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LinkedIn on Thursday(Nov 5) launched 'Placements' service in the country, aimed at helping graduating students find their first job. This is the first solution developed by LinkedIn's India product development for the local market. The US-based firm has a team of 100 people for product development in India, of which 40 worked on making LinkedIn Placements. "Our conversations with students, placement officers and recruiters involved in campus recruitment point to an unmet need for efficiency and effectiveness," LinkedIn India Head (Engineering) Ganesan Venakatasubramanian said in a statement. He added that 'Placements' was developed as a first step to help connect graduating students to their first jobs at a massive scale. India is the first market to pilot the product. "DY Patil, FMS Delhi and PESIT are among 14 colleges that have already adopted the pilot," the statement said. The solution also makes it easier for placement officers

నూతన ఆవిష్కరణలకు టెక్నాలజీ మద్దతు  జస్ట్‌ డయల్‌, పేటిఎం,  స్నాప్‌డీల్‌తో భాగస్వామ్యం  ముంబై :  భారత స్మార్ట్‌సిటీలతో అనుసంధానమై ఉండి వాటి అభివద్ధికి పాటు పడాలన్న తపన గల వందలాది మంది ఔత్సాహిక పారిశ్రామికులకు ప్రాజెక్టుల అమలుకు కావలసిన ఆర్థిక, టెక్నాలజీ సహాయం సమకూర్చనున్నట్టు మైక్రోసాఫ్ట్‌ చీఫ్‌ సత్య నాదెళ్ల చెప్పారు. ఇ కామర్స్‌తో సహా భిన్న విభాగాల్లో స్టార్ట్‌పల సంస్కృతి వేళ్లూనుకోవడం పట్ల ఆయన హర్షం ప్రకటించారు. ‘వేగవంతమైన భారత్‌-భవిష్య త్తు ఆవిష్కరణ’ అనే అంశంపై జరిగిన సదస్సులో కీలకోపన్యాసం ఇస్తూ జస్ట్‌ డయల్‌, పే టిఎం, స్నాప్‌డీల్‌ వంటి ఇ-కామ్‌ దిగ్గజాలతో మైక్రోసాఫ్ట్‌ కొత్త భాగస్వామ్యాలు కుదుర్చుకున్నదని ఆయన ప్రకటించారు. ఈ కొత్త భాగస్వామ్యాల కింద స్మార్ట్‌సిటీలతో అనుసంధానమై ఉన్న స్టార్ట్‌పలకు ప్రత్యేక క్లౌడ్‌ సదుపాయం అందిస్తుందని, తమ అగ్రగామి కంప్యూటింగ్‌ పరికరాలైన లూమియా 950, 950 ఎక్స్‌ఎల్‌, సర్ఫేస్‌ ప్రో 4 ఉత్పత్తులను కూ డా అందచేస్తుందని ఆయన చెప్పారు.  డిసెంబర్‌, జనవరి నెలల్లో ఆ ఉత్పత్తులను అందచేయనున్నట్టు ఆయన వెల్లడించారు. 75 వేల రూపాయలు, అంతకన్నా పై ధరలో అందుబాటులో ఉంచనున్న

Amazon India has emerged as the top spender in the third quarter of 2015 Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Naaptol and a clutch of other e-commerce companies have been heavy advertisers across media, in regional as well as English language media, in the first nine months of 2015. A recent report by S-Group, TAM Media Research shows that IS-B2C (Internet Services and business to consumer) category has increased its ad spends by over 50 per cent in 2015 (three quarters), across all media. And Amazon India has emerged as the top spender in the third quarter of 2015. Between January 2015 and September 2015, ad volumes for online shopping companies have increased 62% for print, 78% for TV and 126% for radio over the same period in 2014   The number of online shopping advertisers has increased with the maximum numbers visible in print and radio; a rise of more than 32% is expected in the coming quarter (Q4 2015 over Q3 2015)   In Q3 2015 as compared to Q2 2014, Amazon

PM says govt's black money initiatives tracked Rs 10,500 cr stashed abroad Prime Minister  Narendra Modi  on Friday said the  economy  had performed better on all parameters, including inflation and foreign investment in the past 17 months and laid stressed on effecting inclusive  reforms  to improve people’s lives, rather than only grabbing headlines. He also said the government’s efforts to bring back black money stashed abroad had detected as much as Rs 10,500 crore. “India today is doing better than it was when we took office 17 months ago. GDP (gross domestic product) growth is up and inflation is down, foreign investment is up and CAD (current account deficit) is down, revenues are up... the fiscal deficit is down and the rupee is stable. Obviously, this did not happen by accident... This success is a result of a series of well-thought policies,” he said. Terming reforms to transform India as “a marathon and not a sprint”, Modi said such measures should

