Company Name Etymologies v 1.1

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August 9, 2010

Why are they called, what they are called?

Version 1.1

Ravi Handa & Avinash Maurya

HANDAKA FUNDA

C OMPANY N AME E TYMOLOGIES


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PrefaceWhen we compiled the first edition of the eBook we thought we would get a total of 20-25downloads because there are not that many quizzers who would be interested in CompanyName Etymologies. Even if they were interested, they always had the Wikipedia l ist to gothrough. The response to the eBook by readers was a pleasant surprise with number of downloads reaching 600. We know that it is not a big deal but it made us happy. Somehow, theeffort seemed worthwhile.

It is at this point we would like to clarify that we have not compiled this list on our own. We

have just copied it from Wikipedia (Original Link ) and edited the hell out of it. What we mean bythat is we have removed the etymologies of companies that we believe are not very popular /well-known. Obviously, there can be an error in judgment and if you feel that we have madethat error please mail us with the name of the companies you would like to see in this list. Wepromise that we would update the list for the next version.

When we put out the first edition, the Wikipedia post had around 500 entries and our eBookhad around 200.

In this edition we have added around 27 new entries like Zippo, Yamaha, Warner Bros, Maruti,Parle, etc. which do not exist on the Wikipedia page.

Also, feel free to contact us for well whatever you think you should contact us for.

Cheers,

Ravi HandaAvinash Maurya
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20th Century Fox Film studio; formed in 1935 through the merger of William Fox 'sFox Film, and Twentieth Century Pictures .[1] 3Com Network technology producer; the three com s are com puter , com munication , and com patibility .[4] 3M from the company's original name, M innesota M ining and M anufacturingCompany .[5] 7-Eleven Convenience stores; renamed from "U-Tote'm" in 1946 to reflect their newlyextended hours, 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m .[6]

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ABN AMRO in the 1960s, the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (Dutch TradingSociety; 1824) and De Twentsche Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank Nederland

(ABN; General Bank of the Netherlands); in 1966, the Amsterdamsche Bank and theRotterdamsche Bank merged to form the Amro Bank; in 1991, ABN and Amro Bank merged to form ABN AMRO.Accenture from " Accent on the fut ure ". The name Accenture was proposed by acompany employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process( BrandStorming ). Before January 1, 2001, the company was called AndersenConsulting .[9] Acer Born as Multitech International in 1976, the company changed its name to Acer in1987. The Latin word for sharp, acute, able and facile Adidas from the name of the founder Adolf ( Adi ) Das sler .[11] Adobe Systems from the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John

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Akai named for its founder, Masukichi Akai .[14] Akamai from the Hawaiian word akamai meaning smart or clever ;[15] the companydefines it as "intelligent, clever and cool" .[16] Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel was named from Socit Alsacienne de ConstructionsAtomiques, de Tl comunications et d'Electronique .[18] It took over Lucent Technologiesin 2006.Alcoa Aluminum Co mpany of America .[19] Alfa Romeo the company was originally known as ALFA, an acronym for AnonimaLombarda Fabbrica Automobili. When Nicola Romeo bought ALFA in 1915, hissurname was appended.AltaVista Spanish for "high view".Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier nameof Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon . He saw thepotential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar)bookstore. (Alternative: Amazon was chosen to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo,which listed entries alphabetically.)AMD Advanced M icro Devices
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Amstrad Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc was founded by Sir Alan Michael Sugar inthe UK. The name is a contraction of Alan M ichael Sugar Trad ing.Anheuser-Busch InBev Formed by the 2008 purchase of Anheuser-Busch by InBev . Anheuser-Busch was named for the company's original founder, Eberhard Anheuser , andhis later partner Adolphus Busch .

AOL from America Online. The company was founded in 1983 as Quantum ComputerServices.Apache according to the project's 1997 FAQ: "The Apache group was formed around anumber of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3.The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server. "[23] Apple For the favorite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked atan apple orchard, and to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicatedimagery created by other computer companies at the time which had names such asIBM, DEC, Cincom and Tesseract Arcelor created in 2001 by a merger of Arbed (Luxembourg), Aceralia (Spain) andUsinor (France) with the ambition of becoming a major player in the steel industry.

