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UK-based mobile ticketing and discovery platform DICE launches in India

Powered by Dice discovery, the platform offers music, arts, and cultural live streams from cities around the world

BookMyShow adds safety shield tag for safe movie-watching experience

BookMyShow has added a new safety shield tag to help create awareness about the various safety and hygiene measures available across various properties listed on the platform

Coralogix to invest $30 mn in India to meet data localisation norms

In a statement, the company said customers can meet compliance requirements for India's new data privacy laws with data localisation, and improve service performance

BookMyShow checks in to India's crowded streaming party with live events

Sunburn Home Festival, the virtual edition of the electronic dance music festival, is among the first events BookMyShow Online will stream live.

BookMyShow to sack 270 employees to cut costs amid Covid-19 crisis

The employees being sent on furloughs or leave (without pay) will be eligible for all medical insurance, gratuity and other benefits as per their employment standards.

BookMyShow lays off, furloughs 270 employees to cut costs amid low revenues

He said the company has tried to do it best to offer financial support, continued health insurance cover and outplacement support for those impacted by the downsizing exercise

The show must go on: Performance artists struggle as gigs go online

Due to the lockdown, artists are turning to online shows but the concept of online concerts are still at a nascent stage making survival difficult for many

Covid-19 crisis: IT services companies pad up to reopen offices for staff

Apart from issuing guidelines for employees with dos and don'ts, the companies are using technology-led solutions to ensure social distancing at workplaces.

Digital is the new blockbuster in B'town, studios shift to online marketing

An array of sophisticated tools and tactics powers the online show business as studios seek maximum bang for every buck spent

Here are the top 10 films of 2019 as per online booking platform BookMyShow

English films saw significant traction in 2019 - the Marvel craze took over India as Avengers: Endgame broke all records to sell over 8.6 mn tickets on BookMyShow

Show off the year: Marvel to Uri, movies that moved India in 2019

Avengers: Endgame broke all records to sell over 8.6 mn tickets on BookMyShow, making it the highest-selling Hollywood movie

Amazon signs deal with BookMyShow to sell movie tickets on its platform

All the cinemas and theatres listed on Amazon.in for this category will be powered exclusively by BookMyShow.

Veteran thespians take to the stage at the Delhi Theatre Festival

The third edition of the festival will present the classic and the avant-garde with big-ticket names, writes Amrita Singh

After Canada's Cirque du Soleil, BookMyShow to bring NBA to India

The country will host the first ever live NBA match in October this year

BookMyShow invests in Pune-based payments technology company AtomX

The online ticketing portal intends to gain access to best-in-class cashless technologies to enhance on-ground user experience at live events through the investment

Live events to make half of BookMyShow revenue by FY21

Mumbai, 24 September Online ticketing company BookMyShow (BMS) made a mark in the entertainment service space by pioneering online movie ticketing in this country. It now hopes to boost its non-movie ticketing business, with a sharper focus on producing and promoting of live events. The company already provides online ticketing for sports and non-sports live events. Earlier this year, it started producing non-sports live contentk, with Disney's Aladdin. Currently, the movie ticketing business gives around 65 per cent of revenue. The rest comes from live event ticketing, including plays, music concerts, matches in the Indian Premier League and other sporting events. Movie ticketing is based largely on the commission model. There is growing competition in the space, with multiplexes pushing ticket sales on their own apps. And, players like Paytm are giving cash-back offers on their portals. BMS now aims to grow the non-movie business to half its revenue by 2020-21."As with movie ...

BookMyShow raises $100 million in Series D funding led by TPG Growth

Investors in the company include Stripes Group, SAIF Partners, Accel Partners and Network 18

Bookmyshow enters international event ticketing; ups non-movie inventory

This is BMS's second outing as a producer for plays, having debuted in the field with Disney's Aladdin earlier this year

BookMyShow follows consumer trail, expands footprint in entertainment biz

The expansion has been organic in terms of the brand's gradual movement into allied segments and via acquisitions

BookMyShow acquires digital entertainment firm Nfusion

Online ticketing company BookMyShow has acquired Nfusion, a digital entertainment company, for an undisclosed amount in an all cash deal. The acquisition is part of BookMyShiw's plans to expand the scope of its operations beyond just online movie ticketing. Nfusion was set up in Middle East in 2009 by Shoaib G.M. Khan, Sivagurunathan S and Prabhakar Reddy as a HD video-on-demand platform which allowed its users to stream videos online. BookMyShow will be using Nfusion's scalable tech solutions, especially CMS (content management system), for its foray into audio entertainment. The acquisition not just provides BookMyShow a robust tech platform but also an experienced team which will provide a fillip to BookMyShow's audio entertainment offerings. While the Nfusion team will be headed by Shoaib, Sivagurunathan will lead the architecture and development teams at BookMyShow.Parikshit Dar, director, BookMyShow said, "We have already established our video content vertical and are now ...