List of company name etymologies - List of company name etymologies This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed. ''for similar etymological lists, see List of country name etymologies, etymology Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache. Apple - favourite 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 his colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5pm. Apple's Macintosh is named.
List of computer term etymologies - List of computer term etymologies This is a list of the origins of computer-related terms. It relates to both computer hardware and computer software. Names of many computer terms, especially computer applications, often relate to the function they perform, e.g., compiler is an application that compiles programming language code into the computer's machine language. There are other terms however whose history would indicate that it had less to do with the functionality, and hence are of etymological value. This article lists such terms. For a list of the origins of names of computer companies see List of company name etymologies. Also see : etymology Apache - the web server from the Apache Software Foundation. It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches.
Lists of companies - Lists of companies This is a list of companies. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 List of companies by country 2 List of companies by industry 3 Related lists List of companies by country List of American companies List of Argentine companies List of Australian companies List of Austrian companies List of Belgian companies List of Brazilian companies List of British companies List of Canadian companies List of Chinese companies List of Danish companies List of Dutch companies List of Egyptian companies List of Estonian companies List of Finnish companies List of French companies List of German companies List of Greek companies List of Indian companies List of Irish companies List of Israeli companies List of Italian companies List of Japanese companies List of Korean companies List of Malaysian.
Etymology - words of Latin and Greek origin. Spanish has contributed many words, particularly in the southwestern United States. Examples include buckaroo from vaquero or "cowboy", alligator from el legarto or "lizard", and rodeo. Cuddle, eerie and greed come from Scots, behemoth from Hebrew, perestroika, balalaika, taiga, tundra and sputnik from Russian, and lagniappe from Quechua. See also loanword. Basic ideas in etymology Usually, words start with a more complicated spelling which becomes simpler (for example, by abbreviation). The patterns by which words are simplified constantly change. Slang words may enter the common language. Sometimes common words may suddenly become slang. Vulgar words may become euphemisms for other words and sometimes euphemisms become vulgarisms. Words may become joined together, as in portmanteau words. Words may start off as acronyms. The boundaries between words.
Victor Talking Machine Company - Victor Talking Machine Company The Victor Talking Machine Company (1901 - 1929) was a United States corporation, the leading American producer phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies of the world. The company was incorporated in Camden, New Jersey in October of 1901 by Eldridge R. Johnson. It was created by merger and reorganization of two existing companies, Emile Berliner's Berliner Gramophone Company which produced disc records, and Johnson's Consolidated Talking Machine Company which produced machines for playing disc records. The company was named "The Victor" in honor of legal victories by Johnson & Berliner over Zonophone and others, related to their rights to patents on and distribution of their products. Victor had the rights in the United States and Latin America to use the.
Given name - Given name A given name specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. A child's given name or names are usually assigned around the time of birth. In most jurisdictions, the name at birth is a matter of public record, inscribed on the birth certificate or equivalent. In some jurisdictions, mainly civil law jurisdictions such as France or Quebec, the functionary whose job it is to record acts of birth may act to prevent parents from giving the child a name that may harm it, such as a bizarre or obscene one. In many European countries, the given name is synonymous with first name, and for Christians, with Christian name, but these.
F.W. Woolworth Company - F.W. Woolworth Company F.W. Woolworth Company, an American operator of retail stores, was founded in 1911 by Frank Woolworth and Charles Woolworth. It was formed by the merger of six chains of five-and-ten-cent stores. F.W. Woolworth was the first five-and-ten-cent store, which sold discounted general merchandise at fixed prices, usually five or ten cents, undercutting the prices of local merchants. It was also the first store to put merchandise out for the shopping public to handle, select, and purchase. In earlier shops, customers presented the clerk with a list of items to purchase which were all kept behind the counter. The stores eventually incorporated lunch counters and served as general gathering places, a precursor to the modern shopping mall food court. The concept was widely copied, and.
