It’s Time To Stop Using Downloads As The Key Metric For Apps Success
The mobile apps industry is suffering from download-milestone overkill. Developers and publishers boast about how many times their apps have…
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Video: Orange On NFC, Own-Brand Tablets, And Getting Nokiasoft Leverage
Sometimes being the early mover in technology doesn’t always make you the winner– just look at when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GO…
How News Corp Plans To Profit From Mobile Audio Subscriptions In India
Forget iPads and smartphone apps – in India, the real “new media” are basic feature phones.
Media companies aren’t letting the market’s rel…
Game Over For Kongregate On Android? Not So Fast
Perhaps because Android was built on open-source code, and is free to license, people often assume that it is the more “open” of the smartph…
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Disney Rethinks Role Of Keychest In Film Distribution
Disney (NYSE: DIS) has changed the locks on Keychest, the digital-rights-locker strategy that began drawing attention a year ago as a potent…
Nachiket Pantvaidya To Become MD At Fox TV Studios India
Fox Television Studios India is hiring Nachiket Pantvaidya as managing director, a person familiar with the development said. An announcemen…
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Changes At Star: COO Sanjay Gupta To Handle Star Plus, GM Keertan Adyanthaya Moved To Eng Channels
In what is seen as a fallout of ratings performance, Star India has made changes to the management of flagship general entertainment channel…
Cisco Scoops Up Starent to Manage Mobile Data Deluge
The rush to deliver the web on the go has led Cisco (s csco) to offer $2.9 billion for Starent (s star),…
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Former Star Executive Ravi Menon Named Head Of Programming At Sun TV
Sun TV Network today named Ravinath Menon head of programming. The network operates 20 satellite channels in four southern languages. Prior…
Star Premieres Two Shows Online; Why No Sach Ka Saamna?
Star India SVP for new media, Gurtej Sandhu recently told us the company might premier a Star One show online before it appears on TV. They…
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Star Player Seeks To Enable High-Quality Video Experience, Monetization Of Indian Content Online
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) subsidiary Star India last week launched Star Player–an online video destination that currently features content fro…
Yash Khanna Quits Star; Fourth Senior Executive To Leave In Two Months
Yash Khanna, executive vice-president (corporate communication) at Star India, is leaving the company, becoming the fourth senior executive…
Qualcomm May Slow Verizon's LTE Plans
Verizon (s VZ) has been aggressively pushing its fourth generation wireless network plans, which would bring Long Term Evolution, or LTE, to…
Nautanki.tv Gets Content From Star, Rapidly Expanding Offerings
Nautanki.tv Networks Pvt. Ltd, the video distribution start up in which Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt Ltd (formerly Virtual Market…
Star In Talks To Acquire Asianet; Balaji In Talks To Exit Star
— Starry few days for Rupert Murdoch, the man who made Tony Blair doesn’t seem to have lost his appetitite for a heady cocktail of politics…
News Corp. Investing $100 Million In TV Channels Across India
News Corp (NYSE: NWS). will spend $100 million to start six regional TV channels in India over the next year, WSJ reported. The channels wil…
Star May Divest 25.9% Stake In Balaji; A Look At Production Houses
The general entertainment channel wars are hurting the mass entertainment conglomerates hard. Mint reports Star India, a News Corp (NYSE: NW…
Indiagames Acquires Multiple Rights For Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain
Indiagames has acquired rights for mobile, PC and interestingly Interactive Television (DTH and IPTV) rights for Star’s Kya Aap Paanchvi Paa…
Cleartrip Ties Up With PLUS!
Cleartrip has tied up with Star India’s mobile application PLUS, to deliver travel related information to users. The service allows users to…
Mohit Anand To Join As Head Of Channel [V]
Mohit Anand, formerly the Country Manager For Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division will be joining Channel [V] as General Manager for…
Channel [V] Head Resigns To Start Internet Venture
Well, it’s a sign of the times that another top media honcho is turning entrepreneur: Amar K Deb, head of Channel [V] has put in his papers,…
BBC Content, Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi At Rajshri.com; On TV Content Online
I had written (grumbled) in the past, about the BBC not giving access to historical video content related to India and Pakistan, to viewers…
Star India In Distribution JV With Digital Entertainment Networks
STAR India and Digital Entertainment Networks (DEN) have formed a 50:50 joint venture to distribute television content using IPTV, MMDS (Wir…
Home Video Roundup: Moser Baer – DQ Entertainment, Palador; Music Today – STAR
— Moser Baer has inked a couple of deals for content for their Home Video business: they’ve tied up with DQ Entertainment (DQE) for the dis…
STAR India Adds MyIris.com, Zoom, The Sun And NatGeo To PLUS
I don’t know how STAR India’s mobile application PLUS is doing, but they’re certainly getting more content on board – Indiantelevision repor…
Star India Promotes Uday Shankar To CEO Post
Star today promoted its chief operating officer Uday Shankar to the post of CEO and moved up its senior vice president Jadgish Kumar to fill…
Sumant Kasliwal, Business Head & VP Interactive For STAR India, To Join Microsoft
Contentsutra has learned from reliable sources that Sumant Kasliwal, Business Head & Vice President of Interactive Media (Internet) at Star…
STAR India Ebeds Plus In Sony Ericsson Handsets
This just in: STAR Mobile has inked a deal to embed its mobile application PLUS on Sony Ericsson handsets, reports Mobile Entertainment. Han…
Report: STAR Revenues Down To $91 Million
The STAR Group has seen operating income drop by 30 percent year on year, at $91 million, and income from Indian and Asian operations has di…
On Channel [V]'s Claims Of New Media Friendliness
Amar K Deb, head of Channel [V], in an interview with Indiantelevision.com claims that the channel is “new media friendly”. Yeah, right: Cha…
STAR Launches Video Portal- Video On The Rocks; Tie-Ups For Games And Travel Search
You’re reading it here first: STAR India has launched a video portal called Video On The Rocks (VOTR). It seems that STAR is banking on prem…
SET, STAR And Saregama Have All Sent Legal Notices To YouTube
So after T-Series, Sony Entertainment Television, STAR India and Saregama joins the ranks of those who’ve now publicly declared that they’ve…
