December 2023 – Page 15

National Company Law Appellate Tribunal denies stay on Zee-Sony merger

The companies will also withdraw the respective Composite Schemes of Arrangement from the NCLT and inform the relevant regulatory authorities.

On August 10 NCLAT had approved the $10 billion merger.

Karnataka elections to the IPL: Here’s what trended on ShareChat in 2023

Kohli’s potential investment in Agilitas marks a strategic move into the business side of sport and signals a growing trend of athletes taking active roles in shaping brand narratives and ownership.

Regional festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi, and Shivaji Jayanti also garnered significant attention with huge numbers of user-generated content like images, videos, gifs, carousels, and texts being shared.

The next step toward phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome

If the Privacy Sandbox from Google does not meet these two requirements, it has totally failed in offering an alternative in their own ecosystem, after they have deprecated the third-party cookies. (Representative Image: Vyshnavi Bisani via Unsplash)

Chrome is testing Tracking Protection, a new feature that limits cross-site tracking.

Mumbai user placed food orders worth Rs 42.3 lakh on Swiggy in 2023: Swiggy Report

In December 2023, online food delivery platform Swiggy said that its customers ordered an average of 2.5 biryanis every second during the year. (Representative Image: Raman via Unsplash)

From a customer who ordered 207 pizzas in a single day, to 271 cakes being Swiggy’d per minute on Valentine’s Day, here are facts and figures of the food delivery app that’s too good to be true.

Ad industry to see more transparent programmatic ecosystem in 2024: Madison’s Vikram Sakhuja

"With a strengthening economy, I expect advertisers to again put faith in long-term brand building over short-term promotional performance marketing," says Madison’s Vikram Sakhuja.

The partner and group CEO at Madison Media and OOH, believes 2024 will be a year when marketers will want to know all about consumer attention over impressions and plain-vanilla views.

Anticipation builds for ZEEL AGM on December 16 as merger deadline looms

GST authorities crack down on Zee Entertainment

Speculation has been rife among stakeholders about a potential shake-up in the leadership arrangement for the Zee-Sony merger.

Indians will take more short breaks and weekend getaways within the country: Agoda’s Krishna Rathi

Krishna Rathi, country director, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives, Agoda

According to the country director, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives at the online travel agency, Indians’ international travel choices in 2024 will be influenced by the availability of direct flights and visa policies

Who is Rishi Jaitly, OpenAI’s main man in India? Find out

Rishi Jaitly helped overturn Internet censorship in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; advocated for an open, accessible, and innovative web; mobilized India's top political parties to use the Internet for the first time; led national Internet adoption/safety marketing campaigns; and led the development of Google's first ever elections-transparency and citizen-empowerment product, and continued to support Google's Chairman and CEO on communications and special projects.

Coveted techie who is a history graduate from Princeton, Rishi Jaitly’s experiences during his Google and Twitter stints could be very valuable for OpenAI.

Gaming ideal advertising medium for sports and live events now: Roland Landers, AIGF

India is currently looking at a 150 million strong community of mid-core/ core gamers in 2023 alone, a significant portion of which have graduated from casual gameplay.(Representative Image: Javier Martínez via Unsplash)

Roland Landers, CEO, and Dhruv Garg, Tech & Policy Lawyer and Legal Advisor, All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) talk about the Madras High Court verdict overturning the rummy and poker ban, the implication of 28% GST on the gaming fraternity, the gaming trends of 2023 and a lot more.

BARC Ratings: CNN-News18 stays ahead of competition on Counting Day

The resounding success of CNN-News18 on Counting Day can be attributed to its special election programming, delivering the quickest and most accurate results, coupled with top-tier anchors like Zakka Jacob, Anand Narasimhan, and Rahul Shivshankar.

CNN-News18 outperformed its competitors, with Republic TV securing the second position at 25.4 percent market share, closely trailed by Times Now with 23.6 percent. India Today TV followed suit with a market share of 12.9 percent.