Global Top 50 Engineering

Company	Ranking 2011
Google	1
IBM	2
Microsoft	3
BMW	4
Intel	5
Sony	6
Apple	7
General Electric	8
Siemens	9
Procter & Gamble	10
Johnson & Johnson	11
Hewlett-Packard	12
Cisco	13
Volkswagen	14
The Coca-Cola Company	15
Shell	16
Ford Motor Company	17
Toyota	18
Esso / ExxonMobil	19
General Motors	20
Accenture	21
L'Oréal	22
McKinsey & Company	23
Oracle	24
Nokia	25
3M	26
Nestlé	27
BP	28
Schlumberger	29
Goldman Sachs	30
Dell	31
Daimler	32
IKEA	33
Philips	34
Bayer	35
J.P. Morgan	36
Pfizer	37
Deloitte	38
Bosch	39
Kraft Foods	40
Unilever	41
The Boston Consulting Group	42
adidas	43
Lenovo	44
BASF	45
Morgan Stanley	46
PepsiCo	47
Ericsson	48
ABB	49
Heineken	50

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Global Top 50 Business

Global Top 50 Business

Company	Ranking 2011
Google	1
KPMG	2
PwC	3
Ernst & Young	4
Deloitte	5
Microsoft	6
Procter & Gamble	7
J.P. Morgan	8
Apple	9
Goldman Sachs	10
Sony	11
The Coca-Cola Company	12
L'Oréal	13
BMW	14
Johnson & Johnson	15
IBM	16
McKinsey & Company	17
Morgan Stanley	18
Nestlé	19
IKEA	20
Deutsche Bank	21
The Boston Consulting Group	22
adidas	23
Bank of America / Merrill Lynch	24
Unilever	25
General Electric	26
LVMH	27
Accenture	28
Citi	29
PepsiCo	30
Kraft Foods	31
Bain & Company	32
Credit Suisse	33
Hewlett-Packard	34
UBS	35
American Express	36
Volkswagen	37
Intel	38
Siemens	39
Heineken	40
3M	41
Toyota	42
Nokia	43
Shell	44
Esso / ExxonMobil	45
Dell	46
Ford Motor Company	47
Pfizer	48
Cisco	49
Daimler	50

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Students & Graduates - India

University Hiring- India

HP is a company fueled by new thinking and unique ideas about creating more valuable experiences with technology. The India Campus Recruitment program is designed to help lay the foundations for a truly fulfilling career with us.

You will find yourself working in a uniquely diverse and creative culture. In a working environment where everyone has an opportunity to fully participate in achieving business success. You will work along side and in support of a group of world-class professionals in your chosen field of study.

Through grants of HP technology to non-profit organizations and educational institutions, HP seeks to promote educational opportunities and strengthen non-profit organizations addressing long-term societal needs. Anna University and Jadavpur University in India were awarded the Technology for Teaching Grant [T4T] in 2006.

We invite you to explore the many opportunities at hp that will help realize your full potential!

We have a planned campus recruitment program for selecting students from:

B Schools

Engineering Colleges

Graduate Colleges

Foreign Language Schools/ Universities

PG Institutes

If you are a student looking for career opportunity to work at our Business Process Organization, Technical Contact Centre or our Research Labs please visit "Search Jobs at HP"

We may have exciting opportunities waiting for you !

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Three IIM-A students bag Rs 1 crore package

AHMEDABAD: Cutting across the clouds of economic slowdown, the sun is still shinning over Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad. More interestingly, the shine is emerging from where the recession clouds looked the darkest - the financial sector.

In the last two months, three students of IIM-A have bagged Rs 1 crore-plus pre-placement offers (PPO) each from financial institutions. While two offers have been made by Deutsche Bank for their Singapore and London offices, one is from Barclays in Hong Kong. IIM-A sources said one of the offers is the highest PPO ever offered on the campus. Companies offer PPO to a student based on his performance during the summer placement.

Sources on IIM-A's placement committee said the PPOs have come at a time when everyone at campus feared that the economic gloom would be reflected in the financial sector.

However, PPOs proved otherwise. Sources said among the 380 students in the current second-year post-graduate programme in management (PGP), more than 50 have got PPOs. Many of these have come from retail and investment banking companies like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Nomura.

"Many such offers were made during 2009 when the average placement offer had come down significantly. The institute learned lessons and we were able to pull up the pay scales in 2010-11, but this year we fear them slipping again. However, the PPOs bring a sense of optimism but we are keeping our fingers crossed," said an IIM-A placement committee member.

However, there is apprehension that the tide can change anytime in the coming months due to the unstable global economic scenario.

"During the worst ever placement scene for IIM-A during 2009 slowdown, many offers were not honoured. This time though, we feel the recruiters were more confident while making PPOs. But, we have changed our placement strategy to lessen the slowdown impact," said IIM-A director, Samir Barua.

The institute is also looking at sectors and companies that are not known as traditional recruiters at the campus. "We are now expanding our reach and trying to get a diverse set of recruiters. We are looking at the core manufacturing sector and companies that haven't been approached," Barua said. The process for final placements will begin from January 2012.

