Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) Startup Hub and Paytm will provide mentorship and guidance through a Unicorn talk series that aims to inspire new entrepreneurs to build Unicorns from India.
Day three of CII’s SummitFX kicked off with various stakeholders of the industry putting their heads together to aggregate the policies and state-led initiatives that have boosted the ecosystem.
Media veteran and former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, Sunil Lulla recently stepped down after helming the television rating agency for almost two years. BARC India informed in a press note that Lulla had resigned his remit to pursue his ambition as an entrepreneur and announced Nakul Chopra as the new CEO.
As per TRAI, data usage per subscriber was up 20% YOY in 2020 owing to the pandemic. Looking ahead, according to CRISIL, the 4G subscriber base in India is expected to cross 800 million by March 2022.
Internet provider TekSavvy is taking the legal battle over Canada's first pirate site blocking order to the Supreme Court. The company has no sympathy for pirate sites but feels that it's obligated to defend the neutral role of ISPs and prevent freedom of speech from being violated.
The chain was initially targeting to reach the 1,000 screens milestone by 2020 but the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in a complete closure of cinema halls and continuing restrictions on audience capacity.
The revival of cinemas will depend on the content on offer, says PVR Ltd Joint Managing Director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, confident that the culture of watching movies in theatres hasn’t changed and the sector will be back to pre-Covid numbers in the next financial year.
When the opening weekend of “Black Widow” fell below expectations, theater owners were suspicious that it didn’t match the well-attended Thursday night preview. That’s because, as reported by TorrentFreak, “Black Widow” was the most pirated movie in the world for three weeks following its July 9 debut.
The government on Wednesday launched a programme to support 300 IT start-ups under which it will provide seed funding, mentorship and market access with a view to creating 100 unicorns out of the selected start-ups.