A couple of enticing new features have been added to the popular music website of the iLike Company, ilike.com. These features include full song playback and a self-serve advertising platform. The iLike Company that boasts of having 30 million users will now allow them to listen to full songs ...

India’s Valuable group, which is a privately held media house, has bought MovieBeam, a Hollywood based media firm. The Hollywood’s MovieBeam offers video-on-demand services to customers. Using the wireless technology aided through a set-top-box, the MovieBeam Company airs films into ...

The South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN has appointed the Avian Media, a specialist communications consultancy in India, to look after its media relations in the country. At present this South African telecom giant is in talks with the Reliance Communications of ...

That the Indian film industry is predicted to grow manifold in the years to come is apparent by the escalating investment that is being pumped into this business, plus the varied genres of movies being made. Sources from the industry inform that the Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd alone is going ...

The Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has got itself a new CEO. The company recently declared that Punit Goenka, who presently holds the post of the Network Operating Officer, will soon be taking over as the CEO. He would be succeeding Pradeep Guha. Since quite some time, there has been a ...

The Reliance BIG Entertainment headed by Anil Ambani has declared that it has entered into a contract with Puja Films, the production company of Vashu Bhagnani to co-produce five films in the coming two years. The job of Puja Films will be to produce the films, whereas the Reliance BIG ...

The 135 billion RPG Group’s entertainment arm, Saregama India Ltd declared on Saturday, June 29, that it is going to invest around Rs 1.5 billion in movie production and other businesses in the coming 18 months’ duration. Mr Sanjiv Goenka, who is the vice-president of Saregama, during ...

The BIG Entertainment owned by Reliance seems to be all busy these days trying to make its presence felt internationally. After it declared its grand plans to venture into Hollywood recently, BIG Entertainment spokespersons informed that the company is now all geared to infiltrate into Singapore. ...

Housing Development And Infrastructure Limited (HDIL), a key name in the real estate business, will be foraying into the arena of media and entertainment through buying equities that run Hindi news and regional channels. Sources inform that HDIL will acquire a 51 per cent stake in the Sri Adhikari ...

The INX Media is all set to introduce its leading entertainment channel in Hindi, 9X along with its music channel 9XM in the Middle East. For this purpose, the Dubai-based firm Media Solutions has been roped in by the INX Media in order to direct its push into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and ...

A show targeted to educate common person the nuances of share market – Market Mantra will again be on air. This time Reliance Money has come forward as official sponsor for the show. Earlier the show was discontinued after the successful two years. The show which is the only show in Hindi ...

Aksh Optifibre, Cable and optical fibre manufacturer has collaborated with state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for delivery of Interactive Personalized Television (IPTV) on its broadband network in the north Indian market. It was revealed that the project would be funded through resources ...

Abhishek Verma has been anointed by the Neo Sports Broadcast as the marketing and communications head of two of its channel, Neo Sports and Neo Cricket. Abhishek Verma, under his new post, will be expected to supervise the market business verticals of the channels, Neo Sports and Neo Cricket. ...

Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd, India's largest media group and the holding company of the Times of India group, has bought Virgin Radio in the UK in a £53.2 million (Rs 445cr approx) deal with SMG Plc. The deal will give upshot to Times Group which is already a major private FM radio ...

The NDTV group and NBC Universal, who are prominent names in the field of media and entertainment, have declared their strategic alliance initiative for the NDTV Networks business. The NBC Universal (NBCU) now holds an effective indirect stake of 26 per cent in NDTV Networks PLC through shares ...

BBC World has tied with six mobile service providers of the country to provide users with content including news video clips. The managing director of BBC world, Anne Barnard said that BBC hopes to grow rapidly through the use of these six mobile platforms. She also said very soon the users can ...

Lokmat Newspaper and Global Broadcast News (GBN) of the Network 18 group launched its Marathi news channel, IBN Lokmat. It will be put on air from 6th April 2008. The regional television news channel aims to provide speedy news to the Marathi people in their local spoken language. IBN Lokmat ...