Archive for May, 2009

Agricultural commodities offer great opportunity

This is a good year for Indian corporates/funds to buy agricultural assets like farmland in Latin America. Feeding India/the world is not going out of style anytime soon.FP Trading Desk
Investing in agriculture today will be like investing in oil in 2001 to 2002 when oil prices halved to US$17 per barrel says Marc Faber editor [...]


With $2.6bn at stake in Mexico, India Inc swings into action

The Times of India
Indian Inc has begun taking measures to counter any possible impact on employees and operations from the outbreak that is rapidly spreading across nations. Some 15 Indian companies–from IT to pharmaceuticals to auto components–have delivery centres or manufacturing facilities in Mexico. The prominent names being Infosys, Wipro, Birla Carbon Black, Dr Reddy’s [...]


India’s Ybrant Digital acquires Argentine

 Business Standard
Ybrant Digital, a Hyderabad-based provider of digital marketing solutions, has acquired dream ad, an Argentine advertising network company, in all all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition, its fifth so far, will give Ybrant access to the Latin American region by adding four more countries – Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico – [...]


Indian engineers develop air-powered motorcycle

This is science-fiction brought to life.3 News NZ
A group of Indian engineering students has invented a unique pollution free bike which runs on air pressure and does not emit carbon into the atmosphere.
 
Where normal motorbikes use an engine powered by petrol, this runs on air.
 
The Air Bike, as it’s called, carries two large tanks of [...]