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Apple to bring lower priced iPad

To compete with Amazon's cheap Kindle Fire proposition, Apple is expected to unveil a lower priced iPad in the first few months of 2012 

 

Apple is expected to introduce a smaller, lower-priced, variant of its iPad in early 2012 to compete with Amazon's cheap Kindle Fire proposition, says one US-based analyst.
The news came via a story published on BGR, according to a report by You Know Mobile.
‘Our research is pointing to the unveiling of a lower priced iPad in the first few months of 2012 that is aimed at expanding the company’s market potential by tapping into a more price sensitive consumer segment," said Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White in a media statement.
‘Essentially, this ‘iPad mini’ will also fend off the recently announced Amazon Kindle Fire that addresses the low-end tablet market with a $199 price tag but could lead to bigger tablet ambitions from the online retailer in the future," he added .
According to White, this lower priced iPad could be priced in the mid-to-high-$200 range. Also, according to the report, White has also claimed that a more premium-grade iPad tablet will land in 2012 as well.
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Water

Water Power

Decisions about future energy sources will need to factor in water consumption as well as greenhouse-gas emissions. 

In the United States, energy production will account for almost 90 percent of the projected increase in consumption of freshwater between 2005 and 2030, according to Argonne National Laboratory. Power plants that use nuclear fission or fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, consume billions of gallons of water per day for cooling. Fossil-fuel plants that use carbon-capture technologies to cut carbon dioxide emissions consume even more water than conventional ones. As for renewable energy sources, they present a mixed water-use picture. While wind power and photovoltaic solar power use little water, solar thermal power—one of the fastest-growing renewable sectors— uses a great deal. Biofuels from nonirrigated sources, such as switchgrass, use relatively little water, but ethanol made from irrigated corn is hugely water-intensive. In the chart at right, we compare recent estimates of average lifetime water consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions for various electricity sources and transportation fuels. Note the water-use range of irrigated corn ethanol. The water consumption associated with E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, ranges from 20 to nearly 1,000 gallons per 100,000 BTU, depending on agricultural practices.

Information graphic by: Tommy McCall and Mike Orcutt
Sources: Energy Policy; Environmental Science & Technology; Argonne National Lab; Congressional Research Service; National Energy Technology Laboratory; Carey King
“Geothermal” refers to flash-steam-powered plants and is given in grams of carbon dioxide (gCO2) per 100,000 BTU. All other figures are given in gCO2 equivalents per 100,000 BTU.
“BTU” refers to British Thermal Units; “CCS” refers to carbon capture and storage technologies; “IGCC” refers to integrated gasification combined cycle.
One gallon of gasoline is equal to 114,500 BTU.
The water intensity of sugarcane is an estimate for São Paulo, Brazil, where the crop is not irrigated. The water intensity of ethanol from switchgrass is an estimate based on a relatively small amount of data.
The figure given for greenhouse-gas emissions associated with compressed natural gas used in transportation assumes that the natural gas is extracted and used in the United States.

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Mobile Advertising

Mobile Internet is a distinct advertising medium that will foster an ecosystem of advertisers, publishers, and innovative companies.
Mobile Internet usage across the world has significantly increased over the past year. The advent of smart phones and tablets has accelerated growth of this medium. Application ecosystems such as iTunes App Store and Android Market have given this medium an identity of its own. Advertising on mobile Internet is both a significant opportunity for marketers and agencies as well as a challenge for technology-intensive startups in this space. While advertising on mobile started with SMS, its non-targeted as well as intrusive nature meant a better alternative was round the corner. The proliferation of devices, increase in connectivity, and growth of content has resulted in display advertising on mobile Internet emerge as a dominant form of advertising. In the next three years, advertising on mobile Internet is estimated to be a $60 billion industry.
The mobile device is unique in terms of its personal, always-on nature and typifies the user’s persona unlike the PC. Beyond the fact that advertising on mobile is digital and Internet-driven, this industry is fairly distinct from the PC Internet advertising space. Advertising mediums largely appeal to three senses: visual, auditory, and motor. Most mediums appeal to one or two of the three senses, for example, television appeals to visual and auditory senses while the PC appeals to visual and motor senses. Advertising on smart phones and tablets however appeals to all the three senses simultaneously.
Smart phones and smarter operating systems enable the ads to leverage the capabilities of the operating system to deliver highly interactive and engaging ad formats. For smart phone users, advertising is not just a banner anymore. Today, an ad can have a banner, a YouTube video within that, call to action like Tap-to-Call, Add-to-Facebook, Follow on Twitter or tweet, View landing site, and more — all without the user leaving the application or web page on which the ad originally appeared. (See “You Are the Ad”) Publishers and application developers benefit greatly from this by giving their users richer experiences, thereby increasing the engagement of users with them.
For the advertisers, return on investment is the key and to capture the most for them out of these new advertising platforms, InMobi has developed an Advertiser ROI Tracker (AdROIt) that helps advertisers understand return on investment of their spends on InMobi’s network and gives feedback to its ad serving system to deliver the campaign to relevant users, within the expected ROI range. This has resulted in advertisers accepting the medium and increasing their spend on mobile Internet.
As the adoption and usage of mobile advertising grows, the new medium is in for exciting times.

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New 20 rupees note

RBI to introduce new Rs. 20 denomination bank notes

The Reserve Bank would introduce new Rs. 20 denomination bank notes with inset bearing 'F' with additional security features.
"The Reserve Bank will shortly issue a Rs. 20 denomination bank notes with inset letter 'F' both numbering panels in Mahatma Gandhi Series 2005 bearing the signature of Governor D Subbarao", an RBI statement said.
Except for the change in the inset letter, the design of these notes is similar in all respects to the bank notes in Mahatma Gandhi 2005 series with additional security features, it said.
However, it said all the bank notes in the denomination of Rs. 20 issued in the past would continue to be legal tender.

Read more at: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/show/rbi-to-introduce-new-rs-20-denomination-bank-notes-183079?cp

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