Ask.com search engine formerly named after Jeeves , the gentleman's gentleman (valet , not butler ) in P. G. Wodehouse 's series of books. Ask Jeeves was shortened to Ask in2006.Asus named after Pegasus , the winged horse of Greek mythology. The first three lettersof the word were dropped to get a high position in alphabetical listings. An Asuscompany named Pegatron, using the spare letters, was spun off in 2008 .[25] Aston Martin from the "Aston Hill" races (near Aston Clinton ) where the company wasfounded, and the surname of Lionel Martin , the company's founder.AT&T the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its nameto AT&T in the 1990s.Atari named from the board game Go. "Atari" is a Japanese word to describe a positionwhere an opponent's stones are in danger of being captured. It is similar, though notidentical, to "check" in chess. The original games company was American but wanted aJapanese-sounding name.Audi Latin translation of the German name "Horch". The founder August Horch left thecompany after five years, but still wanted to manufacture cars. Since the original "Horch"company was still there, he called his new company Audi, the Latin form of his lastname. In English it is: "hark!".

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Bayer named after Friedrich Bayer, who founded the company in 1863.BBC British Broadcasting Corporation, originally British Broadcasting Company . Ben & Jerry's named after Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who founded an ice creamparlor in 1978 after completing a correspondence course on ice cream making fromPennsylvania State University. The company, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.was later taken over by Unilever . BenQ Bringing En joyment and Quality to lif e[28] BHP Broken H ill Proprietary, named after the town of Broken Hill , where BHP wasfounded (now BHP Billiton)
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BIC Corporation the pen company was named after one of its founders, Marcel Bich.He dropped the final h to avoid a potentially inappropriate English pronunciation of thename.Blaupunkt Blaupunkt ("Blue dot") was founded in 1923 under the name "Ideal". Itscore business was the manufacturing of headphones . If the headphones came through

quality tests, the company would give the headphones a blue dot. The headphonesquickly became known as the blue dots or blaue Punkte . The quality symbol wouldbecome a trademark and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.BMW Bayerische M otoren W erke ( Bavarian Motor Factories ).Boeing named after founder William E. Boeing. It was originally called Pacific AeroProducts Co.Bosch named after founder Robert Bosch. Robert Bosch GmbH (full company name) isa German diversified technology-based corporation.Bose Corporation named after founder Amar Bose . BSNL from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (India Communications CorporationLimited).

BP formerly British Petroleum, now BP. (The slogan "Beyond Petroleum" hasincorrectly been taken to refer to the company's new name following its rebranding effortin 2000.)Bridgestone named after founder Shojiro Ishibashi. The surname Ishibashi ( )means "stone bridge", or "bridge of stone".BT formerly British Telecom (from BT Group, formerly British Telecommunicationsplc.)BHEL Bharat Heavy E lectricals L imited, a government of India company.

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CA Computer Associates was founded in 1976 as Computer Associates International,Inc. by Charles Wang Cadillac named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe,sieur de Cadillac , founder of Detroit, Michigan. Cadillac is a small town in the South of France . Canon Originally (1933) Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory the new name(1935) derived from the name of the company's first camera, the Kwanon , in turn namedafter the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy.Carrefour chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets which started with a store near acrossroads (carrefour in French) in Annecy.Caterpillar Originally Holt Tractor Co, merged with Best Tractor Co. in 1925. Acompany photographer exclaimed aloud of a Holt tractor that the tracks' movementresembled a caterpillar moving along the ground. The name stuck.Cathay Pacific Airways Limited The airline was founded on 24 September 1946 byAmerican Roy C. Farrell and Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow, with each man puttingup HK$1 to register the airline. They named it Cathay Pacific because Cathay was theancient name given to China; and Pacific because Farrell speculated that they would oneday fly across the Pacific.
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Casio from the name of its founder, Kashio Tadao, who had set up the company KashioSeisakujo as a subcontractor factory.CBS Columbia Broadcasting SystemChevrolet named after company co-founder Louis Chevrolet , a Swiss-born auto racer.The company was merged into General Motors in 1917 and survives only as a brand

name.Chrysler named after the company founder, Walter P. Chrysler . Cisco short for San Fran cisco . Citron named after Andr-Gustave Citron (1878 1935), a French entrepreneur of Dutch descent. He was the fifth and last child of the Dutch Jewish diamond merchantLevie Citroen and Mazra Kleinmann (of Warsaw, Poland). The Citroen family moved toParis from Amsterdam in 1873 where the name changed to Citron.Coca-Cola derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Colacreator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' to make the name look better.Colgate-Palmolive formed from a merger of soap manufacturers Colgate & Companyand Palmolive-Peet. Peet was dropped in 1953. Colgate was named after William

