Names of the companies - that mean and whence have gone

Adobe - it is named in honour of river Adobe Creek which flew behind the house of the founder of the company of John Warnock.

Casio - in honour of the founder of company Kashio Tadao.

Cisco - in abbreviated form San Francisco.

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

Corel - in honour of the founder of the company of Michael Kouplenda (Dr. Michael Cowpland). It is deciphered COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Daewoo - the founder of company Kim Vu Chong (Kim Woo Chong) has named the company modestly, « the Big universe » so it is translated with Korean.

Fuji - in honour of the highest mountain of Japan.

Google - the name has taken place from word Googol, meaning unit with 100 zero. And Google it has been written on the check, which founders of this project (among which, by the way, the former Russian - Sergey Brin) have received from the first investor. After that they have named search engine so.

HP (Hewlett-Packard) - founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard stopped a coin to decide, whose name will be the first in the name. As you understand, Bill has won.

Hitachi - on the Japanese is a dawn.

Honda - a name of founder Soichiro Honda

Honeywell - a name of founder Mark Honeywell

Hotmail - to founder Jack Smith (Jack Smith) there has come idea of access to e-mail through web from any point of the world. When Sabeer Bhatia has appeared with the business - plan of the given service, it{he} has touched all words terminating on "mail" and eventually has stopped on hotmail as at the name there were letters HTML (language of a marking of webs - pages).

IBM - International Business Machines.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name company Moore Noyce, but by then already there was a network of hotels with such name. So they have decided to stop on reduction from INTegrated ELectronics.

Kawasaki - in honour of founder Shozo Kawasaki

Kodak - K - George Istmena's favourite letter (George Eastman), the founder of the company. He searched for the words beginning and coming to an end this remarkable letter. As in all alphabets "K" it is written equally. Eventually, it has been chosen Kodak, ostensibly such sound is made with a camera at shooting.

Konica - it is earlier known, as Konishiroku Kogaku.

LG - the first letters of two Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

Lotus - Mitch Kapor, the founder of the company, was engaged in meditation. From here and the name (a pose of a lotus)

Microsoft - MICROcomputer SOFTware. it was initially written, how Micro-Soft. Then a hyphen have removed.

Mitsubishi - the founder of company Jataro Ivasaki (Yataro Iwasaki) in 1870 has thought up. on the Japanese means « Three brilliants ». The name is displayed and in a trade mark of the company.

Motorola - founder Pol Gelvin (Paul Galvin) has thought up the name when his company began manufacture of radio for machines. Many manufacturers of audio-components at that time came to an end on "ola".

Mozilla Foundation - the successor browser Netscape Navigator. When Mark Adersen (Marc Andreesen), founder Netscape, has created a browser on replacement Mosaic, inside the company of it{him} named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).

Nabisco - it is primary « The NAtional BISCuit COmpany », in 1971 has changed on Nabisco.

Nikon - it is primary Nippon Kogaku, " the Japanese optics " means.

Nissan - it is earlier known, as Nichon Sangio, that " the Japanese industry " means.

Nokia - began, as a tree processing factory, has grown up before manufacture of rubber products in Finnish city Nokia.

Oracle - founders of company Larry Ellison and Bob Oats worked above the consulting project for CIA which code name was Oracle. In a consequence the project has been closed, but the name remained.

SAP - " Systems, Applications, Productss in Data Processing ", it is based 4мя by former employees IBM'á who worked in group Systems/Applications/Projects.

SCO - from Santa Cruz Operation.

Siemens - it is based in 1847 Verner a background by Siemens (Werner von Siemens)

Sony - from latin "Sonus" (sound) and "sonny"

Subaru - named constellations. It also is displayed on a trade mark of the company.

SUN - it is based 4th university friends, reduction from Stanford University Network.

Suzuki - named founder Michio Suzuki

Toshiba - it has been based after merge of the company specializing on the consumer goods, Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and electric company Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).

Toyota - named founder Sakichi Toyoda. In a consequence it is changed to Toyota. On - Japanese has consisted of 8 letters (happy number in Japan).

Xerox - Inventor Chestor Carlson (Chestor Carlson), wanted to reflect in the name a word "dry" (as at that time existed only copying is damp). "Xer" - dry on Greec.

3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.

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