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Netflix mulls ad-supported option, password sharing crackdown

Fazed by subscriber loss of 200,000 and gloomy predictions for the future in short term, Netflix is looking at an ad-supported option for consumers as also a crackdown on rampant password sharing around the globe, which is potential revenue loss for the company. Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its sha...

Anupam Kher’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ to release on Zee5

Anupam Kher – starrer ‘The Kashmir Files’ is set to be released on Zee5 a month after its theatrical release on March 11, the streamer announced on Monday. The film is produced by Zee Studios and Tej Narayan Agarwal, Abhishek Agarwal, Pallavi Joshi, and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri. It is written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri and features a st...

Next Feluda flick ‘Hatyapuri’ likely on Christmas

Filmmaker Sandip Ray on Tuesday said that he has completed recee for his next upcoming movie 'Hatyapuri' of the Feluda series and shooting will begin in May end. However, he kept people guessing on who would be cast in the fictional detective character created by his father Satyajit Ray, saying "someone having a combination of athleticism and...

Henry Golding boards ‘Downtown Owl’ adaptation

‘Snake Eyes’ star Henry Golding has joined the cast of the upcoming movie ‘Downtown Owl’. An adaptation of author Chuck Klosterman's 2008 novel of the same title, the film will be directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater. According to PTI, Golding joins Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer, and August Blanco Rosenste...

Tasha Smith, Lee Daniels team up for Netflix horror film

‘Empire’ alum Tasha Smith is set to star in filmmaker Lee Daniels' untitled horror movie set at Netflix. According to PTI, the exorcism thriller is inspired by an actual case. The story centres on Ebony (Andra Day), the mother of an Indiana family whose children purportedly became demonically possessed. Smith will play the role of Ebony's ...

Amazon launches first Kids mobile games

Tech giant Amazon has announced that Amazon Kids+ is now bringing the fun of mobile gaming to its fans with the release of 'Super Spy Ryan and "Do, Re & Mi, with more games arriving later this year. The company said that since the beginning, Amazon Kids+ has worked hard to offer a world of fun to children and parents. "We focus on providin...

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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!