Exam 1: Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise

Tony Hsieh served as CEO of _____, and eventually sold the firm to Amazon for $900 million.

SEO and SEM are key tech industry acronyms that have become vital parts of the accounting professional's operating toolkit.

Technology experts in the area of _____ specialize in technology for competitive advantage.

How are entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa leveraging technologies to serve local needs? Give examples.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page were both twenty-something doctoral students at Stanford University when they founded:

Yahoo! was started by _____ and _____.

____________________ and ____________________ are turning sophisticated, high-powered computing into a utility available to even the smallest businesses and nonprofits.

Amazon was started by: a. Jeff Bezos. b. Catherine Cook. c. Shawn Fanning. d. Linus Torvalds. e. Kevin Rose.

Funding projects via online efforts such as Kickstarter are referred to by the term _____________.

Firms are increasingly shifting spending from the Web to other media such as print, radio, and television as these are often easier to track and analyze.

Aspiring investment bankers should study the tech industry since tech firms represent a large portion of firms selling shares on public stock markets for the first time. This process is known as _____.

While process redesign, supply chain management, and factory automation are all tech-centric operations, service operations are not.

The nation of _____ has more Internet users than any other country.

The number of US patent applications awaiting approval has___________ in the past decade.

The _____ is a piece of U.S. legislation that raises executive and board responsibility and ties criminal penalties to certain accounting and financial violations.

_____ has emerged as a catalyst for global change, with Facebook and Twitter playing key organizing roles in uprisings worldwide.

Provide a brief overview of the different careers in the area of information systems.

Crowdsourcing tools and question-and-answer sites like _____ allow firms to reach out for expertise beyond their organizations.

The technology known as ________________ is helping to fuel the current age of fast-growth technology entrepreneurship. This technology means that a start-up can rent the computing resources one previously had to buy at great expense.

The number of U.S. patent applications waiting approval has significantly declined in the past decade.