Nazara sells games for mobile phones. As the mobile phone market has exploded, so have Nazara’s revenues

Nitish Mittersain is only 27 and can be a poster boy for the technology segment of small and medium enterprises. He runs Nazara Technologies, a mobile phone entertainment content company. His potential market? The 150 million+ Indian mobile subscriber base that is growing rapidly....

The gambling capital of the world is no longer Las Vegas

The Macau is a peninsula about 60 kilometers from Hong Kong. It was once a Portuguese colony and is now a small southern Chinese enclave. Macau has 22 casinos, which generated total gambling revenues of $7.2 billion in 2006. In contrast, Las Vegas generated $6.6 billion. Its average daily take per table is around $18,000 -- better...

Some 30 years ago, Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao used to cycle 25-30km a day in rural Andhra Pradesh collecting money for the rice, spices, jute or grains he had supplied. Rao was a mechanical engineer, the first graduate in his family living in a village not far from Vizag. Today, Rao oversees assets worth Rs15,000 crore in power, roads, and airports. Though Rao is extremely low profile, when you...