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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...

Working with the best social media platform is a dream of many but due to the extreme competition, only a few get the opportunity to become a part of companies like Facebook. Right from an attractive pay package, challenging and creative projects to various fun activities organised by the company, an employee has the perfect professional life. Facebook has a number of current openings and has invited applications from interested candidates to apply for the same. Check the eligibility criteria and other details. The job location is India. Current openings in different cities of India — Director & Head of Partnerships (Gurgaon) — Quality Operations Project Manager (Mumbai/New Delhi/Hyderabad/Gurgaon) — Product Growth Manager (New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad) — Managing Director and Vice President (Gurgaon) — GMS Recruiter (Gurgaon) — Head of Client Solutions (Mumbai, Gurgaon) — Business Marketing Manager (Gurgaon) — Policy Programmes Manager...

The Trump administration decided to delay the decision regarding H4 visa. This is supposed to be a good news, but it has nothing but confused the Indian techies working in the US. The department of homeland security (DHS) deferred issuing the proposal to restrict work permits for H4 dependent visas. The decision was supposed to be taken by February 28 but it has now been delayed to the end of June 2018. The move comes just a few days after the Trump administration announced increased scrutiny for H-1B visa approvals, making it rather confusing for existing H-1B holders. Indian families are largest beneficiaries of H-4 visas. H-1B visa holders that move to the US with their spouses can apply for work permit for their spouses. The provision of H-4 visa has helped many Indian H-1B holders find work for their spouses. The department of homeland security (DHS) was planning to issue the proposal to restrict work permits for H-4 visa holders. The government led by the former...

There are plenty of concerns about the impact of AI and automation on the IT industry. The Indian companies are worried about losing quality revenue due to emerging automation technologies. Indian IT industry heavily relies on Business Process Management (BPM) services that require low skilled professionals. However changing nature of BPM and IT industry, evolving skill profiles and cyber security have created new opportunities for the IT firms. Keshav Murugesh, CEO of Mumbai-based WNS Group believes that companies need to adopt disruptive delivery models to retain the customers. People think that all traditional IT businesses will fall off the cliff and BPM companies will go down. But by adopting disruptive delivery models, BPM companies can still impress and interest new clients. WNS Group operates from 13 countries and employee 35,000 employees. The company is trying to get clients outsource work that is strategically done. New-age competition According to Muru...

Speaking at the two-day-long Uttar Pradesh Investors' Summit 2018 in Lucknow, Reliance Jio chairman, Mukesh Ambani, on Wednesday (February 21) expressed his support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "dream" of transforming the state. During his speech at the summit, which aimed at showcasing investment opportunities and potential across various sectors in Uttar Pradesh, Ambani said that ensuring Uttar Pradesh's development is his "patriotic duty", and promised increased investment in the state.  Here are the key takeaways from his speech: Jio to invest Rs 10,000 crore in infrastructure: Reliance Jio became one of the biggest telecom operators in the country overnight after Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Jio invested Rs 2.5 lakh crores in setting up a state-of-the- art 4G network. However, a major chunk of this investment was used by the company to make inroads into the most populous state of the country - Uttar Pradesh. However, despit...

Staying on top is one of the key factors for business and technological innovation. And with over 600 unique programming languages, deciding on the best programming language for your project may be difficult, and can be the hardest part in the initial development phase. And to help, here’s our list of the top 10 potential programming languages to learn in 2018, to help decide the best programming language to use for your project is to evaluate your project needs. 1. Swift: More popular than Objective-C, this is the language for developing native iOS or Mac OS apps, and is the programming language with the most potential for reshaping the future. Native apps have been found to outperform cross-platform hybrid apps, and SpriteKit makes it even easier to build 2D games. Indeed, it builds itself on the successes of C and Objective-C without the constraints of compatibility. It was heavily influenced by Ruby and Python, and is considered user friendly and fun to use. Opera...

Staying on top is one of the key factors for business and technological innovation. And with over 600 unique programming languages, deciding on the best programming language for your project may be difficult, and can be the hardest part in the initial development phase. And to help, here’s our list of the top 10 potential programming languages to learn in 2018, to help decide the best programming language to use for your project is to evaluate your project needs. 1. Swift: More popular than Objective-C, this is the language for developing native iOS or Mac OS apps, and is the programming language with the most potential for reshaping the future. Native apps have been found to outperform cross-platform hybrid apps, and SpriteKit makes it even easier to build 2D games. Indeed, it builds itself on the successes of C and Objective-C without the constraints of compatibility. It was heavily influenced by Ruby and Python, and is considered user friendly and fun to use. Opera...