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Facts about the origin of the names of famous brands
Adobe - is named after the river Adobe Creek, which flowed behind the house of founder John Warnock (John Warnock).
Adidas - in honor of one of the founders Adi Daslera.
Apple - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs). After three months of fruitless attempts to find a name for a new business, he put his partner an ultimatum: "I will call the company Apple, if a 5-hours you do not offer the best." Apples Macintosh - name of the variety of apples, prodavashegosya in the United States.
Canon - after Kwanon, the Buddhist god of mercy. It was changed to Canon, to avoid the protests of religious organizations.
Casio - in honor of the founder companies do Casio Tadao (Kashio Tadao).
Cisco - short for San Francisco.
Compaq - by Comp and paq (small integrated detail).
Corel - in honor of company founder Michael Copeland (Dr. Michael Cowpland). Stands COwpland REsearch Laboratory (Research Laboratory Copeland).
Daewoo - company founder Kim Woo Chong (Kim Woo Chong) called the company modestly, "Great Universe" is the translation from Korean.
Fuji - after the highest mountain in Japan, Mount Fuji.
Google - the name comes from the word Googol, which means one followed by 100 zeros. But Google had written on the check, which the founders of this project (of which, incidentally, a former Russian - Sergey Brin) received from the first investor. Then they called the search engine exactly.
HP (Hewlett-Packard) - founders Bill Hewlett (Bill Hewlett) and Dave Packard (Dave Packard) threw a coin to decide whose name will be the first in the title. As you know, won the Bill.
Hitachi - Japanese dawn.
Honda - the name of the founder Soichiro Honda.
Honeywell - the name of the founder Mark Honeywell.
Hotmail - founder Jack Smith (Jack Smith) had the idea to access e-mail via the web from anywhere in the world. When Sabir Bhatia (Sabeer Bhatia) appeared with the business plan of the service, he went through all the words ending in «mail» and eventually settled on hotmail, since the title was attended by the letters HTML (a markup language of web pages).
Hyundai - Korean "present" (time).
IBM - International Business Machines.
Intel - Bob Noyce (Bob Noyce) and Gordon Moore (Gordon Moore) wanted to name the company Moore Noyce, but by then it would already exist hotel chain with the same name. So they decided to stay on the reduction of INTegrated ELectronics.
Kawasaki - after the founder Shozo Kawasaki.
Kodak - K - favorite character George Eastman (George Eastman), the founder of the company. He searched for words beginning and ending of this wonderful letter. Especially because in all alphabets «K» spelled the same way. In the end, Kodak has been selected, it is alleged that sound makes the camera when shooting.
Konica - previously known as Konishiroku Kogaku.
LG - the first letters of the two Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Lotus - Mitch Kapor (Mitch Kapor), the company's founder, was meditating. Hence the name (lotus posture).
Microsoft - MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally written as Micro-Soft. Then dash removed.
Mitsubishi - came up with the company's founder Yataro Iwasaki (Yataro Iwasaki) in 1870. In Japanese means "three diamonds". The name displayed in the company's logo.
Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin (Paul Galvin) coined the name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. Many manufacturers of audio components in the time came to an end on «ola».
Mozilla Foundation - brauzaera successor to Netscape Navigator. When Mark Aders (Marc Andreesen), founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic, internally it was called Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).
Nabisco - originally «The NAtional BISCuit COmpany», in 1971 changed to Nabisco.
Nikon - originally Nippon Kogaku, meaning "Japanese optics».
Nintendo - compound of 3eh Japanese kanji «Nin-ten-do», which can be translated as "Heaven bless the hard work».
Nissan - previously known as Nichon Sangio, which means "Japanese industry».
< Nokia - started as a wood processing plant, it has grown to the production of rubber products in the Finnish town of Nokia.
< Novell - I came up with the name of the wife of co-founder Joji Canova (George Canova). She mistakenly thought that «Novell» in French means "new».
Oracle - founders Larry Ellinson (Larry Ellison) and Bob Watts (Bob Oats) have worked on consulting projects for the CIA, code name was Oracle. Later, the project was canceled, but the name remained.
Sanyo - in Chinese "Three Ocean».
SAP - «Systems, Applications, Productss in Data Processing», based on me 4 IBM'a former employees who worked in the group Systems / Applications / Projects.
SCO - from the Santa Cruz Operation.
Siemens - founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens (Werner von Siemens).
Sony - from the Latin «Sonus» (sound) and «sonny» (Tiny slang).
Subaru - the name of the constellation. It is the same and displayed on the company's logo.
SUN - founded by 4 university friends, reduction from Stanford University Network.
Suzuki - after the founder Michio Suzuki.
Toshiba - was established after the merger of a company specializing in consumer goods, Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and elektrokomapnii Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).
Toyota strong> - after the founder Sakichi Toyoda. Later it changed to a blagozvochnoe Toyota. Japanese consisted of 8 letters (a lucky number in Japan).
Xerox - The inventor Chestor Carlson (Chestor Carlson), wanted to reflect in the title the word "dry" (because at that time there were only wet copying). «Xer» - dry in Greek.
Yahoo - a word coined by Jonathan Swift (Jonathan Swift) in the book "Gulliver's Travels." So called repulsive, disgusting man. The founders of «Yahoo!» Jerry Yang (Jerry Yang) and David Filo (David Filo) chose this name because I called themselves yahoo'mi. Now, however, the name stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
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