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HBO Max starts hiring people in India as precursor to launch

Streaming service from AT&T’s Warner Media, HBO Max, has taken initial steps towards an India launch by starting to advertise for staff hiring after poaching Saugata Mukherjee from SonyLIV to be its local head of content.

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Sony to invest $ 500 mn. in Taiwanese chip maker

Sony Group said on Tuesday it would invest about $500 million in a joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) that will build a $7 billion chip plant in Japan.

Tamannah Bhatia joins the team of ‘Bholaa Shankar’

Actor Tamannaah Bhatia has joined the team of upcoming Telugu film ‘Bholaa Shankar’, featuring superstar Chiranjeevi and Keerthy Suresh.

Tamannah took to Twitter an...

Garmin India launches new health and wellness tool

Garmin India, a unit of Garmin Ltd., on Tuesday, launched the feature-packed ‘Index S2 Smart Scale’, a connected health and wellness tool with advanced technology and exceptional accuracy for serious athletes and like-minded users alike to ‘Beat Yesterday’.

Pakistan tunes into NewsOnAir

In the latest rankings of top countries in the world (excluding India) where All India Radio live streams on NewsOnAir app are most popular, Pakistan has entered top 10 for the first time, while Saudi Arabia ...

Google removes ‘Your News Update’ from Assistant

American tech giant Google has removed its ‘Your News Update’ personalised audio digest feature from Assistant.

Google has removed the feature to ‘streamline’ its audio news ...

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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!