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Varun Sharma starts shooting for ‘Fukrey 3’

Actor Varun Sharma on Thursday said he has started shooting for the third installment of ‘Fukrey’. The buddy comedy film franchise is directed by Mrigdeep Singh Lamba and is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment. The first part was released in 2013 and the sequel ‘Fukrey Returns’ came out in ...

Instagram introduces auto-generated captions

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram head Adam Mosseri has shared that the company is adding auto-generated captions to the videos. As per ANI, he acknowledged the captions have been “a long time coming” and said the captions will be on by default for creators on the platform. Prior to the announcement, creators had to

Ranveer Singh’s ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ to release on May

Bollywood superstar aka Ranveer Singh starrer ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ is slated to release in theatres on May 13. Helmed by debutant filmmaker Divyang, the upcoming social comedy is backed by Yash Raj Films and Maneesh Sharma. On Thursday, Singh unveiled the release date on his

Spotify closes its offices in Russia

Swedish auto streaming platform Spotify on Wednesday said that they had closed its office in Russia indefinitely in response to what the audio streaming platform described as Moscow’s ‘unprovoked attack on Ukraine’. Since July 2021, Russian legislation signed by President Vladimir Putin has obliged foreign social media companies with more tha...

Discovery appoints Tushar Singh as product director.

American pay television network and flagship channel Discovery has announced the appointment of Tushar Singh as product director. The news was shared by Tushar himself on his LinkedIn account. Tushar will be heading up D2C products a...

B’cast hardware local manufacturing should be of global standards: Ficci

An Indian chamber of commerce, Ficci, has said that while there is hardly “any market for local manufacturing” of the broadcasting equipment, it should be a focus area that should keep evolving as technology marches globally.

“The idea is to promote manufacturing, which can keep pace...

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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!