Cogito Ergo Sum IX

1. Connect2. Connect3. Connect4. The company has its origins in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, USA, when anemployee of Southland Ice Company, Joe C. Thompson, started sellingmilk, eggs and bread from an ice dock because of ice's ability tostore things. Name the company.
5. "Ruinous love of a barbaric relic." - Who on what?
6. In a first for X, it is asking people to hold parties in their homes to showcase Y, due to be launched on October 22. Interested folk can register on houseparty.com, an online party coordinating service. If selected, you get a free Y. Every host will also have a chance to win a PC worth $750. Houseparty.com will help you organise the party, and will supply a special kit, which may include some little things like keychains or t-shirts for guests. You can choose from four different party themes: PhotoPalooza, Media Mania, Setting up with Ease, and Family Friendly Fun.
7. Non-profit cooperative and only south-asian company to operate its own communication satellite. Took over Reuters operations after Independence.
8. This company was founded in 1922 by a group of 6 telecommunications companies - Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston. Has the motto "Nation shall speak peace unto Nation".
9. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is in news as the latest battleground between MamtaBannerjee and Lalu Prasad Yadav. Give the what and why.
10. This conglomerate derives its name from the founders' first initials. One of the group companies is India's largest private fuel retailer. Launched The MobileStore in 2007, a retail chain for end-to-end mobile and communication solutions.
11. MrRaghunandan Saran, an industrialist, was persuaded by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to start this company. It was established in 1948 and initially assembled Austin cars. Today this company is the flagship of a UK-based conglomerate.
12. Founded in 1951 in Quincy, Massachusetts by William Rosenberg. Every morning, nearly all U.S. households repeat the same ritual at the time of breakfast: Soaking the bun at breakfast table. This chain wanted to reflect precisely this action in its name and incorporated the two key words for their establishments.
13. Connect the Following Ships: Grand Turk, Friendship, Wesley, Salem, Birmingham, Hamilton
14. It started off as Peutronics Pvt. Ltd. with the aim of using computers to simplify the tedious job of keeping accounts. Founder’s son developed the commercial software X with sales in 88 countries. Success of X led to change in company’s name from Peutronics to X
15. X was founded in 1923 under the name "Ideal". Its core business was the manufacturing of headphones. If the headphones came through quality tests, the company would give the headphones a blue dot. The headphones quickly became known as the blue dots or X in local language. The quality symbol would become a trademark and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.

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