Year: 2008

Business Today has conducted a survey on the usage of social networking sites in India. …there are already an estimated 17 million Indians who visit or use social networks. “This…

Business Today has a profile of the new initiatives of media group UTV. (Interactive, gaming & Internet) is a relatively new business for UTV, and it has grown through acquisitions.…

Economic Times has an interview with ChrysCapital MD Sanjiv Kaul, who is also an expert on the pharmaceuticals sector. Valuations across most sectors now look attractive for a prospective PE…

The Economic Times has an interview with Hamilton James, President & COO of Blackstone. Yes, valuations in India are down by almost two-thirds. Besides, many companies, which wanted to go…

Via Paul Kedrosky Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and networking services to the private equity and venture capital ecosystem in…

Stock market investor and trader Deepak Shenoy who had a very accurate prediction for markets in 2008 has come up with another for 2009. Here are some of his going…

From the “Dear Lucy” career advise column in Financial Times. At a dinner party last Saturday I was asked by a fellow guest what I did and I said I…

In an article for The Economic Times, Suhel Seth, an advisor to British Airways, points out the problem facing Indian airlines has more to do inaction on “vital but unpopular…

Moneycontrol.com has a video interview with Ashok Wadhwa, MD of Ambit and Sumanth Sinha, COO, Suzlon Energy, on the drying up of deal activity. Both panelists agreed that more transactions…

AltAssets reports on the Swiss-headquartered PE fund-of-funds manager’s annual press conference in Frankfurt. The current global financial crisis will impact private equity in three waves: firstly, through a correction of…