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IIM Bangalore finished its placements 2007 in five days with 90 companies participating. However in a new development, IIMB has declined to provide salary details related to highest salary, average salary and median salary to the much relief of the recruiters as well as students. On a overall basis it looks like an average placement year in boom time (but a ... Full story

Consulting Major Mckinsey & Co, made 11 offers at IIM Ahmedabad in Placements 2007 however this is the only major news trickled from IIMA this year and missing were accompanied stories of bulge bracket banks. At year a top investment bank made 22 offers at IIMA alone while Lehman Brothers had 12 acceptances. So far there is no release ... Full story

IIML lucknow placements saw improved figures compared to previous years with overall increase in no of PPOs, HEPP offers and shift to I-Banking and consulting. The number of PPOs(pre placement offers) was 65, up from last year’s figure of 30. Full story

Rediff.com launched unlimited storage for its email services and thus aim to undercut 1GB mail space offered by Yahoo and ever increasing space ( around 2.8 GB as of now) being offered by Google. Full story

In a sign of things to come, two students have been reportedly offered a salary of USD 250,000 and GBP 120,000 by Investment Banking firms (though these figure could not be confirmed and might include one time signing bonus as well).  Further more than 120 lateral offers were made showing the changing profile of class of 2007 at IIMC.... Full story

Placements at IIMs started with IIM Kozikide getting into placements mood and having a yet again another good year.  Placements Season at IIMs start with IIMK ( IIMK Placements) as it is the first of the lot to get into Placements mode.   Full story

AIMA ( All India Management Association) has announced the results of MAT today. The result can be found at AIMA site at the following link. Full story

In the latest turn of events, it seems battle between CFA institute and ICFAI India is not going to stop. CFA institute which own the brand CFA and conducts prestigious CFA program worldwide had won the latest legal round where Delhi Highcourt has ruled in favor of CFA institute and ordered an interim injunction requiring ICFAI to stop using CFA name. Full story

Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced BlackBerry® 8800 - its latest range of smartphone. Full story

It is cheer time at Indian market. After encouraging report by Goldman Sachs on growth of India, S&P has added further cheer by upgrading sovereign India credit rating to Investment grade with stable out look. Full story