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‘Venom 3’ in the works at Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures is developing a third installment in the Tom Hardy-led ‘Venom’ franchise. The film comes following the back-to-back box office successes of 2021's Venom: Let There Be Carnage and 2018's ‘Venom’. The movie franchise features Hardy as journalist Eddie Brock and his unwitting sidekick and parasite Venom, the ot...

Vibhu Agarwal launches new Hindi GEC ‘Atrangii’

Vibhu Agarwal, the founder of the Ullu app, has announced the name of its new Hindi GEC, ‘Atrangi - Dekhte Raho’, which will be launched in the first week of June. The channel aims to bring quality content to the HSM markets and from the first day itself will launch with a rich original programming line-up of 4 hours. It will bring finite ser...

BARC Rating 16th Week: Star Sports 1 Hindi gets the lead in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 16th Week (16th April – 22nd April 2022) has released its report. In India, for the past 2 weeks, Sun TV who has been taking the first spot in all genres has led back from Star Sports 1 Hindi with 2474.31 impressions (All India 2+), whereas Sun TV has taken the second spot with 2291.11 impressions...

Ad group WPP raises outlook on booming digital demand

The world's largest advertising group WPP raised its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday, saying strong client demand had helped it to buck the gloomy mood gripping the global economy.

Britain's WPP, owner of the Ogilvy, Grey and GroupM agencies, said that while customers were cauti...

Deepika to be part of Cannes Film Festival jury

Indian actor Deepika Padukone will be a part of the competition for the jury at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the organizers said.

French actor Vincent Lindon will be heading the jury at the 75th edition of the coveted festival, which will run from May 17-28. The official Twitter ac...

Instagram may soon let users pin post to their profile

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has confirmed that it is exploring a new feature that lets users pin specific posts to their profile above their photo grid. According to IANS, the new feature is currently in the testing phase and is showing up for select users on the platform. Users who have access to ...

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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!