India would most likely be celebrating the 150th anniversary of its Independence not the anniversary of a failed mutiny if only the South and West had joined in instead of watching from the sidelines. Writing in the Oxford History of Modern India, Percival Spears observes that: The Madras and Bombay Presidencies were hardly touched by […]
Iconic American motorbike company Harley Davidson is still keen on entering India despite the trade barriers, says LiveMint, Hindustan Times‘ new business daily. C-DOT hangs up on 3-G, reports the Hindu Businessline. IBM VC group eyes India, according to the Economic Times. Shiromani Akali Dal working president Sukhbir Badal has rolled out a Rs 350 billion economic […]
Mercury News a few months ago had a story on the rush of VCs to India and the “new garage culture†of the start-ups in Bangalore and elsewhere a la Silicon Valley. In the first nine months of 2006, VCs have made 53 early-stage investments in Indian start-ups worth $355 million — nearly twice as […]
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Our second favorite Newspaper Wall Street Journal (NYT is our first love) is in deep waters Those of us looking for famed investor Warren Buffett to save the Dow Jones publishing group, which includes the fine Wall Street Journal (subscription required), from Rupert Murdoch’s grubby hands must now turn our sights elsewhere. At the annual […]