MERCEDES
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
ADOBE
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of
founder John Warnock.
APPLE COMPUTERS
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing
a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple
Computers
if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed.It is short for San Francisco.
COMPAQ
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small
integral object.
COREL
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands
for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
GOOGLE
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the
search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word
for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford
graduate students Sergey
Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a
cheque made out to 'Google'...thus the name.
HOTMAIL
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a
computer anywhere in theworld. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business
plan for themail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally
settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language
used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective
uppercasing.
HEWLETT PACKARDBill
Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they
founded wouldbe called Hewlett-Packardor Packard-
Hewlett.
INTEL
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore
Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain
so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
LOTUS (Notes)
Mitch Kapoor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental
Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
MICROSOFT
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft,
the '-' was removed later on.
MOTOROLA
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios forcars. The popular radio company at
the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the
project was calledOracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all
questions or something such). The project was
designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually
was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish
what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and
created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same
name for the company.
SONY
It originated from the Latin word'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used
by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by four Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford
University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a
microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture
computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.
YAHOO!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's
Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and
David Filo selected the name because they considered
themselves yahoos..!!
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
ADOBE
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of
founder John Warnock.
APPLE COMPUTERS
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing
a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple
Computers
if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed.It is short for San Francisco.
COMPAQ
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small
integral object.
COREL
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands
for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the
search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word
for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford
graduate students Sergey
Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a
cheque made out to 'Google'...thus the name.
HOTMAIL
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a
computer anywhere in theworld. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business
plan for themail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally
settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language
used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective
uppercasing.
HEWLETT PACKARDBill
Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they
founded wouldbe called Hewlett-Packardor Packard-
Hewlett.
INTEL
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore
Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain
so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
LOTUS (Notes)
Mitch Kapoor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental
Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
MICROSOFT
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft,
the '-' was removed later on.
MOTOROLA
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios forcars. The popular radio company at
the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the
project was calledOracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all
questions or something such). The project was
designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually
was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish
what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and
created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same
name for the company.
SONY
It originated from the Latin word'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used
by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by four Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford
University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a
microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture
computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.
YAHOO!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's
Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and
David Filo selected the name because they considered
themselves yahoos..!!
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