The suspense about Hutchison Essar is finally over. Vodafone acquired 67 percent of the stake from Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecom Ltd. Vodafone paid $11.1 billion for the stake while the remaining 33 percent is held by Ruias of Essar Group.

Vodafone is in talks with the Essar Group ...

Kevin Walsh, managing director and leader of GE Energy Financial Services’ renewable energy team, talks about GE’s energy renewable business in his keynote address at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York.

The Cleantech Forum is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Cleantech Forum ...

In this keynote address at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York, AIG Global Investment Group Chairman Win Neuger talks about the importance of Cleantech and clean technology.

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Guest: Win J. Neuger - AIG Global Investment Group

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It is my honor and privilege to introduce to you Win Neuger of AIG ...

Mediconnect Global CEO, Amy Rees Lewis, speaks with Dennis Wood about how her own success as an entrepreneur, the passion to sell that successful entrepreneurs must have, and what to expect from venture financing. Lewis is a member of vSpring’s v-100 - a peer-nominated group of the ...

Sridhar Iyengar is former chairman and CEO of KPMG India. He has been with KPMG for 34 years as a partner in the UK, US and India.

In this interview, Sridhar talks about mentorship, his investments in various companies and what qualities he looks for in a person who approaches ...

Pravin Gandhi is currently the managing partner of SEED Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. Google and Sierra Ventures recently invested an undisclosed amount in Seedfund.

In 1972, Pravin co-founded the Hinditron group of companies (India’s first IT Company) which subsequently merged with Digital Equipment ...

Amit Pande manages Oracle’s user experience practice in Bangalore. This practice defines the user experience of Oracle’s Applications Unlimited and Fusion product lines and provides comprehensive interaction design, usability engineering, and user interface and HCI research for Oracle’s enterprise applications.

Amit talks about how usability is picking up among ...

Online movie rentals are turning out to be a big business in India. This may not be that surprising, considering the sheer volume of movies produced in India each year, but it still represents a lot of money, and a lot of potential for growth.

All that potential is what ...

“Content is King and distribution is God,” says Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Entertainment.

The company, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group of companies, has a large and comprehensive plan to expand its footprint in the media and entertainment space in India. Rajesh is focused on building ...

Rajeev Samant of Sula Wines was a featured speaker at the recently-concluded TiE India entrepreneurial conference in Mumbai. He was part of a panel discussion on “Taking the Leap: Starting An Enterprise,” where he talked about how he started his wine company about 10 years ago.

Rajeev, a ...

Dr. Girish Saraph is the founder of Vegayan Systems, a networking start-up company located in IIT, Mumbai.

Vegayan Systems was one of the three winners of the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurship challenge that was announced at the TiE entrepreneurial conference ( Dec.17-19 , 2006), in Mumbai.

As one of ...

Info Edge (India) was the first Indian Internet company to go public on the Indian stock exchange in November 2006. It owns internet properties Naukri, 99 acres and Jeevansathi.

CEO and co-founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani was a featured speaker at the recently concluded first TiE India entrepreneurial conference ...

The Indus Entrepreneurs, better known by its acronym TiE, has become a central force in nurturing and helping entrepreneurs around the world. Founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, the organization now has over 40 chapters in various parts of the world.

For the first time a three day Pan ...

DNA has this to say about Picsquare: “Banking on the sentiments of Indians who hold family albums very dear, two techies, both graduates from IIT Bombay, have launched Picsquare, a website that will print and deliver digital photos posted on it anywhere in the country.”

This Bangalore-based startup is ...

Food and entertainment are two strong consumer markets in India and Matrix Partners India appears to have honed in on this burgeoning market. Chinese food is the second most popular cuisine in India and recently Yo!China, a Chinese restaurant chain, received $10 million in funding from Matrix Partners ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Recent headlines suggest that it’s getting harder and harder for citizens in Iran to visit Web sites like the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia and even the online home of The New York Times. An academic partnership between several universities is working to ...

Hack Days seems to be the in-thing amongst developers. The 24-hour coding challenge has caught the fancy of the tech community which is looking for various ways to make work more interesting.

Barely a few weeks after Yahoo conducted its much publicized public Hack Day, Sabre Labs is holding ...

WiMax is the promised shangrila for bigger broadband penetration in India. It’s been a distant hope for many years and there’s been much hype surrounding it. Lately, we’ve been hearing about WiMax being deployed in a few cities in India, so it’s a good time to get a realistic ...

It’s not often you come across a company where the CEO does not have a corner office but has the same setup as a trainee developer. I was pleasantly surprised that the ThoughtWorks office has an open and innovative culture — something that’s not too common in India. The ...

The venture investment scene in India appears to show no signs of slowing down. In the past few days, a number of investment deals were inked and signed.

Leading the pack is Travel Guru, a travel portal, received $15 million from Sequoia Capital and Battery Ventures. Next in the ...

Very recently, QUALCOMM India, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions, hosted the second annual BREW Developers Conference in Mumbai.

In this episode, I speak with Vishal Gupta, senior director of Qualcomm India about Brew and what it means to the mobile ...

A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India’s most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. [tag]MMT[tag] is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India.

Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to become the market leader for U.S.-India travel. MMT’s domestic launch ...

Rishi Navani is the founding managing director of Matrix Partners, India. Rishi has been involved in the Indian investment space for about 10 years and has seen the investment landscape in India undergo a dramatic change in the last few quarters.

Matrix Partners has a $150 million fund and it ...

At the recently concluded TiECon Meeting in New Delhi, TiE and Canaan Partners, along with other partners, announced a business competition for start-ups and businesses.

Canaan Partner’s Alok Mittal discusses the business plan competition: who can participate and what do winners walk away with as their prize?

After ...

TiE Delhi’s annual conference, TiEcon 2006, was held on the 26th-28th October. The conference theme was ‘Entrepreneurship: The DNA of Growth’ and the event was a meeting ground for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, industry leaders etc. Besides the main conference sessions, the agenda also included networking sessions, interest specific ...