Saturday snippets (Bisiness and Logo Quiz) 2012-13
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Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has been finalized after approval by U.S. and European antitrust agencies. William Wrigley Jr. began packaging chewing gum with baking powder and the gum became more popular, leading him to focus the company on producing chewing gum. Carlos Slim Helu is the richest man in the world as of 2013, with an estimated net worth of $74 billion primarily from his holdings in telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil.
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Saturday snippets (Bisiness and Logo Quiz) 2012-13
- 1. MMS - A Saturday snippets L e t u s l e a r n t o g e t h e r Event of the people, by the people, for the people Designed Jobin Mathew
- 2. Name the brand of computers launched by AMD.
- 4. Google : Orkut :: AOL : ?
- 5. Bebo. AOL recently purchased this social networking site.
- 8. skype is now owned by
- 9. Microsoft After approval by U.S. and European antitrust agencies, Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has been finalized, the software giant announced today.
- 14. National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
- 16. Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group. Founded in 1919
- 17. Google MentalPlex, Google Gulp, Gmail, Google Romance, Google TiSP, etc. We all know what these are. But there was one among the many which was the odd one out. What was it and what was different about it?
- 18. Obvious fact - These are the names of the 5 mascots, which are Fuwa dolls, of the Beijing Olympics. Peculiarity - When the first 5 syllables of each word are said together, the resulting phrase translates to 'Welcome to Beijing'.
- 19. Google announced the launch of GMail on Apr 1, 2004, which was actually a genuine announcement and not an April Fool's joke as many thought.
- 20. Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini. What is peculiar about the 5 words?
- 22. Gateway, Inc., is a computer hardware company based in Irvine, California, USA which develops, manufactures, supports, and markets a wide range of personal computers, computer monitors, servers, and computer accessories. ateway was acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007.
- 25. the company's founder, began packaging chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder itself and then he reoriented the company to produce the popular chewing gum.
- 26. William Wrigley Jr. Company
- 28. F1-X Dubai was a proposed theme park dedicated to Formula One.[1] It would have been the first official F1 theme park and was to be built by Union Properties close to the Dubai Autodrome as part of the MotorCity section of Dubailand.
- 29. William Wrigley Co. has been bought over by which company with the help from Warren Buffet
- 31. richest man in the world 2013
- 32. Carlos Slim Helu He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso SAB, as well as business interests elsewhere in the world. America Movil, which in 2010 was Latin America's largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of 2010. His corporate holdings as of March 2011 have been estimated at US$74 billion. On March 29, 2007, Slim surpassed Warren Buffett as the world's second richest person with an estimated net worth of $53.1 billion compared to Buffet's $52.4 billion.
- 34. Tagline ??
- 35. "Your Potential, Our Passion"
- 36. name the world’s largest privately-held spirits company.
- 38. X has rolled out its maiden retail venture ‘Newu', which is its wholly owned subsidiary. It plans to add 30 ‘Newu‘ stores
- 41. one laptop per child
- 42. Tata motors has launched the Tata Ace in a second international market after Sri Lanka. Where has it been launched
- 43. Nepal