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Jio, Google unveil budget phone for booming India market

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Ltd. unveiled the much-awaited JioPhone Next co-developed with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, a handset designed to target India’s hundreds of millions of first-time smartphone users. “An ultra-affordable 4G smartphone is essential,” Ambani told shareholders at Reli...

Twitter India gets interim relief from high court

An Indian court on Thursday said Twitter Inc.’s India head Manish Maheshwari should face no "coercive action" in a case where police summoned him for failing to stop the spread of a video that allegedly incited religious discord, media reports indicated.

"If the police desire to exam...

Zoom adds new pronoun feature

American video teleconferencing software company Zoom has added a new feature that caters to pronouns, along with some options to manage when they’re displayed. According to an ANI report, the feature pronouns will appear in parentheses next to people’s names in calls, essentially the same as how they have looked ...

India liberalizes BPO sector guidelines

The Indian government on Wednesday announced liberalisation of guidelines for other service providers (OSPs) and said that the move would position India as a strong global destination for voice BPOs business process outsourcing).

The distinction between domestic and international OSP...

Sony TV to premiere ‘Shark Tank India’

Hindi GEC, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), is ready to premiere the Indian version of the American business reality show, ‘Shark Tank’. The channel shared the first promo of the show on Twitter saying: “Shark Tank India. World ka no.1 business reality show Shark Tank aa raha hai India mein! Jahan Sha...

India’s Producers Guild, Times NOW settle civil suit

The Producers Guild of India on Tuesday said it has settled a civil suit against Times NOW news channel over alleged "irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks" against the film industry.

The news channel, belonging to The Times of India group, has agreed to abide by provision...

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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!