Growth

London is emerging as the new technology hub. In the last couple of years there has been a lot of activity to establish London as a center of innovation. But why has this come about? Well there have been three significant factors, one UK…

So the trend continues - This is 5th straight month when Mobile subscriptions have fallen - and pretty sharp fall at that. I have covering mobile subscriber addition data since 2007, and this must be probably lowest that I have witnessed.…

It is strange, but looks like India is not able to keep up with world when it comes to competitiveness - For 3rd straight year, India has fallen on competitiveness rankings. In 2009, India ranked 49th amongst 142 global economies in…

Yes, Narayana Murthy has retired as the Chairman of Infosys. Yes, Infosys has drawn flak for visa issues for employees in its foreign operations. Yes, current COO S.D Shibulal has accepted that Infosys is facing a challenging environment…

Further to my previous post on how corporations in US are still doing well (with highest proportion of companies with positive EPS) and how we’re still not going to have recession this time, The recent economic news for emerging economies…

Juxt today released their annual ’India Online 2011’ report which puts number of active Indian Internet users at 65 Million as compared to 51 Million last year. The report released by Juxt is based on  land survey conducted among…

Sample this... Software and Services sector has the potential to grow to $105 billion by 2014 and $225 billion by 2020 from $58.7 billion in 2009! Electronics and Hardware production in the country is expected to grow from $20 billion in…

The last time RBI had issued banking licenses was 2004; Kotak Mahindra Bank and Yes Bank were established. We have seen the kind of wealth creation that they were able to create in just six years. However, RBI seems to have a concern on…

Acer has beat Hewlett Packard in India’s PC shipments to become the second biggest vendor behind Dell. Acer holds a market share of 12.1% for the second quarter of 2011. Dell held on to its top position with 16.7% market share. A total of…

The unthinkable has happened! Mukesh Ambani led Reliance has been upstaged as India's largest company by market capitalization and the one who has managed to achieve this feat is by no means a veteran in the Stock Market. Coal India,…

After years of leading the mobile handset market, in both hardware and software, Nokia is now slipping down at a alarming pace. With every passing quarter, companies like Apple, Samsung & HTC are increasingly grabbing up the Nokia’s…

United States of America, supposedly the world’s strongest country (both financially and military wise) is into yet another problem after it just tried to get up after the Global Recession in 2008. Few experts say the problem can be solved…

Government of India today released its much awaited Economic Outlook for 2011-12 that pegs the India’s GDP growth rate for 2011-12 at 8.2% as compared to 8.5% registered last year. Given the current adverse global circumstances and high…

Inflation is India’s biggest problem now (apart from corruption, scams, parliamentary standoffs, corporate governance). Of course every emerging country has to go through this phase once in its growth phase. Theoretically, some proportion…

Globaly, we have over 6 Billion Mobile Subscribers – India and China combined will soon have close to third of this market share. Chetan Sharma, a management consultant recently put out a slideshare presentation, which gives some…

Fortune Top 100, Top 500 lists need no introduction. Companies all over the globe recognize the significance of the list especially for the bragging rights it provides. Every company worth its salt which finds a place in the Fortune list…

I am a fan of e-commerce but one look at e-commerce in India and there are more negatives than positives. Infrastructure issues apart customer service/satisfaction is one aspect where most Indian e-commerce ventures continue to be below…

India now has over 28 million Facebook users and over 1/3rd of all Internet users are on Facebook. India also has the 5th largest Facebook user base in the world and is expected to become 2nd largest Facebook userbase by end of 2012. These…

There is no doubt that power is shifting to from West to Asia with China and India being in the fore-front. Indian and Chinese economies were the saving grace during the recession period (Europe is still reeling under that). Asian…

The Jaguar Land Rover Deal by Tata Motors was one of the most talked about mega acquisition by any Indian Company – You could literally term JLR as a sick unit when it was bought out by Tata Motors in 2007 – Both these iconic brands were…