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The document provides tips for choosing a good company name, including choosing a name that is connected to your business, meaningful, unique, and easy to remember. It then gives the origins and meanings behind the names of famous companies like Yahoo, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Sony, SAP, Red Hat, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft, Lotus Notes, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Hotmail, Google, Cisco, Apple, Linux, and Adobe.

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HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD COMPANY NAME
You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • a name which are connected to your nature of business • a name which is meaningful • a name which is easy to pronounce or remember • a name which is very unique / different / extraordinary • a name which is connected to future 2
You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • a name which should not be used by others • a name which gives you hope • a name which brings luck • a name is combination of directors names • a coined word which sound nice 3
You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • name of place connected to your business • a name which is extraordinary • a name which is different of others • a name which is futuristic sounding • a name which is easy to spell • a name which sounds good in different languages but has a meaning
You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • a name which takes into account numerology • a name which has a shortform meaning • a name which bring power • a name which is a combination of two words • a name in English Language or Bahasa Malaysia – preferably • a name which can be registered as a dot- com domain name
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. • The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
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.
Sun Microsystems • Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
Sony • From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
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. "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/ Projects' group of IBM.
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!
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).
MOTOROLA 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.
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.
Lotus Notes 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.
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.
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.
Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 upper casings.
Google The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for Brin: We were thinking about very large the number represented by 1 numbers ... so we came up with the term followed by 100 zeros. After "googol" which is the mathematical term founders - Stanford graduate for 10 to the hundredth (power). The students Sergey Brin and correct spelling was g-o-o-g-o-l and I'm Larry Page presented their not sure that we realized that we had project to an angel investor, made a spelling error. But that was taken, they received a cheque anyway. There was this guy who'd already registered Googol.com, and I tried to buy made out to 'Google it from him, but he was fond of it. So we went with Google. “
Cisco The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.
Apple Favourite 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.
Linux It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache.
Adobe The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

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  • 1. HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD COMPANY NAME
  • 2. You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • a name which are connected to your nature of business • a name which is meaningful • a name which is easy to pronounce or remember • a name which is very unique / different / extraordinary • a name which is connected to future 2
  • 3. You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • a name which should not be used by others • a name which gives you hope • a name which brings luck • a name is combination of directors names • a coined word which sound nice 3
  • 4. You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • name of place connected to your business • a name which is extraordinary • a name which is different of others • a name which is futuristic sounding • a name which is easy to spell • a name which sounds good in different languages but has a meaning
  • 5. You can create GOOD COMPANY Names using this ideas • a name which takes into account numerology • a name which has a shortform meaning • a name which bring power • a name which is a combination of two words • a name in English Language or Bahasa Malaysia – preferably • a name which can be registered as a dot- com domain name
  • 6. 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. • The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
  • 7. 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.
  • 8. Sun Microsystems • Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
  • 9. Sony • From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
  • 10. 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. "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/ Projects' group of IBM.
  • 11. 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!
  • 12. 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).
  • 13. MOTOROLA 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.
  • 14. 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.
  • 15. Lotus Notes 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.
  • 16. 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.
  • 17. 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.
  • 18. Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 upper casings.
  • 19. Google The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for Brin: We were thinking about very large the number represented by 1 numbers ... so we came up with the term followed by 100 zeros. After "googol" which is the mathematical term founders - Stanford graduate for 10 to the hundredth (power). The students Sergey Brin and correct spelling was g-o-o-g-o-l and I'm Larry Page presented their not sure that we realized that we had project to an angel investor, made a spelling error. But that was taken, they received a cheque anyway. There was this guy who'd already registered Googol.com, and I tried to buy made out to 'Google it from him, but he was fond of it. So we went with Google. “
  • 20. Cisco The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.
  • 21. Apple Favourite 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.
  • 22. Linux It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache.
  • 23. Adobe The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.