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Message: <blockquote data-quote="numeric" data-source="post: 8271696" data-attributes="member: 288551">Hewlett-Packard<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-012.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Bill  Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company  they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Yahoo! <img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 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. Xerox<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-002.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his  product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then  prevailing wet copying.Sun Microsystems<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-003.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Sony<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-004.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster. SAP<a href="http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/history-of-company-names-09012010.html#ixzz0zUy125lW" target="_blank"><img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-005.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>"Systems,  Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM  employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group  of IBM.Red Hat<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-006.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with  red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it  and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of  Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by  anyone! Oracle<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-007.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Larry  Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 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). Motorola<a href="http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/history-of-company-names-09012010.html#ixzz0zUyZ87xN" target="_blank"><img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-008.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>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.Microsoft<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-009.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to  MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was  removed later on.Lotus<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-010.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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. Intel<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-011.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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. Hotmail<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-013.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 upper casings. Google<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-014.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The name started as a jockey boast 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 'GoogleCisco<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-015.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The  company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a  stylized Golden Gate Bridge. Apple Computers <img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-016.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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. Apache<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-017.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It  got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to  code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -  thus, the name Apache. Adobe<img src="http://dpimg.com/2010/01/History-of-company-names-018.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.<a href="http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/history-of-company-names-09012010.html#ixzz0zV09fQ4u" target="_blank">http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/history-of-company-names-09012010.html#ixzz0zV09fQ4u</a> <a href="http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/history-of-company-names-09012010.html#ixzz0zUyEoydZ" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/history-of-company-names-09012010.html#ixzz0zUyEoydZ" target="_blank"></a> </blockquote>

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