How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

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Post by jingsong » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 11:07 PM UTC

How 16 famous electronic companies got their names
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Re: How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

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Post by TravisLS » Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 12:44 AM UTC

For anyone who enjoyed this article, here's the holy grail of company name etymologies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie...

Re: How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

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Post by antiismist » Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 12:54 AM UTC

More interesting than how they got thier names is what these companies were doing before their names got famous. For example on this list there are decendants from a pulp mill, dried fish exporter, and a playing card maker.

Re: How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

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Post by jpwagner » Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 4:25 AM UTC

TravisLS wrote: post #2

For anyone who enjoyed this article, here's the holy grail of company name etymologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie...

The reason the article exists is that the "holy grail" is tedious.

Re: How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

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Post by kazuya » Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 5:33 AM UTC

> 10. Seiko: The watchmaker takes its name from a Japanese word meaning 'exquisite' or 'success'.

It does not mean 'success' in this case.

And it's rather 'precision work' than 'exquisite'.

BTW the old Canon logo is quite lovely, isn't it.