MUMBAI: The Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, Asia Pacific’s premier festival and awards for the creative communications and advertising industry, has today opened for delegate registrations.
read moreMUMBAI: The Festival of Asian Marketing Effectiveness, set to take place in just over three weeks, will engage delegates with an outstanding two-day programme of content, providing insights and learning into effectiveness in brand marketing.
read moreNEW DELHI: Two All India Radio employees who had been re-employed after retirement have been asked to leave while a third person has been suspended and a show-cause notice is issued to the Delhi Kendra station director following allegations by radio jockeys of sexual and workplace harassment. A complaint had been made in March by more than 25 presenters for being discriminated against work allocation and salaries, and also alleged that they had been subjected to sexual innuendos and advances for the last two years.
read moreMUMBAI: 91-year-old veteran music composer TK Ramamurthy passed away on 17 April in Chennai. The legend was suffering from a brief illness and was admitted to a private hospital, where he breathed his last. As per reports, the veteran composer, also a violinist, breathed his last this morning at a hospital.
read moreMUMBAI: Amazon has announced the global expansion of its Appstore for Android devices with an aim to expand Amazon Appstore. It will be available in nearly 200 countries including India, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Papua New Guinea and Vatican City. The company announced that developers can now submit their apps for distribution in these 200 new markets, where Amazon will roll out its Appstore in the coming months.
read moreMUMBAI: After a stint of over one year seven months, Sridhar Naidu has quit Fever FM as regional sales head-radio and entertainment. He has joined media outsourcing company Fourth Dimension as business head-South. In his new role, Naidu will consolidate all products of Fourth Dimension – television, print and radio to give a 360 degree solution to all the clients. He will be based in Chennai which is his home town and will report to Fourth Dimension national sales head Sreekant R.
read moreMUMBAI: The existence and growth of local and community radio stations in Odisha have resulted on the growing need for the public-broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) to compete with them and provide local-centric content called narrowcasting.
read moreMUMBAI: Swedish music streaming service Spotify has announced its expansion to eight new countries including Asia, Latin America and North Europe in an attempt to compete with Apple’s iTunes and California based Pandora. On the blog page company said, “We're taking our first steps in Latin America with Mexico, and Asia with Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Plus we're thrilled to make new friends in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland."
read moreMUMBAI: Music business association NARM and digitalmusic.org, the home of NARM’s digital initiatives, are zeroing in on the concerns of labels, artists, managers, students, app developers, startups, and more with their Music Business Academy, which will be held during the first two days of Music Biz 2013, May 6-7, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
read moreMUMBAI: As there is a very thin line difference between naughty item songs and tracks with derogatory lyrics, it has become difficult for few playback singers to make a choice. Give Me Some Sunshine singer Suraj Jagan who hit the chord among youngsters with the award-winning movie ‘3 Idiots’ chooses to stay away from profane lyrics and is extremely particular while making a song selection.
read moreMUMBAI: In its pioneering effort to increase internet adoption, Aircel, one of India’s leading telecom players, launched another unique data plan, Pocket Internet 24 (PI-24). The innovative product offered at Rs. 24 for a higher validity of 30 days for 100 MB data, will enable customers to experience and experiment internet on their mobile phones at an economical price of less than Re. 1 per day.
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