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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Twitter and TV are Feeding Off Each Other in India and Abroad

The trend is visible even in India, and it could soon become a defining partnership

Give "Capitalism" a Chance

Even businessmen do not seem to understand what capitalism is. If they did, they wouldn’t be pleading for lower interest rates determined by fiat

TVs Get Cheaper This Diwali

Add Inches to Your Picture

Shutterstock: Becoming The World's Largest Image Broker

Jon Oringer turned a side project into a $2.5 billion photo phenomenon. Shutterstock is out to become the world's biggest image broker

How America's Web 1.0 Companies Survived

Some dinosaurs from Web 1.0 that you probably thought were long dead have surged back onto our annual list of America's Best Small Companies. Here's how they survived-and thrived

Stanford's Course On Business Takeovers

A wildly popular class at Stanford encourages MBAs to take control of a real business

Coming Soon: A Mahindra Aircraft

Next Decade Likely to Belong to Banking: Morgan Stanley India

Can We Bank on the Sensex Boom?

Buyouts Power PE Deal Activity

Rights Issues Hit by a Sluggish Economy

Loan Delinquencies Rise as Downturn Pinches

Millennials Least Excited About Technology: Study

Stepathlon: Making Corporate India Healthier

Call StressMobile To Track Stress Levels

Crisil's CEO Talks About The Book That Inspired Her

Thoughts on Entrepreneurs

What Govts Spend On Health Care

Political quibbling over Barack Obama’s health care law shut down the US government for a fortnight. We look at how the American health care system fares against others

Fractal Analytics: India's Second-Largest Analytics Firm

After a painful board-level split in 2007, Fractal Analytics turned things around to become India’s second-largest analytics company and growing

Microchips Maker InvenSense Wants a Slice of Apple

A year after a management shakeup this microsensor company is chugging ahead. Now, if it could only get some of Apple’s business

The Homegrown Success of Annie's Natural Foods

This natural foods maker has discovered the double-edged phenom of innovation: New products fuel growth—and nasty competition

Book Review: The Alchemists

How central banks attained a dominant position in a globalised world

Car Review: Jeep Wrangler

The Jeep Wrangler is for off-roading junkies, not practical drivers

V-Guard Industries' Moves Beyond South India

Kochi-based V-Guard is thinking pan-India and more than just stabilisers. Leading the charge is 33-year-old managing director Mithun Chittilappilly

Poddar Developers Rides High On Low-Cost Housing

Mumbai-based Poddar Developers intends to stick it out for the long haul in the low-income housing business. After all, it could be the next big realty thing given a 24.7 million unit shortage

Farmer Suicides: The State's Killer Policies

Herbicide-tolerant cotton grows clandestinely in Vidarbha while the government tries to curb GM adoption under NGO pressures

Movies Are Not A First-Weekend Game: Siddharth Roy Kapur

Films make most of their money in the first few days. But for a revenue stream over a lifetime, the film needs to succeed beyond that, says Siddharth Roy Kapur, MD, Studios - Disney UTV

Innovation Can't be Measured in Dollars: Harvard Prof Stefan Thomke

The most expensive and inventive things are not necessarily the ones that provide the greatest value to the market and vice-versa as well, says Stefan Thomke

HDFC Mutual Fund Unwavered by Recent Failures

HDFC Mutual Fund’s Prashant Jain is unapologetic about the recent poor performance of HDFC Top 200, the country’s biggest fund, despite some mistakes in picking the wrong stocks and sectors

Light Up: The Business of Fireworks

The 1,000-year-old art of lighting up the skies.

Aleph's 'Short Biography' Series Has Gems

Can Twitter Save TV? (And Can TV Save Twitter?)

On the eve of its fervently hyped IPO, the micromessaging service has a radical plan for nabbing the ad dollars it needs to thrive: Helping TV networks survive the digital media revolution

The Twitter-TV Nexus In India

While the scale of multi-screen engagement is still limited, its impact has not been lost on broadcasters and advertisers alike

Luxury Watches

A pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious... that money can buy

Swing State: Golf in the Kashmir Valley

A driving golf holiday to the Valley can get pretty action-packed