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WhatsApp introduces new chat control feature

Facebook-owned popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp has introduced a new feature and updates to enhance the user experience. The company is said to be working on a new chat feature for group admins. As per ANI, the company is pla...

France’s new content window rules agreed; applies to OTT services too

France’s new content rights window timescales, which now include SVoD platforms, will come into operation from February 10, following agreement between broadcasters and the movie industry...

Twitter introduces ‘Flock Feature’ to all users

Micro-blogging site Twitter is working on a new feature called ‘Flock’ to allow users to post tweets to a specific group of people. The feature is similar to Instagram’s ‘Close Friends’ that lets users post stories to a group of closest friends, away...

WhatsApp working on wallpapers for voice calls

Facebook-owned popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will let users choose and set wallpapers as backgrounds for voice calls on the app. As per ANI, this feature was spotted on the WhatsApp beta for iOS.

The messaging app will show the chat...

Colors launches new show ‘Fanaa – Ishq Mein Marjawaan’

The Indian pay television GEC channel Colors TV is all set to launch its first fiction show of the year, ‘Fanaa – Ishq Mein Marjawaan’. The show promises to redefine the perception of love and friendship through an enthralling love saga w...

Instagram testing vertical scroll for stories

Social media platform Instagram is testing on a new vertical scroll feature for Stories in Turkey and Brazil. According to ANI, Instagram said back in February 2021 that it was working on vertically scrolling stories which have been horizontally scrollable until now. With this new feature, users...

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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!