetization and customer management leader for streaming and digital subscription businesses, has announced a partnership extension with SonyLIV. According to the agreement, SonyLIV will continue to leverage Evergent’s agile subscription management platform to facilitate rapid growth and agile market expansion. SonyLIV is t...

Google introduces new Chrome Web Store extension badges

American tech giant, Google has announced two new extension badges for the Chrome Web Store to help users find better extensions. It has announced the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge. Both badges are live on the Chrome Web Store. “As our goal is to help users find great extensions, publishers cannot pay to receive either...

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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!