QUESTIONS DAY 1

1. When were the following companies founded?
(a) Google- 1998
(b) Microsoft-1975
(c) Yahoo-1995

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?
a)Larry Page and Sergey Brin
b)Bill Gates
c)Jerry Yang and David Filo

3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue
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 to find relevant pages to what your looking for.

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?
Yahoo.

7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler?
Cerbus

8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?
public corporation offers stock to the public while private doesnt.

9. What is money coming in to a company?
(d) Revenue.

10. What is a share of stock?
smallest unit of ownership in a company.

11. What does Alcoa do?
(c) Mine aluminum

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?
It stands for General Electrics.

13. What does the CEO do in a company?
the CEO is the head boss, which the board of the director picks.

14. What does the CFO do in a company?
Everyone reports to them.

15. What is the NYSE?
-older more established stocks.
NASDAQ?
-trading stocks but with computers.

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?
They pick everything like the

17. What is an IPO?
-the first sale of stock and its good to get it because if the company gets really big then your were with the company since the begining.