For those who are following tech news, they would have heard about employees of major companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft protesting the direction their employer was taking. A recent newsletter summarized these walkouts. 20,000 Google employees participated in a walk-out, as well as an organized awareness campaign, to end forced arbitration policies. Amazon employees […]
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Doing Business in Singapore vs. India
This is the first guest post I have accepted on my blog. Reason being I am an entrepreneur, people talk about where a company has to be registered, where is it easy to start a business etc. This piece is contributed by GuideMeSingapore.com A Long and Common History The relationship between India and Singapore dates […]
Why do companies change their logos?
There was an interesting article about “Why do companies rebrand?” in yesterday’s issue of Economic Times on Sunday (Aug 28-Sept 3, 2011, page 16, Bangalore edition). I am unable to find the article on their site. For some reason logos have always been of interest to me – more than the graphic the reasoning, thought […]
Engaging employees during mergers & acquisitions
I read an interesting article about involving employees during merger & acquisition – a report by Gallup. One of the key issues that employees talk during merger or acquisition is “Will I be ok post the M&A?”. For those who are actively involved in the M&A process this may not be a worry, but for […]
Greynium/Oneindia.in/Click.in acquisition: My Thoughts
Yesterday we announced Rajesh Jain‘s Netcore taking a majority stake in Greynium. Online media portals were quick to carry them, Exchange4Media Medianama Pluggd.in [my interview] I informed all VCs & bankers I was in touch with about this important development. Most, rather all, were very surprised with this news as nobody had guessed this deal was going […]