IT Weekly Questions

Google Creative Lab teams with Motion Theory to create an animated short film to launch Google's Project 10ˆ100 -- a contest celebrating the company's 10th anniversary by funding new ideas that help the most people around the world.

Netezza (NYSE: NZ) designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for uses including enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics and business continuity planning.

Netezza is widely credited for either inventing or bringing renewed attention to the data warehouse appliance category, depending upon whether one regards long-time data warehouse technology vendor Teradata as having been in the data warehouse appliance category all along.^[2]

Questions
 1. What is common to Khan Academy, FIRST, Public.Resource.org, Shweeb and African Institute for Mathematical Studies?
2. What is Stuxnet?
3. Google's free classified listings service, which allows anyone to post and tag information for Google searchers to find, is called..?
4. Name the simple service started by Marco Arment, the erstwhile CTO at Tumblr, which allows one to save articles from a browser to read later on another computer, mobile phone or iPad.
5. Which cyber giant is to buy Netezza, a data warehouse company, for $1.7 billion in cash?
6. Before launching its new Bing Rewards programme, Microsoft had two search loyalty programs that have been retired. Name them.
7. Twitter's first ever celebrity Twitter auction, to generate funds for building a home and school for special needs kids in Haiti, is called…?
8. Name Amercia's youngest billionaire who has decided to give a $100 million grant aimed at improving public education in Newark in New Jersey through a new foundation called Startup: Education.
9. Which embattled Indian tech company is to delist from the NYSE in October because it is not able to comply with a requirement to file its delayed financial results by an October 15 deadline?
10. Name the leader of eBay's vast online auction business who is to quit for personal reasons.

Answers
 1. They are the winners of the much-publicised Google Project 10ˆ100 contest.
2. It is the first discovered worm, specifically written to attack SCADA systems, that spies on and reprograms industrial systems.
3. Google Base.
4. Instapaper.
5. IBM.
6. SearchPerks and Cashback.
7. TwitChange.
8. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
9. Satyam Computer Services.
10. Lorrie Norrington.