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List of company name etymologies
This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed.

''for similar etymological lists, see [[List of country name etymologies]], [[etymology]]

*[[Adobe]] - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

*[[Apache]] - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache 

*[[Apple]] - 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.

*[[CISCOisco Systems, Inc.|Cisco]] - its not an acronymn but its the short for San Francisco. 

*[[Compaq]] - using Comp, for computer, and paq to denote a small integral object. 

*[[Corel]] - from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

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*[[Yahoo!]] - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

*[[3M]] - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper.