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Vidya Balan-starrer ‘Neeyat’ goes on floor

Thriller film ‘Neeyat’, headlined by Vidya Balan, commenced its first shooting schedule in the UK on Tuesday. The Prime Video movie reunites Balan with her ‘Shakuntala Devi’ director Anu Menon. Balan took to Instagram and posted a picture with Menon and film producer Vikram Malhotra of Abundantia Entertainment. Vidya wrote, “Excited to ...

Batjuban Nongbet rejoins Voot as VP

Amazon Prime Video's Batjuban Nongbet has rejoined Viacom18-owned Voot as Vice President & Head of Growth & Innovation, Partnerships & Revenue Strategy, Nongbet said in a LinkedIn post. Batjuban's stint at Amazon Prime Video lasted for eight months. He was managing IN Living Room Devices Partnerships for Amazon Prime Video. Pri...

Shemaroo Entertainment elevates Amit Haria to CFO

Shemaroo Entertainment has announced the elevation of Amit Haria as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to this, Haria was Vice President – Accounts and Finance, and a key member of the executive leadership team at the company. In his new role, he will be leading the financial and business affairs of the company, Economic Times reported. ...

Meta flays German antitrust order on curbing data collection

Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook, on Tuesday criticised a landmark German antitrust order to curb its data collection as 'clearly flawed' and which undermines EU data protection rules.

Meta's criticism of the German antitrust watchdog came after the latter in 2019 said the world's l...

Netflix could introduce ad-supported plan by year-end: NYT report

Netflix Inc. could introduce its lower-priced ad-supported subscription plan by the end of the year, earlier than originally planned, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The streaming pioneer is also planning to start cracking down on password sharing among its subscriber base ar...

Shooting on ‘Mr and Mrs Mahi’ begins

Filming on cricket drama ‘Mr and Mrs Mahi' has started, production house Dharma Productions announced Monday. The movie reunites ‘Roohi’ (2021) co-stars Rajkummar Rao and Jahnvi Kapoor. "The field is set and team #MrAndMrsMahi is all geared up! Day 1 of the shoot ...

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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!