He closely follows football, loves to read and is taking his baby steps towards becoming a collector of Discworld memorabilia. Ambareesh Murty, an alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering and IIM Calcutta, replaces Rajan Mehra as Country Manager of eBay India. Mehra is moving out to pursue an entrepreneurial role in venture capital space.

By turning its weaknesses into virtues, Bharti changed the telecom industry paradigm. Result: In a booming industry, it’s still ahead of the pack.

Nearly two years after it acquired Aircel from C. Sivasankaran, Malaysia’s Maxis Group wants to become a pan-India player, with $4 billion in investment over the next two years.

The big boys of Indian telecom just can’t have enough of a booming market for wireless services. That’s why they plan to pump billions in putting up more infrastructure and expanding into new areas in the fiscal year ahead. Meantime, a clutch of pretenders has ambitions of gate-crashing the Great Telecom Party.

The competition, clutter and the fragmented media environment are forcing advertisers and television broadcasters to enter into multi-year contracts with each other to assure a regular flow of ad revenues and, in turn, offer advertisers assured spots on television.

Events that rocked the business world—or just made head honchos sit up and take notice.

Vijay Mallya acquired Air Deccan, Arun Sarin dialled into India, K.P. Singh launched India’s biggest IPO.

Are advertisements, in today's time, creating a balance between what they should be communicating and what they actually communicate?

September 24 has set the meter ticking again for cricket. The closely contested win for Team India over arch-rival Pakistan has changed vision, the Twenty20 way.

Far too often the investments that the world’s major corporations make in India, and the resulting development, do not extend beyond India’s boom towns: Charles Prince

Consumers always hunt for bargains and switch brands faster than they hit store shelves. It is a brave task to stand apart. Our fourth annual listing of best marketers brings a list of marketers who know consmers the best.

Cash-rich property developers eye the telecom sector.

The British telecom giant gets ready to play the Indian telecom market on its own terms and under its own name.

Listings are horribly hard to put together. This one is more so. For one, how does one measure power? For another, when there are so many talented and successful women in Indian business, how does one zero in on the 25 most powerful? The first question is relatively easy to answer.

By the TV Today Network, the Rs 200-crore topline mark in 2006-07. Its revenues have grown over 20 per cent to Rs 202.44 crore (Rs 167.89 crore) and its net profit is up 12 per cent to Rs 31.09 crore against Rs 27.77 crore last year.

It's well known for its insurance ventures with the Tatas (and arguably better known for being Manchester United's principal sponsor). Now, however, the world's largest insurer is going the whole hog in the Indian financial services arena, with forays into mutual funds, real estate funds, mortgage guarantee and asset reconstruction.

The avid traveller is set to hang up his boots at work, but wants to visit Antarctica some time soon.

The number of people who left the top four IT firms-TCS, Infosys Technologies, Wipro and Satyam Computer Services-in the first quarter of 2007-08 are 10,000. To know more of such interesting numbers read on.

With revenue from 'voice' falling, operators need more value-added services such as streaming video and mobile commerce to keep surging. But first they must wait for additional spectrum.

Mobile phone population is clipping, but revenue isn't growing at the same pace. Until value-added services become more popular, operators will have to bank on cost cuts to grow profitably.