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Akshay Kumar, Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Selfiee’ starts filming

Bollywood banner Dharma Productions on Thursday announced that the upcoming film ‘Selfiee’, starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, has started filming. The drama-comedy, being directed by Raj Mehta of ‘Good Newwz’ fame, is a remake of 2019 Malayalam-language comedy-drama Driving Licence. The Karan Johar-led Dharma Produ...

BARC Rating 9th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 9th Week (26th February – 4th March 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the ninth week of March, the channel garnered 2543.24 impressions. Star Maa has bagged the second position with 2464.32 impressions and Star Utsav has taken the third pos...

Rishi’s last film ‘Sharmaji Namkeen’ to release on Prime Video

Bollywood star Rishi Kapoor's swansong ‘Sharmaji Namkeen' is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on March 31. Directed by Hitesh Bhatia, the movie will release on the streaming service as an Amazon original movie. Prime Video and Excel Entertainment

Google working on ‘app archiving feature’

American tech giant Google is working on a new feature that will let users ‘archive’ certain apps to free up space.

Currently, users uninstall certain apps to free up space.

Google’s app archiving feature will let

Tekno Point appoints Saurabh Shah as Chief Revenue Officer

Tekno Point, an award-winning digital experience partner, has announced the appointment of Saurabh Shah as its new Chief Revenue Officer.

Saurabh joins Tekno Point with progressive experience in the sales, go-to-market and management domains. His role as the CRO will be to spearhead ...

Sidharth Malhotra’s ‘Mission Majnu’ to release on June

Bollywood superstar aka Sidharth Malhotra starrer ‘Mission Majnu’ is slated to release in theatres on June 10. Helmed by filmmaker Shantanu Bagchi, the 1970s- set espionage thriller will see Malhotra essay the role of a RAW agent, who leads India’s most daring covert operation in the heart of Pakistan. ‘Mission Majnu’ is ...

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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!