VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dilip Keshu, CEO of Group FMG, has announced that American Media Inc. (AMI), has entered into a long-term $10-million partnership with one of its key holdings, FMG. FMG will work with American Media to implement the agency's cutting-edge automated technologies to reduce costs, manage content, and optimize the media firm's products and services across digital platforms. "Every publisher today is looking to reduce their costs. And being able to provide them with the production efficiencies, we developed for AMI's publishing services business unit allows us to build on this new revenue stream for the our company," said David Pecker, Chairman, President & CEO, American Media. Mike Esposito, Senior Vice-President, Operations and Digital Production, said, "FMG is the ideal partner to help AMI continue to optimize its internal production processes as well as its migration to distribute content across digital platforms...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Group FMG has opened its Operations and Technology Center of Excellence (COE). The center is based in Taramani, Chennai, India. This claims to be the first facility in the region to focus on creating sophisticated marketing solutions using the latest developments in digital/creative, production and e-commerce enablement. The expansion is said to reinforce and strengthen Group FMG's assets around these core growth areas. The new ultra-modern 25,000 square feet facility is to operate 24/7, 365 days a year to give clients maximum flexibility. It is staffed with top-level creative, marketing, engineering and IT professionals recruited from leading universities and companies in India, as well as from other parts of the world. The Group FMG COE will specialize in state-of-the-art cross-platform design, content and technical applications across media platforms such as smartphones and tablets. E-commerce enablement, driven by advance technologie...