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BUSINESS TODAY: January
2007 to June 2007
 June
17
Starting
All Over Again
What do businessmen do when they cash out of ventures they painstakingly
built over the years? A few retire, a few plot a
trip to the Bahamas. BT, however, stumbles upon a clutch of entrepreneurs
that has preferred to start all over again, by
reinvesting in today's sunrise opportunities.
 June 3
It's
Back
Dotcom funding has jumped 10 times to $166 million,
all the internet giants, including AOL now, are in, and old
media is taking to the net with a vengeance. Something's different about
the internet's second coming in India: The players are going all out to
make the market happen.
 May 20
TCS'
Next Big Leap
With $4 billion in revenues, Tata Consultancy Services is
already a third larger than its closest Indian competitor.
But that's not good enough for India's oldest IT services
company. It now wants to position itself among the global top
three, alongside Accenture and IBM.
 May 6
Are
the Good Times Over?
After a three-year heady ride-for corporations,
consumers and investors-the economic scenario is
suddenly looking cloudy. Is the long-term India story
petering out, or has the economy just paused to
regain its breath?
 April
22
India
Inc's New Billionaires
They aren't household names— not yet—but armed
with immensely scalable business models, and buoyed
by a rosy macro- picture, a clutch of new promoters
on the block has struck it rich in double- quick time.
Will they get richer?
 April
8
Bajaj
vs Bajaj
Close to four years after entering into an understanding
to split the empire, brothers Rahul and Shishir are
nowhere close to reaching an agreement.
The ownership battle rages on, and has
only got uglier.
 March
25
The
Bubble In Real Estate
As interest rates continue to climb, and prices soar
to unsustainable levels in key pockets of the country's
landscape, it's time for real estate developers, investors
and end-users to be worried. The bubble won't
burst-not yet-but there's a bubble all right.
 March
11
The
Race to $100 Billion
In terms of market value, Indian companies are still
puny compared with their international counterparts.
Not for long though. Here are six reasons why the
emergence of the Indian mega-corp is only a
matter of time.
 February
25
India's
Best Banks
HDFC Bank edges past ICICI Bank to emerge king of the
hill in the 13th Business Today-KPMG Survey, yet again.
But that's not the only finding of the study: A clutch of
Indian banks takes baby steps abroad and foreign
banks increase their India presence.
 February
11
Reinventing
Indian IT
Sure, their revenues and profits are still surging,
but Indian IT vendors have realized that their
linear business model-more code jocks is equal
to more revenues-is under threat. Result:
They are reinventing themselves before it's too late.
 January
28
Who'll
Win Hutch?
Its large India footprint, the lack of acquisition
targets in the world's fastest growing telecom market,
and the rosy prospect of grabbing majority control in
India's fourth largest cellular operator make
Hutch-Essar a red-hot play.
 January
14
Year
Of The (Big) Deal
India Inc.'s rising confidence level was evident
from the sizes of its M&A deals; and 2006
may have just been the inflexion point between
adolescence and adulthood.
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