Market Place 10/7-10/11 Flashcards
What company lost face when Japan Airlines after a 50 year trend sourced an alternative aircraft builder?
Boeing
What is the parent company of Airbus?
European Aeronautic Defence & Space
Part of the decision to not source Boeing for its most recent set of purchases came from the new owner Kazuo Inamori. What well known Japanese company did he found?
Kyocera
Who is the founder of Japanese ceramics firm Kyocera?
Kazuo Inamori
Who is the CEO of Airbus
Fabrice Bregier
Samsung is behind Apple, Microsoft, and Google in what respects to the mobile phone market?
Software Development
Samsung bought an Israeli mobile-mapping company earlier this year to help its deficit of knowledge in software. What is the name of that Israeli company?
Waze Ltd.
Name some of the companies Samsung is considering purchasing to beef up its software position.
Green Throttle Games INC., Atari INC., Glympse, Everything.me, Rounds
Aside from acquiring software companies Samsung is doing what to in Silicon Valley to strengthen its position.
Building a major research facility near Apple’s offices and launched a software startup accelerator in Palo Alto and NYC.
What operating system is Samsung co-developing with Intel?
Tizen
In an effort to compete with iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora Samsung acquired what company to build a service that would integrate all these abilities?
mSpot Inc.
Alcatel is slashing 15,000 jobs to attempt to “refocus” its business. What business is Alcatel shedding?
Production of second and third generation wireless equipment.
While Alcatel is shedding 15,000 jobs it is also adding 5,000. What will these 5,000 new jobs be working on?
Internet routing devices.
Alcatel’s strategy of shedding and adding of jobs in different areas to refocus its business is being called what by CEO Michel Combes?
Shift Plan
Who is the CEO of Alcatel?
Michel Combes
Some believe that Alcatel’s slimming down may be a disguise for a possible sale to whom?
Nokia
What is the name of the Chinese smartphone start-up who is shaking up the market in China?
Xiaomi (schau-me, sheow-me)
Who is the CEO of Xiaomi the Chinese smartphone maker?
Lei Jun
What is the Mascott of Xiaomi the Chinese smartphone maker?
Rabbit
What is the name of the phone that Xiaomi makes that rivals Apple’s iPhone 5C?
Mi3
Xiaomi’s strategy with selling its phone so cheap is based upon what logic?
Everything on the internet is free which is the fastest way to attract users
Xiaomi means what in Chinese?
Millet
What does Xiaomi constantly do?
Update its version of android from user suggestions
What successful Chinese software company did the CEO of Xiaomi Lei Jun work at?
Kingsoft
A small start-up is challenging one of the long held preceptions in communications that mobile devices can’t transmit and receive data on one frequency at the same time. What is this start-up?
Kumu Networks Inc.
The problem of not being able to send and receive information over the same frequency at the same time is know as what in the telecommunications industry?
self-interference
What is the name of the body set up by the major credit card companies to set and develop security standards?
PCI Security Standards Council
What Chinese company is suing Cooper Tire alleging its merger with Apollo would undermine their joint venture?
Chengshan Group
What is the name of the Algerian State Owned Steel Company that is expanding capacity because of high construction and auto demand in North Africa? They are partnered with ArcelorMittal
Sider
What car maker is building a second North African assembly plant that will be located in Algeria?
Renault SA
Who is Europe’s 2nd biggest auto manufacturer
PSA Peugeot Citroen
Glaxo Smith Klein will be submitting for approval an experimental vaccine for what in the coming year?
Malaria
What is the name of the malaria vaccine GlaxoSmithKlein is developing?
RTS,S
What group is helping fund GlaxoSmithKlein’s trial of its African Malaria vaccination?
Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative
U.S. exports of what type of fuel are booming due to cheap locally sourced oil and more stringent environmental standards in foreign countries?
Low-Sulfur Diesel
US refiners are eroding who’s market share for fuel in Africa, the Mediterranean, and the East Coast?
European Refiners
From what African country has demand for US fuel surged?
Nigeria
What two US refiners are expanding capacity in Louisiana? (One in Texas as well).
Marathon Petroleum and Valero Energy
Sears holdings has been doing what to raise cash that many view as unusual?
Selling its best stores
EBITDA
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization.
What business units has Sears Holdings been selling off?
Hometown & Outlets Stores
As a result of relaxed fundraising restrictions start-up can now raise funds over the internet more easily. What is this new vehicle called?
online syndicate
reduced restrictions on start-up funding from the US government have eliminated the ban on self-promoting known as?
General Solicitation
What is the online syndicate that allows investors to crowd fund start-ups?
AngelList