Alistair MacLean - man and being captured by the Japanese and tortured. After the war, he studied English in the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1953, and then worked as a teacher. While in the University, MacLean began writing short stories for extra income and won a competition in 1954 with the maritime story Dileas. The publishing company Collins asked him for a novel and he responded with H.M.S. Ulysses, based on his own war experiences. It was a great success and MacLean was soon able to devote himself entirely to writing war stories, spy stories and other adventures. In the early 1960s, MacLean published two novels under the pseudonym "Ian Stuart" in order to prove that the popularity of his books was due to their content rather than to his name on the.
American Locomotive Company - American Locomotive Company The American Locomotive Company, shortened to ALCO (or Alco) was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early History 2 Steam locomotives 3 ALCO automobiles 4 Diesel locomotives 5 Diversification 6 Purchase and division Early History The company was created in 1901 from the merger of the former Schenectady Locomotive Works and a number of other locomotive builders. The company was headquartered in Schenectady, New York and eventually closed all other locomotive manufacturing plants. 1904 saw the purchase of the Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal, Canada; this company was eventually renamed the Montreal Locomotive Works and continued to manufacture ALCO designs after the parent company ceased production. Steam locomotives ALCO was the second-largest steam locomotive builder in.
Austin Motor Company - Austin Motor Company The Austin Motor Company was founded in Birmingham by Herbert Austin, the former manager of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company in 1905. 1935 Austin Ascot Around the 1920s the company produced the Austin 7, an inexpensive, small and simple car and one of the earliest to be directed at a mass market. At one point it was being built under licence by the fledgeling BMW. In 1952 Austin merged with the Nuffield Organisation (parent company of Morris) to form the British Motor Corporation. The name continued in use, as in the following examples: Austin versions of the Mini Austin 1300 Austin Allegro Austin Princess. There were also Austin-Healey sports cars. The last Austin was built in 1987. ''List of automobiles.
Vermont - 8 Professional Sports Teams 9 Miscellaneous Information 10 External Links 10.1.1 Further Reading History Vermont was originally home to the tribes of the Iroquois, Algonquian and Abenaki nations. In 1609, French explorer Samuel de Champlain claimed the area of what is now Lake Champlain, giving to the mountains the appelation that would eventually name the state: Les Verts Monts (The Green Mountains.) In 1763, The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, giving the area to the British. Parts of the region were at different times controlled by the colonies (later states) of New York and New Hampshire. Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys" fought against the British (resulting in the famous capture of Fort Ticonderoga), then later against these states, and in 1777 Vermont was declared an.
Kiwifruit - banana and pineapple. Kiwifruit is a rich source of vitamin C. Its potassium content by weight is slightly less than that of a banana. It also contains vitamins A and E, calcium, iron and folic acid. The kiwifruit and other species of actinidia are native to south-east China, where it grows wild and is known as: Macaco monkey peach (猕猴桃 Mi2 hou2 tao2): the most common name Unusual fruit or wonder fruit (奇異果 qi2 yi4 guo3): the most common name in Taiwan and Hong Kong (奇异果 kay yee goh). A quasi-transliteration of "kiwifruit". Yang peach (阳桃 Yang2 tao2) Ghost peach (羊桃 yang2 tao2) Hairy pear (毛梨 mao2 li2) Vine pear (藤梨 teng2 li2) Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century when seeds were taken back to New Zealand by.
King Records - King Records King Records was the name of at least two different record labels. King Records was a United States based record label of the mid 20th century, specializing in country music, at the time still known as "Hillbilly music". King advertised "If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly -- If it's a Hillbilly, it's a King". King artists included Homer and Jethro, Grandpa Jones, and the Delmore Brothers. King's corporate headquarters was in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company also had a "Race Records" (African American) label, Queen Records. King Records was also the name of an unrelated record company in Japan in the years after World War II. Japanese King Records was headquartered in Tokyo. List of record labels.
Jardine Matheson - and Cycle & Carriage. History Jardine Matheson was formed in China in 1832 by William Jardine and James Matheson, both British citizens from Scotland. The company played a central role in the founding and development of Hong Kong and was among the first European companies to establish itself in Shanghai, as well as the first foreign company to establish itself in Japan. In Japan, the company's Japanese name (ジャーディン・マセソン) is the transliteration of its English name. Due to its long history in Hong Kong, the company's Chinese corporate identity (怡和集團 pinyin yi2 he2 ji2 tuan2) uses a totally unrelated name. On the other hand, the transliteration of Jardine (渣甸 with no particular meaning) can be found as place name everywhere in Hong Kong. For years, Jardine has fired a cannon shot.
