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Meghna Gulzar begins filming for ‘Sam Bahadur’

Meghna Gulzar has started shooting for her much-anticipated film ‘Sam Bahadur’, the filmmaker announced on Monday.

The film is based on the life and times of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, one of India's greatest war heroes. He was the chief of the Indian Army in 1971 when Ind...

Havas Worldwide India announces three senior appointments

Havas Worldwide India, the creative arm of Havas Group India, continues to strengthen its strategy and account planning teams across Mumbai and Delhi offices with three key appointments. The appoints come on the heels of the tremendous growth it has witnessed over the last two years. Govind Agarwal has joined

WhatsApp rolls out new catalog feature

Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp may soon allow users to WhatsApp’s toolkit. As per ANI, the site also debuted Communities, a brand-new way to connect with individuals who share your interests, and raised the maximum number of participants in group talks from 100 to 512. Administrators and users reportedly want to keep track of those...

Shemaroo partners Amagi for FAST platform in US

Shemaroo, a leading entertainment company in India, has partnered with Amagi, a SaaS (Software as a Service) company, to create, distribute and monetize a new channel for the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) platform, Plex, in the US. Shemaroo won’t ...

YouTube testing new Zoom in feature

Video sharing platform YouTube has been testing a new mobile app feature with its premium subscribers that will allow them to zoom in on any video. According to ANI, the latest opt-in experimental feature enables a pinch-to-zoom gesture for videos and it works both in portrait and full-screen landscape views. As per the company, the zoom f...

Digital radio can aid revenues go up to Rs.123 bn in 5 years: Report

The adoption of digital radio technology can help the Indian radio broadcast sector double its revenues to Rs 123 billion in five years, riding on a robust mobile ecosystem, a new report showed on Thursday.

The country has so far tested two technologies -- HD Radio and Digital Radio ...

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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!