LATEST NEWS: I am speaking in New Delhi over IPR- European Patent Convention. For more info: www.euroindia2004.org After identifying candidates that meet your criteria as potential targets and after answering questions like: Does the initial valuation of the company meet your previously defined pricing criteria? Does the company meet your acquisition criteria? How much is always a question that is important and the determination of such value is one of the most difficult asks i...

"As long as I am Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, this agency will not regulate the Internet." William Kennard 1. Introduction Does the Internet as a whole really need regulation? What is regulation, and is it content regulation that is required or is it subject matter regulation. Or does regulation simply mean censorship of pornography and other freely available sybaritic material. The assumption is that Congress intended that the Internet be the highway into the new mi...

BRINGING BACK THE VALUE IN CRM Synopsis Data is the core asset of any industry that is customer oriented, because it is the asset that companies have and use to increase the value of their customer base. The quality of data has to be of high standard to maintain and increase the customer base and also to improve all the key departments’ efficiency that are linked together and feed on this data. CRM systems allowed for the convergence of various legacy systems to create a single customer i...

GROWTH STRATEGY 1. Introduction Companies that choose mergers and acquisitions do so because of the following reasons: broadening product lines, increasing market share and financial position, betterment of intellectual capital. A lot of mergers and acquisitions fail as opposed to those that succeed and the reasons are: bad implementation of post merger integration, acquirer has a weak or no core business, target larger than the acquirer, inadequate due diligence, ROI not justified by t...