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After Elon Musk’s Thursday ultimatum, Twitter staff start exiting

Hundreds of Twitter Inc employees are estimated to have decided to quit the beleaguered social media company following a Thursday deadline from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for "long hours at high intensity," or leave. The departures highlight t...

Discovery to air ‘Into the wild with Bear Grylls’ ft. Vicky Kaushal

Into the Wild with Bear Grylls, starring Vicky Kaushal will now air on Discovery Channel on November 21 at 8 pm. The josh will be at an all-time high in this spectacular special starring Vicky Kaushal and shot in the mighty Indian Ocean. Vicky Kaushal,...

Vodafone Portugal offers Disney+

Disney+, an SVoD service, is now available on Vodafone Portugal's latest generation set-top boxes, the VboxPro 4K, allowing subscribers to watch titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Star. Voda...

‘The Crown’ S5 reigns supreme on Netflix

‘The Crown’ S5 predictably premiered at the top of the Netflix English TV list with 107.39 million hours seen, becoming the most-watched show in the week starting November 7 The mystery series 'Manifest's season four Part 1 came in at number two spot in the Top 10 list in 90...

Meta appoints Sandhya Devanathan to lead India ops

Social media giant Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan as the Vice President of Meta India, the company said on Thursday. She comes in place of Ajit Mohan who resigned from Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, early this month. "I'm pleased...

Prime Video India head stresses streaming enables creative economy

Streaming is giving more reach to films, providing more opportunities to creators and talent, and fuelling the country’s creative economy, said Gaurav Gandhi, Vice President of Prime Video India.

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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!