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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...

63 MPEG2 TV channels hop on to FreeDish; several genres expanded

That Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s FreeDish is a growing competition to pay TV platforms got reiterated when after some fierce bidding, 63 channels managed to find slots for a year on the free DTH platform.

In the latest e-auction for allotment of MPEG-2 slots of DD

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...

Airtel, Tech Mahindra partner to grow India’s digital economy

Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider, and Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, have announced a strategic partnership to build and market innovative solutions for India’s digital economy by bringing together their core strengths. ...

Google cuts by 30% racy and sexual searches

When U.S. actress Natalie Morales carried out a Google search for "Latina teen" in 2019, she described in a tweet that all she encountered was pornography.

Her experience may be different now.

The Alphabet Inc. unit has cut explicit results by 30

Cricket Australia touches base with Viacom18 for sports rights

A three-member team of Cricket Australia (CA), the cricket administering body Down Under, is in Mumbai to study the market situation in India and explore broadcasting partnership with Reliance Viacom Network.

The meeting is crucial as Reliance-Viacom is likely to

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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!