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Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of
founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in
filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple
Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small
integral object.
Corel
The name was derived from the 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. After founders - Stanford
graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel
investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer
anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the
mail service, he 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 HoTMaiL 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 wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but
that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an
acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer
SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called
Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency). 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). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM.
The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what
they started and bring
it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later
they kept the same name for the company.
Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang
used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford
University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla
recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill
Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
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.
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Orginally posted by rajcanada
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.
so who won the tosse??
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Any info on Indian comapnies like Mahindra & Mahindra, Wipro, Infosys, Raunaq group etc
Raunaq group
The man who could not afford money for meals 40 years ago was responsible for single-handedly building a diversified group with $525 million in turnover and creating jobs for 9,000 people.
From working as an underpaid assistant to a steel pipes merchant in Lahore, now in Pakistan, to creating a conglomerate with interests in tyres, steel tubes, pharmaceutical and automotive components, he was a textbook rags-to-riches icon.
That's Raunaq Singh for you, widely hailed as the grand old "sardar" of the Indian industry.
Raunaq Singh's corporate journey from Lahore to New Delhi, first as a steel tube merchant, then as a steel tubes manufacturer and finally as the founder of Apollo Tyres, has been the stuff of corporate folklore.
He started his corporate journey without a pedigree, higher education or money, essential ingredients for success in corporate India, making it possible for ordinary folks to dream big.
He was among the first post-partition breed of businessmen who came to India after the creation of Pakistan with nothing to fall on.
Born on August 16,1922, at Daska in Pakistan, Raunaq Singh learnt the elementary lessons of business skills while being employed as a salesman of a steel pipes merchant in Lahore earning Rs 8 a month — a princely amount in those times.
The seeds of entrepreneurship were planted when Raunaq Singh cashed in on an opportunity thrown up by the dearth of waterpipes in the areas around Lahore. The profits he, thus , earned were ploughed back in the form of setting up his own business in steel pipes.
The pangs of post-Partition and its aftermath soon pushed Raunaq Singh back to the brinks of penury. However, displaying exemplary determination, he put brick by brick to take on the might of established giants in steel tube manufacturing - an area of business where Tata Tubes and Kalinga Steel were deeply entrenched and had established roots.
The success in steel tube manufacturing was the stepping stone towards greater achievements leading the establishment of the Raunaq Group of Companies about three decades ago having diversified business interests. The group companies are : Apollo Tyres, Bharat Steel Tubes, Bharat Gear Limited, Raunaq International Limited, Menarini International Limited and Raunaq Automotive Components Limited.
Raunaq Singh had been a prominent industry leader and the President of the Ficci,Assocham, the PHDCCI and the Federation of Indian Export Organisation.
"I thank god for giving me whatever I could have desired. Now all I want is to be able to help people and generate as many jobs as possible," Raunaq Singh said in a media interview.
"If you give one person a job, you feed six mouths. That is the way I look at it. It is this desire to do something good that has kept me so active way past the age a normal man would have retired."
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