How Famous Companies Got Their Names?

Nike: Named for the greek goddess of victory. The swoosh symbolises her flight.

Skype: The original concept was ‘Sky-Peer-to-Peer’, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype. 

Mercedes: This was actually financier's daughter's name.

Adidas: The company name was taken from its founder Adolf (ADI) Dassler whose first name was shortened to the nickname Adi. Together with first three letters of his surname it formed ADIDAS. 

Apple Computers: It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late for 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.

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'. So, instead of returning the cheque for correction, they decided to change the name to Google.

Hotmail: Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Microsoft: Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Sony: It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound and 'sonny' as lang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
LG: Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

SAP: "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

Xerox: The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.

Yahoo: The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Being an Indian

I write, because it’s my right to write.

It’s a sunny and lonely afternoon while sitting in the upstairs of the library I was introspecting the world around me. Looking through the tinted glass I saw my friends were enjoying the after lunch sleep on lawn, then I took my eyes towards the newspaper lying in front of me  .While  flipping the pages of newspaper I found some horrifying news that shaken me a bit .

 It’s feel me aback at times when people says “I’m proud to be an Indian”, sometimes I also used this line but today I  feel ashamed of myself while saying this line .

Today we are taking pride of growing economy, biggest democracy, demographic dividend, improved lifestyle, the list goes on and on, we think it as a Laurens on our head  but on the other hand when we here about woman harassment, girl child feticide, molestation, rape and these kind of brutality also shook our conscience. We are living in a country where we worship Devi mata who is a woman, we also call our nation as bharat mata that means Mother India, and again we are portraying our nation as a woman. Then why we forget our consciousness while it comes to our women in the country. Every day, women are getting raped by their fathers, their brothers, their uncles and the society and it's a shame. What a paradox in one hand we are talking about the equality in everything and article 21 of our constitution also tells that everyone has equal opportunity to live life with full integrity on the other hand these kind of brutality.

Some where I read that “ most of the rape does not happen because of lust, but mostly it happens because of jealousness” , yes it’s true in a male dominating country male doesn’t like a woman go ahead of him but we talking about equality . I think it’s only in paper and pen. World’s largest democracy can never reach its full potential if half its population lives in fear of unspeakable violence.

Wake up man………..behave like a man.