MSN India is getting ready to unveil its video feature for its audience next week. I caught with Krishna Prasad, aka KP, executive producer at MSN India’s office in Bangalore to find out more about MSN India’s business and content strategy for India and its global Indian audience? Recently ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Tony Turni, as he highlights BearingPoint’s Global Delivery Centers’ (GDC) offshore capabilities and their evolution over the last ten years.

Offshore resources are a proven model, with the advantage of providing a higher level of work at a more cost efficient rate. Productivity has also evolved, ...

Bangalore-based startup Babajob is a social networking site with a few interesting wrinkles. I recently met with Sean Blagsvedt, co-founder of Babalife in Bangalore, to find out about Babajob. A few weeks ago the company released its first private beta version of their service.

A kind of LinkedIn for villages ...

AskLaila.com recently released the beta version of their local information service. In India, the local online search and information market is still an untapped area, and many companies and startups are racing to become a dominant player in this field.

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Professor Bala Balachandran is considered one of the top 10 management gurus of Indian origin in the United States. He represents the first wave of Indian scholars who moved to top U.S.-based business schools and have since contributed to the growing recognition of India as a resource for ideas and ...

Listen to the man who heads Sify.com, one of India’s biggest portals and also heads marketing for Sify Iways, one of Asia’s biggest cybercafe chains with over 3300 cafes in more than 150 cities in India. Sivaramakrishnan talks about his experience and challenges in both these businesses.

Sify ...

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

Proto.in is a bi-annual event in India that showcases technology start-up companies and innovative products.

Organised by The Knowledge Foundation, a national network of entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts, the second edition will see participation from 23 startup companies carefully chosen from a list of 120 nominations. Each startup will get ...

Kaval Kaur is a co-founder of SUFI, an incubator and angel investment company with offices in the USA and India. Kaval and her husband Jasveer co-founded Virsa, which was later acquired by SAP for a few hundred million dollars. Virsa is part of SAP’s Governance, Risk ...

Raj Jaswa, president of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley chapter talks entrepreneurship in this interview. I was curious to find out about the early days in Silicon Valley (the late 1980s and early 1990s) when being an entrepreneur was not an easy task, especially if you were an ...

Ravi Venkatesan is the chairman of Microsoft. Ravi is directly responsible for marketing, sales, operational and business development of Microsoft’s efforts in India.

I caught up with Ravi at TiECon 2007 in Santa Clara, to get a comprehensive picture of Microsoft’s India operations. What is Microsoft’s broad India ...

Aashish Kalra of Trikona Capital is a key player in the development and investment of infrastructure and real estate in India. Trikona Capital is one of the few key players in building new roads, townships, hospitals and other infrastructure-related projects in India. For instance they are one of ...

“Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.” That’s the new mantra in India. Everybody is talking about infrastructure because it is a key bottleneck holding up the rapid development of the Indian economy point out investors, entrepreneurs and the people of India.

Luis Miranda, CEO and president of IDFC Private Equity, one of ...

Hear how HP Services can help you achieve better business outcomes.

There are two sides to every coin. So, there is the India Story that celebrates the new and emerging India with an annual GDP of almost 10 percent that has strong IT and technology sector, and has millions of dollars coming through FDI and VC and PE investments etc. Then ...

Commute Easy is a pooling initiative whose aim is to connect commuters in Bangalore and Pune who share travelling routes.

This initiative is the brainchild of Vipul Kasera, a software professional working at ThoughtWorks. He is a regular carpooler and having lived in a traffic congested city like Bangalore, ...

Seema Chaturvedi is managing director of Accelerator Group, located in Michigan. Last week, Seema was in New York for a private equity conference that her group organized and I caught up with her to find out about opportunities for investments in India. What was more interesting to find out ...

Drew Clark is director of strategy at IBM’s Venture Capital Group.

Drew is responsible for driving external innovation into IBM business units and identifying and developing new business opportunities. A 20-year IBM veteran, he has held a variety of key positions in software development and technology, product marketing and emerging-business ...

Ravi Kumar is a veteran entrepreneur and currently a consultant with The Nadathur S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. NSRCEL was set up in March 2002 at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) to synergise with the institute’s focus on entrepreneurial studies. The Centre defines the opportunities perceived by aspiring entrepreneurs, evaluates their strengths/weaknesses and helps them with resources to translate their concepts into profitable business ventures.

Dominating this week’s round-up are investment and merger and acquisition news.

Topping the investment this week is SKS Microfinance that received $11.5 million in investments. The investment round was led by Sequoia Capital. Other investors include Unitus Equity Fund, Vinod Khosla, Ravi Reddy, Odyssey Capital, SIDBI.

Mumbai-based Games2win received $5 million ...

Sunil Maheshwari and Lekh Joshi are co-founders of Mango Technologies, a Bangalore- based mobile start-up. Both are first-time entrepreneurs who have 20 years of experience between them working for various mobile companies in India.

Sunil and Lekh are bullish about the growth opportunities for mobile companies in India, and believe ...

Syed Razik is an investor and entrepreneur. He is a director at Mecosoft, Fuente and Numeric Fuente.

Syed is part of a passionate group of people who founded The Knowledge Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that consists of technologists, entrepreneurs, professionals and artisans from across India who are ...

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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