Reliance, Disney JV plots India dominance with new app, cricket

JioStar vice chairman eyes more content and ads for new $8.5bn behemoth

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Expected to host about 500 million viewers, JioHotstar is part of a gambit by Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest man. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by JioHotstar Facebook page and Getty Images)

SOUMYAJIT SAHA

MUMBAI -- On Friday, millions who use India's two most popular online streaming platforms, JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar, were suddenly migrated to a common platform with a shiny new logo.

The new platform sported a spiky seven-pointed silver star, with a fairly self-explanatory name emblazoned below it: JioHotstar.

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