HOW COMPANIES GOT THEIR NAMES | Interesting Facts about company names

Apple Computers--

It was the favourite 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.

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 REsearch

Laboratory.

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'

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 Kapor got the name for his

company from 'The Lotus Position' or

'Padmasana'. Kapor 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 4 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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