midterm questions day 1

Today's questions for the midterm:

Day 1 Questions

1. When were the following companies founded? (a) Google-1996, (b) Microsoft-1975, (c) Yahoo-1994?

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies? Larry Page for google. microsoft is bill gates. Yahoo is of Jerry Yang and David Filo.

3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google10,604.92, (b) Microsoft44,282.00 , (c) Yahoo6,425.68 ?

4. What is .NET? it is a software.

5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?yahoo

7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler? capital management.

8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?

9. What is money coming in to a company? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (a) Accounts payable (b) Overhead (c) Wages (d) Revenue.

10. What is a share of stock?

11. What does Alcoa do? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (a) Mine diamonds (b) Make computers (c) Mine aluminum (d) Accounting.

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?

13. What does the CEO do in a company?

14. What does the CFO do in a company?

15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?

17. What is an IPO?