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NBF fires another salvo at BARC India

The News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), an Indian TV news industry body, has shot off another missive to audience ratings organization BARC India, accusing the latter of nepotism, obfuscating issues and defying directives of the government.

“History is being wiped out in total disreg...

Instagram rolls out bulk delete features

Social media platform Instagram has announced that several features, including 'Your activity', will start rolling out globally.

The company said that people will now be able to bulk manage --- delete, archive --- their content and their interactions, including comments, likes, story...

Truecaller launches a new campaign

Swedish mobile phone directory and caller identification service Truecaller has launched the Chhota SMS Campaign, starring the Jordindians playing Aman and Chaman. The campaign has been designed in line with Truecallers objective of making communication smarter and highlights how one of the characters in the film uses the Truecaller feature t...

Twitter lets users DM right from a tweet

Micro-blogging site Twitter is testing a new feature to let people send a Direct Message (DM) straight from a tweet. Twitter feels the feature will make it easier to start a conversation from your timeline, Business Insiders reported. ...

Google partners with Airtel to invest up to $1 billion

Bharti Airtel (Airtel), one of India’s premier communications solutions providers, and American tech giant, Google on Friday announced a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. As part of this partnership, Google plans to

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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!