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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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were research students at Stanford University when they built a search engine that ranked pages by the links pointing to them, and they registered Google as a company in 1998. The firm works from Mountain View in California, and in 2015 it was reorganised under a holding company named Alphabet Inc. Option A is wrong because Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975. Option B is wrong because Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, with Ronald Wayne, founded Apple in 1976. Option D is wrong because Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded the chip maker Intel in 1968, and Moore is separately remembered for Moore's law on the doubling of transistors.
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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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Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen at Albuquerque in New Mexico, moved to the Seattle area in 1979 and has had its main campus at Redmond in Washington state ever since.
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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The company was registered in 1945 by M. H. Hasham Premji and made vanaspati cooking oil and laundry soap at Amalner in Maharashtra.
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.
Read the full explanation →The semiconductor company Intel was founded in 1968 by
- A.Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem
- B.John Warnock and Charles Geschke
- C.Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
- D.Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
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Robert Noyce, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, and Gordon Moore, who gave the observation known as Moore's law that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years, left an earlier firm and founded Intel in 1968.
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