How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

How 16 famous electronic companies got their names(blogs.static.mentalfloss.com)

27 points by jingsong 16 years ago | 4 comments

TravisLS 16 years ago |

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...

jpwagner 16 years ago | |

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

antiismist 16 years ago |

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.

kazuya 16 years ago |

> 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.