- Microsoft
This company name is short for Microcomputer Software. From the name he created, it was obvious that company founder Bill Gates was very confident of the potential of the software business. Because at that time
computer is very new technology and software business is not a business that has developed.
- Adobe
Although Adobe means brick or adobe, but the origin of the name Adobe is not inspired by the brick. Rather, because one of the company's founder, John Warnock, have a house in the Adobe Creek, a river in Los Altos, California.
- Oracle
One of the initial product to be worked by company founder Larry Ellison and Bob Oats, is the application of the RDBMS, which is a project orders of the CIA. The project was given the code name 'Oracle' because it is expected to be able to answer all
kinds of questions concerning all things about life. Later the CIA to stop this project, but Ellison and Oats forward and make it a project name becomes the name of the company.
- Sony
Company's founder, Akio Morita, who wanted a name familiar to their target consumer, the United States. Sony name itself is derived from the Latin word 'Sonus', which means it is sound.In addition, it also comes from a slang word 'Sonny Boy' who in the 1950s in Japan, meaning 'an intelligent young man and
handsome '. That's Akio Morita sees himself.
- Google
Duo founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company was originally named 'Googol', which refers to the number 10 ^ 100. Two students who drop out from their PhD program at Stanford's, named it thus, for
rating algorithm project symbolizes their website, as a project that will involve massive data. But when looking for investors and meet with one of Sun's founders, Andy Bechtolsheim, Name
'Googol' written into 'Google' to more selling.
-Yahoo
The company name was chosen by Jerry Yang and David Filo, which stands for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle'. It was unclear whether the 'Officious Oracle' referred to is the previous Oracle projects that could be done by Larry Ellison and Bob Oats. To be sure, two Stanford students also liked the sense of the word 'Yahoo' in
dictionary, as well as in fiction titled besutan Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, whose meaning is 'rude or immodest'.
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