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 New York’s Turner Construction Co., London’s Acropolis Capital Group and India’s Sahara Prime City Ltd. joins forces in Sahara Turner Construction Ltd. and plan to develop and construct multiple townships across India to the tune of $2.5 billion over the next five years. The partnership will be managed by Turner and the company will provide construction services and lead in the development of townships. Turner also said that, over time, it will serve clients in other markets such as infrastructure, health care and hospitality.
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 Prat Moghe has been named the new president of the Boston chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs. In this role, he will be responsible for the overall vision and direction of TiE’s mission of fostering entrepreneurship for the growing organization, the organization said.
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 Inder M. Singh has joined Comcast Cable, a provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, as senior vice president of finance and strategic planning. In this role, Singh is responsible for Comcast Cable’s forecasting, strategy, business trends, and long-range plan preparation, as well as business intelligence and financial support for all product groups.
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 Iran wants to produce electricity using nuclear technology and that is its right as a sovereign nation. No one is trying to deny Iran that right, but the way it is going about achieving it as a non-proliferation treaty signatory, is a cause of great concern for the entire world, and especially Israel, whose very existence is at stake.
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 OVGuide, an up-to-date guide to online video, has bought Live Matrix, a guide to live and scheduled events. As part of the deal, OVGuide named Live Matrix co-founder and CEO Sanjay Reddy its new CEO. The combined offering creates the definitive online guide to on-demand and scheduled video content, the company said.
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 Indian Ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao spoke to a packed house at Emmanuel College in Boston on Feb. 15 telling the crowd that India's booming growth in the last decade has given it a new place in the world order — a role which it fully intends to shoulder and uphold. Rao spoke on a number of topics from the growth of India's middle class to its relationship with China, Pakistan and Iran, as well as its growing economic partnership with the United States.
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 Taking heat detection to a new level of sensitivity and speed, a team of scientists at GE Global Research -- including Yogen Utturkar -- have unveiled a new bio-inspired nanostructured system that can outperform thermal imaging devices available today. This discovery adds to a growing list of new capabilities that GE researchers have developed through their studies of Morpho butterfly wings, the company said.
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| Anamitra Banerji has joined Foundation Capital as an "Entrepreneur in Residence." Banerji, a former Twitter product manager, comes to Foundation Capital with strong experience in advertising and social media from his previous work at Twitter, Overture and Yahoo, the firm said.
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 Saffron Road has debuted its newest products at Whole Foods Market stores. All the items are all-natural, Halal-certified, vegetarian entrees and side dishes, according to Saffron Road, which is the packaged food brand of Stamford, Conn.-based American Halal Co.
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| Breaking News |
2/22/2012 Silicon Image, a provider of wireless and wired HD connectivity products, has opened a new research and development center in Hyderabad, India. The facility, located in Hyderabad’s technology hub, focuses on the design and development of semiconductor and IP core technologies for implementation in mobile, wireless and consumer electronics products from manufacturers across the globe, the company said.
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| 2/21/2012 Thomson Reuters has acquired the business and operations of RedEgg, a provider of media intelligence products for public relations and marketing professionals. The acquisition builds on an existing relationship with RedEgg whose MyMediaInfo media contact database and MyNewsBrief service are already available to Thomson ONE Public Relations and Thomson Reuters InPublic customers, the company said.
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| 2/17/2012 The Waltham, Mass.-based Affinnova, Inc., a marketing innovation software and services company, is expanding its reach in the financial services industry and appointed Sarita Bhagwat to direct the company’s financial services practice. Bhagwat will focus on delivering Affinnova’s evolutionary optimization and innovation services specifically tailored for financial companies.
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| 2/16/2012 Summit Partners has opened a new office in Mumbai. The firm said it is opening the office to increase investment activity in India and to support its North American and European-based portfolio companies with their expansion efforts in the region.
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| Latest Blogs |
2/22/2012 A recent article in the Boston Globe lays out the concern emerging from the hospital community over the "safety" data that was recently released publicly by CMS (www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/), and is also planned to be included in the "value based purchasing" calculations that will penalize hospitals who have low "quality scores.”
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| 2/22/2012 Just because something costs a lot doesn't mean it is an investment. An investment is something that pays you money. For most families the largest purchase they make will be their house. It is crucial to understand how to consider real estate holdings in every aspect of wealth management, from asset allocation to retirement planning.
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| 2/17/2012 As we were chit-chatting with the audience before kicking off today’s roundtable, an angel investor, Can Atacik, from Istanbul introduced himself. It was timely, because Turkey has been on my mind for a while, and I am very interested in learning more about what’s happening in Turkey in terms of entrepreneurship. So, readers, if you are in Turkey, please share your perspective.
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