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At 18, Accenture Strategy makes most offers BCG, Amazon make second highest offers of 14 each 125 firms participated for placements 'Dream job' applications rise from 110 last year to 176 out of over 400 batch As against 7 last year, this year 6 students opted out of placements for own ventures Placements for the 2018 batch of the postgraduate programme in management (PGP) at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) concluded, with consulting and e-commerce majors emerging as top recruiters. Accenture Strategy made 18 offers, followed by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Amazon with 14 each. Last year, Amazon was the top recruiter, with 18 offers. IIM-A now follows a cluster-based placement process. Companies across sectors are invited in 'cohorts', spread into different days during the weeks. This year, entities from multiple domains participated across the three clusters in final placements, with students being placed across 23 cohort...

Foodpanda, one of India’s noted online marketplace for food delivery, announced the launch of its dedicated technology centre in Bengaluru, on Tuesday. According to a statement released by Foodpanda, the state-of-the-art tech centre will aim to strengthen the technology infrastructure, product capabilities and end user experience for the company. In fact, a blueprint has also been drawn to hire over 100 team members with strong tech background over the next six to nine months. The tech centre will extensively work on introducing specialised domains in machine learning and data sciences. This development would aim to offer personalised services for their restaurant partners and millions of prospective customers in throughout the country. The statement also added that the centre envisions to become a hub for the best tech talent working in the food tech space in India. The centre will also be used for aggressive research and development functions in the future while leveraging be...