Apple Computers:- Apple was the favourite fruit of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computers. In 3 months he could not find a name for his computer company, and he threatened to call it Apple. Finally, his company became world famous as Apple Computers.
Compaq:- This name was formed by using Com, for computer, and Paq to denote a small integral object.
Corel:- The name was derived from its founder’s name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for Cowpland Research Laboratory.
Google:- 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. The founders presented their project and received a cheque made out to ‘Google’. So, the company was named as ‘Google’.
Hotmail:-Sabeer Bhatia for his mail service, tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as Hot Mail with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard:- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel:- Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore settled their company as ‘Intel’, for an acronym of Integrated Electronics.
Microsoft:- Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to Micro computer Software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, it was renamed ‘Microsoft’ later on.
Motorola:- When his company started manufacturing radios for cars, founder Paul Galvin came up with the name ‘Motorola’ following the popular radio company of that time Victrola.
ORACLE:- Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA, US. The code name for the project was called Oracle. The project was designed to use the newly written SQL code by IBM. They kept the name Oracle for the company later.
Yahoo!:- The word was invented and used by Jonathan Swift 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.
Sony:- It originated from the Latin word ‘sonus’ meaning sound, and ‘sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.