The Story behind These Company Names

Apples Company

Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything he like...” So at 5 o’clock, nobody come up with better name, and he was eating Apple that time......so he keep the name of the company “Apple Computers.”

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=INTEL

YAHOO!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book “Gulliver 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.

Google

The name started as a jock boasts 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 grad students Sergey Bring and Larry Page resented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to “Google”.