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Netflix acquires Boss Fight Entertainment

Netflix has acquired Boss Fight Entertainment, a mobile game studio based in Texas. Boss Fight was formed by former Zynga Dallas and Ensemble Studios employees in 2013. It's headed by CEO David Rippy alongside CCO Bill Jackson and COO Scott Winsett. "This studio's extensive experience building hit games

‘Yaara’ to have world TV premiere on &pictures

Hindi movie channel &pictures are ready to premiere ‘Yaara’ on March 25 at 10:00 pm. Written and directed by the thrill maestro Tigmanshu Dhulia, the movie stars Vidyut Jammwal, Shruti Hassan, Amit Sadh, Vijay Varma, and Ankur Vakil in the pivotal role. ‘Yaara’ brings a gritty timeline of a crime,

Vedantu announces broadcast association with IPL 2022

Vedantu, the LIVE online learning platform, has announced the broadcast association with IPL for the upcoming season of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 starting on March 26, 2022. Vedantu will be one of the key advertisers on the Star Sports Network for the IPL 2022 this season as part of this deal. The second-largest K-12 brand ...

BARC Rating 11th Week: Star Maa maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 11th Week (12th March – 18th March 2022) has released its report. In India, Star Maa is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past two weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2772.45 impressions. Sun TV has bagged the second position with 2446.61

Bollywood comes to Panama via location shooting agreement

Panama will become the setting for the filming of five Bollywood movies after an actor from India, the country that produces the world's largest number of feature films per year, signed an agreement with an Indian production company. Indian businessman Prabhakar Sharan, who is also an actor, producer and filmmaker, inked the deal with Eros In...

Invesco patches up with Zee patch ahead of Sony merger

The US investment firm Invesco said on Thursday it would abandon efforts to shake up top management at Zee Entertainment, citing a planned merger between the Indian TV network and the local unit of Japan's Sony Group, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI). Zee's shares rocketed 18 percent higher on the news. Alleging corporate governance iss...

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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!