The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson's husband Tom Costello sparked the name of this search engine, which the company states, is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories involving a character, Fion mac Cumhaill, they erroneously refer to as Finn _____. The company says that X is Irish for knowledge and hazel. Identify X.
ANSWER :
CUIL, the search engine. Business Week adjudged CUIL to be the one of the most successful startups of 2008
P.S : Deepak again :)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Q22 02/08/2009
The origins of this pharmaceutical company date back to 1912 when Atlas chemical Industries was founded by the de merger from DuPont. The company suffered infamy in 2007 as a comment on the Wikipedia page claiming the side effects of one of its drugs was deleted from a computer shown to be registered to the company. Analysts have severely criticized the takeover of MedImmune by this company in April 2007 ( a reported 15.2 billion ) claiming the fee to be too high. ID this company which is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index.
Answer :
ASTRAZENECA
Answer :
ASTRAZENECA
Friday, July 31, 2009
Q21 31/07/2009
shown in the picture are english "bobbies"..
a practice of theirs has found it's way into corporate parlance.. what phrase/word?
Answer :
Whistleblower
P.S : This qn was contributed by Deepak.. And he has promised to contribute often (which gives the chance for a lazy guy like me to update the blog :) )
Answer :
Whistleblower
P.S : This qn was contributed by Deepak.. And he has promised to contribute often (which gives the chance for a lazy guy like me to update the blog :) )
Friday, June 5, 2009
Q20 06/06/2009
Originalli formed from 3M in 1996, comprised of former 3M divisions involved in the design, manufacture and sales of data storage, medical imaging, printing, photographic film, optical and specialty paper products...It has since sold all but its core data storage media products business..It purchased Memorex in April 2006, and the TDK Brand Recording Media business in July 2007 making it the global market share leader in sales of CD-R and DVD media..
Which company?
ANSWER :
IMATION
Which company?
ANSWER :
IMATION
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Q17 01/06/2009
He married six women, five of them simultaneously in different households..The first two were village women, but the other four wives were all well-educated.. His sixth wife, Dineshnandini, was the first woman postgraduate from Rajasthan, and married him willingly.. In addition to his wives, he also had a number of other liaisons. Rumours also linked him to Fatimah Jinnah (Jinnah's sister), but this is most likely untrue.
He had eighteen children (seven with Dineshnandini)
The above are some facts about an infamous business personality in India who was sentenced to jail for the illegal transfer of funds for the Acquisition of a large media services conglomerate 1956..
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