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    Internet connectivity in rural India growing at fast pace: Nirmala Sitharaman

    • 12.02.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    Responding to the debate on the General Budget 2022-23 in the Rajya Sabha, she said that as per the report of Internet and Mobile association, the rural internet user base is growing three times faster and is likely to surpass the urban user numbers soon

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    Enabling & futuristic regulatory framework required to harness full potential of NFTs in India: IAMAI Esya Centre Report

    • 11.02.2022
    • BestMediaInfo

    The report titled “NFTs: A Technological and Legal Primer”, suggests that while several jurisdictions have introduced laws and regulations to govern crypto assets, no country has yet proposed an overarching regulation for NFTs, given the emergent legal and regulatory concerns associated with their use

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    Viacom18’s NFT Platform Fully Faltoo to offer over 3,000 digital collectibles in first drop

    • 11.02.2022
    • moneycontrol

    Media company Viacom18 that last month launched non-fungible token (NFT) platform Fully Faltoo will be offering thousands of digital collectibles in its first drop that will include pop culture properties like Bakra NFT.

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    YouTube woos creators to fend off competition

    • 11.02.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    YouTube on Thursday laid out goals for the year that included making the lives of creators easier and boosting a popular format rivals TikTok

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    Uday Shankar, James Murdoch investment platform with $1.5 billion corpus

    • 11.02.2022
    • IndianTelevision

    Uday Shankar and James Murdoch's private investment company Lupa Systems has announced that it is forming Bodhi Tree, an investment platform that will be financially supported by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). This new venture is designed to invest in media and consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India. It will be run.

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    No decline in DD viewership in recent years: I&B ministry

    • 11.02.2022
    • IndianTelevision

    There has been no decline in viewership of Doordarshan in recent years, the union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur told Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Viewership of DD has been unaffected in spite of the increase of private TV channels in the broadcasting space during the past years and fragmentation of audience due to many private TV channels relaying

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    THE A TO Z OF FREE STREAMING: A SPECIAL REPORT

    • 11.02.2022
    • Variety

    Free streaming, which comprises both on-demand AVOD titles and linear FAST channels, with the majority of services offering both, has a different business model than its SVOD brethren. It is based upon licensing content, with very few originals — the original Netflix streaming model — and bringing it to viewers for free in exchange for viewing ads.

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    India’s Moj, MX TakaTak Merge to Form Largest Short Video Platform in the Country, Where TikTok Remains Banned

    • 11.02.2022
    • Variety

    The combined MX TakaTak-Moj platform will have 100 million creators, more than 300 million monthly active users (MAU), and nearly 250 billion monthly video views.

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    Nintendo ‘Hacker’ Gary Bowser Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison

    • 11.02.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    A U.S. federal court has handed down a 40-month prison sentence to Gary Bowser, a member of the infamous Nintendo modding group Team-Xecuter. The prosecution requested a tougher sentence but celebrates the outcome as an important victory nonetheless.

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    Disney Streaming Subscriptions Now Number 196M

    • 11.02.2022
    • tvtech

    The Walt Disney Company said it now has 196.4 million subscribers for its streaming services, up from 179 million in the previous quarter. For Disney+, it reported an increase of 11.8 million subscribers (no doubt, partly driven by large interest in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” docuseries on the Beatles, which brought in 209,000 subscriptions alone, according to Insider). Wall St. had predicted an increase of 7 million.

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