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Origins of Company Names

August 15th, 2005 at 2:48 pm By johnsee (Online, Tech & Science)

This page lists the origins of lots of the big Silicon valley companies and how they got their names. Some are boring, but some of them are pure gold:

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.

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