Outsourcing: Ravi Pandit, Chairman And Group CEO, KPIT Cummins (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, it is your IP, the innovation that you are doing is your IP? Ravi Pandit: Significantly our IP. In some other cases it could be a joint IP. What that means is that we are able to take it to any customer that we want, but the other person, the automotive OEM will be

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Outsourcing: Ravi Pandit, Chairman And Group CEO, KPIT Cummins (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And also entrepreneurs who play into that system; very interesting. So, are you seeing interesting developments in the area of location based services? We are seeing lots of location based services as they plug into the mobile phone and the GPS, the confluence of GPS and mobile phone and all sorts of infotainments.

Outsourcing: Ravi Pandit, Chairman And Group CEO, KPIT Cummins (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who is your first customer through which you learned the business? Ravi Pandit: On the power train side, we started working with companies that are our partners, and then we bought a company in Bangalore called CJ Smith. CJ Smith has been a focused player on embedded software largely outside of the power

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Infineon: Wireless Business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We recently evaluated Infineon’s industrial and automotive business and its wireline communications business. Let’s now take a quick look at its wireless communications business, which has been in the news for the past year due to the company’s presence in the iPhone.

Infineon: Industrial and Automotive business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We recently evaluated Infineon’s financials and the negative impact Qimonda has had on it. While it is facing difficulties offloading its Qimonda stake, the German chipmaker has done well in its two business segments. Let us take a quick look at the Industrial and Automotive business in this part.

Infineon: Financials

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the first part of this series, I presented an overview of the company’s various business segments. With that as the background, let us look into the company’s recent financials.

eBay of Latin America: Mercado Libre CEO Marcos Galperin (Part 4)

SM: What was your platform in those early days – an auction platform or a fixed price platform? MG: It was completely an auction platform, and today it is 90% a fixed priced platform. Another thing we did different is that we did not like the Buy It Now feature on eBay. We used it

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Online Auto & Web 3.0 (Part 3)

Business Model Most online auto sites earn revenues from subscriptions, advertisements and commissions on vehicles, auto components and related products and services purchased through the sites. Most sites offer attractive subscription rates for the dealer community. eBay Motors charges Insertion Fees of $30 – $40 for vehicles and a Transaction Services Fee of $40 –

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