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| Origin of the Company Name |
| Oracle | The code name for a CIA project which was designed to use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. |
| Raytheon | Literally 'Light of the gods'. |
| IKEA | A composite of the first letters in the Swedish founder's name in addition to the first letters of the names of the property and the village in which he grew up. |
| 3M | From the company's original name, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. |
| Sanyo | The Japanese translation is disputed, although the Chinese name is three oceans. |
| Apple | The founder worked at an orchard, and named the company thus to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time. |
| Samsonite | Named from the Biblical character renowned for his strength. |
| Accenture | The name X was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Prior to January 1, 2001 the company was called Andersen Consulting. |
| Kia | The name roughly translates as 'Rising from Asia' in Hanja. |
| Canon | Originally (1933) Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory the new name (1935) derived from the name of the company's product named after the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy. |
| Pepsi | Named from the digestive enzyme. |
| Lotus | Mitch Kapor named his company after this yogic position or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. |
| Novartis | After the Latin expression which means something like 'new skills'. |
| Wachovia | From the Latin version of the German name given to a region in North Carolina by German settlers because it reminded them of a river near their home in Germany. |
| Alta Vista | Spanish for 'high view'. |
| Akamai | From the Hawaiian word meaning smart or clever; the company defines it as 'intelligent, clever and cool'. |
| Kinko's | From the college nickname of founder, Paul Orfalea. He was called X because he had curly red hair. |
| 7-Eleven | Renamed from 'U-Tote'm' in 1946 to reflect their newly extended hours. |
| Samsung | Meaning three stars in Korean. |
| Novell | The name was suggested by founder George Canova's wife who mistakenly thought that X meant new in French. |
| Cadillac | Named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de X, founder of Detroit, Michigan. |
| Hyundai | Connotes the sense of 'the present age' or 'modernity' in Korean. |
| Volvo | From the Latin word which means 'I roll'. |
| Virgin | The founder says in his autobiography that when they were starting a business to sell records by mail order, 'one of the girls suggested: 'What about X? We're complete x's at business.'' |
| Starbucks | Named after a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. |
| Reebok | Alternate spelling of Pelea capreolus, an African antelope. |
| Atari | Named from the board game Go. It is a Japanese word to describe a position where an opponent's stones are in danger of being captured. |
| Hoechst | From the name of a district in Frankfurt. |
| Nike | Named for the Greek goddess of victory. |
| Nestle | Named after its founder, Henri X, who was born in Germany under the name that is German (actually, Swabian diminutive) for 'bird's nest'. |
| Audi | Latin translation of the German name 'Horch'. The founder August Horch left the company after five years, but still wanted to manufacture cars. Since the original 'Horch' company was still there, he called his new company thus. |
| Subaru | From the Japanese name for the constellation known to Westerners as Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. X was formed from a merger of seven other companies, and the constellation is featured on the company's logo. |
| Chevrolet | Named after company co-founder Louis X, a Swiss-born auto racer. The company was merged into General Motors in 1917 and survives only as a brand name. |
| Daewoo | Company founder Kim Woo Chong called it X which means 'Great House' or 'Great Universe' in Korean. |
| Yahoo! | This word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. The founders liked it. |
| Volkswagen | From the German for 'people's car'. |
| Adobe | From the creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock. |
| Hitachi | Literally 'sunrise' in Japanese. |
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