Discussions have been initiated to sell the company to a Mumbai-headquartered, highly diversified, multi-billion dollar corporate group which has interests in retail and logistics, among various others.
Deccan 360 is not taking orders, as it claims it is re-aligning its services.
The channel is an equal joint venture between NDTV and Chennai-headquartered newspaper group The Hindu.
N S Raghavan, one of the co-founders of Infosys, is expanding his presence in the hospitality sector.
We are upbeat on the opportunities in India, says Vikram Kirloskar.
PremjiInvest has invested close to $20 million in the hospital chain in the last three years.
Kirani, is passionate about working with start-ups when they are at the ideation stage.
Global private equity majors - Standard Chartered Private Equity and London-headquartered 3i - are understood to have shown keen interest to invest in the litigation-prone Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) Bangalore-Mysore expressway being developed by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Limited (NICE).
GMR Infrastructure, the Bangalore-based developer of power plant, airports, roads and urban infrastructure, is understood to be closing in on its second coal mine acquisition in Indonesia. The mine is expected to cost close to $150 million and has reserves of close to 200 million tonne.
Content convergence is the new mantra for Pay TV service providers.
The book that Vinita Bali, managing director of Britannia Industries Ltd, is currently reading couldn't be more appropriate: 'Too Big to Fail'. Although that bestseller by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin tells the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington saved the financial system -- and themselves, its title aptly sums up Bali's own half-a-decade tenure at the Bangalore-based foods conglomerate.
The company is wooing smaller towns to create awareness for Etios to be launched in December.
The resort, Barefoot, in which Gopinath owns close to 35 per cent, is spread over seven acres 'in exotic locale' and has 18 villas.
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.
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.
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.
The first quarter of the financial year 2009-10 was exceptional for Wipro's consumer care business. Santoor, its flagship soap brand, which contributed close to Rs 850 crore in 2008-09 to the company's coffers, became the number one brand in South India in its category.
The company, which closed last fiscal with a top line of close to Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion), is expected to play in the ready-to-drink flavoured milk market targeted at youth, instead of the mass packaged milk segment. Britannia declined to comment in this regard. Industry estimates indicate this market is valued at close to Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion).
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