An interesting story by Robert MacMillan on the slow death of, well, newspaper industry stock analysts, amidst the doom and gloom scenario of the industry they are covering. And why is this important? As the story says, the void in smart thinking on the publishing sector could exacerbate an already [...]

Having said a few unhappy things about Predictably Irrational earlier this week, here are notes on a few books, new and old, I've liked recently: Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century. Despite a bad and breathless title, it's worth a [...]

German skill-games site GameDuell has raised $17 million in a second round of funding from Wellington Partners. The Berlin-based company has more than 10 million registered members and claims to be the No. 1 game community in Germany. It plans to use the money for an international expansion, including a [...]

Just as The Governator tries to pursue green policies, like keeping Tesla's electric production car local, you'll now also be able to hand out full-sized "green" business cards with Flickr images, courtesy of the same guys who brought us those cool little mini-cards, Moo.com. They are launching full-sized business cards [...]

Mumbai-based Ideacts Innovations, a cyber cafe based advertising platform has recieved $5 million funding from Sequoia Capital India. R. Ramaraj, Senior Advisor, Sequoia Capital India, and Mohit Bhatnagar, Operating Partner, Sequoia Capital India, have joined the board of the company. Ideacts has developed a desktop application called CLINCK which is [...]

TVS Capital has announced a freshly minted Rs 500 crore growth capital fund targeted at mid cap businesses. Named TVS Shriram Growth Fund, the initiative is a partnership between the TVS family and the Shrirams of the Shriram Transport Finance group. The funds have been completely raised from domestic investors [...]