Yahoo India grew twice as fast as the market last year. The reach (measured as the number of unique users visiting Yahoo in India as a percentage of total internet users in India) increased from an average of 65 per cent to 81.4 per cent during the period, according to latest comScore data.

Yahoo clicks after reboot

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Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland have been locked in a battle for leadership in the bus segment for quite some time now, with each having around 43 per cent market share.

Volvo, Merc buses speed up in India

Virgin Atlantic is celebrating the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton in style by holding on-board street parties for passengers flying on the day of the royal wedding. Flights departing from the UK on April 29 to the US and the Caribbean will be transformed into a traditional UK street party to ensure passengers don&rsquo;t miss out on the royal wedding fun.

Royal wedding on Virgin Atlantic

In the last four-five years, Britannia Industries Ltd (BIL) has delivered a compounded annual growth of around 20 per cent, as compared to 10-11 per cent in the previous four years. Arguably, those would be respectable figures, if its portfolio wasn&rsquo;t skewed towards one product and two brands. Biscuits contribute up to 76 per cent of the company&rsquo;s sales &mdash; BIL reported a 10.22 per cent growth in sales at Rs 3,771 crore for the year ended March 31, 2010 &mdash; and while its Tiger brand contributes the largest volume, the Good Day brand brings in the highest revenue at Rs 1,200 crore (Nielsen, January-December, 2010).

The Bigger the better

In the context of the government designating 2010-20 as the Innovation Decade, the Indian School of Business (ISB) plans to hold a two-day Innovation Educators' conference, bringing together business leaders, policy makers, administrators, educators and trainers.

ISB meet to discuss role of education in innovation

When a leading private insurance company recently commissioned a market research agency to do a survey on India&rsquo;s most famous brands, the findings didn&rsquo;t come as a surprise.

Insuring brand value

Though the first extension into talcum powder category flopped, HUL thinks the relaunch will work.

Lifebuoy seeks to be second time lucky

New York Festivals 2011 International Advertising Awards have announced the finalists in all categories where Indian agencies have secured 19 nominations.

Leo Burnett leads Indian nominations at NY Festivals

Terming placements as having become the raison d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre for management institutes, Vice President of India, M Hamid Ansari on Tuesday urged B-schools to emphasise on providing education than becoming &quot;de facto placement organisations.

B-schools should not become de facto placement organisations: Ansari

Would more Indians be better off if rich Indians were more austere? As the latest War on Wasteful Weddings suggests, the issue has come to acquire an enduring significance as middle class incomes and lifestyles scale new heights of opulence, the band of crorepatis expands by the year and lefty economists shake their heads disapprovingly at Gini coefficients that point to growing inequality.

Kanika Datta: Does it pay to spend less?

After a lacklustre response during the recessionary period, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are back to attracting working professionals to the campuses for one year management programmes.

One-year MBA back with a bang at IIMs

Pearson Plc, the owner of Financial Times and Penguin Publishing, is optimistic about emerging markets. Post its recent acquisition of 76 per cent stake in Bangalore-based online tutoring company TutorVista, Pearson is planning an even bigger portfolio for itself.

Q&A: Anish Srikrishna, CMO, Pearson Publishing India

The jury is out on whether the six-month-old Vivanta by Taj has been able to differentiate itself from Indian Hotels&rsquo; other brands.

Teething troubles

Early in 2010, Piyush Gupta, the then newly-appointed chief executive officer of DBS Bank, brought together his management brass on a three-day offsite meeting to work out the future positioning of Singapore&rsquo;s largest bank.

DBS banks on Asian dynamics

Daniel Morel is the chairman and CEO of digital and direct marketing company Wunderman. A WPP entity, Wunderman&rsquo;s operations in India were split into two last year: one catering to global clients and the other focused on Indian businesses. Morel, who was in India recently, spoke to Viveat Susan Pinto and Priyanka Singh.

Q&A: Daniel Morel, Chairman and CEO, Wunderman

The Budget has significantly increased spending on education and introduced a number of schemes to increase employment and employability. A number of subsidies for SC/ST students, funds for Maoist-affected areas and banking facilities for habitations with population less than 200 are measures for uniform wealth distribution. Infrastructure building in all forms has been given acute attention.

More education spend welcome

While Pranabda&rsquo;s budget is not a spectacularly reformist one, we should note that it does nothing to topple the economic apple cart. It is both balanced and growth oriented, although it falls short on some key dimensions. The positives were clearly the much-needed increase in public spending in the infrastructure sector and the FII limit to $25 billion.

No push to higher education

&ldquo;The event is aimed at understanding the missing links that exist in promoting the entrepreneurship in our society. Our country spends one percent of GDP on research but the real question is the outcomes of these efforts reaching the market place, most importantly to the entrepreneur down the line,&rdquo; Krishna Tanuku, executive director of WCED, said.

ISB to hold symposium on missing links

The Indian School of Business (ISB) on Wednesday asserted that Rajat Gupta continues to be the chairman of its executive board.

ISB asserts Rajat Gupta continues to be its chairman

The LPG model was launched a fortnight ago. Chevrolet is now hoping to rev up the car&rsquo;s sales with a diesel option in June.

Beat shifts to top gear

After real estate and luxury lifestyle products, Gitanjali Gems is now diversifying into branded apparels. The flagship company of the Rs 6,500 crore Gitanjali Group is known primarily as a branded jewellery manufacturer and retailer.

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