Goodhealthnyou to join hands with pharma cos for co-branded channels
Goodhealthnyou.com, a member of the Ideasnyou family of portals, is in the process of tying up with a cluster of pharmaceutical companies who will partner the site for co-branded channels. The first of the tie-ups is with Glaxo for sponsorship of Goodhealthnyou's asthma channel.

Funds take stock of IT investments, wisen up to wider Knowledge Economy
With the lull in investments in B2C ventures following the debacle of Internet stocks in the capital markets, there has been a quiet movement towards investmemts in various knowledge-based sectors by new venture capital funds and private equity funds.

BPL Innovision sets sights on convergence push
BPL Innovision Business Group is looking at a wireless presence in Karnataka and is currently in talks with one of the cellular players in the state for a strategic initiative, according to the company's chairman and CEO Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

HCL Insys spreads ESOP manna to 3,400 staffers
Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Infosystems has extended its employee stock option plan to cover 30% of its 3,400 employees.The present round is much more comprehensive compared to the earlier two rounds of ESOPs which were offered in 1994 and 1995 respectively.

Will serving snacks instead of meals stoke the appetite for channel V?
After one year of relaunch, Channel V's audience reach is ahead of MTV in Mumbai and the South in the 15-24 age group in Sec A and B, but is yet to catch up in Delhi and the north, according to the TAM report.

HelloBrain.com -- Removing hi-tech product development bottlenecks
HelloBrain.com has already registered close to 10,000 Indian entities as software solution providers, since it was officially launched in India, less than two months ago.


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