Secrets behind Top Company Names
-ADOBE- This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.. -APPLE COMPUTERS- It was the favorite 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 that evening.. -CISCO- It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.. -COMPAQ- This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.. -COREL- The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.. -GOOGLE- The name started as a joke boasting 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 graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Pag