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Airtel broadband suffers major weekend outage in India

Airtel broadband services, which suffered a major nationwide outage that left millions of users without internet on both mobile and desktop for more than two hours, were later fixed. According to website outage monitoring platform DownDetector.com, the outage which affected millions of users across the country sta...

Kareena Kapoor begins shooting for her first streaming show

Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan on Wednesday started shooting for her upcoming Netflix film with filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh.

The untitled murder mystery is based on the 2005 bestselling Japanese novel ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ by acclaimed author Keigo Higashino.

Apple commences testing for foldable panels

American tech giant Apple has been developing a new folding OLED screen that might eventually make its way into a folding iPhone or iPad. According to ANI, the big breakthrough for Apple is the lack of a polarizer layer on their panel which is currently being used in some conventional folding displays....

Vidya Balan-starrer ‘Neeyat’ goes on floor

Thriller film ‘Neeyat’, headlined by Vidya Balan, commenced its first shooting schedule in the UK on Tuesday. The Prime Video movie reunites Balan with her ‘Shakuntala Devi’ director Anu Menon. Balan took to Instagram and posted a picture with Menon and film producer Vikram Malhotra of Abundantia Entertainment. Vidya wrote, “Excited to ...

Batjuban Nongbet rejoins Voot as VP

Amazon Prime Video's Batjuban Nongbet has rejoined Viacom18-owned Voot as Vice President & Head of Growth & Innovation, Partnerships & Revenue Strategy, Nongbet said in a LinkedIn post. Batjuban's stint at Amazon Prime Video lasted for eight months. He was managing IN Living Room Devices Partnerships for Amazon Prime Video. Pri...

Shemaroo Entertainment elevates Amit Haria to CFO

Shemaroo Entertainment has announced the elevation of Amit Haria as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to this, Haria was Vice President – Accounts and Finance, and a key member of the executive leadership team at the company. In his new role, he will be leading the financial and business affairs of the company, Economic Times reported. ...

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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!