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Disney to pause all businesses in Russia

The Walt Disney Company is working to pause all businesses in Russia following the country’s ‘unprovoked invasion of Ukraine’, a spokesperson said Thursday. Last week, the entertainment and media conglomerate announced plans to halt the release of new movies in Russia, but now the company is taking additional steps to shut down the rest of it...

Google rolls out a new feature

Tech giant Google has launched an open-source anti-harassment tool called ‘Harassment Manager’ to help journalists, activists, and public figures. As per ANI, Google’s Jigsaw unit released the code for the open-source anti-harassment tool that can currently work with Twitter’s API to combine moderation options — like hiding tweet replies and ...

NFDC, Netflix partners for virtual scriptwriting program

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) on Tuesday announced a virtual training programmer for hundred women scriptwriters in partnership with streaming platform Netflix. With the program, designed for industry professionals, freelance writers, academicians, and final-year students of fil...

Global news outlets ‘suspend’ Russian ops; Moscow alleges bias

Global news media said they were suspending reporting in Russia to protect their journalists after a new Russian law that threatened jail terms of up to 15 years for spreading "fake news". Social media platforms like Meta’s Facebook said late last week Moscow was blocking their local operations.

‘Chithirai Sevvanam’ to have world premiere on Zee Tamil

Zee Tamil from the ZEEL family is ready to premiere ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’ on March 6 at 3.30 pm.

Written and directed by Stunt Silva, the movie stars ...

ABP Ananda announces food festival

ABP Ananda is gearing up for the launch of its annual three-day food festival ‘Khaibaar Paas’, Kolkata’s food gateway, where foodies can expect a celebration of great-tasting culinary dishes from renowned restaurants and food outlets in Bengal.

‘Khaibaar Pass’ is one of Kolk...

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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!