Jeffrey Archer - place at Brasenose College, Oxford to study for a one-year diploma in education, though he eventually stayed there for three years. He is not, however, an Oxford graduate. While at Oxford he was moderately successful in athletics, competing in sprinting and hurdling. He also made a name for himself in raising money for the then little-known charity Oxfam, famously managing to obtain the support of The Beatles in a charity fundraising drive. It was during this period that he met his wife, Mary, a brilliant student who is believed by many to have had a hand in his most successful novels. After leaving university he continued as a charity fundraiser with varying success. He also began a career in politics, serving as a councillor in London. At the age of 29.
Virginia - of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Virginia; it is one of four Commonwealths out of the fifty United States. West Virginia is not a part of Virginia, but a separate state (see also below). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Law and Government 3 Geography 4 Demographics 5 Important Cities and Towns 6 Colleges and Universities 7 Professional Sports Teams 8 Miscellaneous Information 9 Novel 10 Other places 11 External Links History Among Native American people living in what now is Virginia were Powhatan, Nottaway, Meherrin, Monacan, Saponi, and Cherokee. At the end of the 16th century when England began to colonize.
Vivendi - Vivendi Vivendi Universal is a company with various activities : Canal+: television Cegetel: Fixed and mobile phone Maroc Telecom Vivendi Environnement History In 1853, a water company named "Compagnie Générale des Eaux" (CGE) was created by Imperial decree in order supply water to the public in Lyon. It served in this capacity for over a hundred years. Beginning in 1980, CGE began diversifying its operations from water into waste management, energy, transport services, and construction and property. In 1983, CGE helped to found Canal+, the first Pay-TV channel in France, and in the 1990s, they began expanding into telecommunications and mass media. In 1996, Vivendi created Cegetel to take advantage of the 1998 deregulation of the French telecommunications market; it is currently a leading provider of both fixed and.
Video game publisher - of the developer, and assist as necessary. Most video games created by an external video game developer are paid for with periodic advances on royalties. These advances are paid when the developer reaches certain stages of development, called milestones. Business Risks As businesses go, video game publishing is risky: The Christmas selling season accounts for about half of the industry's yearly sales of video and computer games, leading to a concentrated glut of high-quality competition every year in every game category, all in the fourth quarter of the year. Product slippage is very common due to the uncertain schedules of software development. Every publisher has suffered a "false launch", in which the development staff assures the company that game development will be completed by date x, and a marketing launch is.
John Kluge - in 1937. Kluge's major move into media was by purchasing stock in the Metropolitan Broadcasting Company in the mid 1950s. The Metropolitan Broadcasting Company was owned by DuMont Laboratories, who originally founded Metropolitan as the DuMont Television Network but decided to change its name in 1955 in the hopes of generating new viewers. Paramount Pictures was a part owner of DuMont Laboratories and persuaded Dr. Allen B. DuMont to allow them to take over the management of the DuMont Network under the new name. The new management lost even more money in this relatively new broadcast medium (television) and shareholders began unloading their stock in the separately run network. Kluge attracted front money and began buying up stock. DuMont sold his shares for about $7,000,000. After gaining control, Kluge renamed the.
Justice League - contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Publication History 2 Character History 3 Other media Publication History The original team first appeared in The Brave and The Bold #28 (1960) as a revival of the Justice Society of America (or "JSA") under a new, more dynamic name of "League" and soon gained its own title that same year. The creator was a writer named Gardner Fox, who was inspired by the Justice Society to create a similar, contemporary concept, and who decided upon the word "league" influenced by the National Basketball League and the American Baseball League. This comic was initially amongst the most popular of DC Comics's publications, but by the 1970s it had become overshadowed by Marvel Comics' equivalent super-team The Avengers series in sales and quality. Various writers tried to include more.
