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TV9 Bangla unveils ‘Pochattor Swadhinata’ this 75th Independence weekend

As the clock struck midnight on August 14 in 1947, India became a free country. Jawaharlal Nehru famously called it a 'tryst with destiny. Independence also marked the birth of the state of West Bengal. Therefore, the 75th anniversary of Independence also means t...

Google opposes, Fb & Twitter support self-regs in India

Google has grave reservations about developing a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India to hear user complaints, though the proposal has support from Facebook and Twitter, sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

India in June proposed appointing a g...

Rohit Gupta bids adieu to SPNI after 20 years

After a fruitful 20-year-long stint at Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), Rohit Gupta steps down from his role as the Advisor to the Management and the Board of the organization. An industry veteran, Rohit was responsible for advising the senior management on major industry trends and developments and providing his expertise and support at ...

Amazon appoints Vineet Nair as head of media

Amazon announced roping in Vineet Nair from Mindshare as head of media. Nair shared about this move on his LinkedIn profile and wrote, “Excited to share that I have joined Amazon India as Media Head. It's been a week now and everyone has been so welcoming. As ...

Meta secretly testing Twitch-like platform ‘Super’

Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has been secretly testing Super, a live-streaming platform modeled after Twitch. As per ANI, Meta had reached out to influencers to test the platform, and they gave the publication information and a com...

Reliance Jio launches new streaming platform

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has launched its new streaming platform ‘JioGamesWatch’ under its JioGames offering. JioGamesWatch is the service’s streaming platform that provides an immersive and interactive game streaming platform experience across multiple Ji...

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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!