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Articles in November, 2009 issue of Business Today

• 'Small biz most underserved' ; Dell's chief of small and medium business unit Steve Felice tells Rahul Sachitanand that small businesses may offer the company plenty of growth opportunities.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Coromandel Fertiliser ; Yet another Indian agri business company has turned solution provider. Coromandel Fertilisers, the biggest contributor to the Murugappa Group's annual turnover, has just reinvented itself as one, even undergoing a re-branding exerc
  by E.Kumar Sharma
• The deals are back! ; The markets saw a strong recovery in September. But there has been a stronger recovery of sorts in the mergers and acquisition arena prior to that. Many of us may have misread that as a sign of fishing in the waters of the downturn.
  by Suman Layak
• Who will decide CEO salaries? ; The shareholders, of course. The government can help by enforcing greater disclosure on the part of companies and higher literacy among shareholders. It must not dictate the salary, though.
  by K.R. Balasubramanyam
• 'We offer higher valuations' ; Lisette Spaanbroek, Managing Director, Listing, NYSE Euronext, speaks to Rishi Joshi on why the group is now aggressively courting Indian companies, including the SMEs.
• Now grades for stocks ; If you are looking for an independent assessment of a company's equity shares before investing, then rating firm Crisil may have a solution for you.
  by Virendra Verma
• Linking in to India! ; LinkedIn members in India will soon have a platform where they can physically meet up. Jeff Weiner, CEO of the online networking site, revealed this and a lot more on a recent visit to India.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Google gets a googly ; Imagine opening a website, keying in a few search terms and presto! You are on the page of a rival website.
  by Shamni Pande
• BPLR out, base rate in ; In its annual policy in April 2009, the RBI had admitted that the system of Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) has lost its relevance as a meaningful reference rate as the bulk of loans is priced below BPLR.
  by Anand Adhikari
• The tortoise that Came in from the Cold ; Trent has plodded on for a decade to crawl up to sales of a little under Rs 1,000 crore. But Noel Tata's two crucial decisions with regard to profitability and private labels ensure it is the most viable model in
  by Brian Carvalho; Suman Layak
• The other Tata ; The only one with the coveted family name to be heading a group business, Noel N. Tata is seen as one of the more likely candidates to step into Ratan Tata's shoes. But has he done enough?
  by Brian Carvalho; Suman Layak
• Jignesh Shah's financial ecosystem ; The Co-founder of Financial Technologies wants to create a global network of exchanges that cuts across asset classes. At the same time, he is chasing upstream and downstream opportunities that range from depositories
  by Virendra Verma
• India's iTunes ; Hungama.com reinvents itself as an online music and video store, but will it work?
  by Kushan Mitra
• The Bombay house shuffle ; Along with Ratan Tata, a string of Tata Group heavyweights is set to hang up its boots over the next few years. The good news is that there's a robust second line in place.
  by Suman Layak
• Money from nothing ; The digital era is decimating old businesses and inventing new ones, says Anderson, who expertly navigates us through the world of "free , but can't figure out the future.
  by Rajiv Rao
• Tata Tele's Mr Fixit ; For a group that has been in the mobile telecom service since 1996, it's only now beginning to show that it has understood and can even shake up the telecom market.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Mobile Tariff Wars ; Tata DoCoMo's aggressive pricing has rocked the market. And the regulator adds to the fear factor.
  by Kushan Mitra; K.R. Balasubramanyam
• e-Choupal version 3.0 ; ITC is prototyping a new script for its e-Choupal initiative to take engagement with farmers to the next level co-creating with farmers and harnessing their entrepreneurship.
  by E. Kumar Sharma
• The transformer ; Wim Elfrink wants to radically transform Cisco's business and thinks India can lead the way in this makeover.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Finance jobs are back ; The first and worst hit by the downturn, the financial services sector has started to grow and hire. Healthcare, IT and ITES also get into the hiring mode.
  by Rachna M. Koppikar; Rahul Sachit Anand
• The parachute brigade ; Marico is an Indian multinational with a difference it is powering its overseas business by becoming a part of life in West Asia, Africa and even Bangladesh.
  by Anusha Subramanian
• India's best Marketers ; At a time when the economy was hit by a global slowdown, there are some who have clambered up on top of the game: As the country's best marketers. What challenges did they have to overcome? And what was the outcome of their strate
  by Shamni Pande
• Dozing at the Desk? ; Help's at hand to beat those daytime blues.
  by Anumeha Chaturvedi
• None at work ; A series of high profile labour strikes is tarnishing Tamil Nadu's well cultivated investor-friendly image.
  by Nitya Varadarajan