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Musk tweets ‘Love Me Tender’ days after Twitter offer

Elon Musk tweeted ‘Love Me Tender’, an Elvis Presley song, a day after Twitter Inc. adopted a "poison pill" to protect itself from the billionaire's $43 billion cash offer to buy the social media company. After Musk's TED talk on Thursday last, according to a Reuters report on Monday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he ...

aha launches its Tamil OTT service

aha, one of India’s leading regional OTT platforms announced the launch of its Tamil slate in Chennai on Thursday. The launch event was graced by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Shri Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin. He was joined by actor Silambarasan aka Simbu and music composer Anirudh Ravichander, who was announced as the brand ambas...

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41.39bn

Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41 billion, just days after rejecting a seat on the social media company’s board. Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday, represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s April 1 close, the last trading day before the Tesla CEO’s more than...

Ishaan Khatter wraps war drama ‘Pippa’

Actor Ishaan Khatter on Monday said he has finished filming for his upcoming war drama movie ‘Pippa’. Backed by producers Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur, the film is directed by Raja Krishna Menon of ‘Airlift’ fame. ‘Pippa’ is billed as a heroic tank battle film that underscores the bravery of Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta (Khatte...

BARC Rating 14th Week: Sun TV regains top spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 14th Week (2nd April – 8th April 2022) has released its report. In India, Sun TV who gets the second spot in the past three weeks has backed again to its seat of the first spot in the list of top 10 channels across genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2462.15 impressions. Star Maa is i...

Spotify adds live audio programmes

Music streaming platform Spotify has announced that it is changing the name of Greenroom to Spotify Live and bringing its live capabilities directly onto the Spotify app. Spotify Live can now be found both as the stand-alone app listeners and hosts know and love, and as a livestream function in the Spotify app alongside your favourite music ...

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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!