This is Business Today’s Third Annual Listing of hottest start-ups and, pretty much like the two previous lists in 2007 and 2008, this listing is also completely subjective.

Managers are racking their brains for strategies to beat the slowdown. But hotshots remain hotshots. We present 5th listing of India's young and happening executives.

BT asks the who’s who of India’s corporate world—as well as some professionals and leaders from other fields for good measure—to jog their memory and recall the best advice they ever got. What the advice was, who gave it to them and when, and how it helped them.

At a business plan contest in Chennai, participants whip up innovative ideas, but fall short on pitching it right.

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

Moser Baer’s aggressive marketing and technological edge have made it the market leader in the home video market.

Movies may be the biggest part of UTV’s portfolio, but founder-chairman & CEO Ronnie Screwvala has also turned the spotlight on television, gaming and the digital medium. Screwvala has believed in multiple revenue streams and is close to achieving his goal of making UTV a 360 degree media company even as it grows at 100 per cent a year, reports Anusha Subramanian.

Indian IT firms have largely given products the miss. But now, a host of start-ups are aggressively launching innovative products that are finding a ready market. Can an Indian company one day launch an MS Word? Suman Layak finds out.

It is the year’s most anticipated video game on the PC (and mobile).

Education is a goldmine not just for entrepreneurs but also for the country. With the education industry set to grow, the next wave of entrepreneurial activity is going to be education centric.

The Internet and the mobile phone have opened up new ways for marketers to reach out to consumers. Several large companies, selling everything from manufactured goods to consumer products and services, are crafting innovative strategies around these. BT's Kushan Mitra reports. Internet advertising is all set to explode in IndiaMobile ads are coming of age

YouTube has launched its India site targeting local content. This is the 20th country site to be launched by YouTube.

ACK Media hopes to tap the large captive audience in India for these titles and then look beyond to a sizeable diaspora, many of whom have grown up on these comics.

Can information technology be transformational? Without doubt, yes. And here are 20 examples to prove it. Our annual listing of the most IT-savvy outfits in the country.

A founding board member of Google is onto his next big thing.

 A Silicon Valley veteran of 27 years, Vyomesh Joshi is also on the board of Yahoo. In India, on a rare trip ‘back home’ (to attend a family wedding), Joshi, or VJ to friends and colleagues, agreed to don his corporate duds for an hour and talk to BT’s Kushan Mitra about his successes and the future of printing.

Check out a new website that promises to revolutionise music downloads.

Raju Vegesna had been waiting for this day since taking over India’s leading ISP, Sify, from its cofounder R. Ramaraj in 2005. After slogging for nearly two years trying to give the ISP a makeover, Nitya Varadarajan tells us how Vegesna and his team are ready to showcase the refurbished Sify to the world.

Vineet Jain is coming into his own. He’s taking the Old Lady of Boribunder to places she’s never seen before.

Some of the biggest gainers on the stock market recently have been companies that most of us have probably never heard of. Which are these companies, what do they do and what’s so hot about them?