History behind companies name !!!

@CrazyBoy • Oct 13, 2024

Oct 13, 2024

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Yahoo is a big name in IT industry, every one of us has used Xerox sometimes in life. Sony .. redhat.. sun... microsoft are other names from which we are we versant.

Have you ever thought why Jerry Young choosen name Yahoo !!

Here I will provide a list which will explain the history behind that....

starting with Yahoo !!

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.

-CB

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Sahithi Pallavi

@sahithi-oJZaYj • Sep 30, 2009

Good.
The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle,"
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Sep 30, 2009

Xerox -> The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson , named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 4, 2009

SUN Microsystems -> Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 4, 2009

SAP -> Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 5, 2009

Red Hat -> Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 11, 2009

Oracle -> Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 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).

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 11, 2009

Mmotorola -> 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

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 11, 2009

Microsoft -> It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

-CB
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Harshad Italiya

@harshad-ukH5ww • Oct 12, 2009

Nice information CB.
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cooltwins

@cooltwins-I5yJpZ • Oct 12, 2009

nice piece of info.
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Sahithi Pallavi

@sahithi-oJZaYj • Oct 12, 2009

Awesome job CB..! thanks for your information..
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 12, 2009

Lotus -> 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.

-CB
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 12, 2009

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.

-CB
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Oct 13, 2009

@CrazyBoy: Looks like there's some error in the URL you're linking to. They all direct to only one link.
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Oct 13, 2009

That was by mistake, I had no intention to point the information to any link. I apologies for the mistake.

-CB
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Sahithi Pallavi

@sahithi-oJZaYj • Dec 1, 2010

I don't want this thread to be dead.
Come on!! This is the time students look for company's information.
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Neema Ambhurkar

@neema-SlYG3w • Dec 1, 2010

Sony -> The founders of Sony, Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the nane form 'Sonus', the latin word for sound and 'sonny' meaning small size or a youthful boy since they considered themselves to be the "Sonny Boys" a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.

*loan word means a a word that is borrowed from one language and incorporated into another.
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Gurjeet Singh

@gurjeet-LUX7B1 • Dec 1, 2010

Toshiba:Toshiba's early history has two strands: 1875 saw the establishment of Tanaka Seizo-sho (Tanaka Engineering Works), Japan's first manufacturer of telegraphic equipment. Its founder, Hisashige Tanaka (1799 - 1881), was well known from his youth for inventions that included mechanical dolls and a perpetual clock. Under the name Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works), his company became one of Japan's largest manufacturers of heavy electrical apparatus. In 1890, Hakunetsu-sha & Co., Ltd. was established as Japan's first plant for electric incandescent lamps. Subsequent diversification saw the company evolve as a manufacturer of consumer products. In 1899, the company was renamed Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co.).
In 1939, these two companies, leaders in their respective fields, merged to form an integrated electric equipment manufacturer, Tokyo Shibaura Denki (Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.). The company was soon well known as 'Toshiba,' which became its official name in 1978.
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