Private Equity Needs Exit

WSJ reports that UGS, owned by Siemens, Bain Capital and Silverlake, is about to be sold to Siemens, for $3.5 Billion. The company was purchased 3 years back for $2 Billion. Deals have become much larger since. The WSJ articles hints at an issue the industry is facing: Exit. While there may be players who

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Davos: India

The World Bank has prepared a special section online with useful information about India related to the World Economic Forum in Davos, underway this week. The theme of Davos this year is “The Shifting Power Equation.” We have organized our resources around the subthemes of the meeting: Economics: New drivers | Geopolitics: The Need for

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Marketing Midwest Succotash

By Frank Levinson For the high tech readers of this web blog it is probably important to start out with a definition for the word succotash because it probably is not familiar to most of you. Succotash is a dish (food) made from beans and corn. Can be lima beans and corn, but can be

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World in Figures II

As I pondered the question of rebalancing the population of Canada, I looked up their unemployment rate: 7.8% in 2004. GDP? $978 Billion. So let’s look at the GDP statistics ($ Billion): 1. United States 11,711.8 2. Japan 4,622.8 3. Germany 2,740.6 4. UK 2,124.4 5. France 2,046.6 6. China 1,931.7 7. Italy 1,677.8 8.

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Children’s World

BBC announces children’s world. Read our analysis of the Pre-Teens space in Segments and LifeStyles. Some raise the obvious security question. But clearly, the segment deserves attention, and BBC has decided to pay it.

IBM’s Entry into Social Networking

Smart move, as IBM enters social networking. Anyone who has experience with large enterprises, knows, how tedious it is to locate people with the right expertise. Thus, I envision a LinkedIn equivalent which serves less as a tool for recruiters to find candidates, but more as an internal expertise locator, should be an absolute killer

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Nokia in India

Market Share of the handset market: 79% 4 Major Segments: Live – New Users Connect – More evolved users who look for more functionality, features and connectivity. Accordingly, phones in this segment would have GPRS, camera and music capabilities. Achieve – Enterprise users who need to have business functionalities in their phones. Explore – High

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Norwest’s India Strategy

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is scouting for buyouts in the Indian IT space, looking to invest $300 million in India over the next three years. NVP is targeting companies in the range of $25-30 million operating in the services and product development space. NVP currently has invested $50 million in four IT companies in India

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