Adobe, the company behind PostScript, PDF and Photoshop, was founded in 1982 by
- A.Michael Dell and Jensen Huang
- B.John Warnock and Charles Geschke
- C.Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
- D.Jerry Yang and David Filo
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The two left a research centre in California and founded Adobe in 1982 at San Jose, naming it after a creek near Warnock's home. Their first product was the PostScript page description language that made desktop publishing possible, and the company went on to create the Portable Document Format, Photoshop and Illustrator. Option A is wrong because Michael Dell founded Dell in 1984 and Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993; they are not partners. Option C is wrong because Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto garage in 1939. Option D is wrong because Jerry Yang and David Filo founded the early web portal Yahoo in the mid nineteen nineties at Sunnyvale in California.
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Practice Questions
View allThe headquarters of Microsoft Corporation is located at
- A.Cupertino, California
- B.Redmond, Washington
- C.Armonk, New York
- D.Seattle, Washington
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Read the full explanation →Google was founded by which pair of students at Stanford University?
- A.Bill Gates and Paul Allen
- B.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
- C.Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- D.Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
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Read the full explanation →Infosys was founded in 1981 in which city?
- A.Bengaluru
- B.Pune
- C.Mumbai
- D.Hyderabad
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Infosys was started in 1981 at Pune by N. R. Narayana Murthy together with six colleagues, among them Nandan Nilekani, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, N. S. Raghavan and Ashok Arora, with a very small amount of borrowed capital.
Read the full explanation →Wipro was registered in 1945 under which original name?
- A.Western India Vegetable Products Limited
- B.Hindustan Computers Limited
- C.Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
- D.Western India Petroleum Products Limited
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Read the full explanation →HCL, one of the earliest Indian computer companies, was founded in 1976 by
- A.Azim Premji
- B.Shiv Nadar
- C.N. R. Narayana Murthy
- D.F. C. Kohli
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Shiv Nadar and a group of colleagues left their jobs at an electronics firm and set up Hindustan Computers Limited, shortened to HCL, in 1976 to design and sell Indian-made microcomputers.
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