There are lots of big companies in this world such as Microsoft,Apple,Pepsi,Adidas etc. who sets their powers in all over the world. But the most important question is “how these companies get their names ?” So , my dear friends today , in this post I am going to solve your doubts related to this question. Read the full article and if it is helpful for you or you get some knowledge from this post then don’t forget to share it with your friends. So, let’s start without wasting of time.
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| APPLE |
APPLE COMPUTERS
Steve Jobs was three months late in filling a name for the business, because he didn’t get any better name for his company. So, one day he told the staff, “If I do not get a better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything I like”. Since at 5 o’clock nobody came up with a better name , and he was eating an apple at that time so he kept the name of the company as “Apple Computers”.
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| COREL |
COREL
The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for Cowpland Research Laboratory.
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| HP |
HEWLETT PACKARD (HP)
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. And the winner was not Bill, but Dave.
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| CISCO |
CISCO
It is not an acronym as is popularly believed. This company’s name is derived from short form for San Francisco.
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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.
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| ADOBE |
ADOBE
The name of Adobe Company was come from the name of the river Adobe Greek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
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| MICROSOFT |
MICROSOFT
The name of the company was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally Christened Micro-Soft, the ”-“ was removed later on.
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| YAHOO |
YAHOO!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swiff 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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| ADIDAS |
ADIDAS
The brand named after German maker Adolph Dassler, who was called Adi by friends. Adi plus the first three letters of his last name makes Adidas.
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| SONY |
SONY
It originated from the Latin word “Sonus” meaning sound and “Sonny” a slang used by Americans to refers to a bright youngster.
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| PEPSI |
PEPSI
Pepsi was named after dyspepsia, for which it was promoted originally to help relieve.
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| eBay |
EBAY
eBay is a e- commerce company. The creator of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, had a Web consulting company called Echo Bay Technology Group. Echobay.com was already taken when he tried to register it, so he settled on eBay.com instead.
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| LEGO |
LEGO
The popular toys are named for the Danish phrase “leg godt”, which means “play well”. By taking this thought the company named as LEGO.
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