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Vi celebrates Valentine’s Day with a new contest

Leading telecom service provider VodafoneIdea (Vi) on Tuesday announced a special contest #ViValentine where couples can share their favourite song and the special story behind it. The selected winners will win an iPhone or smartwatches and the best entries will also make it to a user generated #ViValentine playlist on the Vi App – music sect...

Bharti Airtel Q3 net profit declines to Rs. 830 cr.

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Tuesday reported a 2.8 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit to Rs 830 crore for the third quarter ended December 2021.

The company had recorded a net profit of Rs 854 crore in the same period a year ago, PTI and other media reports stated....

Vivek Srivastava joins Amazon as head of partnerships

Former Times Network President - Strategy & Operations, Digital & Broadcast Vivek Srivastava has joined Prime Video Channels, India as head of partnerships, according to his LinkedIn profile. Amazon had launched Prime Video Channels in India on September 24. Srivastava had quit the broadcast network after a seven-year stint. In ...

ABP News C-Voter unveils final opinion poll

ABP News, along with research partner CVoter, has conducted the final opinion poll, which predicts BJP emerging victorious in Uttar Pradesh. The results for Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur shows no clear winners as BJP and INC seem to be in a neck-to-neck battle with each other. Whereas, in Punjab AAP is expected to cross the

MS Dhoni reveals first look of superhero flick ‘Atharva’

Virzu Studios in association with MIDAS Deals Pvt Ltd on Friday released the motion poster of its upcoming graphic novel, ‘Atharva - The Origin’. Starring Indian skipper MS Dhoni himself as a superhero and warrior leader, the official motion poster was released by the cricketer on his official Facebook ha...

BARC India to resume news channels’ ratings after 17 months

India’s TV ratings body Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India on Monday said it will be restarting issuing data on news channels from mid-March, over 17 months after suspending it.

In a statement, BARC India said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given a dir...

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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!