Saturday, February 9, 2013

How Famous Tech Companies Got Their Names?!

Apple Computers:


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It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late for 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. 



 Google:


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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’. So, instead of returning the cheque for correction, they decided to change the name to Google. 



Hewlett Packard:


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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett :D



INTEL:


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  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.



Microsoft:


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Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Motorola :


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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.



SONY:


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It originated from the Latin word ‘sonus’ meaning sound and ‘sonny’ as lang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

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