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Netflix releases stills from composer Leonard Bernstein biopic

Netflix has released the first images from its upcoming film ‘Maestro’, based on the life of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein and starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan. Cooper plays Bernstein and Mulligan stars as stage and TV actor Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein, the wife of the late conductor. The streamer on Monday s...

NxtDigital-Thaicom pact for b’band over satellite

NXTDigital Limited (NDL) and Thaicom Public Company Limited, Thailand (Thaicom) Monday, made a joint announcement of having signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a strategic partnership to enter the Broadband-over-satellite (BoS) market and related...

Snapchat introduces new ‘shared stories’ feature

Popular social media platform Snapchat has introduced Shared Stories, a new way for Snapchatters to build a community around the content users love to Snap.

The company said that Shared Stories is a new iteration of Custom Stories, a product that previously allowed Snapchatters to create a Story and add friends ...

Prime Video, Nadiadwala Grandson in content licensing pact

Amazon Prime Video on Monday announced a worldwide-exclusive, music-film licensing collaboration with Sajid Nadiadwala’s Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment (NGE).

The collaboration will bring the biggest and best of Bollywood movies to audiences across the length and breadth of the country and to fans in over 240...

ShareChat raises fresh funding of $ 300mn from Google, others

The parent company of India's ShareChat has raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, media giant Times Group and Singapore's Temasek Holdings, valuing the social media firm at nearly $5 billion, two sources involved in the deal discussions told Reuters.

Berklee Valencia and Netflix India present music workshop

Berklee Valencia, a preeminent institute of contemporary music and the performing arts, and Netflix India have joined hands to create a new workshop that trains the next generation of music supervisors to support online content production. This initiative is partnered to develop the workshop for a group of aspiring music supervisors in 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!