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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 Systems|Adobe]] - came from name of the river [[Adobe]] Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
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*[[Daewoo]] - the company founder Kim Woo Chong called it Daewoo which means "Great Universe" in Korean.
*[[Exxon]] - a name contrived by Esso (Standard Oil of New Jersey) in the early 70s to create a neutral but distinctive label for the company. Within days of announcement of the name, Exxon was being called the "double cross company " but this eventually subsided.

*[[Fuji]] - from the highest Japanese mountain Mount Fuji
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*[[Google]] - the name started as a jokey boast 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 grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !
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*[[3M]] - ''[[Minnesota]] [[Mining]] and [[Manufacturing]] Company'' started off by mining the material [[corundum]] used to make [[sandpaper]].