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India: What drove Rajat Gupta astray? Greed or ego?

By Mon, Oct 31, 2011 2:03PM UTC View Comments Rajat Gupta. Pic: AP.

Former McKinsey chief Rajat Gupta’s indictment on insider trading charges has not come as a shock but that’s only because it has been in the pipeline for nearly a year. The Kolkata native has been closely implicated with the case of Raj Rajaratnam, the Sri Lankan-born hedge fund manager who was recently convicted. Gupta’s eventual...

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The Economist investigates Indonesia’s passion for social media

By Mon, Jan 10, 2011 1:00PM UTC View Comments Pic: AP.

The Economist has an excellent article looking at social media usage in Indonesia, focusing primarily on the nation’s use of Twitter, which has been getting a lot of attention lately as I blogged recently. It opens looking at just how popular social networking in Indonesia is whilst identifying the potential the further growth: WHAT does...

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