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Questions

1. Name the 11-year Yahoo veteran who has decided to quit as its CTO.

2. Name the first of Google’s Web applications to go offline as part of its Google Gear initiative.

3. After an interaction with which legend on May 30, did Bill Gates say: “The way he does things, it’s just different. It’s magic.”

4. Whose first smart phone companion product, recently unveiled, is called ‘Foleo’?

5. To which studio has Electronic Arts sold the movie rights for ‘The Sims’, the best-selling computer game of all time?

6. William Roper and Edward Mueller are to be the new CEO and chairman of…?

7. Name the private equity firm that has bought computer retailer CDW for $7.3 billion?

8. What is ‘Milan’ in the context of

Microsoft?

9. Name the two Asian nations that were in the group of 10 countries in Google Developer Day 2007.

10. Where was the fifth edition of the popular ‘D: All Things Digital’ held recently and which publication is behind it?

Answers

1. Farzad Nazem.

2. Google Readers.

3. The one and only Steve Jobs!

4. Palm

5. 20th Century Fox.

6. VeriSign

7. Madison Dearborn Partners.

8.The code name for the recently unveiled tabletop computer, its first product from the Surface Computing group.

9. China and Japan.

10. Carlsbad, California. It is organised by ‘The Wall Street Journal.’