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The Imperial, Delhi, tries its best to turn you into a master chef.

IIM-L conclave on SME sector
The Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow is organising an ‘India SME conclave’ on December 21 to discuss the competitiveness of the sector in the backdrop of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) era. The small and medium enterprises (SME) sector is the growth engine of the Indian economy and contributes over 40 per cent to the country’s industrial output and around 35 per cent to direct exports. The theme of the conclave is ‘Low cost financing options and the impact of FTAs on the SME sector in India’.

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IT majors make 408 offers at Osmania
IT majors — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro Technologies and Cognizant Technology Solutions — have made 408 job offers to the students of Osmania University College of Engineering (OUCE) during the "premium company recruitment drive" that ended on December 31.
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Twitter buys location tracking entity Mixer Labs

Famed micro-blogging site Twitter has acquired location tracking firm Mixer Labs for an undisclosed amount. - Twitter said to be profitable after making $25 mn search deals - Iranian elections top Twitter topic for 2009 - After Nifty, NSE tweets on Junior Nifty, currency derivatives - Guest Column: Real-time search "going mainstream" - How other countries fare - Fundamentals for a new age The acquisition would help the site to enhance the "contextual" relevance of location to tweets -- messages posted on the site which can have a maximum of 140 characters. In a blog on Wednesday, Twitter said it has bought Mixer Labs without disclosing the financial details. Mixer Labs is the creator of GeoAPI, a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications. "...(Mixer Labs) they"re part of Twitter and will be working to combine the contextual relevance of location to tweets," the blog noted. Both entities would together develop features to make the micro-blogging site more interesting and "relevant to daily life", irrespective of one"s location. "As a dramatic example, twittering "Earthquake!" alone is not as informative as "Earthquake!" coupled with your current location," the blog said. A popular site for social networking, Twitter is estimated to have more than 50 million users across the world.


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