Even as they went about creating a fully-integrated steel colossus, the Ruias of the Essar Group were also quietly building a global outsourcing model via a string of acquisitions.

The who, what and where of this fortnight.

Shivinder Mohan Singh is an unabashed torchbearer for corporate and super specialty hospitals. Can he help make healthcare the next big thing and Fortis the leader in the industry?

Not Goldman Sachs, not McKinsey, not Infosys. The top recruiters on business and engineering college campuses were all new names.

From Facebook to LinkedIn, Twitter to Orkut, corporates are beginning to use various forms of social media to reach out to consumers, employees and partners, writes Kushan Mitra.

It isn’t as posh as Gurgaon but Noida outstrips its neighbourhood rival in the generation of jobs, registering 14% employment growth versus 11% in Gurgaon, thanks to a fountain of small scale units.

As BPOs catch on to the domestic market’s potential, small towns look attractive locations.

He lives in the now, in technology’s golden summer, a world in which slick, powerful gadgets complement every aspect of our lives. Whether at home, work or play, Digital Man is on the leading edge—he’s slick, fully-loaded and immaculately informed.

Tech Mahindra grabs a cost-effective opportunity to diversify its business model, but it now has to integrate an unknown animal in what’s going to be Indian IT services’ toughest year ever. E. Kumar Sharma reports.

Stifled by a lack of growth and frozen hikes, many youngsters have turned entrepreneurs. While talent and real estate are going cheap, funding is scarce and gun-shy investors are taking longer to firm up their plans. Will these greenhorn entrepreneurs survive?

A downturn augurs well for start-ups, and a number of engineering and B-school graduates are grabbing this opportunity.

Just past the 17 rows of machines that build the printed circuit boards and affix microphones, speakers and cameras into a steady stream of mobile handsets, a crude cardboard instrument resembling a clock catches your eye. It’s the most low-tech thing at Nokia’s manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai.  Nokia’s success in India is not restricted to the market—it has set up a world-class production facility, too.

Though voice still remains the money spinner, telecom operators and handset makers are betting big on services to acquire the next 400 million customers. Kushan Mitra goes into the details.Broadband betGlobal downturn?The handsets pieThe new boys of telecomIndia epicentreBroadband for 99% IndiansThe crown jewel

The boardroom is their familiar turf, but for the moment they are both gunning for the 15th Lok Sabha. Aviation entrepreneur Captain G.R. Gopinath and CEO of ABN AMRO Bank’s India operations, Meera Sanyal, have taken up the gauntlet to fight the election as independent candidates from Bangalore and South Mumbai, respectively.

We tried out the new BlackBerry Bold from Research in Motion (RIM) a few months ago.Now we try out its three brand-new smaller siblings.

Satyam has plenty of suitors, but none ready for the first date, let alone the walk up the aisle.

Yahoo’s stock is at around $12, down more than 100 per cent from the high of around $28 that it had reached after the bid.

Jagdish Khattar recounts his bumpy ride at Maruti’s wheel when BT asked some industry veterans like him to share how they survived severe crises in times of economic slowdown. Job loss: Are you next?5 Lakh to 50 LakhThere’s life after layoff...Dealing with your first slowdownTime to talkCampus droughtUnited we stand

Their collective size is equivalent to that of a mid-level Indian corporation. Yet, the big four auditing firms— EY, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte Tuche Thmatsu— have a crucial role in policing the bookkeepers of India Inc. Big cheese Vs small frySome don’t like it bigThe problem withinThe bloodhounds of bookkeepingInside the secret world of auditing

A clutch of brokerages—foreign and Indian—has braved a volatile market and flagged off operations. With an upturn nowhere in sight in the short- to medium-term, can these new kids on the block surive?