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FB parent company stock ticker changes to Meta June 9

Meta has announced that its Class A common stock will begin trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol 'META' prior to the market opening on June 9, 2022. The company said this will replace the company's current ticker symbol 'FB', which has been used since its initial public offering in 2012. "The new ticker sy...

BBC World News, BBC Reel announce special episode ‘Extreme Conservation, The Maldives’

BBC World News and BBC Reel announced the special episode of ‘Extreme Conservation’, airing in June on, BBC wildlife. The conservation presenter Michaela Strachan tours the world meeting the individuals fighting against the extinction of species or even entire habitats, telling the extraordinary stories of their battle against the od...

BARC Rating 21st Week: Sun TV maintains the lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 21st Week (21st May – 27th May 2022) has released its report. In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past five weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2553.47 impressions. Star Maa is in the second spot with 2128.14 impressions, and ...

British antitrust body to examine BT-Discovery Sports deal

Britain's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it had started investigating BT Group's deal to combine its sports broadcasting business with Warner Bros Discovery.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had until July 28 to make its phase 1 decision on whether the join...

hoichoi’s Bengali content to bring Dolby Atmos experience

hoichoi, a leading on-demand Bengali content streaming platform, and Dolby Laboratories, Inc., delivering breakthrough audio and visual experiences to billions of consumers worldwide, have come together to deliver an enhanced audio experience for viewers in Dolby Atmos. hoichoi announced Tuesday that noted directo...

Spotify’s failure to renew security cert causes outage

Due to an outage on the podcast hosting platform owned by Spotify, and Megaphone, podcast listeners could not access many of their shows for more than eight hours this week. According to IANS, the outage stemmed from the company's failure to renew Megaphone's security certificate. "Megaphone experienced a platform outage due to an issue re...

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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!