Manoj Kothari, founder & strategist at Onio Design at Pune, has a story in BusinessWeek on how design - including web design, industrial design - is getting much needed attention in India. Designers in India seem to be in great demand. Hailing from a design background, he explains how design is not given enough importance […]
Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet - the company behind the Zoho suite of services, has an interview with Hindu. A snippet from the interview:
Vembu is a man who firmly believes that India has what it takes to build world-beating products, despite being most famous for concentrating on services.
“All remaining barriers are mostly in our […]
Tehelka has a cover story on Indian youth and the Internet. There are lots of aspects covered - blogging, orkutting, online matrimony - you take your pick.
Contributors include popular Indian bloggers like Rashmi Bansal, Dina Mehta, Patrix, Neha and Shivam Vij.
April 30, 2007 – 12:02 am
The WSJ has a great column on how big companies cant afford to ignore India and China - and why they should not look as India and China as mere cost reduction centers.
Given the size and sizzling growth of these economies, a suboptimal strategy for China and India is no longer a matter of merely […]
April 29, 2007 – 11:40 pm
Venture capitalists(VCs) have invested capital worth $700 million in India during FY’07. This is close to the amount invested in China ($820 million) and UK ($800 million) during the same period as per the chief advisor to the Finance Minister, A K Lahiri.
Rest here.
April 29, 2007 – 11:22 pm
AOL entered the Indian market, Yahoo ramped up research operations in India. Microsoft is taking notice. In an exclusive interview with AgencyFaqs, Tom Bowman - regional advertising sales director of M’soft Digital Advertising Solutions, says:
“India is at a very key stage in online advertising. Our research shows that the Indian audience below the age of […]
April 27, 2007 – 12:23 am
Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Life Sciences has become a limited partner in BioVenture IV - a healthcare fund floated by Boston based MPM capital. 80% of the fund assets will be invested in US and the remaining 20% in Europe and Asia. Preferred investment size is in the range of $20 - $50 million per […]
Amitabh Singhal, founder and director-general of ISP Association of India, has a story in the Hindu on how TRAI is imposing regulatory burdens and hindering the evolution of Internet and Internet based services and content in India. He refers to a Dec 2006 consultation report by TRAI about the ‘Review of Internet Services’. You may […]
There was a small debate that took place between Alok Mittal and Avnish Bajaj on the feasibility of Web2.0 in India.
While my intention is not to rekindle the debate, but I’d like to continue the thread of discussion related to the same - feasibility of Web2.0 in India.
To begin with let’s revisit the definition of […]
April 26, 2007 – 11:53 am
As I sipped my morning coffee, I read about the launch of AOL’s India specific portal. Email, messenger, mobile services, video and of course news are some of the services offered by the portal. City specific guides for major metros are also available. Considering that they just launched yesterday, I wont pass any judgement about […]
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