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Prime Video tops YouGov’s recommended rankings 2022 in India

YouGov analysis reveals Amazon Prime Video tops the list of India’s most recommended brands with a recommend score of 84.1 percent. The rankings are based on YouGov BrandIndex’s positive recommend score, which measures the percentage of a brand’s customers who wou...

Delhi HC seeks copyrights infringers’ details from Telegram

The Delhi High Court has directed Telegram to disclose, in a sealed cover, the details of the channels and devices used to disseminate alleged copyright infringing content, along with the mobile numbers, IP addresses, and email ids of such users. Rejecting Telegram's argument that it cannot disclose user information as that would violate its ...

ABP Majha brings annual festive program ‘Bappa Majha’

ABP Majha, the Marathi news channel from the house of ABP Network is back with its annual festive program ‘Bappa Majha’. Through this program, ABP Majha will cover the celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi across the state of Maharashtra. Starting from Au...

Applause partners with Case Closed Ent., Locomotive Global

Applause Entertainment, India’s leading content studio backed by the Aditya Birla Group, is synonymous with creating premium Indian content for domestic and global audiences. Keeping in line with its commitment, the content studio in collaboration with Locomotive Global Inc. has teamed up with International content mavericks Simon Mirren and his...

WhatsApp rolls out admin delete feature on iOS beta

Meta-owned WhatsApp is now releasing a feature that lets group admins delete any message in the group. The feature has only been rolled out to some lucky beta testers, so it will take some time before reaching all other accounts. "If you are a group admin and you cannot delete messages sent from other participa...

SPNI acquires exclusive TV, digital rights for US Open

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has inked a three-year deal to broadcast the US Open starting August 2022. As part of the deal, the broadcaster will get the exclusive media rights (TV and digital) of the global sporting event between 2022-24. The 2022 iteration of the US Open will be televised on the SPN’s sports channels across the Ind...

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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!