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Disney Star’s Arjun Kohli joins Viacom18 Sports

Arjun Kohli has joined Viacom18 Sports as Director of Sales – TV & Digital (JioCinema), according to his LinkedIn post. In his new role, he will be an integral part of the ad sales team. Kohli previously worked at Disney Star as an Account Director for Star Sports Network. He was instrumental in managing corporate sponsorships for the

IT Minister allays fears on govt-appointed fact-check body

The upcoming Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will drive "deep behavioural changes" among those platforms in India that have for long exploited or misused personal data, Union Minister for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has asserted. In an interview to PTI, the deputy IT Minister said also sought...

Harsh Jain elected as new chairman of IAMAI till 2025

Harsh Jain, co-founder, and CEO of Dream Sports, has been elected chairman of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He will be in charge for the next two years. Jain takes over for Sanjay Gupta, Google India's vice president and country manager. The association's vice-chairman and treasur...

Govt’s IT spending likely to reach $11.6 bn in 2023: IDC

The government's IT spending in India is expected to reach $11.6 billion in 2023, an increase of 10.3 percent from 2022, according to a report released yesterday. According to an IDC report, quoted by IANS, the government will continue to prioritize mode...

Dish TV India proposes Manoj Dobhal as CEO-Designate

The Board of Directors of Dish TV India Limited proposed Manoj Dobhal, the Company's current Chief Operating Officer (COO), as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)-Designate and advised the management to seek prior approval from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) by the Uplinking Guidelines. T...

Digital India Act to curb high-risk AI, enable innovation: IT Minister

India’s federal government yesterday announced that the upcoming Digital India Act (DIA) will strictly deal with misinformation and 'high-risk AI' to prevent user harm, with the first draft of the Bill expected in the first week of June.

During the second round of pre-drafting public consultations with various s...

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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!