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Havas Worldwide India bolsters its senior team

Havas Worldwide India (creative) has appointed Arthi Basak as executive vice president and planning head, and West and Esha Datta and Sougata Kundu have been roped in as vice president, client servicing. While Basak and Datta will be part of the Havas Mumbai office, Kundu will work out of Havas Gurgaon, Financial Express reported. Basak is...

Amazon consumer biz CEO Dave Clark resigns

Amazon's long-serving CEO of consumer business has stepped down, Amazon stated. Dave Clark has been with the firm for 23 years, advancing from managing a warehouse in Kentucky to directing the whole retail operation. He was also in charge of Amazon's warehousing and shipping operations, as well as overseeing the retail company during a per...

Musk says Twitter failure to give spam data could be deal breaker

Elon Musk may walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter Inc. if the social media network fails to provide data on spam and fake accounts, the billionaire warned in a letter to the company on Monday.

Twitter was in a "clear material breach" of its obligations and that Mus...

Jim Henson’s family hub launches kids YouTube channel

Jim Henson’s family hub, The Jim Henson Company’s online community for celebrating, supporting, and connecting all kinds of families, has launched a new YouTube channel featuring full episodes, fun clips, weekly updates, and more. The kid’s safe channel (HensonFamilyHub) showcases titles from the company’s catalog...

Armaan Malik to collaborate with Ed Sheeran

Singer-songwriter Armaan Malik on Monday said he is set to team up with Ed Sheeran on a brand new version of the popular British singer's latest single ‘2Step’. In a Twitter post, Malik also shared that the song will be released Tuesday on all music streaming platforms. "Out tomorrow," he captioned the...

SRK’s next film titled ‘Jawan’

The title of Shah Rukh Khan and Tamil filmmaker Atlee’s film has been revealed; it’s ‘Jawan’. The first-look teaser of the film shows SRK’s character sporting a bandaged face and preparing to take on his enemies. Atlee is known for his successful action flicks with Vijay such as ‘Their’ and ‘Mersal’. Produced ...

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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!