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1) Which company has tied up with Prakash Books Inida to dole out novels- based on some of its prime time serials?

Ans: Star India. These graphic novels will start with popular serials like Kyunki.. , Kahaani ghar ghar.. Kasauti Zindagi kay.. etc Sony Entertainment is also looking to join the bandwagon and ink pacts for their serials Babul ka aangan etc..

2) Google launched its first ever internet browser last week thus laying a new foundation for a mass transition to web based computing. What has the browser been branded?

Ans: Google Chrome

3) Willow TV, a paid site with a subscriber base of over 1 million registered users, is a US based cricket webcasting portal promoted by Vijay Sinivasan and Sameer Mehta. Which company has acquired a majority stake in Willow TV recently for over Rs 300 cr?

Ans: ADAG Big Entertainment

4) Which product has Adobe decided to discontinue citing lack of demand?

Ans: Flashpaper

5) Which company has invested $11.5 million in convertible debt in BitGravity Inc, a next-generation content delivery network (CDN) used for interactive broadcasting?

Ans: Tata Communications (earlier VSNL)

6) Which company, after receiving regulatory approval from Sebi, will be the first public offering (IPO) by a venture capital firm in India?

Ans: Future Ventures India, the venture capital arm of the Kishore Biyani owned Future Group

7) Which industrialist/ businessman has been conferred the Forbes Lifetime achievement award?

Ans: Lakshmi Mittal

8) The same car made in India is ready to don 3 new badges. Contract manufactured for Nissan by Maruti, it will be called Pixo, and the new Alto for Suzuki Motor Corporation in Europe. What is it going to be known as in India?

Ans: A-Star

9) Which company has filed for a patent on a new fag pack – a cigarette packet cum matchbox before The controller general of patents, designs and trademarks?

Ans: Godfrey Philips

10) Which Indian conglomerate has taken the strategic decision to diversify into steel, and plans to pump Rs 40,000 crore in setting up a 12 mt greenfield steel plant in Jharkand?

Ans: R- ADAG

11) Which American corporation has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch & Co for about $44 billion or around $29 a share?

Ans: Bank of America Corporation (Read the history of Merrill Lynch here)

12) Which global financial services firm founded in 1850, now headed by Richard Fuld Jr, has announced it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection?

Ans: Lehman Brothers

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