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 How famous Brand Names were created..??
How famous Brand Names were created..??
Let's have a look..
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 that evening.
MERCEDES:
This was actually the financier's
daughter's name.
ADOBE:
This came from name of the river
Adobe Creek that ran behind the
house of founder John Warnock.
CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly
believed.
It is short name 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
REsearchLaboratory.
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' ...thus
the name.
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.
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