Colgate, an English immigrant, who set up a starch, soap and candle business in NewYork City in 1806. Palmolive was named for the two oils (Palm and Olive) used in itsmanufacture.Comcast from com munications and broad cast .Compaq from comp uter and "pack" to denote a small integral object; or: CompatibilityAnd Quality; or: from the company's first product, the very compact Compaq Portable . COMSAT a contraction of com munications sat ellites. This American digitaltelecommunications and satellite company was founded during the era of U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy era to develop the technology.ConocoPhillips formed from the merger of Conoco (from Con tinental O il Co mpany)and the Phillips Petroleum Company . Corel from Co wpland Re search Laboratory, after the name of the company's founder,Dr. Michael Cowpland .[31] Cray supercomputer company named after its founder, Seymour Cray .

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Dabur - Dr. S.K. Burman , laid the foundations of what is today known as Dabur India Limited . The brand name Dabur is derived from the words 'Da' for Daktar or Doctoand 'bur' from Burman.Daewoo company founder Kim Woo Chong called it Daewoo which means "GreatHouse" or "Great Universe" in Korean .

Danone (Dannon in the U.S.) Isaac Carasso in Barcelona made his first yoghourts withthe nickname of his first son Daniel (DAN-ONE)Datsun first called DAT, from the initials of its financiers Den, Aoyama and Takeuchi.Soon changed to DATSON to imply a smaller version of their original car, then (as SONcan mean "loss" in Japanese) again to DATSUN when they were acquired by Nissan.Debian project founder Ian Murdock named it after himself and his girlfriend, Deb ra.Dell named after its founder, Michael Dell . The company changed its name from DellComputer in 2003.
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DHL named after its founders, Adrian Dalsey, Larry H illblom, and Robert Lynn.Digg, Inc. - Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech)originally wanted to call the site "Diggnation", but Kevin wanted a simpler name. Hechose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, upto the front page. The site was called "Digg" instead of "Dig" because the domain name

"dig.com" was previously registered, by Walt Disney Internet Group. "Diggnation"would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcastdiscussing popular stories from Digg.The Walt Disney Company , named for its co-founder Walt Disney . DKNY Donna K aran New York.Dow named after its founder, Herbert Henry Dow .

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EA Games EA is from E lectronic Arts. The company was founded in May 1982 asAmazin' Software and changed its name to Electronic Arts in October the same year.eBay Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed aweb consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. "Echo Bay" didn't refer tothe town in Nevada, "It just sounded cool", Omidyar reportedly said. Echo Bay MinesLimited , a gold mining company, had already taken EchoBay.com, so Omidyar registeredwhat (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.EDS E lectronic Data Systems, founded in 1962 by former IBM salesman Ross Perot . According to the company history :[34] "He chose Electronic Data Systems from potentialnames he scribbled on a pledge envelope during a service at Highland Park PresbyterianChurch in Dallas."EMI formerly Electric and Musical Industries Ltd.ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Epson Epson Seiko Corporation, the Japanese printer and peripheral manufacturer, wasnamed from " Son of E lectronic Printer"Essar Group - Essar is named after the first letters of founders names S and R, ie, ShriShashi Ruia and Shri Ravi Ruia.Esso the enunciation of the initials S.O. in Standard O il of New Jersey.Exxon a name contrived by Esso (Standard Oil of New Jersey) in the early 1970s tocreate a neutral but distinctive label for the company. Within days, Exxon was beingcalled the "double cross company" but this eventually subsided. (Esso is a trademark of ExxonMobil.) Esso had to change its name in the U.S. because of restrictions dating tothe 1911 Standard Oil antitrust decision.

FFacebook name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolledstudents at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with theintention of helping students to get to know each other better.Fair Isaac Corporation named after founders Bill Fair and Earl Isaac .FCUK French Connection United K ingdom.
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FedEx abbreviation of Fed eral Ex press Corporation, the company's original name .[35] Ferrari from the name of its founder, Enzo Ferrari . Fiat acronym of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Automobile Factory of Turin)Finnair from "Finland" and "air". Originally called "Aero Osakeyhti ", which led to its

international flight code, "AY".Ford Motor Company named after its founder, Henry Ford , who introduced automobilemass production in 1914.Forrester Research from the family name of the mother of the founder George ForresterColony . Fuji named after Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan.

