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    ‘There’s Excitement, There’s Panic’: New York City Movie Theaters Scramble to Reopen After Yearlong Closures

    • 06.03.2021
    • Variety

    The announcement gave film exhibitors less than two weeks to rehire staff members, reorder concessions and outfit their cavernous venues with plexiglass, hospital grade air filters and other safety measures. Though welcomed, the process was no simple endeavor.

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    Government won’t appoint any member in self-regulating OTT body, clarifies Prakash Javadekar

    • 06.03.2021
    • Best Media Info

    In a meeting with OTT representatives, the Minister said the government will create an Inter-Departmental Committee to look at complaints that remain unresolved at the self-regulatory level.

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    The future of money is digital, but is it bitcoin?

    • 06.03.2021
    • ETCIO

    Governments will borrow some elements of the distributed ledger technology behind private cryptocurrencies, but they will very much want to retain control of what circulates as money in their economies. Some will succeed.

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    When Encryption Dies A Regulatory Death, Will WhatsApp Have The Last Laugh In India?

    • 06.03.2021
    • Inc42

    Now that the government can force any messenger app to share the original source of a message, there is no privacy/encryption left.

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    Amazon, Google, Facebook vie for piece of India’s digital payments market

    • 06.03.2021
    • Brandequity.com

    Bloomberg reports that the companies are preparing to apply for licenses to operate retail payments and settlement systems in the country.

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    SC says new rules to regulate OTT platforms lack teeth

    • 06.03.2021
    • The Hindu

    Court protects Amazon Prime Video India Commercial head Aparna Purohit from arrest in ‘Tandav’ web series row.

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    OTT platforms will not have to register: Centre

    • 06.03.2021
    • The Hindu

    Prakash Javadekar holds talks with OTT representatives.

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    Google’s decision reiterates importance of first-party data: Sir Martin Sorrell

    • 06.03.2021
    • Best Media Info

    The Executive Chairman & Founder of S4 Capital talks about Google’s decision to stop building ‘alternate identifiers’ to track individuals’ activities online.

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    Netflix is working on Fast Laughs, a TikTok-style feature to show you comedy clips on the go

    • 06.03.2021
    • Financial Express

    The OTT giant has announced a TikTok and Instagram Reels-like small video clip feature called Fast Laughs for the Netflix app.

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    Direct-to-digital movie premieres to phase out as theatres make a comeback

    • 05.03.2021
    • Livemint

    According to trade experts, Varun Dhawan’s Coolie No.1 and Akshay Kumar’s Laxmii would have made close to ₹80 crore and ₹100 crore respectively, had they released in cinemas.

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