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Google strikes 5-yr payment deal with AFP for content

Alphabet Inc.'s Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse (AFP) for its news content as part of a broad five-year partnership announced Wednesday that marks one of the biggest licensing deals struck by a tech gian...

Data protection law will boost digital economy: Meity official

Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) has said that the personal data Protection (PDP) Bill, likely to be introduced in parliament later this year, would provide a boost to...

Prasar Bharati exploring direct-to-mobile broadcasting

Stating that Prasar Bharati had entered into a collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, where a pilot project was underway to work out the feasibility of direct-to-mobile broadcasting, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati has said that if this effort was successful, smartphones...

Snapchat adds Sony Music to its library

American multimedia instant messaging app Snapchat has announced a new deal with Sony Music Entertainment to include their artistes’ music into Snap’s library of licensed music. According to ANI, the additional music partners include Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, MERLIN Members, Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing G...

Streamer aha joins hands with Firstlight media

India’s Telugu-language OTT platform aha and leading cloud transformations of OTT and in-home experiences for Pay-TV, Telcos, and MVPD’s Firstlight media has launched a first-to-market “glocal” strategy that harnesses a 100% cloud-ba...

FB says Pak hackers targeted Afghan users amid govt. collapse

Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban's takeover of the country, the company's threat investigators said in an interview with Reuters.

Facebook said the group, known in the security industry ...

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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!