MOTOROLA - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. the popular radio company at the time was called Victrola. 

MICROSOFT - Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the “-” was removed later on. 

HEWLETT PACKARD - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Pckard-Hewlett. 

HOTMAIL - The name was finally settled for as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. it was initially referred to as hotmail with selective uppercasing. 

APPLE COMPUTERS - Steve jobs may have gotten the idea either from working at a community type farm or from his fascination with Apple Records, also popular with The Beatles. 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. 

CISCO - It is not a n acronym as popularly believed. it is short for San Francisco. 

ADOBE - Adobe Systems were incorporated in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The name evolved from Adobe Creek in Los Altos, California, a river that ran behind the house of one of the company’s founders. 

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