Why is Cairn Energy listing in India?
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…
FCCBs losing sheen
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:…
Ranbaxy under Malvinder
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…
Businessworld article on ICICI Bank’s rural initiative
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…
Online classifieds: The rise of the dotcoms
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…
VeryScarry.com: Indian Web 2.0 cos. are all over the media
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…
India’s “New Billionaires” list
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…
Matrix Labs’ Prasad: India’s best deal maker?
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.…
New exit route: Sell your company on eBay
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…
Infosys’ “Think Flat” corporate blog
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…