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Market Place 10/7-10/11 Flashcards

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What company lost face when Japan Airlines after a 50 year trend sourced an alternative aircraft builder?

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Boeing

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What is the parent company of Airbus?

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European Aeronautic Defence & Space

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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?

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Kyocera

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Who is the founder of Japanese ceramics firm Kyocera?

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Kazuo Inamori

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Who is the CEO of Airbus

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Fabrice Bregier

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Samsung is behind Apple, Microsoft, and Google in what respects to the mobile phone market?

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Software Development

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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?

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Waze Ltd.

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Name some of the companies Samsung is considering purchasing to beef up its software position.

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Green Throttle Games INC., Atari INC., Glympse, Everything.me, Rounds

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Aside from acquiring software companies Samsung is doing what to in Silicon Valley to strengthen its position.

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Building a major research facility near Apple’s offices and launched a software startup accelerator in Palo Alto and NYC.

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What operating system is Samsung co-developing with Intel?

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Tizen

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In an effort to compete with iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora Samsung acquired what company to build a service that would integrate all these abilities?

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mSpot Inc.

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Alcatel is slashing 15,000 jobs to attempt to “refocus” its business. What business is Alcatel shedding?

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Production of second and third generation wireless equipment.

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While Alcatel is shedding 15,000 jobs it is also adding 5,000. What will these 5,000 new jobs be working on?

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Internet routing devices.

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Alcatel’s strategy of shedding and adding of jobs in different areas to refocus its business is being called what by CEO Michel Combes?

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Shift Plan

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Who is the CEO of Alcatel?

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Michel Combes

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16
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Some believe that Alcatel’s slimming down may be a disguise for a possible sale to whom?

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Nokia

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What is the name of the Chinese smartphone start-up who is shaking up the market in China?

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Xiaomi (schau-me, sheow-me)

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Who is the CEO of Xiaomi the Chinese smartphone maker?

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Lei Jun

19
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What is the Mascott of Xiaomi the Chinese smartphone maker?

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Rabbit

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What is the name of the phone that Xiaomi makes that rivals Apple’s iPhone 5C?

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Mi3

21
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Xiaomi’s strategy with selling its phone so cheap is based upon what logic?

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Everything on the internet is free which is the fastest way to attract users

22
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Xiaomi means what in Chinese?

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Millet

23
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What does Xiaomi constantly do?

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Update its version of android from user suggestions

24
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What successful Chinese software company did the CEO of Xiaomi Lei Jun work at?

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Kingsoft

25
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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?

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Kumu Networks Inc.

26
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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?

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self-interference

27
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What is the name of the body set up by the major credit card companies to set and develop security standards?

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PCI Security Standards Council

28
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What Chinese company is suing Cooper Tire alleging its merger with Apollo would undermine their joint venture?

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Chengshan Group

29
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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

A

Sider

30
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What car maker is building a second North African assembly plant that will be located in Algeria?

A

Renault SA

31
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Who is Europe’s 2nd biggest auto manufacturer

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PSA Peugeot Citroen

32
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Glaxo Smith Klein will be submitting for approval an experimental vaccine for what in the coming year?

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Malaria

33
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What is the name of the malaria vaccine GlaxoSmithKlein is developing?

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RTS,S

34
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What group is helping fund GlaxoSmithKlein’s trial of its African Malaria vaccination?

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Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative

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U.S. exports of what type of fuel are booming due to cheap locally sourced oil and more stringent environmental standards in foreign countries?

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Low-Sulfur Diesel

36
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US refiners are eroding who’s market share for fuel in Africa, the Mediterranean, and the East Coast?

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European Refiners

37
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From what African country has demand for US fuel surged?

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Nigeria

38
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What two US refiners are expanding capacity in Louisiana? (One in Texas as well).

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Marathon Petroleum and Valero Energy

39
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Sears holdings has been doing what to raise cash that many view as unusual?

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Selling its best stores

40
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EBITDA

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Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization.

41
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What business units has Sears Holdings been selling off?

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Hometown & Outlets Stores

42
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As a result of relaxed fundraising restrictions start-up can now raise funds over the internet more easily. What is this new vehicle called?

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online syndicate

43
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reduced restrictions on start-up funding from the US government have eliminated the ban on self-promoting known as?

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General Solicitation

44
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What is the online syndicate that allows investors to crowd fund start-ups?

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AngelList

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