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US-based hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, which made an investment in Indiabulls Finance Company (a consumer lending subsidiary of Indiabulls Financial Services) in June 2005, has landed itself in deep trouble…

Business Today has an article on this topic including a box item on the history (or the lack of it) of hostile takeovers in the country. India is a market…

Business Today has an article on why the LSE-listed oil firm, Cairn Energy, is planning a public issue in India. Cairn Energy Plc is the company in question, and the…

Business Today points out that FCCB issues, which were ruling high in 2005, are now losing favour with companies. By the second half of 2005, FCCBs had become very popular:…

Business Today has a cover story on Ranbaxy agressive expansion under its new CEO Malvinder Singh. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity and venture…

It is now the turn of Businessworld to write about ICICI Bank’s rural thrust. Looks like ITC’s e-choupal is getting stiff competition – at least from a PR perspective. Related…

Businessworld has an article on how Indian online services are taking marketshare away from newspapers and how newspaper publishers plan to respond. Three years ago, Canon India spent Rs 30…

It’s happening all over again! Businessworld has a feature profiling some Indian Web 2.0 companies including a “box item” on Who Will be India’s Myspace. Extracts: Myspace owes much of…

Businessworld has come up with a list of 74 “New Billionaires” – ie, persons whose stock holdings became worth Rs.100 crore — Rs 1 billion — or more in the…

I do not know of any other Indian company which has grown as aggressively through M&A as Matrix Labs. Businessworld tells the story of Matrix Labs and its Founder-Chairman N.…