Year: 2007

V.P.Harris, Managing Director of Chennai-based speciality retailer Witco, sent me a note with some interesting takeaways and reactions to the recent presentation made by retail guru Paco Underhill in Bangalore.…

Basab Pradhan, former head of sales at Infosys, has his own take on the recent Forrestor Research report on how captive centers of MNCs are underperforming their third-party outsourcing peers.…

Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners and Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners India have triggered off an interesting discussion at VentureWoods on Social Networking start-ups in the Indian context. Extract from…

Business Standard has an interview with Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman of Landmark Land Holdings, on the correction in various pockets of the Indian Real Estate market. Instead of maximising returns from…

Economic Times article on how more and more middle east based banks and financial institutions are investing in India. Corporate India will have a new set of deep-pocket investors eyeing…

Bill Burnham has a post on how Indian IT outsourcing companies are promoting open source software among their enterprise customers and, in the process, also taking away some service revenues…

The second edition of Proto.in, an event that showcases technology start-ups along the lines of the well-known DEMO conference in the US, is to be held at IIT-Madras on July…

Businessworld has an article on life at Shantha Biotech post the acquisition of a 60% stake by Merieux. While Merieux is expected to make use of Shantha’s existing line of…

Businessworld has an article on how leading Coimbatore-based auto component maker – known best for its speedometer products – is struggling with an uneasy relationship with its Japanese technology partner…

Businessworld has a cover story on the Internet businesses of leading Indian TV and print media companies. Most old media companies know that they are investing in the Internet a…