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ShareChat raises fresh funding of $ 300mn from Google, others

The parent company of India's ShareChat has raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, media giant Times Group and Singapore's Temasek Holdings, valuing the social media firm at nearly $5 billion, two sources involved in the deal discussions told Reuters.

Warner Bros. Discovery launches two new streaming ad formats

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) unveiled two new streaming advertising products in partnership with BrightLine, a connected TV ad solutions company. The product, Click-to-contact and viewer’s choice, will be made available on Discovery+ in the fourth quarter of 2022 and offered to clients beginning in the 2022-23 Upfront season. Click-to-Cont...

Netflix’s 1st Indian original animation film to premiere at MIFF

Netflix’s first Indian animation original series, ‘Mighty Little Bheem: I love Taj Mahal’, will have its world premiere at the Mumbai International Film festival (MIFF) today.

Krishna Mohann Chintapatla, an alumni of the Zee Institute of Creative Arts with 25 years of experi...

TEC releases draft generic requirements for DPO bandpass filters

Things are getting into overdrive as the actual 5G auction time draws near, which would pave the way for the final rollout of the services in the country by various telcos.

After the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) recently issued an advisory to the distribution platfo...

4 Indian scribes in Mud Rack’s Top 10 ‘most followed on Twitter’ list

Four Indian journalists --- Rajat Sharma, Rajdeep Sardesai, Barkha Dutt and Sudhir Chaudhary --- figure amongst the top 10 scribes most followed on Twitter, according to the 'State of Journalism on Twitter 2022' report compiled by Mud Rack.

According to the report, MSNBC’s Rachel Mad...

Twitter rejects Elon Musk ally’s resignation from Board

Shareholders propose, Twitter disposes.

Twitter Inc. said in a filing on Friday it will not accept Egon Durban's resignation from the board, two days after shareholders blocked his re-election at an annual meeting.

Durban is an ally of Elon Musk, who...

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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!