Tech Companies

Question: This company’s first customer was Walt Disney Productions in 1939, which bought audio technology to make the film Fantasia.

Answer: Hewlett-Packard, also known as HP, produced its first desktop computer in 1980.

Question: The original name of this tech company was PC’s Limited.

Answer: PC’s Limited became Dell Inc. in 1988 after rebranding. For a time after 1999 the company was the largest seller of PCs in the United States.

Question: This company got its start by selling books online.

Answer: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos started the company as a Web site for selling books online to try to capitalize on the Internet’s early consumer boom.

Question: This company was famously started out of a Silicon Valley garage by two high-school friends.

Answer: Apple Inc. is, as of 2016, the largest tech company in the world.

Question: This tech company is the maker of the popular Galaxy brand of smartphones.

Answer: Samsung is a diverse tech company that produces phones, home appliances, semiconductors, and many other electronics.

Question: The first product this company produced was an electric rice cooker.

Answer: Sony has gone from producing home electronics to creating some of the most innovative computers in the world.

Question: This company acquired the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility in 2012.

Answer: Google has grown large since its origins as a search engine founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. As of 2016 its revenue was over $70 billion.

Question: This company is the number one manufacturer of semiconductor computer circuits—the guts of a computer.

Answer: Intel processors can be found in most computers. The company’s name comes from the phrase “integrated electronics.”