Can eBay make e-hay with Baazee?
THE epitaph of Indian dotcoms that was scripted a couple of years ago is a thing of the past. Two recent events testify to this. First, a few weeks ago, Nasdaq-listed online recruitment firm Monster acquired Indian job portal jobsahead.com for close to $9 million.

Aftek goes after the enterprise search market
GLOBAL analysts have always insisted that Indian software services companies should acquire global product companies if they want to sustain double-digit growth rates. Few Indian companies have taken this advice seriously.

The show must go on
EVEN as speculation is rife over what caused Comdex, one of the biggest IT trade shows, to shut its doors before it opened this year, the industry has already started questioning the viability and relevance of IT trade shows.