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Crazy Idea: Budget 2012 Asks Startups To Pay Tax On Angel Investments

BY Sahad P V

The UPA government has suggested a measure in the Union Budget 2012 which will kill angel investing and give birth to still-born startups in India.

20 March 2012 - 7:36am

in: Startups

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Zoozoos Are Doing Well, But Vodafone Is Still Reeling In Pain

BY Sahad P V

All this is now causing some heartburn at Vodafone Plc. HQ in London. Except for that, it can only wait and watch and not roll back its investments.

27 April 2011 - 1:56pm

in: Technology

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The Curious Case of Bhave: SEBI Act Needs An Overhaul

BY Sahad P V

How and why Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave did not get another term as the chairman of market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India is now being revealed.

25 April 2011 - 8:41pm

in: Alternative Investment

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Microfinance Professionals And Their Salaries

BY Sahad P V

The Economic Times on February 1 front-paged a news item on the salaries of microfinance owners and professionals. The headline item was the remuneration of Udaia Kumar, Managing Director and owner of Share Microfin, who drew Rs 7.4 crore ($1.65 million) as compensation in financial year 2009-2010.

5 February 2011 - 2:39am

in: Media & Entertainment

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Super Angel Ron Conway's 228 Investments Revealed

BY Sahad P V

Ron Conway of SV Angel in Silicon Valley is one of the hottest VCs in the US startup ecosystem. Most recently Conway hit the headlines when he and Yuri Milner, the rock star CEO of Russia's Digital Sky Technologies, announced that the duo will invest $150,000 in each of the 43 startups coming out of Y Combinator's three-month bootcamp for startups.

4 February 2011 - 12:39pm

in: Startups

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The Most Acquisitive Business Groups In India

BY Sahad P V

AV Birla group made another big deal on Monday. The Mumbai based business group acquired US-based Columbian Chemicals Company for about $800 million. AV Birla group is one of the most active groups in M&A. It has made 17 deals worth $8.1 billion over the last five years.

2 February 2011 - 5:04am

in: Finance

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Why Is Karsan Bhai Patel Delisting Nirma?

BY Sahad P V

When every entrepreneur dreams of listing his company, itâs strange one of Indiaâs most famous entrepreneurs is taking his company private. Indiaâs leading value-for-money detergent maker Nirma Ltd has moved a step further in delisting from Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.

31 January 2011 - 9:40am

in: Alternative Investment

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Chinese Flooded US IPO Markets In 2010; India Just Managed One

BY Sahad P V

Chinese companies have learnt the art of launching IPOs in the US. While India boasts of only one MakeMyTrip (which debuted in Nasdaq three months ago) this year, China has several companies who successfully listed in the US markets. In the third quarter alone, 16 Chinese companies have filed in the US, which is compared with eight in the second quarter and 14 in the first three quarters of last year

1 November 2010 - 7:43pm

in: General

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