How Famous Companies were Named ?

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

Yahoo!

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.

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

Xerox








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.

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

Sun Microsystems







Founded by four Stanford University buddies,
Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

Sony

From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by
Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

SAP








"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees
who used to work in the 'Systems/Applicatio ns/Projects' group of IBM.

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

Red Hat







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!

[Mr.Khan]

How Famous Companies were Named ?

Oracle







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).

[ASK Afridi]

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[Tanha Hassan]

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[jam1]

Re: How Famous Companies were Named ?

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