Why Apple is named as Apple?

How the founder's named their Company?

APPLE

It was the favorite 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.

CISCO

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

COMPAQ

This name was formed by using COM, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

SAMSUNG

 According to the founder of Samsung Group, the meaning of the Korean hanja word 

"Samsung (三星)" is "tristar" or "three stars". The word "three" represents something "big, numerous and powerful", the "stars" mean eternity.

COREL

The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for 'CO'wpland 'RE'search 'L'aboratory.

GOOGLE

The name started as a joke boasting 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 graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

 INTEL

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of 'INT'egrated 'EL'ectronics.

MICROSOFT

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to ' MICRO'computer 'SOFT'ware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

SONY

It originated from the Latin word ‘sonus’ meaning sound, and ‘sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.