how famous Brand Names were created..?? Lets 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 didnt suggest a better name by 5 Oclock that evening. MERCEDES: This was actually the financiers daughters 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 founders name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaborat --ory. GOOGLE: The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally namedGoogol, 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 inmailand finally settled for hotmail as it included the lettershtml- 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 companyMoore Noycebut that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:08:52 +0000
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