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‘Dr. Strange’ star Cumberbatch says would love to revisit India

Benedict Cumberbatch's connection with India goes back to his teenage years and the ‘Doctor Strange’ star says he hopes to return one day to interact with the country's "first superhero". The British actor, who took a gap-year after his school to travel to Darjeeling to teach English at a Tibetan monastery, fondly remembers his six mon...

JioSaavn appoints Sahas Malhotra as CEO

Music app firm JioSaavn has appointed former Amazon Music director and entertainment industry veteran Sahas Malhotra as its new CEO. Malhotra has earlier worked with Sony Music India and Tips Industries. At Tips Industries, Sahas was leading the business at Tips Music and marketing for Tips Film production, PTI reported from Mumbai. "Ba...

ABP Majha’s flagship show ‘Majha Katta’ celebrates 10 years

ABP Majha is all set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its flagship talk show, ‘Majha Katta’, and is organizing a grand on-ground conclave ‘Majha Maha Katta’ on April, 30 in Mumbai.

The goal of the talk show, ‘Majha Katta’ is to provide viewers an offbe...

Meta’s Jessica Zucker joins Ofcom to power online safety

Ofcom has announced the appointment of a senior leader for its online safety policy team. Jessica Zucker joins from Meta (formerly Facebook), where she led the company’s Misinformation Policy team in Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as acting as the company’s global health misinformation lead during the pandemi...

NXTDIGITAL’s ‘NXTHUB’ bags the ‘Best Innovative Project Of The Year’

The prestigious National Feather Award for the 'Best Innovative Project of the Year' was awarded to NXTDIGITAL Limited for its innovative and future-ready digital NXTHUB project; at a function in Mumbai. The NXTHUB is a one-stop digital solution – delivering digital TV, broadband, OTT, and WIFI. The “NXTHUB” concept was designed and rolled ou...

India sticks to accountability as Twitter user base grows globally

India has reiterated its position on social-media accountability in response to Elon Musk's pending takeover of Twitter, saying platforms must make checks on users and content even as Twitter in its quarterly earnings reported rise in user base globally.

A change in ownership would m...

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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!