{"id":157549,"date":"2023-02-10T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-indian-video-giant-mx-player"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:24:10","slug":"amazon-in-talks-to-buy-indian-video-giant-mx-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-indian-video-giant-mx-player","title":{"rendered":"Amazon in talks to buy Indian video giant MX Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-indian-video-giant-mx-player2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is engaging with Times Internet to explore the acquisition of MX Player, one of the largest on-demand video streaming services in India, according to four sources familiar with the matter, as the American e-commerce group eyes expanding its entertainment ambitions in the key overseas market.<\/p>\n<p>The deliberations are ongoing and may not materialize into a deal, three sources cautioned. The terms of the deal are yet to be finalized. Times Internet and Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sources requested anonymity discussing private matters.<\/p>\n<p>At least two more players \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/09\/22\/sony-zee-india-acquisition\/amp\/\">Zee-Sony<\/a> \u2014 have expressed interest in acquiring the Times Internet-owned app, two sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is engaging with Times Internet to explore the acquisition of MX Player, one of the largest on-demand video streaming services in India, according to four sources familiar with the matter, as the American e-commerce group eyes expanding its entertainment ambitions in the key overseas market. The deliberations are ongoing and may not materialize into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}