JuxtConsult’s latest research puts the number of active Internet users in India at 65 million (or 6.5 crore), up 28% from 2010. 6.1 crore were regular users, and urban users aggregated 4.6 crore. Also,...

We briefly wrote about the Bharti – MTN Deal and were off the opinion that it would not go through primarily because Bharti would be Marrying Up. MTN has higher revenues, a wider reach, it too, is...

With stocks reaching unprecedented highs during the Internet Bubble, analysts often had to convince investors that all the money they had poured in was “worth it”.     The result was a variety...

In Yesterday’s post we dealt with Bubbles and the ‘greater fool’ paradigm that almost always tends to operate in the case of financial bubbles. We also dealt briefly with Financial Pornography....

Most bubbles that financial history has seen have been associated with some new technology or with some new business opportunity. The internet was associated with both.     The internet represented...

No this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. And the CFO i am referring to is not the Chief Financial Officer – he is the Chief Food Officer. Josef Desimone, Google’s chef who is admired...

Hotmail was sold for $ 400 million dollars. Yes, I understand that in the times of Google-Youtube deal worth $ 1.6 billion and Facebook’s valuation touching $ 15 billion, $400 million looks like a...