Date:28/03/2005 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/ew/2005/03/28/stories/2005032800300400.htm

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Questions

1. Name the Internet conglomerate that has done a $1.85-billion buyout of Ask Jeeves.

2. What is Microsoft's new paid-search service called?

3. Who has bought the photo-sharing service Flickr?

4. Name the French news service that filed a suit, seeking at least $17.5 million in damages, against Google for using its copyrighted material without permission.

5. What is Yahoo's new service, now in beta stage, for social networking and blogging?

6. Dark Hero of the Information Age by journalists Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman is about which influential pioneer?

7. Whose tagline is: `The traveler's search engine'?

8. Name the Sun Microsystems services chief, who is stepping down and will leave the company by the end of 2005.

9. Safra Catz has replaced Harry You as the interim CFO of which cyber major?

10. Where is Dell's latest and third customer contact centre in India located?

Answers

1. InterActiveCorp.

2. AdCenter.

3. Yahoo.

4. Agence France Presse (AFP)

5. Yahoo 360.

6. Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics.

7. SideStep.com

8. Marissa Peterson.

9. Oracle.

10. Mohali.

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