Now, offshoring gets good PR
The free publicity rain for Indian IT companies continues. After giving Indian IT companies several million dollars worth of column space in the form of anti-offshoring reports, the same US…
Phaneesh Murthy’s first year progress report at iGate
Business Today magazine reviews the changes at iGate Global Solutions since the former Infosys Technologies marketing head Phaneesh Murthy took over as the company’s CEO one year ago. Click Here…
Businessworld interview with Temasek’s India head Manish Kejriwal
Businessworld magazine has published an article on Singapore-based Temasek Capital’s investments in India as well as an interview with Manish Kejriwal, who took over as Managing Director of Temasek’s company’s…
New York Times profiles Indian returnees
The New York Times has published an interesting article featuring several professionals of Indian origin who quit successful careers abroad and returned to India. As the article indicates, several of…
How Symphony bags offshore development orders from software product vendors
While doing development out of India has become a “no brainer” for all enterprise software product companies, the most “obvious” way to go about exploiting the India advantage has been…
Promod Haque plays traveling salesman for portfolio cos.
At a time when pretty much all VCs in Silicon Valley are pushing their portfolio companies to open R&D centers in India, Promod Haque, Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners…
Red Herring profiles MIT biz plan winner Kailas Narendran
Red Herring magazine has published an offbeat interview with Kailas Narendran, a 25-year-old researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, who co-created a device that provides…
Everything you wanted to know (and some things you didn’t care to know) about ChrysCapital’s Ashish Dhawan
New Delhi-based private equity fund ChrysCapital is vastly different from its former avatar, Chrysalis Capital. While Chrysalis began life (in Mumbai) as an venture capital firm focussed on start-up investments,…
Guy on Google’s Gamble
In an interview to Red Herring, Guy Kawasaki, founder of investment banking firm Garage.com, had this to say about Google’s plan to make its IPO via a “dutch auction” model:…
Quiet Period T-Shirts for CEOs on IPO track
Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly attended Wall Street Journal’s “All Things Digital” conference wearing a T-Shirt that read “quiet period” on the front and “can’t answer questions” on the back.…