At a time when Emami Ltd is hitting the headlines with news on acquisitions and foreign ventures, Aditya V Agarwal, a director and one of the younger scions of the group, shares his thinking with Shine Jacob.
NTT had earlier sought the combined 63 per cent stake of the promoters and private equity firm General Atlantic Partners, but their exclusive talks failed due to a valuation mismatch.
Private sector has continued to look at outsourcing and offshoring, despite government's measures.
The development holds bilateral significance, as both India and Bangladesh had decided to improve economic ties in a 'win-win' mode during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit earlier this year.
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the country's leading online-ticketing platform, has seen a jump of 60 per cent in mobile ticket booking between January and October.
As Air Force One landed in India's financial capital with promises of bonding between the United States and the country in many sectors, one of the key people missing from Barack Obama's 200-member business delegation was, The Dow Chemical Company chief.
Last week, the Indian markets were all about coal. However, amidst the hype over the debut of Coal India Ltd (CIL) on domestic bourses, what was mostly overlooked was the brand new logo of the world's largest coal miner.
Private equity (PE) players and investment bankers are divided over the timing of the BT Group's reported move to exit Tech Mahindra. BT owns about 30 per cent in TechM.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country's largest information technology services company, will hire 50 per cent more students from campuses for 2011-12.
India's second largest information technology services provider, Infosys, believes businesses in the US, including the government, will continue to favour global sourcing. This despite the increase in anti-outsourcing voices and a ban on it by the Ohio state government.
Tata Consultancy Services has become the second-largest insurance business process outsourcing provider in the UK, after winning two deals worth 250 million pound (around Rs1,800 crore).
Hewlett Packard has lost its personal computer market leadership in India for two reasons: Dell's focus on the retail and SME segments has started paying off and its new distribution strategy is going through initial troubles.
One tenth mobile subscribers in India own multiple mobile phone connections, says a report.
Mahindra Satyam's Gurnani to be CEO after Tech M integration.
The seemingly paradoxical reason is rising attrition and growth in demand from the US, the industry's biggest market.
Under this programme, employees can work on innovative ideas, for which the firm will provide funding and help in setting up a team. The programme is part of the company's initiative to allocate 10 per cent of their cash reserve to initiatives that are technology-led.
Capgemini, which reported revenue of 8.4 billion in 2009, is perhaps the only European IT services firm to have successfully used its India centre as an innovation hub, as a large offshoring centre and tap the domestic market for growth.
Firstsource raised $275 million (around Rs 1,265 crore) through foreign currency convertible bonds in 2007 to fund the acquisition of MedAssist.
Lavasa, Wipro, Cisco combine to launch something new in urban living.
The US celebrates its independence day on July 4. But since it was Sunday, the American government had declared Monday as a holiday.
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