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V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. Name the Indian who has been head of Yahoo! Research since 2005.

2. Jonathan Cobb, a former Google contract worker, has filed a $25-million lawsuit accusing Google of stealing which idea thought up by him?

3. Which band recently, as part of an experiment in online music distribution, made a quarter of its 36-track album ‘Ghosts I-IV’ available for free and offered the entire album for $5?

4. Which cyber-giant has launched two new applications called ‘Giver’ and ‘Grapevine’ on Facebook?

5. The new online ad inventory management tool for Web publishers recently unveiled by Google is called…?

6. Which semiconductor giant is to spend $1.37 billion to upgrade semiconductor lines in 2008?

7. Tony Scott is the CIO of…?

8. Which two companies have tied up to launch a fitness phone called ‘miCoach’?

9. Name the product that Microsoft ‘released’ recently, which experts say has all the patches and fixes that are in Vista SP1, runs nearly all the same software but runs it faster.

10. Apart from India, companies from which three other Asian countries have a presence in the Nasdaq-100?

Answers

1. Dr Prabhakar Raghavan.

2. Google Sky.

3. Nine Inch Nails

4. Amazon

5. Google Ad Manager.

6. Samsung Electronics.

7. Microsoft

8. Samsung and Adidas.

9. Windows Workstation 2008.

10. China, Israel and Singapore.

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