1. When were the following companies founded? (a) Google= 1998 (b) Microsoft=1975 (c) Yahoo=1994
2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?GOOGLE FOUNDERS WERE Sergey Brin and Larry Page, MICROSOFT FOUNDERS by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, YAHOO FOUNDERS Yang and classmate David Filo.
3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google3,663.97 (b) Microsoft14,398.00 , (c) Yahoo1,671.85 ?
4. What is .NET?is the newest technology umbrella term from Microsoft.
5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm?85% Basically, how are the placements of searches made?Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives.
6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?Packard
7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler?D.Prince &DAIMLER
8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?Private sector is usually believed to promote more competition, economic efficiency, better quality and choice than the public sector while the public sector is considered more effective in consolidating public resources for creating public goods, in taking into account various other objectives apart from economic efficiency, such as distributional equity, universality, political Sustainability, environmental soundness and social security. The main factor of private sector strengths is competition of market forces which creates the most credible "carrots" and "sticks" if not distorted by monopoly or oligopoly.
9. What is money coming in to a company? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (d) Revenue.
10. What is a share of stock? a claim on the current and future dividends (or other cash flows, such as stock buybacks) to be paid by a company.
11. What does Alcoa do? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (c) Mine aluminum .
12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?General Engineering
13. What does the CEO do in a company? is responsible for a company's operations,
14. What does the CFO do in a company?The CFO Company is a consulting organization that helps small and medium size businesses increase their profits, strengthen their balance sheets --- and make their businesses easier to manage.
15. What is the NYSE?the best known of all stock markets. NASDAQ? originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system) is an American electronic stock exchange.
16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?There are a variety of views about the roles and responsibilities of a board of directors and most of these views share common themes. This document attempts to portray those themes by depicting various views. Simply put, a board of directors is a group of people legally charged with the responsibility to govern a corporation. In a for-profit corporation, the board of directors is responsible to the stockholders -- a more progressive perspective is that the board is responsible to the stakeholders, that is, to everyone who is interested and/or can be effected by the corporation. In a nonprofit corporation, the board reports to stakeholders, particularly the local communities which the nonprofit serves.
17. What is an IPO?stands for initial public offering and occurs when a company first sells its shares to the public.