US Prez Barack Obama may have bogeyed the outsourcing industry yet again; but the $60 billion Indian outsourcing industry still holds a lot of potential, says Rajeev Sharma, Director, OSource in an exclusive interaction with 4Ps B&M Analysts predict that the future growth of the industry will have to come from entirely new business districts outside Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. What’s your take on it? Yes, especially with the increasing real estate and manpower costs in th...

FOR MOST STOCK INVESTORS, the roller coaster ride of the bourses over the last one year has been a cause for gritted teeth and fluttering hearts. But then, there were a few who did manage to find solace at a place where they could see others were riding out of the storm – in online networking communities and social investing sites. Sharing market information online has grown very fast in India over the last one year. The phenomenon is now becoming more popular than online discussion foru...

Chávez’ inadequate macroeconomic and exchange rate policies have worsened the ongoing recession. He needs to get back to the drawing board if he wants to prevent Venezuela from a disaster. by Manish k Pandey   It’s not as if the Venezuelan Central Bank doesn’t realise the magnitude of the government’s fiscal troubles. In fact, with regards to fiscal condition, Banco Central de Venezuela has already submitted a report to Congress which clearl...

Planman media hosted a special interactive session on May 28, 2010 focusing on a very contemporary and relevant topic in the automobile sector – ‘The fight between the urban and rural consumer’ – at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. As almost all automakers in the country are heading towards the Tier-II and Tier-III cities to generate a sustainable growth for the future, we decided to explore how strategies differ when it comes to convincing the rural consumer versus the...

The illogically costly 3G auction, evidently, has strategic implications for both Bharti and Reliance Communications. B&E does a snapshot 'dummies guide' competitive analysis primer on the two by Virat Bahri   The market for data will remain restricted to specific markets and not be uniform like voice. In terms of subscriber numbers, Bharti is at around 130.6 million users (COAI, April 2010), while RCom has crossed the 100 million mark fairly quickly; with subscriber nu...

The illogically costly 3G auction, evidently, has strategic implications for both Bharti and Reliance Communications. B&E does a snapshot 'dummies guide' competitive analysis primer on the two by Virat Bahri   The market for data will remain restricted to specific markets and not be uniform like voice. In terms of subscriber numbers, Bharti is at around 130.6 million users (COAI, April 2010), while RCom has crossed the 100 million mark fairly quickly; with subscriber nu...

Yes and yes again – whenever one reads any story related to North-Eastern girls and boys migrating to prime metros, one simply expects the portrayal of racial discrimination, sexual harassment, crime and all that related jazz! As a toast to that, allow us to present a shamelessly contrarian and adulatory endorsement of such migration by Neha Saraiya   Author U. A. Shimray, quoting the report, writes in an essay Feeling Diaspora that Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Na...

Will she, won’t she act with Ranbir? The rumour mills were set abuzz when Deepika Padukone was not seen in a soft drink commercial that featured Ranbir Kapoor and was a brand endorsed together by the duo when they were a couple. But Deepika has been vehemently denying such rumours and maintains that she shares a good equation with Ranbir and that there is no need to “read between the lines”! Let’s wait and watch when they finally get around to bettering the magic ...

FIIs have long been considered the reason Indian stock markets have gone up and collapsed too. How much of this thinking is true? What would the coming months be like? For the non-quant investor, B&E brings a seat-of-the-pants primer to understand the FII hype! An ‘Investment Confidence Index’ report released by JP Morgan Asset Management in October 2009 had said that a majority of investors and advisors expected the Sensex to climb back to somewhere ...

Blood billionaires. Scam billionaires. Indians storm into The global billionaires' list!! Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri Hony. Dean, Centre For Economic Research and Advanced Studies, IIPM [January, 2008] Forbes billionaires' list featured the names of 36 Indian businessmen, with an accumulated worth of a staggering USD 191 billion (that is, almost 20% of what the entire Indian population earned for the same year). In fact, of these 36, three of the names also appeared in the top 20 of ...