Author: Arun

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…

Businessworld has an article on Titan’s entry into the emarket. Every third person in India wears glasses. And that translates into a Rs 1,800-crore prescription eye wear market. While small…

Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and the EVCA Institute (part of European Venture Capital Association) are organizing a workshop titled “Foundation Course in Private Equity & Venture Capital” on April…

T&I’s Jerry Borrell has an interesting interview with Jay Jegannathan, Managing Director of Evolvence India Fund, the first Private Equity Fund of Funds focused exclusively on the Indian market. Some…

I just read an interesting 2002 profile of US-based hedge fund Galleon Group and its Sri Lankan-born founder, Raj Rajaratnam, in the Financial Times. (Galleon has begun to invest in…

Economic Times has a profile of Nitish Mittersain, Founder & CEO of Mobile VAS firm Nazara Technologies. The first area that the company forayed into was online gaming, through a…

Economic Times had an article on the future of independent software testing vendors in the wake of EDS’ acquisition of RelQ. (Ranga Reddy, CEO of Maveric Systems) says: “That is…

Businessworld has an article on how The Sona Group is using a round of PE financing from JM Financial to accelerate its growth – which had slowed down a bit…