YouTube shuts Indian app Simsim

YouTube fixes issues after a brief outage

The American video platform, YouTube has fixed issues with the platform after a brief outage, in the early morning on Wednesday. The platform suffered issues late at night on Tuesday with users across the globe reporting various issues with the service. The video platform acknowledged the issues at around 2 am IST. Users across the glob...


Kangana Ranaut's 'Dhaakad' to release on May 20

Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Dhaakad’ to release on May 20

Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut-starrer'Dhaakad’ will be released theatrically on May 20, the makers announced on Tuesday. The action movie is directed by Razneesh Razy Ghai and produced by Deepak Mukut and Sohel Maklai. The 35-year-old actor stars in the movie as ‘Agent Agni’, PTI reported from Mumbai. I enjoyed the lo...


Twitter acquires OpenBack to make Push notifications better

Twitter acquires OpenBack to make Push notifications better

Twitter has acquired OpenBack, a Dublin-based push notifications company, for an undisclosed sum as the micro-blogging platform aims to make notifications timely, relevant, and engaging. In a tweet thread, Jay Sullivan who is Twitter's head of consumer products said that OpenBack offers "device-side control of push notifications". "The bes...


Sandeep Pillai joins Zee as Marketing Director

Sandeep Pillai joins Zee as Marketing Director

Sandeep Pillai has joined Zee as the Director of Marketing for Zing, according to his LinkedIn post. Pillai was earlier with Times Network as Deputy General Manager at Movies Now MN+ and MNX. He was with Times for eight years. Announcing his new role with Zee, Pillai wrote on LinkedIn, “I am happy to share that I have started a new positio...


MX Player appoints Dina D’Souza as senior VP

MX Player appoints Dina D’Souza as senior VP

Dina D’Souza has joined MX Player as senior vice president, according to her LinkedIn post. In her new role, she will be driving the Direct and the OTT AVOD business for the organization. Dina brings with her 20 years of experience across print, digital, ad tech, gaming, and commerce industries. Her previous assignments have involved le...


Colors Bangla lines up Bengali New Year shows

Colors Bangla lines up Bengali New Year shows

Colors Bangla known as ETV Bangla has unveiled an ace lineup of programming for 2022. Continuing to satiate the diverse entertainment needs of its audience, the channel has planned an extravagant line-up of programs to celebrate the Bengali New Year from April 15 to April 18, 2022. The channel is all set to unravel an interesting mix of sh...