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India pledges supports to ITU South Asia presence

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is all set to open an area office in New Delhi by mid-2022 that will enhance regional initiatives for sustainable and inclusive digital transformation

The Indian Government will fund a new Area Office for the ITU to foster digital technolog...

Toonz, US’ Hearst Media partner for animated content

Singapore’s Technopark-based Toonz Media Group has announced a partnership with leading American production and distribution company, Hearst Media Production Group, to produce new animated content. Hearst Media Production Group, a business unit of

Varun Sharma starts shooting for ‘Fukrey 3’

Actor Varun Sharma on Thursday said he has started shooting for the third installment of ‘Fukrey’. The buddy comedy film franchise is directed by Mrigdeep Singh Lamba and is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment. The first part was released in 2013 and the sequel ‘Fukrey Returns’ came out in ...

Instagram introduces auto-generated captions

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram head Adam Mosseri has shared that the company is adding auto-generated captions to the videos. As per ANI, he acknowledged the captions have been “a long time coming” and said the captions will be on by default for creators on the platform. Prior to the announcement, creators had to

Spotify closes its offices in Russia

Swedish auto streaming platform Spotify on Wednesday said that they had closed its office in Russia indefinitely in response to what the audio streaming platform described as Moscow’s ‘unprovoked attack on Ukraine’. Since July 2021, Russian legislation signed by President Vladimir Putin has obliged foreign social media companies with more tha...

Discovery appoints Tushar Singh as product director.

American pay television network and flagship channel Discovery has announced the appointment of Tushar Singh as product director. The news was shared by Tushar himself on his LinkedIn account. Tushar will be heading up D2C products a...

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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!