The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended the feedback deadline for two consultation papers — ‘Ease of Doing Business in Telecom and Broadcasting Sector’ and ‘Promoting Local Manufacturing in the Television Broadcasting Sector’ — for the second time on requests from the stakeholders.

The streamer appears to be reorienting around maximizing average revenue per user for its 74 million-plus U.S. and Canadian subs.

Instagram has switched on a new way for creators to make money, kicking off a test of subscriptions for the social platform in the U.S.

Viacom18’s Youth, Music and English Entertainment (YME) cluster is all geared up to set its foot in the rapidly growing digital space of non-fungible tokens with the announcement of the NFT marketplace Fullyfaltoonft.com. The marketplace has been set up by GuardianLink.io - a pioneer and innovator of NFT Technologies.

The EU is planning to develop its own government-run DNS resolver. The project dubbed DNS4EU is meant to offer a counterweight to the popular resolvers that are mostly based in the U.S. Aside from offering privacy and security to users, the DNS solution will also be able to block "illegal" websites, including pirate sites.

OpenSubtitles, one of the largest repositories of subtitle files on the internet, has been hacked. Founded in 2006, the site was reportedly hacked in August 2021 with the attacker obtaining the personal data of nearly seven million subscribers including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords. The site alerted users yesterday after the hacker leaked the database online.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) recently ordered an inquiry against Alphabet Inc, Google LLC, Google India, and Google Ireland for alleged abuse of dominant position in the digital advertising market following a complaint by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA).

OTT platforms and social media apps benefited from the lockdowns and the work-from-home scenarios that were in effect for large parts of 2020 & 2021. The expected growth in paid subscriber base of OTT platforms in India from 2019 to 2021 is 65-70%, or a CAGR of about 30%.

With a presence in over 40 million households, DD Free Dish has emerged as an enabler of competitiveness in the media and entertainment industry, said Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati on Wednesday, highlighting the stupendous growth recorded by the platform in recent years. Vempati delivered the keynote address at the 18th edition of the Video and Broadband... \