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TCS IT Wiz Selection Round 1 Anirban

1. ______ outbid Micromax to become the


title sponsors of Indias home matches
till 2019. It will pay BCCI 2.4 Crore per
match.

Foxtail millet Technology

X is an American seed fund, started in March 2005. Twice a year they


invest a small amount of money in a large number of startups. X provides
seed money, advice, and connections to startups in exchange for 7%
equity. X startups move to Silicon Valley for 3 months, and the X partners
work closely with each company to get them into the best possible shape
and refine their pitch to investors. Each batch culminates in Demo Day,
when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected audience
of investors. As of Winter 2015, X has invested in over 840 companies
including Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, Zenefits,Instacart and
Weebly. The combined market capitalization of X companies is over $30B.
X was started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor
Blackwell and Robert Morris.

X is a proprietary audio/video interface for transferring


uncompressed video data and compressed or
uncompressed digital audio data from an X-compliant
source device, such as a display controller, to a
compatible computer monitor,video projector,
digital television, or digital audio device. X is a digital
replacement for analog video standards. XS founders
are Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony,
Thomson, RCA andToshiba

The X company was founded on 16 December 2013 by former Oppo vice


president Pete Lau and Carl Pei
On 25 April 2014, X began its "Smash the Past" campaign.The promotion
asked selected participants to destroy their phones on video in an effort to
increase their own sales by allowing the people to buy their product for $1.
The company's main goal was to design a smartphone that would balance
high-end quality with a lower price than other phones in its class, believing
that users would "never settle" for the lower-quality devices produced by
other companies.

In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a student at the University of


Michigan began writing a program on his Macintosh
Plus to display gray- scale images on a monochrome
display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, who recom- mended
Thomas turn it into a fully-fledged image editing
program. The program was renamed as ImagePro. How
do we know it today?

Latest USB Type ?

X was developed by <> Software Scandinavia AB, a privately held company in Stockholm,Sweden founded by
Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam in 2009.

Today, this country announced that it's the first country


ever to get universal Internet access from Google's
Project Loon.

Which popular technology did the Roke


Manor Research Limited develop?

The X name was chosen because of the founders


fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, hence
the theme to their products, with names such as Area51, Hang- ar18 and Aurora.What is X?

He is the founder of Sampark Foundation and author of


a management book "Employees First, Customers
Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside
Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).
Hint: XLRI Alum. This is still a tech quiz.

X was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning


who financed the company until the Series A round of funding.Both men
played active roles in the company's early development prior to a famous
persons involvement

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