Dubai property recovery under threat
The fear of government-owned Dubai World reneging on its commitments to global lenders is expected to find an echo in a reversal of a recent tentative recovery in Dubai's real estate values unless the emirate manages to strike some sort of deal with creditors and / or somehow raises the cash to meet its obligations, analysts and industry professionals said on Sunday. Check out these navigation devices!
With mobile phones and laptops boasting of embedded maps and GPS features, one would think that personal navigation devices (PND) would make a graceful exit from the market. Check out these smart touchscreen phones
What you need to flaunt this season are touchscreen phones that are smart and sassy. Are hotel key cards safe? Well. . .
Experts are divided over how safe the hotel electronic key cards are. Some say these cards store the guests' credit card numbers, while others deny this and call it a hoax. However, for the individual it is now all the more important to be vigilant. Will number portability hit old telcos?
High-value post-paid subscribers are more likely to use number portability in India where the market is dominated by pre-paid subscribers who look for the cheapest service. Reading Raju's mind
Not to be missed in the book are the personal details of the Rajus. Simplifying a complex financial saga
Inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system and themselves. Reasons for Vishal Retail's big fall
Today, the chairman of Vishal Retail is eagerly waiting his date with the Corporate Debt Restructuring cell of lenders in the third week of November. Merc takes on the Audi. Who wins?
When you are in the market for a car costing around half a crore of rupees, you want to feel pampered and appreciated, and the Audi just can't muster that. Solving the spectrum scarcity
A common carrier policy, as in the petroleum sector, is worth looking at. Columbia University gets $3.5 mn to study India's economy
'The Indian economy is at a crossroads,' says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, a University Professor at Columbia University and senior adviser to the Institute. Asim Dasgupta: A contrarian communist?
He's the hero for forging consensus on GST, popular in the Left Front and among his students, but industrialists are less than enamoured. Global recovery: Destination India?
This year, the India Economic Summit has more foreign companies attending than Indian ones. A bleak future awaits India's retail chains
With govt still not keen on FDI, several organised retail chains will find it difficult to fund expansion. Pranab's trump card
Going by available indications from North Block, Mr Mukherjee may like to do a Chidambaram when he presents the Revised Estimates on February 27, 2010 Public spending on healthcare should be raised
Big global pharmaceutical firms seeking to buy into prominent Indian generic players is, in fact, a vindication of the Indian pharmaceutical story which began with the decision by Indira Gandhi to rein in the cost of medicines and allow process and not product patents. A good tool to predict a trend reversal
A bar reversal pattern is a good tool to predict when and where a trend will double back. 5 great business books to read
There are thousands of 'business' books adorning hundreds of bookstore shelves across the world, and new ones keep being written practically everyday. So given this problem of plenty, how do you select the best business books to read? Well, here's help.... Tips to pick the right workplace
Assess whether a company offers what you need to do at various career stages. 'Being an entrepreneur makes you a better person'
Go ahead and be an entrepreneur! Don't keep saying, I want to be an entrepreneur and one day, I will be one. There is no some day; just go out and chase your dreams, says Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan. Divestment without a purpose
Only strategic sales can serve the purpose of disinvestment, by freeing PSUs from govt control. New-age brain drain
The 'always on' multi-tasking approach to work reduces efficiency levels - a new study suggests ways around it. Loan offers lend colour to the festive season
It is that time of the year when banks and finance companies lend color to the festive season by rolling out the red carpet for customers. Time for Anil Ambani to apply moral codes to himself
Whether it was the issue of the treasury stock (which came about when Reliance Industries Limited and Reliance Petroleum merged), or the dependent nature of so-called independent directors of RIL, or the opaque structuring of conflict-of-interest deals, Anil Ambani came out with guns blazing, accusing his older brother Mukesh of trying to diddle the shareholders of the company their father had built. Do Indian CEOs overpay themselves?
Eventually it boils down to whether Board compensation committees whose job is to fix salary levels have the power to question the CEO, especially owner-CEOs.