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1) Which global company has agreed to buy EDS for $12.6 billion in cash?
Ans: Hewlett Packard

2) Effem India Pvt Ltd, a Hyderabad based confectionery and pet company has been renamed to what?
Ans: Mars International India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mars Inc

3) Ritz Carlton Residencies, in association with which Indian company plans to offer luxury residencies worth over $1 million each in Kochi and Chennai?
Ans: Nitesh Estates

4) Which telecom company has introduced its first major new model in more than a year called The Bold?
Ans: Research in Motion.. The new model is called Blackberry Bold

5) Which company launched a free software application called Worldwide Telescope that allows everyone from space novices to astronomy professors to easily explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets?
Ans: Microsoft

6) Afras Academy for Business Communication is a finishing school for youngsters being set up at the Technopark in Trivandrum which will venture into the field of trainig? Who is the chairman?
Ans: Shashi Tharoor

7) Started in 1994 by Prakash Lakhani and his brothers Jaikishan and Anil, which comanpy has recently filed a draft Red Herring prospectus for an IPO?
Ans: Gini anf Jony

8) Which Microsoft product will go off the market from June 30, 2008?
Ans: Microsoft XP

9) In a shift from its global strategy of tying up with one operator in every country, Apple has decided to sell their iPhones through which two operators in India?
Ans: Vodafone and Airtel

10) Which Indian company has formed a global Joint Venture with Alcatel-Lucent to foray into the fast growing $16 billion Managed Network services Industry?
Ans: Reliance Communications. The JV will cater to GSM and CDMA telecom operators across the globe.

11) Scotland based Voicestream has acquired 75 percent stake in which Chennai based firm?
Ans: Helios Outsourcing

12) Which Indian company has launched the Pik Up Double Cab in Paraguay in partnership with the Reider Group
Ans: Mahindra & Mahindra.. Its called the Mahindra Pik Up

13) Which network equipment maker unveiled an expansion of its high end video conferencing series to include a simpler and cheaper version? (Launched in 2004, it is called Telepresence)
Ans: Cisco

14) Khet Se Agriproduce, which hass launched its wholesale business for fresh fruit and vegetables sourcing and packaging and distribution in Punjab is a Joint Venture between Ireland based Total Produce and which Indian company?
Ans: Tata Chemicals

15) Which cement maker has acquired Larsen and Toubro's Ready Mix Concrete business for $349 million?
Ans: Lafarge

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