global brands

Adobe - named after the river Adobe Creek, which flowed behind the house founder John Warnock (John Warnock).

Adidas - in honor of one of the founders Adi Daslera

Apache - Initially the company was engaged in the supply of patches to programs. From this happened A PAtCHy, which tranformirovalos in Apache. The Indians have their own version =)

Apple - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs). After three months of futile attempts to find a name for a new business, he put his partner an ultimatum: "I'll call the company Apple, if a 5-hours you do not offer the best." Apples Macintosh - the name of the varieties of apples, prodavashegosya in the United States.

Canon - after Kwanon, the Buddhist god of mercy. Was changed to Canon, to avoid the protests of religious organizations.

Casio - in honor of the founder companies can Casio Tadao (Kashio Tadao).

Cisco - short for San Francisco.

Compaq - from Comp and paq (small integrated detail).

Corel - in honor of the company's founder Michael Copeland (Dr. Michael Cowpland). Stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory (Research Laboratory Copeland).

Daewoo - the 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. And Google has been written on the check, which the founders of this project (including, incidentally, the 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 tried all words ending in «mail» and eventually settled on hotmail, as in the title of present letters HTML (the 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 that time already exist hotel chain with the same name. So they decided to stay on the reduction of INTegrated ELectronics.

Kawasaki - in honor of the founder Shozo Kawasaki.

Kodak - K - favorite character George Eastman (George Eastman), the company's founder. He was looking for words beginning and ending of this wonderful letter. Especially because in all the alphabets «K» spelled the same. In the end, Kodak was chosen, it was 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 removed the dash.

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 at the time came to an end on «ola».

Mozilla Foundation - the successor brauzaera 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 - a composite of 3eh Japanese kanji «Nin-ten-do», which can be translated as "heaven bless the hard work».

Nissan - formerly known as Nichon Sangio, which means "Japanese industry».

Nokia - started as a wood processing plant, has grown to the production of rubber products in the Finnish town of Nokia.

Novell - came up with the name of the wife of co-founder Jojo Canova (George Canova). She mistakenly thought that «Novell» in French means "new».

Oracle - founders Larry Ellinson (Larry Ellison) and Bob Watts (Bob Oats) were working on a consulting project for the CIA, code name was Oracle. Subsequently, the project was canceled, but the name remained.

Sanyo - Chinese "Three Ocean»

SAP - «Systems, Applications, Productss in Data Processing», founded by former employees of 4mya IBM'a who worked in a 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 a company logo.

SUN - founded by 4 university friends, short for Stanford University Network.

Suzuki - after the founder Michio Suzuki.

Toshiba - was established after the merger company specializing in consumer goods, Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and elektrokomapnii Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).

Toyota - after the founder Sakichi Toyoda. Later 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 person. The founders of «Yahoo!» Jerry Yang (Jerry Yang) and David Filo (David Filo) chose this name because I called themselves yahoo'mi. However, now the name stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company