How famous Companies were named?
By harshadod
@harshadod (858)
India
September 6, 2009 3:01am CST
Each company decides on a name after some consideration. There are some interesting stories/anecdotes.
To begin with, Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo considered themselves yahoos!!!!!
The word yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in book Gulliver's Travels.
It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.
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@harshadod (858)
• India
26 Mar 10
You have added to the list, makes it more interesting.
Wal mart is man and dog company?
@TrashQueen (107)
• United States
23 Mar 10
AMOCO = American Oil Company
A & P = Atlantic & Pacific .. grocery store chain in the 50's & 60's. Don't know if it still exists or not. Not in this area, anyway
Wal-Mart, of course was Sam Walton's version of his name. And his dog foods sold in the stores are Ol' Roy named after his favorite hunting dog.
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@harshadod (858)
• India
9 Sep 09
SUN MICROSYSTEMS is another one. SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
There are many more interesting names.
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