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Business Today magazine recently brought out a special issue titled “An Ideas Superpower”. The issue featured some interesting profiles of people like Avesthagen founder Villoo Morawala Patell, IIT-Madras’ Prof. Ashok…

By Arun Natarajan At a time when the center of gravity of the global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is moving inexorably towards India, it is ironical that public investors…

Shamoon “Sam” Rafiq, who illegally “sold” $3 million in Google stock posing as a partner at famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), was arrested…

The July Meta-Service System (JMSS) is a 3G compliant service delivery platform that allows operators to rapidly deploy and deliver premium mobile data services, by tying together various entities in…

A meeting with Vani Kola, Founder & CEO, Nth Orbit By Arun Natarajan “Study finds women lagging in venture capital race” reads the headline of a March 26 Mercury News…

E-Loan puts positive spin to offshoring “Opt for India to get your work done faster”: E-Loan; “Yes, we’d like that”: customers At a time when other US companies are playing…

“Offshoring an ‘brain drain’ for the US” In an article titled “An Unseen Peril of Outsourcing” in BusinessWeek Online, columnist David Gumpert warns US companies that in sending work offshore,…

Bioinformatics: the market that never was? The bioinformatics market, once touted as the “the next big opportunity” for Indian IT services companies, never really took off. So much so that…

The Zenta Group story The Philadelphia Inquirer has profiled US and India-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm Zenta Group. The article provides some hitherto unknown facts about Zenta as well…

Hurdles facing the US biotech industry could benefit Indian cos. “For all the enthusiasm that beats through the veins of the biotech industry, it remains a risky business, prone to…