Indian Companies Innovating On Products Aimed At The Poor
For the farmer who wants to save for the future, one Indian entrepreneur has developed what is, in effect, a $200 portable bank branch. For the villag...
For the farmer who wants to save for the future, one Indian entrepreneur has developed what is, in effect, a $200 portable bank branch. For the villag...
Scott Anthony | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
Pundits quickly termed Google's Chrome OS "classic disruptive innovation" that promised to up-end historic market leader Microsoft. Do the pundits have it right?
Jane Levere | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
Watch out Ford, Chrysler and GM: You could soon have another foreign car manufacturer invading your market.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
Brazil's sustainable energy dividend is the result of generations of trust and cooperation between a strong federal government, parastatal companies and global businesses who have developed the knack of working with them.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.19.2009 | Green
The numbers may tell one story, but because cars are still all about emotion, fun, sex and fashion, there's a large audience you'd have a hard time convincing that the Prius is "better" than the Mini.
Steve Parker | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Tata and Nano have become poster children for nameless government bureaucracy and corporate arrogance.
AP | ERIKA KINETZ | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
MUMBAI, India — Tata Motors said it will launch its ultra-cheap Nano car in Mumbai on Monday _ a vehicle meant to herald a revolution by making ...
Matthew DeBord | Posted 04.09.2009 | Green
Being Americans, we long for high-tech silver bullet solutions to our sustainability problems, but the gas-burning Indian version, the Nano is a model of transport simplified.
Financial Times | James Lamont | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business
India is planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about $20 (16, 14), having come up with the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest ...
Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green
India's Tata Motors represents a modern-day version of what Detroit could have become if it had begun to adjust its products to obviously impending future needs back in the 1970s.
CNet News | Jonathan Skillings | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Tata Motors is billing its tiny, ultracheap Nano as the "people's car," but some people would just as soon not see it get built--at least under curren...
AP | GAVIN RABINOWITZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of...
wsj.com | ERIC BELLMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business