Soon after the government allowed a 49 per cent foreign direct investment in credit information companies, here is a deal. Tata Capital, the private equity and the financial investment arm of the Tata group, and Crisil, a leading Indian ... Go to Full Article

As the company lore goes, Virgin started in the 1970's as a student newspaper. As Richard Branson decided to also mail out records, he quickly moved into retail after seeing how easy it was to break 33" LPs in the post. Then? ... Go to Full Article

I have spent a lot of time thinking about blogging about why I blog and I thought it might be interesting to start a conversation with other bloggers right here in Dallas. My first victim was Charles Bess who is a software engineer and ... Go to Full Article

The global venture capital fund Canaan Partners has closed its eighth fund, Canaan VIII, at $650 million fund. The firm is also celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and the 8th fund takes the total capital under management to $3 ... Go to Full Article

This deal was considered almost done. Now we hear from The Economic Times that Citigroup has put on hold the sale of its BPO business. Citi is reconsidering the decision since it’s looking at cutting jobs globally and reorganising its ... Go to Full Article

Alexander of AgendiZe responded to this week’s 3Qs:. Question One: Given the uncertainty in the financial markets (weakness of the dollar, high cost of oil, sub-prime mortgage mess, growing unemployment, possible recession) what changes ... Go to Full Article

This week I posed three questions to more than fifty CEO/founders of startups in the Dallas area. Throughout the week I will post the responses of the best ones. If you are interested in participating in the future just drop me a line. ... Go to Full Article

An impressive lineup of mission- and consumer-critical online services discussed scalability today at Customer Service is the New Marketing. Marc Hedlund of Wesabe encouraged these market leaders to trot out their own best practices and ... Go to Full Article

Consim Info Pvt Ltd, earlier known as BharatMatrimony group, has announced the second round of funding of $11.75 million from Mayfield Fund, and the return backers Canaan Partners and Yahoo. The actual investments by each investor and ... Go to Full Article

translateimg Or Arabic, or Chinese, or Dutch, or German, or Greek, or Italian, or Japanese, or Korean, or Portuguese, or Russian, or Spanish? Last night my Ross-my-IT-guy enabled translation of this blog into those languages via ... Go to Full Article

Seth Godin has a classic Seth post on voting this morning. Give it a read if you can before you vote. Not that it will change the way you vote. But it will make you feel better about voting. It... Go to Full Article

I must have Microsoft / Yahoo / Google on my mind this morning. Micah Baldwin has written a delicious scorpion / frog parable about M/Y/G. Until four minutes ago, I thought The Scorpion and the Frog was an Aesop fable, but now due to ... Go to Full Article

eBay Inc. has sold an undisclosed stake in its Indian classified site Kijiji India to venture capital fund Matrix Partners India. A statement released today said that Matrix Partners India and eBay would jointly own Kijiji India. ... Go to Full Article

Quad-CF PCI Controller from Addonics -- Brett mentioned this in his comment on my macbook air, what a cool little product, add an SSD to any PC. Go to Full Article

The best part of this gig, no doubt, are all the people I've met and continue to meet. Especially founders with Venture Capital stories. They are a roadmap on how not to act. True Story follows, only the names have been changed to ... Go to Full Article