Egyptian archaeologist Abdelgawad Harrbi speaks to the press inside the tomb of Iymery. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images) Yesterday, November 4, marked 93 years to the day that the tomb of King Tutankhamen was opened in Egypt, revealing spectacular artifacts and a magnificent mummy of the boy king.  The celebration was somewhat marred, at least here in the U.S., by a leading Republican candidate for president, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who confirmed a statement he’d made in 1998 — that he believes the Egyptian pyramids were grain silos, not tombs. The collective reaction from archaeologists and historians, who have command of literally centuries’ worth of research into the artifacts and literature of the ancient Egyptians, is… Wait, what now? Carson said in his  1998 talk at Andrews University , a Seventh-Day Adventist-affiliated university, “And when you look at the way that the pyramids were made, with many chambers

Businesses with multiple storefronts can now translate into even more advertising deals for Facebook. On Thursday,  Facebook   FB +4.63%  announced the launch of two new local marketing products  aimed at making it easier for businesses with multiple locations to create local ads for each store and better understand customers in each area. The first new tool allows businesses to easily create location-specific ads based on each of their “Pages.” The update allows  businesses  to use the Pages for each of their locations to pull in different ad copy, links and call-to-action buttons, making unique ads for individual stores. For example, a cafe using the product, called “local awareness ads,” could choose to automatically insert a different city name in their ad, depending on the location of the people seeing the ad. People in San Francisco might see, “Join us for dinner in San Francisco,” while those in Dallas would see “Join us for dinner in Dallas.” Call-to-action buttons such

Kirk Phelps wants to change how things get made. He holds up a floppy yellow circle of plastic, a sealing gasket for a generic automotive engine, and explains how this gasket is limiting human creativity. “If you want to make a new kind of engine, you don’t get to design the engine from the ground up. You actually go to your gasket supplier and ask what standard gaskets are available and you design the engine around it. This is backward,” says Phelps, a 33-year-old product designer who helped develop the multitouch on the first iPhone. That frustration led him to take the job as head of product development at Carbon3D, one of the hottest startups to come along in the emerging 3-D printing industry. The promise of 3-D printing is the ability to produce a solid part on the spot based on any digital 3-D file, freeing engineers to build their dream engine. While some of the highest-end machines can precisely print small-batch items such as hearing aids and artificial joints, the va

MUMBAI, :   Ever since Satya Nadella took over as the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft he has brought in huge changes to the way the company saw things. Having missed technological shifts to newer rivals such as Google and Facebook, Nadella is on an overdrive to ensure that Microsoft stays ahead of the innovation curve. In a roundtable with select media, Nadella spoke about his vision. Edited excerpts: The Central government has launched various initiatives such as Make in India, Digital India. What’s your view on the envisioned success of these programmes? As a company, Microsoft is in it for the long term. Because when you think about the country and about the trajectory, I look at not only what’s happening in the government, but also what is happening in the private sector, what is happening in the broader economy as a whole, and that’s where my optimism comes from. Our economic model is fundamentally about digital technology in the hands of others — be it small

NEW DELHI:   A rescue package for ailing electricity utilities, called ‘Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna’ or UDAY, was approved by the Cabinet on Thursday. The scheme stipulates passing on discom debts in their entirety to the respective States over two years. Under the scheme, States will take over 75 per cent of the debt as on September 30, over two years — 50 per cent in 2015-16 and 25 per cent in 2016-17. Ensuring that the Centre’s finances are not impacted, the scheme stipulates that the debt taken over by the States will not be included by the Centre when calculating the fiscal deficit of respective States in fiscal years 2015-16 and 2016-17. To take over the debt, the States will issue non-SLR (statutory liquidity ratio) bonds either in the market or directly to the bank/financial institution (FI). The discom debt not taken over by the State would be converted by the banks/FIs into loans or bonds bearing an interest rate not more than the bank’s base rate plus 0.

The gold available with the country should be put to productive use, and the new schemes show us the way to achieve the goal: Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra   Modi on Thursday launched three gold-related schemes , namely the Gold Monetisation Scheme, Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme and the Gold Coin and Bullion Scheme. “India has no reason to be described as a poor country, as it has 20,000 tonnes of gold. The gold available with the country should be put to productive use, and these schemes show us the way to achieve this goal,” the Prime Minister said while launching the schemes. Gold has often been a source of women's empowerment in Indian society, and these schemes will underscore that sense of empowerment, Mr Modi added. The Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS) will replace the existing Gold Deposit Scheme, 1999. However, the government has made clear that deposits outstanding under the Gold Deposit Scheme will be allowed to run till maturity unless the deposit