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‘Sooryavanshi’ enters the Rs. 100 cr. club in 5 days

After waiting for the last 19 months, Bollywood director Rohit Shetty has made it into the news yet again with his new movie ‘Sooryavanshi’ becoming his ninth movie to get past the Rs. 100 crore mark in...

Sony TV launches new show ‘Kaamnaa’

The Indian pay television GEC channel Sony TV is all set to launch a brand new show titled ‘Kaamnaa’, a journey of a middle-class couple, Manav and Akanksha, with different ideologies. The show is all to bring a fresh youthful per...

Twitter bans US’ Newsmax scribe on anti-vax info

Twitter said it has permanently banned American conservative news outlet Newsmax’s White House correspondent Emerald Robinson from its service for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy.

The social media company had earl...

Nannditaa Kothari joins DigiflixTV as COO, Content

Inception media’s creative director Nannditaa V. Kothari has joined OTT and short video platform DigiflixTV as Chief Operating Officer (COO)- Content. The news was shared by Kothari on her LinkedIn profile, where she shared the position of Chief Operating Officer, Content of Digifilx TV. Kothari brings more than 25 years of rich experience...

After FB, now Disney mulls metaverse entry

Metaverse is the new oil or the buzzword or the mantra. Whatever you may call it, it’s certainly become a hip and happening term. And now, Mickey Mouse is poised to venture into the metaverse.

Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the entertainment conglomerate is preparing to make the tec...

NXTDigital reports Rs. 543 cr. consolidated revenue H1-22

NXTDigital Ltd, the media business of the Hinduja Group, reported 15.48 percent increase in consolidated revenues to Rs 543.42 crore for the half-year ending September 30, 2021, up from Rs. 470.58 crore for the previous corresponding period.

Pointing out that the company continued to...

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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!