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Google, Samsung join hands to simplify syncing health data

Google and Samsung have joined hands to allow the developer to sync users' health and fitness data between Android apps and their devices. Called 'Health Connect', the platform and API (application programming interface) are for Android app developers to securely access users' health data. With user permission,...

Sony TV begins registration for ‘Shark Tank India’ S2

A perfect pitch is all that it took to get a life-changing deal! Firing up the business growth engine with 85000+ phenomenal entries, the first edition of Shark Tank India successfully paved the way for budding entrepreneurs from all walks of life where the Sharks invested Rs. 42 crores across 67 businesses. After a stupendous success of seas...

Ad group WPP raises outlook on booming digital demand

The world's largest advertising group WPP raised its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday, saying strong client demand had helped it to buck the gloomy mood gripping the global economy.

Britain's WPP, owner of the Ogilvy, Grey and GroupM agencies, said that while customers were cauti...

Vice-President Naidu bemoans falling standards of TV debate

India’s Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday called upon the media to follow values of ethical journalism and be responsible in their coverage of news, while exhorting it to self-regulate. Expressing his concern over the tendency to exaggerate and sensationalise news, he said that it tantamount to misinforming the public. At times, s...

Bodhi Tree to invest $1.78 bn in Viacom18; Reliance to pump in $216 mn

Reliance and Viacom18 on Wednesday announced a mouthwatering and potentially disrupting strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree Systems, which is a platform of James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and Uday Shankar, to form one of the largest TV and digital streaming companies in India.

Amazon launches first Kids mobile games

Tech giant Amazon has announced that Amazon Kids+ is now bringing the fun of mobile gaming to its fans with the release of 'Super Spy Ryan and "Do, Re & Mi, with more games arriving later this year. The company said that since the beginning, Amazon Kids+ has worked hard to offer a world of fun to children and parents. "We focus on providin...

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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!