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Nivin Pauly’s ‘Padavettu’ to release in September

Political thriller ‘Padavettu’, headlined by Nivin Pauly, is set to be released theatrically on September 2 around the festival of Onam.

Backed by Yoodlee Films, the cinematic arm of music label Saregama, the Malayalam film is co-produced by Sunny Wayne and directed by Liju ...

Google chat adds warning banners to protect against phishing

Google announced that it will now display warning banners against potential phishing and malware attacks coming from personal accounts. To prevent phishing, Google has introduced this tweak for Google Chat in its latest expansion. During its 2022 I/O developer conference, Google discussed several se...

‘Aashram’ S3 to premiere on MX Player

The third season of India’s most-watched, loved Web show 'Aashram' is all set to premiere on MX Player on June 3, 2022. Bobby Deol is back in this riveting social drama as Baba Nirala in a more intense and vicious avatar, who continues to bend every rule to suit himself and has become a power-hungry adversary. The much-anticipated...

News18 Urdu launches new debate show

Indian media television channel, News18 Urdu, owned by Network18. has always believed in raising and addressing issues that are affecting people and are often overlooked.

Zee bags long-term media rights for UAE T20 league

UAE’s T20 League on Tuesday announced the signing of a long-term global media rights contract with ZEE, which will air the cricket tourney exclusively on its linear channels and OTT platform ZEE5 in India and across the world.

UAE’s T20 League is a professional cricket tournament com...

Netflix looks to tap South Indian market; greenlights 6 shows

Netflix Inc. is now eager to tap the South Indian market for films and TV shows in a bid to boost its subscriber base. It has a range of Indian films across various regions to showcase but for TV series --- key to keeping viewers loyal to its platform --- it only has a few hit shows in Hindi and no TV shows at all in...

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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!