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Learn how the world famous brands were named, so you can choose a name for your company:

Adidas - named after its founder Adi Dasler

Adobe - named after the river Adobe Creek, which was flowing nearby the founder's house (John Warnock)

Apple - favourite fruit of its owner Steve Jobs. After three weeks of desperately choosing a name for his company, he told his partners: "Unless you give me a good proposal for the company's name,I will name the company Apple,". Apples Macintosh - name of a variety of apples, sold in US.

Canon - after the Buddhist god Kwanon. Was amended to Canon for avoiding protests from religious organizations.

Cisco - short San Francisco

Compaq - from Comp and paq (little detail)

Daewoo - translated from the Korean as "Little Universe"

Fuji - after the highest Japanese mountain peak.

Google - named after the word Googol, defining a 1 and 100 zeros.

HP - two founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were tossing for who's name will be the first in brand. As you understand, Bill was the lucky one.

Nokia - Was named after a small Finnish business town Nokia.

Yahoo - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

How would you name your company?

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I want to know how HUAWEI named itself