Thursday, August 19, 2010

Daily Trivia #349 - Riches to Rags !!!

Id each image and connect to a common link.
(Be wary as part answers won't fetch any marks, so better identify each clue given)

6 comments:

  1. (Clockwise from top left) The first image in the collage is that of the logo of Carnegie Mellon university, Pennsylvania. The big image at the center shows the coat of arms and the motto of the Commonwealth of Massachusettes. Telefonica, as shown on the third image, is a Spanish telecommuunications company. The fifth is a black labrador, symbolic of a black dog that appears on the logo of Lycos. The final image is that of a bursting bubble, which is symbolic of the internet bubble of 1995-2000.
    The connections: The founder of Lycos, Michael Loren Mauldin, studied in Carnegie Mellon, and the company itself is based in Massachusettes. The black dog appears on the logo of Lycos. Lycos was acquired by the Spanish telecommunications company, Telefonica, nearthe peak time of the internet bubble.

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  2. Carnegie Mellon University
    commonwealth of massachusetts
    lycos
    telefonica
    pic of the bubble burst taken by richard heeks
    connect:lycos, which was a web bubble-era star was formed by Michael Loren Mauldin in Carnegie Mellon University,its first ceo was from boston which is in massachusetts,it been sold 2 a indian company ybrant for just $36 million compared to a decade ago wen it was sold at $12 billion to south korea's Daum Communications.....

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  3. connect : Lycos (the search engine & web portal)

    1. logo of Carnegie mellon univ.... the univ in which michael loren mauldin began lycos as a research project.
    2. Great seal of Massachusetts.... Headquarters of lycos is in massachusetts.

    3.Telefonica----In 2000 lycos was sold to terra networks which was the internet arm of spanish telecom company Telefonica.

    4.figure represents the peak of the internet bubble---- Lycos was sold to terra networks near the peak of the internet bubble.

    5.Black labrador retriever---- Lycos logo...

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  4. Connect:Lycos Inc. that sold a decade ago for more than $12 billion, has been acquired for $36 million which was aquired by Indian firm Ybrant Digital

    pic1)Michael Loren Maudlin of Carnegie Mellon University started Lycos as a research project.
    pic2(yellow man standing)-Headquarters of Lycos in Waltham, Massachusetts
    pic3-It was acquired by Terra Networks, the Internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica
    pic4-dot-com bubble burst,after the dot-com bubble burst the company began to loose its value
    pic5-logo of lycos contains a running black dog

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  5. Good one guys...keep up the good work !!!

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  6. Like your misc. questions too.Well done man.

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