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ABP News turns 20

ABP News, an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news station owned by ABP Group, celebrates its 20th anniversary. On the occasion, Avinash Pandey sh...

PM Modi praises News18’s efforts on Rising India summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his appreciation for News18's Rising India summit, which ended on Thursday, in a tweet. PM Modi retweeted Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's post about the launch of the Coffee Table Book "Voice of India - Mod...

Glance, JioCinema team up to bring IPL to 200mn+ lock screens across India

Glance, the smart lock screen platform has collaborated with JioCinema, the TATA IPL 2023's exclusive digital destination, to bring the excitement of the marquee T20 league to cricket fans through a unique experience. As a consequence ...

TRAI suggests incentives, govt. sops to boost b’cast sector hardware manufacturing

Indian broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI has proposed that Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) should be made responsible for standardising all broadcast equipment, while saying that other government organisat...

Netflix rejiggs films unit; ad-supported plan available for Apple TV subs

Even Netflix has finally released its ad-supported plan for Apple TV customers, dubbed ‘Basic with Ads’, reports are filtering in that the streamer is revamping its films unit through right-sizing.

Twitter working on ‘Community Notes’ feature

Twitter is said to be developing a new feature for its crowd-sourced fact-checking program "Community Notes" that will debunk fake images. Nima Owji, an app researcher, wrote on Wednesday, "#Twitter is working on Community Notes for me...

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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!