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.In the very early days of Facebook, when it had fewer than 15 employees, a new recruit quit after just a few weeks in the company. Matt Cohler, who had hired him, tried to convince him otherwise. "You're making a terrible mistake. Facebook is going to be huge! And there's already a ton of video sites. If you do this you're going to regret it for the rest of your life!" Who was the quitter? Ans: Steve Chen , Youtube Co-founder. 2.In estimation theory and decision theory, a Bayes estimator or a Bayes action is an estimator or decision rule that minimizes the posterior expected value of a loss function.Which popular website uses this formula? Ans:IMdb 3."I joined Twitter to follow Britney Spears. But I did not have anything to tweet about. So I figured, hey, tweeting these facts would be a really good idea. It was just so I could feel like I was closer to her," This was said by X who owns the twitter handle '@Y' . Give me X and Y. Ans: X-Kris Sanchez Y-Uberfacts 4. Ranbeer Singh dances in the middle of the road , Priyanka Chopra does a headstand , Farhan Aktar cycles in the busy streets , Shahrukh khan shows his favorite exercise .why were they doing such crazy stuff? Ans: Bang Bang Dare (Given by Hritik Roshan) 5.This is Intex Cloud fx a smartphone launched recently priced at 1999 INR .What makes it special? Ans: First Phone with Firefox OS to be launched in India. 6. While Amazon ran its Diwali sale titled ' Diwali Dhamaka' , which organisation was swift to buy the domain 'www.diwalidhamaka.com' hence trolling Amazon? Ans:Flipkart 7.IRCTC recently launched its Android App . What is it called? Ans: IRCTC Connect 8.Whats the funda? Ans: No Mobile Pavements in China. 9.Whose name has been blanked? Ans:Eric Schmidt 10.Nash Holdings , an investment firm was set up by Jeff Bezos to buyout which media entity? Ans:Washington Post “According to a source close to the supply chain, Google may be cleaning up the unused devices. The main X is already set to be 5.9-inches, as we’ve stated before. But, word has it that if Motorola releases the 5.9-inch Moto S, Google may repurpose the 5.2-inch Moto S units as a second Nexus device." Identify X. Ans: Nexus X 2) “This initiative should not stop at eight languages. I asked the department to make X available in all the Indian languages very soon,” communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.Identify X. Ans:.भभरत domain name. 3) Identify this! Ans: LG G Watch R. 3. Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture .Ipad 2.Infosys 3.Adobe 4.Masaru Ibuka 5.Stan shin -Acer 6.Sega Alex Kidd 7.Toughpad 8..Zenith 9.Karmarkar 10.Raj Redd This company was taken over by LG in 1995 First ever company to provide HDTV in USA First ever company produce practical TV remote controls called “Space Command Tuning” Which company?zenith sega alex kidd f 0888-888-8888 is for Justdial, what service would you be able to access by dialing 0444-444-4444 ? Ans:Askme.com (endorsed by Ranbir Kapoor) 2.The X foundation has unveiled global 'Digital Literacy Campaign' to teach people basic internet use and other digital skills. The campaign is expecting more than 100,000 people to participate in a series of events worldwide over the next two months.X please! Ans:Mozilla 3.Recently this site came up with its new logo that somewhat resembled a vagina , name the web based company. Ans:Airbnb 4.In the picture below the two gentlemen are playing one of the earliest digital computer games developed by Steve Russell.Identify the game. Ans:Spacewar 5.Shown below is a replica of the X kept in the German Museum Of Technology in Berlin , which has a significant chunk of computer history in its credit.X please! Ans:Z1 6.This is the logo of Snapchat , what s it called? Ans:Ghostfaced Chillah 7.In internet jargon the advice to ignore rather than engage with a troll is sometimes phrased as ? Ans:Don't feed the troll Ans:Aaron Swartz 9.Tech giant X launched “Project Y” a team of elite hackers designated for checking internet security holes and secure people from cyber-attacks. The team of hackers will look for threats, mainly on zero day vulnerabilities such as the recent heartbleed bug, in most popular software such as Google chrome and Internet explorer. Give me X and Y. Ans:X-Google Y-Zero 10.Coded by Rob Barnaby, X was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge and WYSIWYG.Identify X! Ans:Wordstar 4) X is working with EA on the Madden GIFerator, an app that will create a live stream of memes using Madden NFL 15 game footage triggered by action on the field. Identify X! Ans:X- Google 5) Identify the logo and why this was in the news latelyAns: Zync .Google acquired it. 6) Identify the logo! Ans:Instagram Hyperlapse 7) The effort, which X calls Y, marks the company’s latest expansion beyond its Web-based origins and could help X break into lucrative markets such as commerce and package delivery, ratcheting up the competition with Amazon.com. Identify X and Y! Ans: X-Google Y-Project Wings 8) Identify this! Ans: Google Project Wings 9) X has said that Microsoft views games as a way to expand the company's footholds in PCs and mobile phones. In a letter to employees in July, X called gaming the "single biggest digital life category, measured in both time and money spent, in a mobile-first world." Identify X and what is being talked about here! Ans: X-Satya Nadella .Microsoft buying Mojang. 10) Connect IT! 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Ans : X : Dropbox , Y : Inbox. 2) Google's $500 million investment in X a same-day grocery delivery service offered in the US will be watched closely at Amazon, which runs a similar AmazonFresh delivery service.Identify X and Y. Ans : X : Google Shopping Express 3) X is dedicated to finding the most severe security flaws in software around the world and fixing them, no matter how difficult they are to find.(Hint : This a project stop bugs like Heartbleed that claimed to be the biggest bug the internet has seen in years.) Ans : X : Project Zero “We are looking forward to working with Google to bring together their advanced technology and our extensive knowledge of biology to meet unmet medical needs,” said X's CEO Joseph Jimenez.Identify X and the device talked about here! Ans:X : Novartis.Google Smart Contact Lens. According to X, Y was the 'Most Toxic Superhero' with 16.5 per cent chances of landing on a website that has been tested positive for online threats.Identify X and Y! Ans: X : Mcafee Y : Superman This font's name means a weapon used by Romans is a type of catapult that was used as a siege engine in the Middle Ages. (Hint:Starts with 'T') Ans:Trebuchet .What was initially planned to be named the “bug” by Douglas Englebert after its creation but is now known by a different name? (Hint : We all see it on our computer display screens) Ans:Cursor Seeking to attract the youth, the X is all set to launch a video game called 'Guardians of the Sky' in which players can carry out virtual attacks on enemy targets flying a Su-30MKI combat aircraft.X please! Ans:Indian Air Force 2.I don't know how many of you know what X means.I being a south Indian didn't know and when I asked him what it means he said , money.And then he said Y-X means lots of money, big money.So I said that is what we need for Z.Identify Y-X and Z .
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