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Elon Musk uplifts his brand on SNL & NBC’s ratings

Elon Musk showed a combination of humility and hubris as he opened his highly anticipated hosting gig on “Saturday Night Live”.

The 49-year-old Tesla CEO, SpaceX founder and one of the world’s richest men opened his monologue by mocking his monotonal speaking style, saying n...

Star extends olive branch to IPL sponsors, advertisers

Pay only for IPL matches played so far, Star tells worried sponsors & advertisers

Star Sports has told advertisers who had bought airtime on the now-suspended 14th edition of the popular Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament to pay only for the matches that have been pla...

Rahul Kanwal upraised to executive director of Business Today

India Today Group has upraised Rahul Kanwal to the role of executive director of its business magazine, Business Today. The new business responsibility is in addition to his current role as news director of the biggest news channels Aaj Tak and Ind...

News Corp beats Q1 estimates riding digital push

Wall Street Journal parent News Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as the company's digital push helped its Dow Jones unit attract more subscribers. Revenue from Dow Jones, which provides news and business information, rose 6 per cent to $421 million during the first quarter, Reuters reported. News Corp, own...

Filmmaker Aditya Chopra sets up Covid relief in father’s name

Filmmaker Aditya Chopra on Friday launched 'Yash Chopra Saathi' initiative to provide financial support to the daily wage earners of the film industry, who are affected due to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has about 2.5 lakh (250,000) registered workers. Under the initia...

लॉकडाउन में फिल्म कामगारों की मदद के लिए आगे आये आदित्य चोपड़ा

फिल्म निर्माता कंपनी यशराज फिल्म्स के मालिक आदित्य चोपड़ा लॉकडाउन में फिल्म कामगारों की मदद के लिए आगे आये है। उन्होंने कामगारों के खाते में पैसे पहुँचाने की घोषण की है और साथ ही जरूरतमंदों को महीने भर का राशन पहुंचाने की एक योजना भी शुरू की है। इस योजना के लिए रजिस्ट्रेशन आज (शुक्रवार) से शुरू हो जाएगी। कामगारों की मदद करने के इरादे से 'यश चोपड़ा...

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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!