This is really amazing discussion that how a company chose their name. Sometimes the name is so strange that we start thinking how a person can think this kind of strange name. But every name has some story or inspiaration. There are also many rumors about how the company’s settle down for a perfect name. In this post, we are adding the less known stories behind the names of few popular electronics companies. Some stories are interesting and some are quite boring also.
Interesting Stories Behind the Names of these 10 Electronics Companies
1. Samsung Electronics
Samsung is the leading company of south korea. The name of the company Samsung was taken from Korean language which means “Three Stars”. The word “three” represent big, numerous and powerful and the word stars means eternity.
2. Nokia
The origin of the nokia is not in the field of electronics. The company started in year 1865 in the city Tampere as a finnish wood pulp mill which later started producing the rubber products in the finnish city of Nokia.
In year 1967, Nokia Corporation name was came into existence which associated with five different businesses: rubber, cable, forestry, electronics and power generation.
3. Apple
There is no official story behind the name of company apple but one of the popular story is that the CEO of the company, Steve Job’s favorite fruit was apple so he used it as the company’s name.
In Jobs’ own words, “Partially because I like Apples a lot and partially because Apple is ahead of Atari in the phonebook and I used to work at Atari”.
At the starting the name was “Apple Computers”. In 2007,it dropped ‘Computer’ from the name to become just Apple.
4. LG
There were two popular Korean bands Goldstar and Lak-Hui (pronounced as lucky). They together started company named Lucky Goldstar which became LG.
Many people think that LG is the short form of “Life is Good”.
5. HTC
In year 1997 the company HTC was founded by H. T. Cho and Cher Wang who are now Chairman and Chair woman resp. of the company. They decided to use their name’s initial letters as the name of the company and this is how the HTC was born.
Many people have misconception that the name of company stands for the High-Tech Computer.
6. Sony
The name of the Sony company was arise from the Latin word Sonus. This name was chosen because it is easy to pronounce in many languages.
The word Sony is also refers to the American slag word “Sonny” which means well-to-do young man.
The company was founded in 1946 with the name Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. The name was changed to Sony in 1950s.
7. Asus
The asus was founded by the four employees of the Acer in 1989. Company basically has name Asustek. They used the word ‘Asus’ from the mythological Geek winged horse Pegasus which resembles the strength, adventure and purity.
8. Lenovo
The company started from the garage and now it becomes the largest company in manufacturing the PC. In 1984, company’s founders decided the name Chinese Academy of Sciences Computer Technology Research Institute New Technology Development Company for the company. After many discussions the name Legend is settled. In 2003, the name was changed into Lenovo which formed by two Latin words Le and Novo which means new.
9. IBM
Founded in 1911, the IBM is the world’s leading enterprise technology hardware and solution provider.The company was named International Business Machines by Tom Watson Sr.
10. DELL
Dell is the world’s leading hardware manufacturing US based company. The founder of the Dell is Michael Dell; hence the company was named ‘Dell Computer Corporation’ by taking his name Dell.
