The vocational and skills training market has spawned scores of successful entrepreneurs. Many are expanding into secondary and higher education, says Saumya Bhattacharya.

Media Magic’s pre-loaded content cards and kiosks - stocked with Bollywood movies, songs and games - are a hit in rural India. But can the company fight off competition and grow in a deeply fragmented market?

There's growing evidence that imports from China may actually be helping the Indian industry-big and small-in manufacturing better quality products or products they earlier couldn't make.

What does one do after building one of the world’s most respected and admired companies? Try and fix the country, of course. That’s the agenda charted out by Infosys founder and ex-CEO N.R. Narayana Murthy in his debut book A Better India: A Better World.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy,  the newly appointed CEO-in-Residence, Accel Partners, laughs when queried on how she would adjust from working in a maverick organisation like Google to a perceptibly more sober VC firm like Accel Partners.

For the first time since the dotcom bust, infotech majors face the prospect of decline in revenues and profits. What does this mean for the future of IT services, tech jobs and tech stocks?

Two decades after entering India, Microsoft is changing tack. Though its renewed push has coincided with the economic slowdown, the changes in the company’s strategy are for the long term. Rahul Sachitanand reports.

Despite the appalling gaps in the delivery mechanics—cold chains, warehousing, processing centres and logistics—there is enough today to make entrepreneurs tackle specific projects in the farm-to-the table value chain. Entrepreneurs and investors are making most of the business opportunities that abound in the farm-to-fork value chain. Shamni Pande reports.

Cognizant looks set to post bigger incremental revenues than the four giants of the Indian IT industry.

In businesses, big or small, ranging from manufacturing to music, the fight for intellectual property is getting intense. Neglect it and you could be out of business.

With another coalition a certainty, it’s time to discount party philosophy as pointers to the reforms. Expect convenience, not conviction, to dictate the economic agenda.

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

United Technologies (UTC), the $54.8-billion (Rs 2,74,000-crore) diversified industrial conglomerate, and its 51-year-old President & CEO Louis R. Chenevert, are no strangers to India.

Can the ‘King of Good Times’ survive the turbulence in the current aviation downturn? In an exclusive interview that started well past midnight and continued for over two hours at his residence on Delhi’s tony Sardar Patel Marg, Mallya shed light on what has been dragging Kingfisher down and how he will get the airline flying high again.

Indian IT companies are scrambling to get into the media and entertainment space.

Vikram Akula has revolutionised Indian microfinance by building SKS—one of the biggest brands in rural India. His critics feel that he has ignored the very people he should be helping.

United Technologies (UTC), the $54.8-billion (Rs 2,74,000 crore) diversified industrial conglomerate, and its 51-year-old President and CEO Louis R. Chenevert, are no strangers to India.

A list of women who figured in Business Today's list of powerful business women in 2007 and 2006. We also compile a list of business women who figured in every list since 2003.

After enduring a tough couple of years, hardware giant Dell India is set to become both the fastest geography within the company and fastest tech MNC in the country to cross $1 billion in revenues. Can it make the good times last? Rahul Sachitanand tells us how the company re-invented itself in India.

While it is everybody’s case that big, bold infrastructure creation is an imperative for the India of our dreams, the action on the ground continues to stop short of the mammoth requirements of a nation aspiring to grow in double digits. A new look at old problems, and some fresh solutions.