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Roku, Inc. (/ ˈ r oʊ k uː / ROH-koo) [4] is an American technology company. [5] [6] Founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood, it produces Roku-branded streaming players and TVs, distributes streaming services and operates an ad business on its platform. Roku is the U.S. market leader in streaming video distribution, [7] [8] [9] reaching 145 million ...
Roku was founded by Anthony Wood in 2002; he had previously founded ReplayTV, a DVR company that competed with TiVo. [4] After ReplayTV's failure, Wood worked for a while at Netflix. In 2007, Wood's company began working with Netflix on Project:Griffin, a set-top box to allow Netflix users to stream Netflix content to their TVs. [4]
Anthony J. Wood (born December 4, 1965) is an English-born American billionaire businessman who is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Roku, Inc. [1] [2] [3] In April 2021, he owned 15% stake in Roku, and had a net worth of US$7.2 billion.
The Roku Channel was launched in September 2017 as a free, ad-supported streaming television service ("FAST"), [1] [13] available to viewers in the U.S. [14] Roku's CEO Anthony Wood stated in the same month that the channel was a "way for content owners to publish their content on Roku without writing an app". [15]
India established the governmental Bureau for the Promotion of Urdu in 1969, although the Central Hindi Directorate was established earlier in 1960, and the promotion of Hindi is better funded and more advanced, [173] while the status of Urdu has been undermined by the promotion of Hindi. [174]
It is the most comprehensive dictionary in the history of Urdu language. [citation needed] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu Dictionary Board, Karachi ...
Rooh Afza (Urdu: روح افزا; Hindi: रूह अफ़ज़ा; Bengali: রূহ আফজা; lit. ' Soul Refresher ' ) is a drink which is a concentrated squash . [ 1 ] It was formulated in 1906 by Hakim Abdul Hameed [ 2 ] and introduced by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and launched from Old Delhi, British India.
Many historians agree that Lahore was founded by an ancient Hindu colony sometime between the first and seventh centuries, probably as early as the beginning of the second; that it soon rose to be a place of importance, the parent of other colonies, and eventually the capital of a powerful principality, to which it gave its name.