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Glaxo a dried milk company set up in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand, by Joseph EdwardNathan. The company wanted to use the name "Lacto" but it was similar to some alreadyin use. Glaxo evolved and was registered on 27 October 1906. GlaxoSmithKline was a2000 merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham . Goodyear named after the founder of vulcanization, Charles Goodyear , the GoodyearTire and Rubber company was founded by Frank Seiberling in 1898.Google an originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled uponbecause google.com was unregistered. Googol was proposed to reflect the company'smission to organize the immense amount of information available online.

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Hagen-Dazs Name was invented in 1961 by ice-cream makers Reuben and RoseMattus of the Bronx "to convey an aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" .[38] The name has no meaning.Haier Chinese "sea" and (a transliteration character; also means "you" in LiteraryChinese ).Harpo Productions production company founded by Oprah Winfrey. Harpo is Oprahbackwards.Hasbro founded by Henry and Helal Hassenfeld, the Has senfeld Bro thers.HCL Hindustan Computers Ltd, Indian software company founded by Shiv Nadar . HP Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company theyfounded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hitachi old place name, literally "sunrise"HMV from "His Master's Voice", which appeared in 1899 as the title of a painting of Nipper, a Jack Russell terrier, listening to a gramophone.Honda from the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda . Honeywell from the name of Mark Honeywell , founder of Honeywell HeatingSpecialty Co. It later merged with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company and was finallycalled Honeywell Inc. in 1963.
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Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from acomputer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan forthe mail service he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmailas it included the letters "HTML " the markup language used to write web pages. It wasinitially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. (At one time, if you clicked

on Hotmail's 'mail' tab, you would have seen "HoTMaiL" in the URL, but since Hotmailis now Windows Live Mail, it is no longer there.)HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.HTC Corporation A contraction of its original corporate name, H igh Tech ComputerCorporation.Hyundai connotes the sense of "the present age" or "modernity" in Korean.

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IBM named by Tom (Thomas John) Watson Sr, an ex-employee of National CashRegister (NCR Corporation ). To one-up them in all respects, he called his companyInternational Business M achines.ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India.IKEA a composite of the first letters in the Swedish founder Ingvar Kamprad 's name inaddition to the first letters of the names of the property and the village in which he grewup: Ingvar K amprad E lmtaryd Agunnaryd.Intel Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore initially incorporated their company as N MElectronics. Someone suggested Moore Noyce Electronics but it sounded too close to"more noise". Later, Integrated Electronics was proposed but it had already been taken,so they used the initial syllables ( INT egrated EL ectronics ). To avoid potential conflictswith other companies with similar names, Intel purchased the name rights for $15,000from a company called Intelco. (Source: Intel 15 Years Corporate Anniversary Brochure)

Ittiam Systems an Indian company named from the famous philosophical dictum: "Ithink therefore I am" (Cogito, ergo sum ).[39] Infosys An Indian software major. " Info rmation Sys tems"

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Jockey International, Inc. - On January 19, 1935 during a blizzard , Coopers Inc. sold theworld's first briefs at the Marshall Field's State Street store in downtown Chicago . Designed by an apparel engineer named Arthur Kneibler, briefs dispensed with legsections and had a Y-shaped overlapping fly. The company dubbed the design the Jockey ,since it offered a degree of support that had previously only been available fromthe jockstrap . Jockey briefs proved so popular that over 30,000 pairs were sold withinthree months of their introduction. Samuel T. Cooper, founder of Coopers Inc, renamedthe company Jockey.Johnson & Johnson Originally a partnership between brothers James Wood Johnsonand Edward Mead Johnson in 1885, the addition of brother Robert Wood Johnson I led toformal incorporation as Johnson & Johnson in 1887.
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Longines In 1862 the new company "Ancienne Maison Auguste Agassiz, ErnestFrancillon, Successeur" was born. At that time watchmaking in the area used the skills of people working outside the "comptoir d'tablissage", often at home. In 1866 ErnestFrancillon bought two plots of land on the right bank of the river Suze at the place called"Les Longines" and brought all of the watchmaking skills under one roof. This was the

first "Longines factory".L'Oral In 1907, Eugne Schueller, a young French chemist, developed an innovativehair-color formula. He called his improved hair dye Aurole.Lotus Software Mitch Kapor named his company after the Lotus Position or'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental M ation technique as taughtby Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.Lucent Technologies a spin-off from AT&T, it was named Lucent (meaning"luminous" or "glowing with light") because "light as a metaphor for visionary thinkingreflected the company's operating and guiding business philosophy", according to theLandor Associates staff who chose the name .[43] It was taken over by Alcatel to formAlcatel-Lucent in 2006.

