SoftBank puts the flip in Flipkart with Walmart deal: GadflySoftBank Group Corp. needs money -- its balance sheet is debt heavy and a planned IPO this year of its Japanese telecom company will only g...
Take a private road out of India's banking morass: GadflyIt took a $2-bn fraud at the government-owned Punjab National Bank to snuff out all the excitement over a $32-billion recapitalization of t...
Kafka devises renewed terror for India's startup angels: GadflyTaxing capital assets is hardly a novel idea. Many jurisdictions, including the US, impose a levy on stock-market gains.
Gold proves its mettle as bitcoin sheds haven statusThe past 10 or so days have shown that there's some life in the old yellow metal yet.
This $17 billion dilemma will make or break Reckitt's CEO Rakesh Kapoor: GadflyPfizer isn't the only route to solving Reckett's growth problem. Some are less obvious, but that's not an issue for Kapoor as he has a habi...
Here's what a star analyst is really worthMany senior analysts spend only 10 percent of their time conducting research and writing reports.
Android app, Gadfly helps to reach out to local elected representativesThe developers Wabi Tech call it an engagement platform.
Biggest casualty of war of words between FM and RBI is India IncThe battle of the mandarins has its origin in the November 8 demonetisation.
Car suppliers face electric shock after battery assaultContemporary Amperex Technology, another Chinese battery maker, is planning an initial public offering to help fund a 10-fold increase in c...
Temasek is right. Indian banks are making a comeback: GadflyThe benchmark index for Indian banks has risen 39 percent since the end of February, when government-bond yields began to slide after tradi...
Facebook wants to be Google and TV when it comes to ads: GadflyFacebook has so far cracked the first half of that equation by locking down what's called 'direct response' advertising.
Uber's bid for peace with Didi has global ramifications: GadflyA truce between the two companies makes sense for as it could allow both sides to stop burning cash and start turning a profit.
India's tech funding drought makes China's look benign: GadflyIndia's portion of total Asian fund-raising deals has remained steady but its share of the money has more than halved, to just 7.9%.
Oil-poor India needs to supersize its Rosneft order: GadflyFor producers with strong balance sheets, the ongoing weakness in oil markets is creating an attractive environment in which to pick up ass...
Rebels mistook MH17 for Ukranian military plane: ReportIn a catastrophic error, pro-Russian rebels shot down the Malaysian jet mistaking it for a Ukrainian military transport aircraft, a report ...
- Gore Vidal: The author who skewered his country for its arrogant and mindless ways
Gore was perhaps the last of his generation who wrote as well as they publicised themselves and never flinched from a battle with America.
Tolerance is a key virtueA silhouette of that French Gadfly of Reason, Voltaire, serves as an emblem for the new art of the enlightenment exhibition in the recently...