day 1

Day 1 Questions - 1. When were the following companies founded?
-Google 1998 -Microsoft 1975 -Yahoo 1994

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?
-Google/Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Microsoft/Bill Gates -Yahoo/David Filo and Jerry Yang
3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
-Google 10,604.92 - Microsoft 44,282.00 -Yahoo 6,425.68
4. What is .NET?
-a strategy to connect people, information, systems, and devices through software
5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?
-Google uses this by combining page rank with text-matching to find pages that is relevant to your search when you type it in.
6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?
-Yahoo purchased Flickr.com
7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler?
- Cereus
8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?
- A public offers stocks to the public and private equities do not.
9. What is money coming in to a company? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (a) Accounts payable (b) Overhead (c) Wages (d) Revenue.
- Revenue
10. What is a share of stock?
- Shareholder
11. What does Alcoa do? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (a) Mine diamonds (b) Make computers (c) Mine aluminum (d) Accounting.
- Mine Aluminum
12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?
- General Electric
13. What does the CEO do in a company?
-president of the company (chief executive officer)
14. What does the CFO do in a company?
- A CFO (chief financial officer) is responsible for financial management.
15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?
- New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) NASDAQ an American electric stock market
16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?
- Board of directors is charges with the conduct and management of their affairs.
17. What is an IPO?
- IPO-Initial Public Offering