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Zynga, provider of social game services, has announced that the Company has appointed Clive Downie as Chief Operating Officer, effective November 4, 2013. Downie brings with him more than 20 years of industry experience across console and free-to-play mobile games, and an extensive history of leading teams and publishing hit global game franchises and services.
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Dell has announced that Anand Sankaran, a 25-year industry leader, will join the company as president and global head of Dell Services’ Infrastructure and Cloud Computing line of business. He will report to Suresh Vaswani, president of Dell Services. Read More

With the passion of creating something entertaining for the audiences, Sagar Kadam’s animated short film ‘Lubdhanam Cora’, a 5 ½ minuter 3D Animated short film, has made India proud with its win at 14 TBS DIGICON 6 AWARD in the Digicon 6 Creativity Awards Category and Best Short film in the Asian Regional Awards category and also has recently bagged an award at the SpoofhMania Film Festival. Read More

Reliance Entertainment Digital’s game division Jump Games, a leading international publisher and developer mobile games, apps, and content, has brought on board Eric Marlow as Vice President in charge of their Global Studios. Marlow is a veteran when it comes to the game development. He has more than 13 years in the games industry, with additional work in strategy at management consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Read More

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) southern region has announced the winners of the Emerging Entrepreneurs Award 2011 on Friday, 23rd March 2012 at Hilton, Chennai. Creator of Chhota Bheem and CEO of Green Gold Animation, Rajiv Chilakalapudi was felicitated … Read More

The ’4th Global Youth Marketing Forum 2011′ held on 14th–15th February, 2012 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai organized by Star TV has conferred veteran animation filmmaker Dhimant Vyas with “Outstanding Individual Achievement For Character Animation” Award. The Global Youth Marketing Forum (GYMF) is one … Read More

Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc. today announced the appointment of Glenn Bartlett as Creative Director, to lead the company’s on-air and off-air creative direction. Based in Hong Kong and reporting to Lucien Harrington, Vice President of Branding and Communications, … Read More

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer Matt Groening will be honoured with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Groening’s star in the category of Television will be unveiled on Tuesday, … Read More

ACK-Media today announced the appointment of Manas Mohan as the Chief  Operating Officer (COO) with effect from 1st January 2012. Mr. Mohan moves up from his earlier role as Head – Direct to Customer for ACK Media. In his expanded role, Manas Mohan will oversee … Read More

MTV Networks India could not have managed to rope in a better person than the research head of its staunchest rival in the country, to revive kid channel Nickelodeon in May this year.Pradeep Hejmadi’s appointment as business and operations head of Nickelodeon, which is now being revamped as the slicker and savvier Nick, comes at a time when the network has identified India as a critical market for a major Nick push. Read More