Vodafone’s Arun Sarin is originally from a small village in central India. He left for the US to attend graduate school and more recently the CEO of Vodafone PLC. Recently, Sarin gave an interview to the WSJ and one of his quotes has stuck with me. I’ve been in India for 2 [...]
Entries from February 2008
Vodafone’s Sarin on India
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Ferrari 612’s in Mumbai
February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Ferrari sent two 612 Scagliettis to India for the Magic India Discovery tour. The 12-stage event starts and ends in Mumbai, covering 7,000 miles of the subcontinent along the way, kicking off on February 25 and ending on May 8. The video and pics are from the launch at the Taj Palace.
Pics from the [...]
Macau - What a let down
February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
I was in Hong Kong for the past 3 days and decided I would head to Macau and check it out. Over the past couple of months I’ve been seeing a lot of press on Macau and how it’s taking over Vegas as the global gaming hot spot. In 2006, Macau did USD 7 billion [...]
Tags: Vacation
Building the Ambani Empire
February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
What timing, I finished reading Polyester Prince on Feb 10th and on Feb 11th the Reliance Power IPO from Anil Ambani got listed on the Indian exchanges. Finding this book was about as easy as getting shares in the Reliance Power IPO. The book is apparently banned in India on the request of the [...]
Tags: Books · Business · India
Emaar IPO yanked
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In a major ding for the Indian equity markets, the planned IPO for Emaar MGF was withdrawn from the markets on Friday near the close of the market. Emaar MGF had blanketed the country with advertising highlighting all the projects they did, that is Emaar did in Dubai. And that’s the issue, [...]
Microsoft bids for Yahoo
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Many people are wondering what the name of the new company will be if the deal goes through…in reality who cares. MSFT has a market cap of USD 280 billion, I’m pretty sure Ballmer ain’t changing the name.
What’s more interesting is the rise and fall of YHOO. During the dot com bubble everyone was [...]
Tags: Business · Technology