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Nushrratt Bharuccha starrer ‘Selfie’ starts filming

Actor Nushratt Bharuccha on Thursday started filming for her upcoming movie ‘Selfiee’, headlined by Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi. The actor is shooting for the Dharma Productions film in Bhopal. ‘Selfiee’ reunites her with director Raj A Mehta, with whom she had worked on the Netflix anthology ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’. The ...

Yahoo elevates John McNerney, Dan Richardson to APAC leadership roles

Yahoo today announced a leadership update, promoting John McNerney to senior director of platforms for APAC and Dan Richardson as Head of Data for APAC. In his previous role, McNerney was director of platforms, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). As part of the expanded remit, he will oversee the commercia...

YouTube working on dedicated podcast homepage

Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is currently working to add a dedicated podcasts homepage. As per ANI, YouTube is planning to improve podcast ingestion by piloting the ability to pull in the podcast and the ability to pull in podcast RSS feeds...

Sunil Lulla joins Dentsu as consultant advisor for India

Dentsu has announced the appointment of industry veteran Sunil Lulla as the consultant advisor for India. As a consultant advisor, he will work closely with, and report to, Peter Huijboom, interim chief executive officer, Dentsu India, to focus on driving business growth and activation in the market wh...

MIB merges film media unit with NFDC

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Wednesday announced the merger of its four-film media units- Film Divisions, Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI)- with National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). MIB said in a press note, “Bringing all these acti...

TV9 Bharatvarsh celebrates 3rd anniversary in style with politicians, celebs

It turned out to be a starry Wednesday evening as the who’s who of India converged in strength to join the celebration at TV9 Network, India’s Number 1 news network, in New Delhi.

The guests raised a toast to the unprecedented success of the news television leader in India. Reiterati...

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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!