Business

Needed: Web Surfers, Not Sufferers

Anil Budur Lulla

Perceptions that the blind don’t use computers keep websites inaccessible to them

Brown Guy in the Dock

As with the Radia Tapes in India’s 2G scam, wiretapped voices have played the starring role in the biggest case of insider trading by a hedge fund in US history. An inside ring view of the trial and American reactions to it

The Long View at Long Last

Shailendra Tyagi

Inflation can distort investment and the overall allocation of resources in an economy

BlackBerry’s India Problem

Adam Matthews

BlackBerry has offered access to servers for non-business users, but has not budged on giving access to its offshore business servers

Prize-winning Pariah

Shailendra Tyagi

Microfinance pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus is embattled in his homeland Bangladesh on graft charges. Open invited him to have his say.

Against the Odds

Aresh Shirali

It is overall uncertainty—an unmeasureable—that tends to bedevil risk advisors the most

Rise of the Middleweights

Adam Matthews

A new McKinsey & Co report finds that future growth for India will likely come from middleweight cities like Hyderabad and Surat, among 11 others.

The Enchanted Bylanes

Avantika Bhuyan

It is not Enid Blyton’s English woods, it is an Indian wholesale market for toys. A glimpse of how Chinese efficiency works wonders with Indian enterprise

Formula 1 Half Done

Adam Matthews

Jaypee says they are all set to flag off Formula 1 races in India this October. That would need them to hurtle down a path riddled with speed breakers