Los Angeles, CA founded The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, appointed a h resident Sanjiv Razdan as president of the Americas and India markets. After a three-year stint as president of the India market for Yum Brands Inc.’s Pizza Hut, Razdan returned to the Los Angeles area in 2014 to...
Cleareye.ai acquires India software company
Los Angeles, CA-based Cleareye.ai acquired Aiware.ai an artificial intelligence-based fintech solutions provider based in the southern state of Kerala in India. AIWare.ai offered its enterprise-based clientele quantum computing, distributed trust with blockchain and AI solutions. Cleareye.ai, on the other hand, provides AI-enabled services such as consumer experience sensing, insight generation...
Looking Beyond Rich Country Patients for Long-Term Growth
New healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and Europe are looking beyond innovation of medical devices in developed countries for long-term growth. The concept of using India as a test bed to expand into new markets is not new, and indeed, any emerging market, including China, Indonesia, Eastern Europe, Latin America,...
Fox Subsidiary Star India an asset for Comcast or Disney
Philadelphia, PA-based Comcast and Los Angeles headquartered Disney regard Star India to be an asset in their bidding war for a large portion of New York's 21st Century Fox Inc. In December, Disney said that it would buy some of Fox for $52.4 billion in an all-stock deal. In June...
Logistics Realty Surges in India
In an interview, Steven Swerdlow, Los Angeles, CA-based CBRE’s CEO for Asia-Pacific, was queried on where India stands as an investment destination. He said, "India is an emerging market and there is clearly an increased comfort level among foreign capital in investing here. Global investors who balance yield and safety...
Three of India's States Consider Hyperloop Installations
In October, I blogged about Hyperloop Transportation Technologies first agreement with India's eastern state of Andhra Pradesh's Economic Development Board, to facilitate the development of HTT’s Hyperloop Transportation System in the state. In November, Los Angeles-based Virgin Hyperloop One entered into a partnership with the government of Maharashtra for exploring...