How Top Companies Got Their Names?

iNF3RN0

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Apple Computers
It was the favourite 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.


PakGamers (lol..future company)
Originally founded by Muhammad Bilal aka iNFERNO, PakGamers means "Pakistani Gamers" to provide a platform and support for the local video gamers and to promote gaming culture+Industry in the Country.


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Chandoo

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PakGamers (lol..future company)
Originally founded by Muhammad Bilal aka iNFERNO, PakGamers means "Pakistani Gamers" to provide a platform and support for the local video gamers and to promote gaming culture+Industry in the Country.

you should add

"later taken over via hostile takeover by chandoo :p
 

devilscallmedad

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PakGamers (lol..future company)
Originally founded by Muhammad Bilal aka iNFERNO, PakGamers means "Pakistani Gamers" to provide a platform and support for the local video gamers and to promote gaming culture+Industry in the Country.
didn't radd make up this name when we used to be gamerzspot?
 

Chandoo

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jeese, how long have you guys been together lol, i thought pakgamers officially formed december 2005
 

iNF3RN0

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^ yes it does..I first I had a domain www.gamerzspot.com then after a month or so RADD (that time he was Inferno_X) suggest that we should have a name which represent Pakistan, so I come up with PakGamers!

@Devil: opps He did? I think he only told me to get a name based on Pakistan..anyway I don't remember it...so full naming credit goes to RADD :) thanks for pointing it out...

@Chando: RADD and Devil were the first guys who actually supported PG..so U can say that they are also pioneer members..
 

Rapchik Killer

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Ya billal, i bet that newsbot from wd wudnt ever be able to even come close to chandoo! Very interesting info bak dere btw, and i didnt know it was gamerzspot before, i thought it just began wid pg!
 

radd

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yeah , i named pg .... worship me !

hey , does this mean if anything ...umm... unfortunate happens to inferno the site would be transferred to me ? (evil)

boy , i sure hope nothing happens to bilal. i know for sure he wont be attacked by ninjas on tuesday in a dark alley near his house........ forget that you ever read the last sentence or else ....
 
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