Bloomberg Kaveri Seed Co., which competes with Monsanto Co. to sell hybrid seeds in India, is seeking a bigger share of the food crop market to reduce dependence on cotton seed, its breadwinner. The company gets about 60 percent of revenue from cotton seed sales and the remainder from vegetable seeds and grains including paddy and corn. It aims to ...

Bloomberg Chinese serial entrepreneur Lei Jun has been compared with Steve Jobs. Now, analysts are saying the smartphone giant he built could be twice as expensive as Apple Inc. Xiaomi Corp. deserves to trade at a premium to global phone brands due to its market-share gains and faster growth trajectory, according to research from Morgan Stanley, one of banks leading ...

Bloomberg Almost three decades ago, BlackRock Inc. created software to obsessively monitor the then-fledgling firm’s financial risks. Now, after turning it into an essential tool on Wall Street, the firm is zeroing in another kind of client: financial advisers. The world’s largest asset manager is marketing its risk analytics software, known as Aladdin, to the army of wealth managers who ...