Intel Capital, IBM, SAP Venture, Qualcomm Ventures increase India focus. July Systems, which developed a mobile broadband platform, has just received funding from Intel Capital.
Even if the government starts issuing vouchers which can be sold, a fairly early sunset will be written into them because of new technology clearly on the horizon , says Subir Roy.
There can be no forgetting the Margaret Thatcher principle of leaving something on the table for the small investor.
The signal is that it is willing, but it is a bit open if it will be able to.
The year 2009 was a difficult year for Indian merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. However, it established the supremacy of Indian investment bankers (i-bankers) by catapulting them to the top of the league table, leaving their international peers far behind.
The year 2009 was a difficult year for Indian merger and acquisition deals.
Money and value propositions similarly dictate the unending growth of Delhi.
Looking inward, innovating for the Indian market, and IT-led innovation to make possible no-frills accounts and microfinance loans will be key elements of the medium-term strategy for corporate India.
The climate accord secured for India a place at the high table in recognition of its importance for the rest of the world, says Subir Roy.
San Francisco and Bangalore have a lot in common but there is a lot more that is different.Bangalore needs to imbibe the spirit of San Francisco.
As Copenhagen has got going amidst more hope than was there initially, attention must shift to the massive task that lies beyond.
The greatest plus of the Duronto is the service of the outsourced catering staff.
The gap between promise and achievement in JNNURM is enormous.
Dun and Bradstreet forecasts that overall inflation will touch 6 per cent by the end of the current fiscal, fuelled by, among others, current high food prices and the impact of the drought. The 20 per cent deficit in the monsoon is slated to bring down kharif output by 15-20 per cent. The news couldn't get worse.
Thirty-plus years in journalism had taught me that the fault lay in us, not taking the initiative to set things right and expecting that the authorities would perform their task. If the city was filthy in the most intolerable places then why didn't we pick up the shovel and get to work.
What is really needed is a tenure track where higher pay goes with accountability, not peer review which tends to favour the upward drift of the incumbent mediocrity.
Nearly two months into his new job as the head of the Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani says the real beneficiary of the project will be the poor who have no identity at present.He is in a hurry because "the next 12-18 months are very critical in getting this project off the ground," by when the first set of identity numbers will be issued. If all goes well, five years from now the UID data base will cover a few hundred million people.
Korean hardware prowess and Indian software prowess can result in a formidable partnership
N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and chief mentor of India's second-largest IT services provider Infosys Technologies, is planning to invest in US-based clean technology venture capital fund Siderian Ventures.
Groupe Danone, the global dairy products major based in France, netted a capital gain of Rs 380 crore ( $56 million) when it recently divested its indirect 25.5 per cent holding in the Bangalore-based biscuit major Britannia Industries.
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