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From the Partner Event Press Release: A Unique Summit, Run by an Established Event Organiser 27-29 October 2010 | Marina Bay Sands | Singapore The APAC Alternative Investments Summit ( www.apacaisummit.com/viPR ) , provided a unique interactive forum for the Investment community to explore the innovative strategies and investment vehicles that can deliver premium risk-adjusted returns. The dynamic programme was combined with one-to-one business meetings with leading service providers. A series of insightful presentations, case studies and thought-provoking discussions were led by high-profile speakers, knowledgeable in their respective fields. The summit attendees followed a personalised agenda designed to maximise their limited time and to effectively meet their business needs and interests. Keynote Speakers included: · Michael Coleman , Chairman, Alternative Investment Management Association · Charles D Ellis , Board of Advisors Member, Yale School of M...

From the Partner Event Press Release: A Unique Summit, Run by an Established Event Organiser 1-3 November 2010 | Marina Bay Sands | Singapore As the aftershocks of the economic crisis continue to disrupt markets worldwide, some of APAC’s top private wealth management industry executives came together at the recent marcus evans Private Wealth Management APAC Summit 2010, the leading private wealth management event in APAC region, to share insights and strategies for unearthing the opportunities in today’s highly volatile investment landscape. The Private Wealth Management APAC Summit ( www.pwmsummit.com/viPR ), provided a unique interactive forum for the private wealth management executives to explore the current issues affecting investments in Asia and how to ensure preservation of family businesses and fortunes. The dynamic programme was combined with one-to-one business meetings with leading service providers. A series of insightful presentations, case studies and thought-pro...

Edited Excerpts from the Press Release: Milpitas, Calif. – November 9, 2010 – Gluster, the leading provider of open source scale-out storage solutions, today announced it has closed an $8.5 million Series B round of funding led by Index Ventures with participation from the previous investor, Nexus Venture Partners. Gluster has been experiencing dramatic growth worldwide in sales, partnerships, and community adoption, driven by the move to cloud based architectures, the explosion in unstructured data, and the increasing virtualization of the data center. With this new investment round, Gluster will expand its sales, marketing and support teams and allocate additional resources to partner development. Multiple trends are driving Gluster’s growth across a wide-range of industry segments including healthcare, legal, media and hosting providers: Unstructured data is growing by 60 percent per year, creating a need for vastly different storage economics; over 20 percent of all compute worklo...

Software industry association Nasscom has released a shortlist of companies which will be showcased as part of the "EMERGE Product Showcase for 2010" at its Product Conclave 2010 event: Aikon Labs Pvt. Ltd. – A comprehensive idea and initiative management platform that utilizes Web 2.0 and social networking technologies integrated with process management, content management and analytics. The platform helps Enterprises & Academic/Research institutions in tapping ideas from stakeholders in their ecosystem and take them through a stage-gated process to execution. Elina Networks Pvt. Ltd. – Elina creates software based networking and IT management solutions that deliver business continuity and visibility, through robust network security, reliable connectivity, and effective remote IT management. Essentia Soft Solutions – Communities on the Cloud (community as a cloud service) Interviewstreet – Interviewstreet helps you to create your own customized programming tests (in...

Click Here to download an interesting lecture and interaction (at the London School of Economics) with Ron Cohen , founder of global PE firm Apax Partners. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of data and analysis on private equity, venture capital and M&A deals in India. View free samples of Venture Intelligence newsletters and reports. Email the author at arun@ventureintelligence.in

DEG – Deutsche Investitions - und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH has taken a minority stake in Deepak Fasteners Ltd., a leading manufacturer of high end specialty industrial fasteners. Deepak Fasteners owns the ‘Unbrako’ brand, which it acquired two years back from SPS Technologies of USA. Unbrako is an engineers’ preferred choice for all safety and mission critical applications. “We are very happy to partner with a world class Indian company with strong international brands. Deepak’s products support a wide range of high growth key infrastructure industries and we believe the company is in a good position to capitalize on the opportunities offered by the next round of growth in India and elsewhere. DEG’s investment would generate additional employment opportunities and would help the Indian Company establish itself as a global player. ”, said Amit Goyal, Investment Manager at DEG’s office in Delhi. Earlier this year, Deepak Fasteners raised first round of capital for its expansion proje...

From the http://business.in.com/article/work-in-progress/rupa-the-paper-tiger/17642/1">profile of India's largest publisher of English books, which releases over 250 titles a year. But it was in 2004 that Rupa really hit it big with Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone. The book rewrote the rules of the publishing industry in India. An English book was considered a bestseller if it sold 10,000 copies. Five Point Someone and each of the other books he wrote sold a million. Priced at Rs. 95, it negated the threat of piracy. How does Rupa do it? There are three key factors that help Rupa sell so many books. The first one is a very strong distribution chain. Mehra has a tie-up with A.H. Wheeler, the railway bookstore chain that has outlets across the length and breadth of India...Rupa has been growing at 50 percent for the last three years against an industry average of 30 percent. ...A key reason that Mehra is able to understand young India is because he is the same age as his ...