How popular IT companies got their names

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Apple Computers

Apple was the favorite fruit of the company's founder, Steve Jobs. When
three months have passed since Steve registered the business and name
the company was not yet invented, he threatened to give the company the name Apple
Computers, if colleagues do not come up with a better name within 5 hours.

CISCO

This is not an acronym, as many think. This is an abbreviation for San Francisco.

Compaq

This name was derived from comp (computer) and PAQ, meaning small
universal object.
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Corel

This name is derived from the name of the founder Dr. Michael Cowpland: COwpland
REsearch Laboratory.

Google

This name began with a joke about how much information should
index search engine. First there was the name Googol, the word,
denoting a number with 100 zeros. Later, when the founders - Standford graduates Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project
to the investor, they received a check issued in the name of Google.

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith thought about the idea of ​​accessing mail via the web from any
computer from anywhere in the world. When Sabir Bhatia began working with
business plan for the postal service, he went through all the names
ending in mail and eventually made up the word from the word HTML.
Initially, it looked like this: HoTMaiL.

Hewlett packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard threw a coin to name the company,
which they founded - Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel

Updated!
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their company 'Moor Noyce', but this sounded like more noise, which did not fit the name of the company related to electronics, because noise in electronics is due to interference. They used NM Electronics for about a year before they decided to use INTegrated ELectronics or Intel for short. However, Intel was a registered trademark of the hotel chain, so they had to redeem the rights to this name.

Lotus (Notes)

Mitch Kapor took the name for his company from the lotus position, also
known as padmasana. The fact is that he taught
transcendental meditation in the center of yoga.

Microsoft

Coined by Bill Gates to represent a company that creates
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Micro-soft was originally used. Later
hyphen has been removed.

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came to this name when his company began
produce radio for cars. Possibly due to the fact that the popular
then the radio company was Victrola.

ORACLE

Larry Ellison and Bob Ots worked as consultants on a project for the CIA. Code Name for
project was Oracle (the CIA considered this system as a system that provides answers to
all questions). The project was supposed to help use the new programming language SQL,
created by IBM. The project closed with time, but Larry and Bob decided
finish what we started and bring it to the people. They have kept the name of Oracle
and created an RDBMS. Later they used this name for the company.

Sony

Created from the Latin word "sonus", which means sound and "sonny" - the word
from American slang, meaning son.

SUN

Founded by four friends from Stanford University. SUN is
acronym for Standford University Network. Andreas Bechstolsheim created
a microcomputer, Vinod Khosla hired him and Scott McNealy to
produce a computer based on it and bill joey to develop
UNIX-based system for computer.

Yahoo!

The word "yeh" was coined by Jonathan Swift and was used in his
book "Travel Gulivera." It meant disgusting
humanoid creatures. The founders of Yahoo! Jerry Yang and David Filo
they chose this name because they considered themselves to be yeh.