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Jio Entertainment appoints MX Player‘s Viraj Singh as CRO

Viraj Jit Singh has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) by Jio Entertainment Services. Singh shared the news through a post on LinkedIn. His post read: “Blessed, grateful and excited for the opportunity - Chief Revenue Officer at Jio Entertainment Services.” Before joining Jio, Singh worked at MX Player for over four years as a S...

SPN, SonyLIV to air ‘Ultimate Kho Kho’ from Aug 14

The opening season of ‘Ultimate Kho Kho’ will begin on August 14 at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune, where six teams will fight it out for the top honor.

The tournament will culminate on September 4.

The inaugural season wi...

Twitter removes 1 million spam accounts a day

Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives Thursday during a briefing that aimed to shed more light on the company's fake and bot accounts as it tussles with Elon Musk over "spam bots." The Tesla CEO, who has offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, has threatened to walk ...

discovery+ announces content slate for July

discovery+, the non-fiction, real-life subscription streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery, announced new and original programming that will be available in July. discovery+ will premiere new titles across genres including ‘Shark Academy’, the first-ever exclusive shark series on the platform...

Meta to hire 30% less engineers; girds for economic downturn

Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc. has cut plans to hire engineers by at least 30 percent this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees as he warned them to brace for a deep economic downturn.

"If I had to bet, I'd say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we've seen in ...

Instagram testing options to verify users’ age

Instagram said on Thursday it is testing new options for users to verify their age on the platform, starting with people in the United States.

The photo-sharing service owned by Meta Platforms Inc. said it is testing two new ways to verify a person's age, in addition to allowing them...

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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!