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Koo appoints Sunil Kamath as CBO

Multilingual social media platform Koo has announced the appointment of Sunil Kamath as a chief business officer, CBO, according to an update on his LinkedIn account. Kamath will lead growth strategies, marketing, business partnerships, monetization, and expansion at the platform. Kamath brings a wealth of experience to Koo, having spent o...

Disney+ Hotstar sets premiere date for ‘Ghar Waapsi’

Family drama ‘Ghar Waapsi’ will arrive on Disney+ Hotstar on July 22, the streamer announced on Monday. ‘Ghar Waapsi’ follows Shekhar, played by Vishal Vashishtha, who returns to his hometown Indore after he is fired from his high-paying job in Bengaluru, but keeps it a secret from his family, PTI reported from Mumbai. Disney+ Hotstar shar...

Amazon launches Alexa Originals

Amazon announced the launch of Alexa Originals, an exclusive selection of new songs by four independent artists from India. Users can now listen to ‘Besabar’ by Lisa Mishra, ‘Bikhre’ from Vibha Saraf, ’Saathi’ and an instrumental track from Gulraj Singh, and ‘Downtown’ by Diesby as part of Alexa Originals. The songs on Alexa Originals have...

Twitter removes 1 million spam accounts a day

Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives Thursday during a briefing that aimed to shed more light on the company's fake and bot accounts as it tussles with Elon Musk over "spam bots." The Tesla CEO, who has offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, has threatened to walk ...

BARC Rating 26th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 26th Week (25th June – 1st July 2022) has released its report. Sun TV continues to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past few weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2450.07 impressions. Star Maa is in the second spot with2395.26 impressions, and Star Plus bagg...

Zee Café expands Hallyu Nights with new K-dramas

The international English channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Zee Café, has expanded its channel’s property ‘Hallyu Nights’ bringing to the audience some must-watch K-dramas with the new romantic drama, ‘Uncontrollably Fond’. Starring Woo Bin Kim, Bae Suzy, and Ju-Hwan Lim, ‘Uncontrollably Fond’ ...

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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!