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Maggi food company named after its founder, Julius Maggi. It was taken over byNestl in 1947 and survives as a brand name.Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd - The company was set up in 1945 inLudhiana as Mahindra & Mohammed . Later, after the partition of India, Malik GhulamMuhammad returned to Pakistan and became that nation's first finance minister . Hence,the name was changed from Mahindra & Mohammed to Mahindra & Mahindra in 1948.Mars named after Frank C. Mars and his wife, Ethel, who started making candy in1911. Their son, Forrest E. Mars, joined with Bruce Murrie, the son of a Hersheyexecutive, to form M&M Ltd (from M ars & M urrie). Forrest took over the familybusiness after his father's death and merged the two companies in 1964. After retiringfrom Mars, Inc. in 1993, Forrest founded Ethel M. Chocolates, named after his mother.Maruti Udyog Limited (MUL) - "Maruti", in popular Indian culture, is India Hindu's lordHanuman [Hanuman was the son of Pawan, God of wind] is known as "maruti".Mattel a portmanteau of the founders names Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler.Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH - It was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach with hisson Karl Maybach.Mazda Motor Corporation the company was founded as Toyo Kogyo, startedmanufacturing Mazda brand cars in 1931, and changed its name to Mazda in 1984. The

cars were supposedly named after Ahura Mazda , the chief deity of the Zoroastrians,though many think this explanation was created after the fact, to cover up what is simplya poor anglicized version of the founders name, Jujiro Matsuda. This theory is supportedby the fact that the company is referred to only as "Matsuda" in Japan.McDonald's from the name of the brothers Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald , whofounded the first McDonald's restaurant in 1940.Mercedes from the first name of the daughter of Emil Jellinek , who distributed cars of the early Daimler company around 1900.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Film studio formed from the merger of three othercompanies: Metro Picture Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation , and Louis B.Mayer Pictures. Goldwyn Picture Corporation in turn was named after the last names of Samuel Goldfish , and Edgar and Archibald Selwyn.Microsoft coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to

micro computer soft ware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' disappeared on3/2/1987 with the introduction of a new corporate identity and logo. The "slash betweenthe 'o' and 's' [in the Microsoft logo] emphasizes the "soft" part of the name and conveysmotion and speed." [citation needed ] Minolta Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shten( ; literally: Japan-Germany camera shop). It was not until 1934 that thename Minolta first appeared on a camera, the Minolta Vest.Mitsubishi the name Mitsubishi ( ) has two parts: mitsu means three and hishi(changing to bishi in the middle of the word) means diamond (the shape). Hence, thethree diamond logo. (Note that "diamond" in this context refers only to the rhombusshape, not to the precious gem.)

Motorola Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company (at the time,Galvin Manufacturing Company) started manufacturing radios for cars. Many audioequipment makers of the era used the "ola" ending for their products, most famously the"Victrola" phonograph made by the Victor Talking Machine Company . The name wasmeant to convey the idea of "sound" and "motion". It became so widely recognized thatthe company later adopted it as the company name.Mozilla Foundation from the name of the web browser that preceded NetscapeNavigator . When Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape , created a browser to replacethe Mosaic browser, it was internally named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla ) by JamieZawinski .[46] MRF from M adras Rubber Factory, founded by K M Mammen Mappillai in 1946. He

started with a toy-balloon manufacturing unit at Tiruvottiyur, Chennai (then calledMadras). In 1952 he began manufacturing tread-rubber and, in 1961, tyres.

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Nabisco formerly The Na tional Biscuit Co mpany, changed in 1971 to Nabisco.Napster - The service was named Napster after Fanning's hairstyle-based nickname.NCR Corporation from National Cash Register.NEC from Nippon E lectric Company.Nero Nero Burning ROM named after Nero burning Rome ("Rom" is the Germanspelling of "Rome").Nestl named after its founder, Henri Nestl , who was born in Germany under the name"Nestle", which is German (actually, Swabian diminutive ) for "bird's nest". The companylogo is a bird's nest with a mother bird and two chicks.Netscape Originally the product name of the company's web browser ("MosaicCommunications Netscape Web Navigator"). The company adopted the product nameafter the University of Illinois threatened to sue for trademark infringement over the useof the Mosaic name. Netscape is the combination of network and landscape. [citation needed ] Nike named for the Greek goddess of victory .
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Nikon the original name was Nippon Ko gaku, meaning "Japanese Optical".Nintendo Nintendo is the transliteration of the company's Japanese name, nintendou (

). The first ( nin ) can be translated as to "entrusted"; ten-dou means "heaven".Nissan the company was earlier known by the name Nippon San gyo which means"Japan Industries".

