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Never mind infrastructure issues. Leading global contract Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) firms are opening plants in India at a rapid pace. The latest addition to the list is Sanmina-SCI, the…

Why are PE and VC firms scurrying to set up real estate focused funds in India? The streaming video of the presentation on “Real Estate Investment Opprtunities in India” by…

Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article explaning why Warburg Pincus is bullish on India. After the usual tale and numbers about the firm’s investment and hugely profitable partial exit from Bharti…

Bill Burnham of Celsius Capital has a great post on the lessons he learned from investing in Datapower, a company that was recently acquired by IBM. The entrepreneur “sometimes” knows…

Business Today has a detailed profile of Baba Kalyani-led Bharat Forge, including nominating the firm as “the Infosys of the auto components sector”. I couldn’t get past a couple of…

Of course, everyone knows about the low-cost revolution in the US skies thanks to pioneers like Southwest Airlines and more recent entrants like JetBlue. But how about other countries? Did…

Until 2004, Intel Capital was probably the sole active corporate VC investing in the Indian technology sector. 2005 has seen the VC arms of Nokia, Cisco, IBM, TI and other…

Korea Times reports that the Korean National Tax Service (NTS) has fined five foreign funds – The Carlyle Group, Lone Star, Goldman Sachs, AIG and Westbrook – a total of…

Anand Sridharan, Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners’ Mumbai office, has laid claim to the title of “India’s first VC Blogger”, by kicking-off “Seriously Clueless”, a new blog at http://radventure.blogspot.com. Anand…

As you might know, the City of San Francisco has invited proposals to set up a community wireless broadband network. Bidders include investor and Internet God Google and ISP firm…