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Business Today has an article on the remote “concierge” services provided by companies like Ask Sunday, Brickwork India and Get Friday. The services being offered by these concierges, or virtual…

Business Today profiles the second coming of Internet advertising agencies. Today, there are three clear categories in this space that are drawing the attention of entrepreneurs, investors, and established agencies.…

Business Today has a profile of West Bengal-based microfinance institution Bandhan. Bandhan today finances innumerable landless women, whose monthly income is less than Rs 2,500 (in rural areas) and Rs…

Business Standard’s BS 2000 special issue has named Sun Phamra’s Dilip Shanghvi as the CEO of the Year. The profile points how Sun has been among the few Indian pharma…

Businessworld has a cover story on the unending corporate war in Indian mobile telecom. (Anil Sardana), the bespectacled, professorial general fighting Tatas’ telecom battle and Tatas’ regulatory advisors in New…

Businessworld has an article on why it has been difficult for MNC banks to sell their captive Indian BPO units. The sale or the valuation for these captive units are…

Business Today has a profile of Rural Innovations Network (RIN), an NGO that helps rural innovators take their inventions to market. While Basil (Paul Basil, RIN’s Founder & CEO)decided to…

Businessworld had organized a roundtable discussion on the impact of the US slowdown on the Indian BPO industry. The panel members included Rahul Singh, MD and CEO of Citigroup Global…

204 Private Equity funds investing in the emerging markets of Asia, Central & Eastern Europe/Russia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa raised over $59 billion in capital in 2007.…

This New York Times article on the burning questions surrounding Sovereign Wealth Funds provides an educated guess why these funds are going after financial services companies. Sovereign wealth fund investment…