Businessworld magazine recently published a country report on Singapore including the renewed interest among Singaporean funds like Temasek and GIC as well as Singaporean companies like Ascendas (best known for…
Businessworld magazine has declared 2004 as a “Champagne year” for investment bankers thanks to the large number of IPOs and cross-border M&A activity. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of TSJ…
The $15 million third round funding raised by Bangalore-based telecom equipment firm Tejas Network’s will be the last round before the company goes public or gets acquired, BusinessWeek’s newly launched…
From a Businessweek interview with DCM-Doll Capital Management’s David Chao Q: Which sectors look attractive in China? A: There are a lot of semiconductor-design companies that work on next-generation chips.…
In an interesting experiment, Venky Ganesan, a Managing Director with Globespan Capital, and Narasimha Chari, Co-founder and Chief Architect at Tropos Networks, have come together to create a blog, VenChar,…
I’m quite proud about spotting and writing one of the first articles (way back in early September 2004) on the trend of VCs taking to blogging. I wrote about it…
Software and BPO services aren’t the only areas where Indian companies are competitive on a global scale. Private equity investors have realized this early and voted with their cheque books…
Software services are an old story. Product companies – except for a few exceptions – have not taken off (for the usual set of reasons: marketing costs are prohibitive, etc.…
In 2004, up to November, venture capital and private equity funds invested over $820 million in India-based companies, according to data from TSJ Media, the Chennai-based firm that tracks venture…
Businessworld magazine has published an article on why there has been a flurry of activity, interest and announcements in the recent times for manufacturing mobile telephone handsets in India. So,…