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JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for “The Office” and other NBCUniversal titles. The Viacom18 streaming service said on Monday said it has signed a “multi-year” partnership with NBCUniversal to bring “thousands of hours” of NBCU movies and TV shows to India. The partnership follows Viacom18 bagging the streaming rights for HBO and other Warner Bros. titles for the South Asian market. The partnership…

Image via Paramount It’s undoubtedly become a scorching trend in modern-day horror for filmmakers and producers to wrap their fingers around a bestselling Stephen King novel. In doing so, those said filmmakers utilize the source material and turn their attention towards crafting a jaw-dropping King adaptation. Luckily for horror fans, King’s newest venture, The Monkey, has already secured a top-notch creative mind at the helm — and that would be James Wan. As per Deadline, Wan unfortunately won’t be directing…

Proptech startup Zapkey Technologies has secured fresh funding led by the DSP Group Family Office with participation from existing investors — Gruhas Proptech and DLF Family Office. Zapkey did not disclose the amount raised in the round.Prior to this, the startup had raised $2 million in seed funding in February 2022. This earlier round was led by Gruhas Proptech with participation from the DLF Family Office, Blume Founders Fund, the Alkem Labs Family, Koo cofounder Aprameya Radhakrishna, Srini Sriniwasan, MD, Kotak…

Tesla has reportedly secured a large order of interior parts for the Cybertruck worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There are many eyes on the Tesla Cybertruck production program. It is expected to have a significant long-term impact on the EV industry and the pickup truck market. We have been tracking progress toward bringing the electric pickup truck to production with Tesla installing manufacturing equipment, and most recently, the automaker even released rare pictures of the…

Web conference company Zoom Video Communications (ZVC) has secured a pan-India telecom licence that will enable it to offer telephone services as well to the enterprise customers, ZVC said on Wednesday.US-based Zoom has been offering voice and video conference service through its website and app."ZVC India, parent firm Zoom Video Communications, has received the Unified License with Access – pan India, NLD National Long Distance, and ILD – International Long Distance from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)," the…

Invoice discounting startup KredX has gone live on International Trade Financing Services, a cross-border trade financing platform. This will enable KredX GTX, run by its wholly owned subsidiary KredX Ventures IFSC, to start invoice discounting for both Indian exporters and importers.The Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global-backed company has successfully conducted live transactions during sandbox testing and has received a final approval to go ahead with its commercial operations from International Financial Services Centres…

Image via Paramount Pictures Netflix has acquired an upcoming project by Adam McKay, as the streaming giant has partnered with the director for the star-studded film Average Height, Average Build. According to Deadline, McKay landed on Netflix as a distributor after shopping the film around throughout much of 2022. The film, produced by McKay from his own script, will feature a cast so starry it warrants its own constellation, with Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jnr. and The Batman’s Robert Pattinson leading the…

Image for representation. (Image source: Reuters) The patent applications cover a wide range of new product and process advances, as well as CESS-related (connected, electrified, sustainable, and safe) technology major trends.The leading Indian automotive manufacturing company Tata Motor announced that the brand has filed an extensive number of IPRs FY23, under which 158 Patents and 79 Designs are included.With this, the company has become the top cumulative number of patents filed in the country by an Indian OEM…

via Warner Bros. Warner Bros. has never been renowned for its excellent decision-making when it comes to DC projects, but it’s quite frankly staggering that the studio tried so hard to ensure that Joker didn’t happen, looking at the success it ended up finding. Director Todd Phillips was open in admitting he was actively dissuaded from trying to make the movie in the first place, while he even managed to piss off Jared Leto into the bargain after the Suicide Squad star discovered that another production based…

Indian online delivery platform Dunzo has secured funding of $75 million (roughly Rs. 614 crores) through convertible notes and is laying off about 30 percent of its staff as it plans a revamp of its business model, the Economic Times reported on Thursday.The layoffs, which will affect over 300 workers, are part of a rejig announced by founder and Chief Executive Officer Kabeer Biswas at a town hall on Wednesday, the newspaper reported, citing several people aware of the matter.Key backers Reliance Retail and Alphabet Inc…