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Businessworld has an article on the RPG Group’s plans for retail parting with its FoodWorld joint venture. Right now, the plans to move on seem to be in top gear…

ContentSutra has an interview with Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director of WestBridge Capital, on the firm’s recent investments in Internet and mobile services companies like Shaadi.com, Mauj, Nazara, etc. Internet cannot…

Paul Kedrosky argues that the common practice at VC firms – of requiring unanimity (or at least, majority) among the partners for making investment decisions – is a “dangerous” one.…

A study by FICCI-PricewaterhouseCoopers has predicted that the Indian Media & Entertainment industry will grow at 19% to touch Rs. 83,740 crore by 2010 from its current size of Rs.35,300…

A Business Standard report quoting a December 2005 study by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and Cross Tab Marketing Services, says that an estimated 4.6 million Indian…

Economic Times (in its Corporate Dossier supplement) has an article on the rising number of distressed asset funds in the Indian market. Call them distress or stress asset funds. Restructuring…

Dale Anne Reiss, Global Director of Ernst & Young’s Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction sector, visited India recently to explore the new landscape for the industry. Her reading of the…

The number of investors signing up for online stock trading accounts has tripled over the last two years to tocuh 1.3 million, reports Business Line. Online trades now account for…

Forbes magazine has published a cover story – with a negative slant – on buyout funds. Some extracts: Investors poured $106 billion into leveraged buyout funds last year, double the…

Mumbai- and Delhi-based law firm Economic Laws Practice (also a Venture Intelligence India Knowledge Partner) has made available a quick analysis of the 2006-07 budget on a special web site.…