After foreign tweets on Indian developments led to controversy, the government has reacted to Twitter on Koo, a homegrown micro-blogging site. Having two platforms will cool down passions.
In the wake of China's historic $1.2 billion box-office week, THR spoke with the exhibition industry leader about Imax's booming business in the country and why he's "100 percent" confident that U.S. moviegoers will rush back to the multiplex in the same way.
For musicians, the workings of the streaming economy can be mystifying but the results are clear.
According to data from Infront Lab, about 39% of the global OTT market is "pirated," with lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic boosting the phenomenon.
The end is nigh for online “translation groups” that make bootleg Western films accessible to millions.
Film production and distribution firm PVR Pictures expects its revenue to return to pre-COVID levels in FY22 backed by a strong pipeline of films, scheduled to be released after March, said a top company official.
Tamil and Telugu languages have seen at least three new releases each in the past two weeks, with four in Tamil slated for the coming Friday, all eating into each other’s business.
Indian law unfortunately affords protection to the prickliest common denominator in society.
This isn’t the first time that an Indian startup is operating in a market dominated by foreign rivals. Ola vs Uber, Flipkart vs Amazon, Quikr vs OLX, Zomato and Swiggy vs Uber Eats and more have fought it out in the Indian market.
The furore surrounding changes to WhatsApp’s terms of service have reportedly lost the application millions of users since the turn of the year. While the planned changes are now on hold due to a mass exodus from the platform, Innopay CEO Shikko Nijland believes that the controversy illustrates the need for consumers to be given back control of their data.