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Twitter adds feature on audio translations

Social media giant Twitter continues to expand its accessibility tools, with a new option to translate charts into audio elements for visually impaired users. It will allow visually impaired persons to 'listen' to charts by converting data into pitched sounds, which will be accompanied by a written description. Over the last year, Twitter ...

Zee Cinema launches new campaign

The Hindi movie channel owned by Zee Media, Zee Cinema, flags off the season’s biggest new blockbusters with their new campaign ‘Taaza Hai Toh Mazza Hai’ for cinephiles jinke seene me hai cinema. The channel brings the big hits that broke the box-of...

IPL teams’ valuation to spike 14-15.5x as media rights could net Rs. 500+ bn

Even as the Indian cricket administrative body BCCI seeks to garner an amount north of Rs. 500 billion from the auction of media rights this year, the valuations of the IPL teams could grow 14-15.5x in market cap and sales valuation, according to a new study on IPL cricket by Elara Capital.

Netflix’s sports dramedy ‘Jaadugar’ to premiere July 15

Netflix on Tuesday announced that its sports comedy drama ‘Jaadugar’ will premiere on July 15.

Set in Madhya Pradesh’s football-loving town Neemuch, ‘Jaadugar’ is a story of a small-time magician, Meenu, with no athletic skill who must prove his worth in a prestigio...

hoichoi launches ‘Feludar Goyendagiri’ trailer

hoichoi, a leading on-demand Bengali content streaming platform, launched another fan favorite detective series ‘Feludar Goyendagiri – Darjeeling Jawmjawma’. Starring Tota Roy Choudhury as ‘Feluda’, Kalpan Mitra as ‘Topshe’, and Anirban Chakrabarti as ‘Jatayu’. ‘Feludar Goyendagiri’ is helmed by Srijit Mukherji and brings the popular story...

Ffreedom app, NDTV Network launch new show

IndianMoney.com, which recently rebranded itself as Ffreedom app, has launched a new show titled ‘Icons of Bharat’, in association with the NDTV Network, to celebrate the unheard-of success stories of Indian farmers, micro-entrepreneurs, and home-makers. The idea of the show was generated from the insight that these people might have led seem...

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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!