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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 the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the
business plan for the mail 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 PACKARD:
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the
company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or 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 for cars. 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
called
Oracle (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.
Regards,
Vikrant Tadakhe
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