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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.…

Michael Arrington of Techcrunch has a post describing how Kiko, a web calendar company, got acquired for $250,000 by listing itself on eBay and addss that this might be a…

IT outsourcing giant Infosys has launched a blog titled Think Flat at www.infosysblogs.com/thinkflat with a opening post by CEO Nandan Nilekani (which has attracted 26 comments as of now). At…

Business Today has a profile of low-cost airline pioneer Deccan Aviation post its turbulent May IPO. To put it simply, while Deccan is low fare, it’s not quite low cost.…

Business Today has published its annual list of “Cool Companies”. The latest list includes KPCB-backed mobile payments firm Paymate, Sequoia-backed online tutoring services firm TutorVista.com and Nadathur Holdings-backed agri-biotech firm…

Business Today has a short profile of auto components maker Amtek Auto in which Warburg Pincus recently picked up a 9% stake. Amtek, which started operations out of Sohna in…