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Twitter India grievance officer quits

Twitter's grievance officer for India Dharmendra Chatur steps down, leaving the micro-blogging site without a grievance official as mandated by the New IT Rules, CNNNews18 has reported today. Twitter refused to comment, media reports said. A PTI report stated the social media company's website no longer displays his name, as required under...

Instagram testing new desktop feature

Social media platform Instagram is planning to roll out the ability to create posts using the web browser on the desktop computer. The test feature went live on Thursday for some users. As per ANI, while the new desktop feature has been solely focusing on its mobile product, the photo-sharing platform is at long last thinking about letting th...

Aussie media watchdog examining FB content deal

Australia's competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook Inc. refused a publisher's request to negotiate a licensing deal, the regulator told Reuters, setting the stage for the first test of the world's toughest online content law.

The Conversation, which publi...

IT Minister Prasad blasts Twitter for blocking account over US rules

Twitter’s love-hate relationship with the Indian government turned a new chapter on Friday. The InfoTech Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account got blocked for an hour who criticized the microblogging website for penalizing him for telling the US company to follow Indian laws. A parliamentary committee head and Congr...

Twitter India gets interim relief from high court

An Indian court on Thursday said Twitter Inc.’s India head Manish Maheshwari should face no "coercive action" in a case where police summoned him for failing to stop the spread of a video that allegedly incited religious discord, media reports indicated.

"If the police desire to exam...

Zoom adds new pronoun feature

American video teleconferencing software company Zoom has added a new feature that caters to pronouns, along with some options to manage when they’re displayed. According to an ANI report, the feature pronouns will appear in parentheses next to people’s names in calls, essentially the same as how they have looked ...

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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!