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MX Player and Paramount Global partner to bring a new show
Mumbai: Diversifying and strengthening its vast content portfolio, MX Player – India’s #1 OTT platform (source: data.ai), collaborates with Paramount Global content distribution to bring its popular all-female sports entertainment show, ‘WOW – Women Of Wrestling’ to Indian audiences. The Indian entertainment super app, MX Player has licensed the new season of the successful all-women wrestling series, which includes streaming rights to 52 episodes with each episode being of one-hour duration.
‘WOW – Women Of Wrestling’ is a distinctive all-women wrestling sports show, where a group of intelligent, fearless, and motivated women called ‘WOW Superheroes’ come together from different walks of life to inspire and encourage with their fight for championships, justice, and revenge. These empowered women settle competitions and rivalries inside the ring. Unlike any other professional wrestling series, ‘WOW – Women of Wrestling’ is peppered with drama, emotions, thrills, and entertainment.
The new season of ‘WOW – Women Of Wrestling,’ will be available on MX Player from 8 April 2023.
“At MX Player, we have a track record of presenting our audiences with the best in different genres. The first-of-its-kind sports deal with Paramount Global Content Distribution for the new season of ‘WOW – Women of Wrestling,’ is another step in that direction. We believe that a fascinating sports entertainment series about strong and inspiring women wrestlers will resonate with our audiences as the individual stories of the challenges, grit, and determination of each of the WOW Superheroes are so powerful that it surely makes for a compelling watch,” said an MX Player spokesperson.
“We are thrilled to bring the action-packed series WOW – Women Of Wrestling to empower audiences throughout India,” said Paramount Global content distribution president, international TV licensing Lisa Kramer. “Viewers in the U.S. and abroad have been inspired by the athleticism of the WOW Superheroes and their uplifting stories.”
Prepare to be inspired and amazed as viewers in India join WOW Superheroes: Foxxy Fierce, Leia Makoa, Tormenta, Miami’s Sweet Heat, The Tonga Twins, Kandi Krush, Americana, Keta Rush, and many others as they fight their battles in the WOW ring.
WOW is owned by trailblazing sports executive Jeanie Buss and was created by GLOW founder of the original David McLane: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Global professional wrestling superstar, screenwriter, mental health advocate, and New York Times bestselling author AJ Mendez serves as executive producer and colour commentator.
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Meta plans 8,000 layoffs in new AI-led restructuring wave
First phase from May 20 may cut 10 per cent workforce amid AI pivot.
MUMBAI: At Meta, the future may be artificial but the cuts are very real. The social media giant is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, with an initial wave expected to impact around 8,000 employees as it doubles down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to a Reuters report, the first phase of job cuts is slated to begin on May 20, targeting roughly 10 per cent of Meta’s global workforce. With nearly 79,000 employees on its rolls as of December 31, the move marks one of the company’s most significant workforce reductions in recent years.
And this may only be the beginning. Sources indicate that additional layoffs are being planned for the second half of the year, although the scale and timing remain fluid, likely to be shaped by how Meta’s AI capabilities evolve in the coming months. Earlier reports had suggested that total cuts in 2026 could reach 20 per cent or more of its workforce.
The restructuring comes as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to steer the company towards an AI-first operating model, committing hundreds of billions of dollars to the transition. Internally, this shift is already visible: teams within Reality Labs have been reorganised, engineers have been moved into a newly formed Applied AI unit, and a Meta Small Business division has been created to align with broader structural changes.
The trend is hardly isolated. Across the tech sector, companies are trimming headcount while investing aggressively in automation. Amazon, for instance, has reportedly cut around 30,000 corporate roles nearly 10 per cent of its white-collar workforce citing efficiency gains driven by AI. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows over 73,000 tech employees have already lost jobs this year, compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
For Meta, the move echoes its earlier “year of efficiency” in 2022–23, when about 21,000 roles were eliminated amid slowing growth and market pressures. This time, however, the backdrop is different. The company is financially stronger, generating over $200 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profit last year, with shares up 3.68 per cent year-to-date though still below last summer’s peak.
That contrast underlines the shift underway. These layoffs are less about survival and more about reinvention. As Meta restructures itself around AI from autonomous coding agents to advanced machine learning systems, the question is no longer whether the company will change, but how many roles will be left unchanged when it does.
