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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: Netflix

The big advantage Netflix has over the world’s largest media companies

Strong overseas presence puts Netflix well ahead of streaming rivals such as Disney+ and HBO Max, which is due to be released in May.

Is it Tinder? Netflix? YouTube? – the top 10 non-gaming apps of 2019

Games offering in-app purchases of virtual currency & upgrades continued to lead rankings, with video subscriptions dominating the rest of the field.

YouTube’s music services surpass Spotify, and local rivals JioSaavn and Gaana in India

YouTube's music service offers a library of songs on-demand, ability to download tracks, listen to music without ads and play tunes while using other apps.

Netflix is splurging Rs 30 billion on local content for Indian audience

With a market expected to hit 850 million smartphone users by 2022, India is drawing all the major global players as well as a slew of local streaming firms backed by Bollywood production houses.

Movie-streaming website MUBI comes to India with a bang, and it’s not just another Netflix

Cinephiles' favourite platform MUBI has partnered with PVR and created a special channel of Indian films.

Netflix bets on anime to battle Disney, Apple in streaming wars

Netflix is developing a library of exclusive anime shows, clinching long-term partnerships with five of Japan’s notable animation studios.

BBC and Netflix are resurrecting the world’s favourite vampire

Gothic fiction projects contemporary anxieties onto supernatural monsters, allowing for a safe exploration of social and political fears.

Netflix experiment lets you watch movies at 1.5 times the speed

Option to watch movies at up to 1.5 times usual speed is available on Android devices but Netflix cautioned it may not become permanent feature.

Netflix’s Bard of Blood is no threat to Pakistan. Even saas-bahu shows have more plot twists

As soon as the Netflix show’s trailer came out, many in Pakistan called it propaganda production whose sole aim was to show the country in bad light.

Netflix to borrow $2 billion as content war heats up

Netflix has historically relied on the high-yield bond market to finance its growth, typically issuing debt following its first- and third-quarter earnings in April and October.

On Camera

What a Tamil town tells us about votes, caste, and fraud in medieval India

Nepotism seems to have been a concern in Uttaramerur elections. That's why the drawing of ballots was done by a child and executives' relatives were banned from being elected.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?