Monday, 5 March 2018

TV advertising to grow 43% by 2020; digital media user base to reach 4 million by 2020: FICCI-E&Y report

According to the FICCI-E&Y report 2018, the digital media user base will reach 4 million by the 2020, generating significant digital subscription revenues of approximately Rs 20 billion.

Top telcos move TDSAT against predatory pricing order

Top telcos including Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular have moved the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) challenging the telecom regulator TRAI’s recent tariff order on predatory pricing.

Karti Chidambaram moved Rs 1.8cr to an influential political figure: ED

The pain of Karti Chidambaram may become dense as the Enforcement Directorate officials said that they have found details of him transferring Rs 1.8 crore into the bank account of a top political leader.

Prasar Bharati uses reserve fund to pay the salaries of AI & DD staff

As the stand-off continues between the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) and Prasar Bharati, Prasar Bharati had to use the reserve fund to pay the salaries of the Air India and DD staff. Prasar Bharati CEO SS Vempati tweeted to inform the media.

Saturday, 3 March 2018

FB’s 'Voice Clips' feature may help disabled users

To provide ease to persons with disabilities as well as all users, the social media giant Facebook is testing a new feature called "Add Voice Clip" that appears in its status update composer menu that allows users to record a short audio snippet to use as a status update.

Malayalam GEC Flowers TV to become pay channel from 1 April

Suryansh Broadcasting will make its Malayalam GEC Flowers TV as pay channel from 1 April. It will be available at Rs 5.15 on reference interconnect (RIO) basis. Originally, Flowers TV was launched on 12 April 2015 as free-to- air (FTA) offering. In order to reach out to the Malayali diaspora globally, the company launched Flowers International around a year later.

Tata Sky enters live TV, on-demand service segment

To cash in on the booming online segment, the direct-to-home (DTH) operator Tata Sky has started live TV and on-demand service on the web. It will be an extension of live TV on mobile service.

Aadhaar leak: EPFO discontinues services provided through Common Service Centre

Following fear of Aadhaar data leak, the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on May 2 said it has discontinued services provided t...