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The Q announces maiden short film festival

India’s youngest and fastest-growing Hindi general entertainment channel with multi-format presence, The Q announces its maiden short film festival – ‘Ek Dastaan Aisi Bhi’ on national television. Spread across 7 days, ‘Ek Dastaan Aisi Bhi’ will showcase 9 critically acclaimed Hindi short films across genres, themes and subjects. The channel s...

NXTDIGITAL proposes transfer of digital, media & communications biz

India’s premier integrated digital platforms company NXTDIGITAL Limited, the media vertical of the Hinduja Group, with a presence in digital cable, satellite (HITS), broadband, content syndication and teleshopping, on Thursday held a meeting for the approval of the proposed scheme of arrangement between NXTDIGITAL Limited (NDL) and Hinduja Globa...

Lionsgate Play lineup Valentine movies

Lionsgate Play, a premium streaming platform from Starz Global, has Valentine's Day movies for its viewers--- a fab lineup of some of the romantic movies. With all the choices available, it’s difficult to choose the movies worth watching but Lionsgate P...

Twitter reports lower-than-expected Q4 ad revenue, user growth

Twitter Inc. reported weaker-than-expected quarterly advertising revenue and user growth on Thursday and forecast revenue short of Wall Street targets, indicating that a turnaround plan has yet to bear fruit for the social networking site. Still, Twitter said it made "meaningful progress" toward its goal of reaching 315 million users and $7.5...

ShareChat buys local rival MX TakaTak; deal size $ 600-700 mn.

The valuation comes as a big surprise as it seems to be on the higher side, but then two media reports state figures that are in three figures million dollars --- so the deal would actually likely be somewhere in between.

That Indian social media platform ShareChat’s parent company h...

Twitter testing playback speed options for videos

Micro-blogging site Twitter is working on a new feature to introduce a way to adjust the playback speed of videos on the micro-blogging platform. As per ANI, the company announced that it is testing video

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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!