How 15 Technology Companies Got Their Name

While browsing on the internet, i found this one article by Yahoo!. It tells how technology companies like Twitter, Facebook, Dell, Skpe and many more got their name. All this while we are busy using the technology provides by those companies. So it is great for us to know how they obtain their name that we utter everyday.

I find it interesting to share :) 

Source: How 25 Tech Companies Got Their Name

According to Steve Jobs, Apple was so named because Jobs was coming back from an apple farm, and he was on a fruitarian diet. He thought the name was "fun, spirited, and not intimidating." The image of the bitten apple evokes the Christian creation myth of Adam and Eve--interestingly, the story of human beings' first sin against God. By eating the forbidden apple, goes the story, humans gained knowledge but lost paradise.

Name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. 

Having rejected the name Twitch for their social networking service, co-founder Jack Dorsey says: "we looked in the dictionary for words around it and we came across the word 'twitter' and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential.

From "Accent on the future". The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Before 1 January 2001, the company was called Andersen Consulting.

From the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.

An originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol was proposed to reflect the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online. (Googol is equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred.)

Born as Multitech International in 1976, the company changed its name to Acer in 1987. The Latin word for “sharp, acute, able and facile”

The original concept for the name was Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype

Named after its founder, Michael Dell. The company changed its name from Dell Computer in 2003.

Short form of ‘Information Systems’

Short for San Francisco

A portmanteau of "Le-" (from former name Legend) and "novo", pseudo-Latin for "new". This Chinese company took over IBM's PC division. 

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to microcomputer software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' disappeared on 3/2/1987 with the introduction of a new corporate identity and logo.

From computer and "pack" to denote a small integral object; or: Compatibility And Quality; or: from the company's first product, the very compact Compaq Portable. 

Chief executive Andrew Mason used the derivation as his five-word acceptance speech at the 2011 Webby Awards ceremony: "It's short for group coupon."