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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.

Alia Bhatt maiden production ‘Darlings’ to release on Netflix

Actor Alia Bhatt on Tuesday announced that ‘Darlings’, her debut film as a producer, will premiere on streaming platform Netflix. The 29-year-old actor is starring in and producing the film through her banner Eternal Sunshine Productions, in collaboration with superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Enter...

Snap slashes quarterly forecasts

Snap Inc. has said the economy had worsened faster than expected in the last month and the social media company slashed its quarterly forecast, triggering an after-hours sell-off in the US markets.

Since late April "the macroeconomic environment has deteriorated further and faster th...

Indian language movies now getting global attention: Minister

India’s junior Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr L. Murugan on Monday at Cannes outlined the government initiatives undertaken to ease content shooting in India, while inviting global delegates to ‘come and shoot in India’.

Participating in a round table conference at Indi...

Meta will share more data on political, social-issue ads

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. will share more data on targeting choices made by advertisers running political and social-issue ads in its public ad database, it said on Monday.

Meta said it would also include detailed targeting information for these individual ads in its "Facebo...

Rakesh Jha joins Viacom18 as VP- creative, Sports18

Rakesh Jha has joined Viacom18 as vice president-creative (sports business), Sports18. Rakesh announced the news on his LinkedIn account through a post, “I am excited to share the news that I am starting my new inning with Viacom18. I look forward to extending the design innovation that I have been able to do at Star Sports during my nine yea...

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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!