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100
This term describes the process of extracting hidden patterns from data.
What is data mining
100
This company revolutionized online marketing by using text-based ads powered by its 'AdWords' system.
What is Google
100
This city is western India is a global powerhouse for IT outsourcing.
What is Mumbai
100
Originally named the Computing-Tabulating-Recording-Company, this IT powerhouse now employs nearly 400,000 people worldwide.
What is IBM
100
This highly visible and sometimes controversial desktop computing pioneer has twice been CEO of Apple Computer.
Who is Steve Jobs
200
This company revolutionized mobile communications with the introduction of the Blackberry in 1999.
What is Research in Motion (RIM)
200
This acronym refers to the techniques used to help a company increase visibility in search engines.
What is SEO (search engine optimization)
200
Based in Germany, this enterprise software maker is considered the world's largest business application software company.
What is SAP
200
Originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was the world's first Web browser.
What is Mosaic
200
This computing pioneer created untold amounts of wealth and millions of jobs when he invented the World Wide Web in 1990.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee
300
Microsoft seeks to sustain a leading position in knowledge management with this collaboration platform.
What is SharePoint
300
This term defines the process of measuring the performance of online advertising programs
What is analytics (or metrics)
300
Leveraging a mind-boggling amount of computing power and other technologies, the CERN Large Hadron Collider spans these two European countries.
What are Switzerland and France.
300
These two California-based computing giants are both famous for being started in their founders' garages.
What are Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer
300
Known for his ruthless competitive style, this entrepreneur founded Oracle Corporation in 1977.
Who is Larry Ellison
400
The first of these messages was sent in 1971.
What is an email
400
This term is used for a specific, highly focused Web page that is linked to via an online ad.
What is a landing page
400
This Japanese entertainment conglomerate continues to blur the lines between computing and entertainment with its PlayStation 3 device.
What is SONY
400
Released in 1954, this is considered to be the first successful high level programming language.
What is FORTRAN
400
This former CEO of Hewlett Packard is now engaged in an emerging career as a politician.
Who is Carley Fiorina
500
According to the Associated Press Style Guide, this is the proper way to spell website (nope, this isn't it!).
What is Web site
500
This term describes the process of revenue sharing between online advertisers.
What is affiliate marketing
500
This large European airline is considered the first company to officially outsource back office operations to India.
What is British Airways
500
He is credited with building the 'difference engine'--the world's first programmable computer--in the late 1800s.
Who is Charles Babbage
500
Considered the founder of business computing, he led IBM from 1914 - 1956.
Who is Thomas Watson, Sr.
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