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Satyam or Mityam

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The entire business world was agog yesterday about Satyam’s deals fiasco. My andhra colleague, a Reddy, had once told me that any Telugu family’s ideal groom would be a ‘Satyam’ employee working in US. Well, needless to say, those families will be a worried lot. Looking back at what happened, if anyone can pull off such a coup, its Premji, but I guess he has better business sense than the stalwarts in Satyam Board of Directors. I wonder if the board had a momentary memory lapse while approving such deals. Read on.


Written by Poornima

December 18, 2008 at 12:04 pm

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  1. Maytas has got some infrastructure project from hyderabad metro. I think to fund that, raju did not have enough funds to manage that project so try to get his IT industry fund into his family owned (majorly) infrastructure (his first business)

    Praveen Madhava

    December 18, 2008 at 6:51 pm

  2. All in the family :) they didn’t think about the investors ire in the process.

    citygurl

    December 19, 2008 at 7:24 am

  3. thats what happens in a family concern ..

    Lakshmi

    December 19, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  4. In a damage control move, Satyam plans to buyback at a ‘generous rate’. Some links
    http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/19/stories/2008121960311600.htm

    http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/dec2008/gb20081218_849301.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_global+business

    Hey Lakshmi, Thanks for stopping by.

    citygurl

    December 19, 2008 at 4:07 pm


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