Tata has finally acquired Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus to become the the world’s fifth-largest steel company. In another M&A news, the Hutch Essar deal is now pegged in the neighborhood of $20 billion by the media. Hutch Essar is India’s fourth-largest mobile operator.

Last week, NEA IndoUS Fund was

Mayfield Funds has made investments in Tejas Networks and Seed Fund, but terms of both the investments were not revealed.

Navin Chaddha joined the board of Bangalore-based Tejas Networks, an optical networking company. Navin is a serial investor and entrepreneur who founded VXtreme, which was later acquired ...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2007 (PodTech News) — As MacWorld approaches, it’s time to take stock of the rumors that have been building up. There are a few worth noting, though some Apple-watchers are impressed with the company’s improved ability to keep the lid on announcements until they want ...

This fourth in the series of podcasts from WebEx features a conversation with Bill Appleton, chief technical officer and founder of Dream Factory. His background as a developer gives him unique insights into the world of on-demand software, and he shares those insights in this discussion.

Part II of our EMC interview with Elsevier focuses on the business drivers for their use of content management. Paul Leland talks about walking the halls, asking people across the business how they currently find and manage content; and how he comes away with a new strategy for XML ...

If you’re a Content Management Architect or just want to hear a Content Management Architect talk about their planning and deployments of EMC Documentum across multiple applications, listen to this interview with Geoffrey McCaleb. McCaleb talks about what went well and what didn’t as they customized their Documentum deployment to meet the needs of this global publishing giant.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google and NASA are working together to bring the virtual astronaut experience to a computer near you. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working together to improve primary and secondary ...

In the video game world, there is this idea that games are just for boys. That’s not the case in today’s gaming realm. Recent reports have revealed that 20-percent of “hardcore” gamers are women and that two-thirds of roughly 117 million active online PC gamers are ...

PixSense launched its new, wide range of installables for cellphones at DEMO/fall in San Diego on Monday September 25, 2006.

I met with Adnan Agboatwala, who captains the development of this remarkable new application and service as managing director of PixSense development operations in Pakistan. He’s also co-founder of PixSense worldwide.

Even Tim Bray is blown away at the popularity of XML. He was one of the co-creators of the XML spec back in the mid 1990s and in this audio interview he and I talk about the state of XML and get his views on what the future holds for ...

John Fowler is executive vice president for the Sun Microsystems systems group. He took some time during a recent event in New York CIty to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. They discussed some of the ways that Sun is changing — including the x64 Systems,

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., President and CEO Mike Fister kicked off the CDN Live Silicon Valley conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center by unveiling Virtuoso, a new chip design platform, and Xtreme III, a hardware-assisted verification system used at the end of the chip ...

Synergy and convergence were just two of the themes echoed today during the CTIA expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center as RealNetworks announced a deal to acquire WiderThan for $350 million, or $17.05 per share. The tender offer, which is expected to be completed during the first ...

PodTech.net sat down for an exclusive podcast with Seagate CEO Bill Watkins to talk about their announced their 4th qtr earnings and fiscal year end results for 2006.

This was the first time a pubic company sat down and did a podcast as part of their ...

What a day… McKinsey, a famed management consulting company, reports continued massive decline in TV spending and then Google announces their Viacom deal. My take - no one watches traditional TV anymore.

The Google / Viacom deal is good news for PodTech.net and all the emerging new video ...

Here is a GeekCast from friends in SLC. Robert was there as part of his road trip to the “off the grid” in Montana… Thanks to Laura Moncur for posting the video. Looks like a great time.

Also coverage by M. David Peterson who posts ...

Yahoo puts out a major release of Konfabulator (3.0). I had a chat with Toni Schneider, Yahoo’s VP of the Developer Network, about this big news for the Yahoo developer group. More on the upcoming Podcast here at PodTech (Toni was busy working all weekend so ...