Sandberg 1st woman to join Facebook Board

Facebook has named its chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as a member of its board of directors, making her the first woman director in the eight-year-old social network company.Facebook......

Sarin, Ballmer own billions; But who cares?

Arun Sarin and Steve Ballmer might be heading the world's largest mobile operator Vodafone and the biggest software maker Microsoft respectively, but that does not guarantee them a place in the......

5 years of Reliance Jio: Disruption to Data Revolution

'There is no doubt at all that Jio's disruption of the mobile broadband market was a turning point for India's digital economy.'Surajeet Das Gupta reports. IMAGE: Reliance Jio launched 4G services......

Netflix vs Amazon Video turf wars heat up

Netflix plans local studio in India push. Move comes as rival Amazon Prime Video lines up as many as 18 original shows for India.  IMAGE: Netflix and Amazon Video will have to do plenty to......

How Netflix Finally Got It Right In India

Its success script: Investing more in local content ecosystem; growing its partnership footprint. IMAGE: Netflix's Guns And Gulabs, directed by Raj and DK, starring Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan,......

Why Netflix Hasn't Made An Impact in India

Netflix is reminiscent of Star TV in the 1990s: Very Western in its gaze, very expensive, and clueless, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Tumisu/Pixabay It began innocuously.......

Netflix has spent 3,000 crores on India programs

Since its entry in 2016, Netflix has announced over 60 titles to be sourced from India.Vanita Kohli-Khandekar reports. IMAGE: Neena Gupta and her daughter Masaba in Masaba Masaba. Masaba Masaba is......

Coming soon: Lots of desi Netflix, Prime originals

Netflix and Prime have decided that rather than only buying the rights to Bollywood blockbusters to expand their reach in India, producing original content would be a better idea.Surajeet Das Gupta......