How tech companies got their names (16 Photos)

#7 i believe it's incorrect. It's an abbreviation to a sentence.

oh sorry that you missed the obvious relationship of the two companies. drop both names into BING and read.

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Yahoo is actually an acronym that stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

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Do you guys just stumble and then post your favorite links?

#4 "sonny" is a slang term used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster? Sounds like something the Japanese would believe to be true…but…..

I'm pretty sure Microsoft was coined by William Gibson in his book Neuromancer

#7 wrong: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html

The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

I thought apple was a shout-out to someone that didn’t get credit for their work and took a bite of a poison apple to commit suicide. Also, didn’t sony start by making rice cookers? Why name a company after sound if you make rice cookers?

Not so sure about #2: Apple was a brand created by the Beatles was long before Apple Computers existed, as was the apple logo with the rainbow colors and bite from the side.

I’m with Kekermahoney!

The intel one is backwards. It's pretty obvious that the moTEL chain was called inTEL, not Moore Noyce. Intel bought the rights to the name after the company was already founded.

I was told that YAHOO stood for Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Organisation

From what I understand Sony was founded in Japan shortly after WW2 ended by Standard Oil New York T\thus the Sony logo

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#16 its cheque not check

So basically all of these are wrong…

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