San Francisco: Facebook, which is reportedly spending $1 billion on producing original content, has announced that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will not rejoin the company’s board as a director. Peggy Alford, currently senior vice president of Core Markets for PayPal, will be nominated to join the board of directors, Facebook said on Friday. Alford will […]
Mumbai: Continuing its investment in Indian content, global streaming giant Netflix on Monday announced a slate of 10 new original films, across a range of genres and subjects. With these additions, a total of 15 new original Indian films — including previously announced titles “Music Teacher”, “Cobalt Blue”, “Chopsticks”, “Upstarts” and “Bulbul” — will be available […]
New Delhi: In a country where sports and films are prime attractions, the VIVO IPL 2019 has driven the reach of OTT platform Hotstar to an unprecedented 267 million viewers, which is way more than the 148 million global subscriber base of streaming giant Netflix. Hotstar has reshaped not just the Indian Premiere League (IPL) […]
New York: If you wait for the weekend to watch multiple episodes of the popular Netflix shows that portray violence, chances are you may see the world as meaner than it really is – a phenomenon known as “mean world syndrome”, suggests new research. For the study, the researchers from Boston University College of Communication […]
Washington: Since the March 2017 premier of the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” about a teenage girls suicide, US health experts said that it glamorised the topic for some young people and led to an increase in suicide rates in the country. The new study, posted on Monday by the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, […]
New Delhi: Streaming video-on-demand services have beaten TV in customer satisfaction in India as the country is at the third spot (52 per cent) when it comes to pay for content, after China and Brazil, a new report said on Friday. Germany-based data research firm Statista, in its Digital Economy Outlook, said that Amazon tops […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecommunications services provider, has re-launched its flagship customer program – #AirtelThanks. Continuing on Airtel’s strategy of winning with quality customers, the new enhanced program is designed to deliver exclusive rewards. New #AirtelThanks – Enhanced program with Silver, Gold, Platinum tiers. Benefits offered customized to each customer, and higher tiers keep opening […]
San Francisco: With an extended offline mixtape feature, YouTube Music would now automatically download up to 500 songs based on users’ likes and listening history for offline listening. This new version of the mixtape feature is called ‘smart downloads’ and the selection would download songs from users’ Liked Songs playlist, other favourite playlists and albums, […]
Mumbai: Netflix on Saturday announced that Emraan Hashmi-starrer original series, “Bard of Blood”, will premiere on its platform on September 27 this year. The seven-episode show is based on Bilal Siddiqi’s bestselling book of the same name. It has been produced by superstar Shah Rukh Khan through his banner Red Chillies Entertainment. The official logline […]
San Francisco: Facebook is launching its own TV streaming service this fall and has reportedly approached Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO and other media companies for a new TV chat device for making video calls from TVs. According to a report in The Information late Wednesday, the Facebook TV chat device will use the same technology […]
New Delhi: India’s third largest operator by subscriber numbers, Airtel, will shut down its entire 3G network between December to March of the current fiscal, the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Badal Bagri has told analysts. “We are in the process of shutting down our 3G networks. We have experimented quite boldly in Calcutta to […]
As soon as the the popular Netflix series “Sacred Games 2” premiered, hilarious memes started to flood the internet. Those disappointed with the second season of the popular series went on to express the feeling with images of old and torn clothes, broken cars, and stills from “Games Of Thrones”. On Twitter, “Sacred Games 2” […]
Mumbai: Netflix and other over-the-top (OTT) platforms are slowly but steadily eating the cable TV business, a new KPMG report has said, adding that there was a decline of nearly 12-15 million active subscribers for the cable & satellite (C&S) universe in the fourth quarter (Q4) of the financial year 2019. Subscription revenues grew at […]
New Delhi: Ahead of the commercial launch of Jio Fibre on Thursday, Bharti Airtel on Monday announced the launch of Airtel Xstream which will offer Live TV, video, music, news, and sports across an OTT smart stick, Internet-enabled set top box and hand-held devices. The Sunil Mittal company launched a set top box (STB) along […]
Mumbai: Actors Kajol, Tanvi Azmi and Mithila Palkar will be starring in Netflix’s upcoming film “Tribhanga”, which will be directed by Renuka Shahane. “I am looking forward to directing ‘Tribhanga’. This is an incredible opportunity and it feels amazing to collaborate with Netflix for the film and know that it will be available across the […]
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