Things You Should Know - Episode XVI

• The name ‘Accenture’ comes from ‘accent on the future’. Prior to 2001, the company was called Andersen Consulting.

• Scarlet Collar Worker is a term often used to refer to people who
  work in the pornography industry, especially women entrepreneurs in the field
  of internet pornography.

• Launched in October 1992, Zee TV
  was India’s first Hindi satellite
  channel. The channel is owned by Essel Group, owned by Subhash Chandra.

Dr Guy Scott



• Dr Guy Lindsay Scott (born 1 June 1944) is the
  Acting President of Zambia. He served as Vice President of Zambia from
  2011 to 2014, and became acting president on the death of Michael
  Sata on 28 October 2014. He is the first white African head of
  state since South Africa’s F. W. de Klerk in 1994.

• It is interesting to know that in
  1958 that Bank of America (BofA) launched its BankAmericard credit card programme, which later became Visa. The history of Bank of America
  dates back to 1904, when Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of
  Italy in San Francisco. The Bank of Italy served the needs of many
  immigrants settling in the United States at that time, a service denied to them
  by the existing American banks who were typically discriminatory and often denied
  service to all but the wealthiest. In 1922, Giannini established Bank of
  America and Italy in Italy by buying Banca dell’Italia Meridionale, the
  latter established in 1918.  In 1928,
  Giannini merged his bank with Bank of America, Los Angeles, and
  consolidated it with his other bank holdings to create what would become the
  largest banking institution in the country. He renamed the Bank of Italy on
  November 3, 1930, calling it Bank of America National Trust and Savings
  Association.