Nirma - Karsanbhai Patel , founder of Nirma group companies, named the powder asNirma, after his daughter Nirupama.Nokia started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubberproducts in the Finnish city of Nokia . The company later adopted the city's name.Nortel Networks named from Nortel ( Nor thern Tel ecom) and Bay Networks . Thecompany was originally spun off from the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd in1895 as Northern Electric and Manufacturing, and traded as Northern Electric from 1914to 1976.Novartis after the Latin expression "novae artes" which means something like "newskills".

OOracle Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project forthe CIA. The code name for the project was Oracle . The project was designed to use thenewly written SQL database language from IBM. The project was eventually terminatedbut they decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. Later they changedthe name of the company, Relational Software Inc., to the name of the product.

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Parle - Parle group, founded by Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan in 1929. The name Parle wasderived from the Mumbai suburb of Vile-Parle.Pepsi named from the digestive enzyme pepsin . Petrobras An abbreviation of the Brazilian oil company's full name, Petr leo Bras ileiro(Portuguese for Brazilian Petroleum ).Philips Royal Philips Electronics was founded in 1891 by brothers Gerard (theengineer) and Anton (the entrepreneur) Philips.Pixar from pix el and the co-founder's name, Alvy Ray Smith. According to thebiography "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" by Alan Deutschman, the 'el' in pixel waschanged to 'ar' because 'ar' is frequently used in Spanish verbs, implying the name means"To Pix".

Porsche car company named after founder Ferdinand Porsche , an Austrian automotiveengineer. The family name may have originated in the Czech name "Bore" (boresh). Prada an Italian high fashion house named after the founder Mario Prada , who foundedPrada in Milan 1914.Procter & Gamble named after the founders, William Procter, a candlemaker, andJames Gamble, a soapmaker, who pooled their resources after marrying two sisters. Thecompany was founded in Cincinnati in 1837. [48]
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Qantas from its original name, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.Qualcomm Qual ity Comm unication

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Raytheon "Light of the gods". Maker of missiles such as Patriot, Maverick, Sidewinderand Tomahawk, among other military technology.Reckitt & Colman - named from the merger of Reckitt & Sons with J&J Colman in 1938.Colman's, best known for its mustard, was founded by Jeremiah Colman in 1814. IsaacReckitt founded Reckitt & Sons in 1840 .[49] Reckitt Benckiser consumer goods giant named from the merger of Britain's Reckitt &Colman and the Dutch company Benckiser NV in December 1999. The latter was namedafter its founder, Johann A. Benckiser.

Red Hat while at college, company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) by his grandfather. People would turn to him tosolve their problems and he was referred to as that guy in the red hat . By the time hewrote the manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux he had lost the cap, so the manualincluded an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found.Reebok alternate spelling of rhebok (Pelea capreolus), an African antelope.Research In Motion from the phrase "poetry in motion", which company founder MikeLazaridis had seen used to describe a football player.Rolls-Royce name used by Rolls-Royce plc and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars , amongothers. In 1884 Frederick Henry Royce started an electrical and mechanical business,making his first car, a Royce , in 1904. He was introduced to Charles Stewart Rolls on 4

May that year. The pair entered into a partnership in which Royce would manufacturecars to be sold exclusively by Rolls, and the cars would be called Rolls-Royce .RPG Group Rama Prasad Goenka

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SAAB founded in 1937 in Sweden as S venska A eroplan a ktie b olaget (SwedishAeroplane Company); the last word is typically abbreviated as AB , hence SAAB.Samsonite named from the Biblical character Samson , renowned for his strength.Samsung meaning three stars in Korean.Sanyo meaning three oceans in Japanese.SAP S ystem A nalyse und P rogrammentwicklung (German for "System analysis andprogram development"), a company formed by five ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM. Later, SAP was redefined to standfor Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (Systems,Applications and Products in Data Processing).SCB from Standard Chartered Bank. The name Standard Chartered comes from the twooriginal banks from which it was founded The Chartered Bank of India, Australia andChina, and The Standard Bank of British South Africa.
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