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Title: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:30:20 AM
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The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:32:11 AM
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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.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:34:31 AM
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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 the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:36:41 AM
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The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:37:53 AM
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The name started as a jockey boast 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
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:39:29 AM
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Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 upper casings.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:41:58 AM
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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.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:44:02 AM
History Of Company Names

Hewlett-Packard

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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:52:41 AM
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Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:54:17 AM
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It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was Removed later on.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:56:50 AM
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Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 01:58:46 AM
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Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was Called Victrola.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:00:02 AM
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Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:03:53 AM
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Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and Had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:09:36 AM
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"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Application s/Projects' group of IBM.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:16:31 AM
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From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:19:06 AM
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Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:21:41 AM
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The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his
Product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing
Wet copying.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:24:09 AM
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This logo is too good. For the name Eight, they have used a font in which each letter is a minor adaptation of the number 8.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:27:30 AM
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This was a logo created for a puzzle game called Cluenatic. This game involves unravelling four clues. The logo has the letters C, L, U and E arranged as a maze. and from a distance, the logo looks like a key
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:29:40 AM
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The above are two magazines from the Readers Digest stable. Again, the attempt to communicate what it is about quite figuratively through the logo catches my attention.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:31:33 AM
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The SUN Microsystems logo is a wonderful example of symmetry and order. It was a brilliant observation that the letters u and n while arranged adjacent to each other look a lot like the letter S in a perpendicular direction. Spectacular.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:34:53 AM
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Paul Rand (who designed the iconic IBM logo in 1972) designed this 'eye bee M' logo in 1981. I like that they are quite relaxed about the logo, unlike certain other companies who do not like the logo to be tampered with in any way even for internal promotions
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:38:39 AM
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Am not sure how many of you have noticed a hidden symbol in the Federal Express logo.
Yeah, I am talking about the 'arrow' that you can see between the E and the x in this logo. The arrow was introduced to underscore speed and precision, which are part of the positioning of the company.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:40:53 AM
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Eighty-20 is a small consulting company which does sophisticated financial modeling, as well as some solid database work. All their work is highly quantitative and relies on some serious computational power, and the logo is meant to convey it.

People first guess that 20% of the squares are darkened, but that turns out to be false after counting them. The trick is to view the dark squares as 1's and the light squares as 0's. Then the top line reads 1010000 and the bottom line reads 0010100, which represent 80 and 20 in binary.

Kinda like the surreal green screen of The Matrix, they want us to read stuff in binary
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 02:45:27 AM
Ever wondered what company logos mean and whats the significance behind them? Wonder no more!
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You might think the arrow does nothing here. But it says that amazon.com has everything from a to z and it also represents the smile brought to
the customer's face. Wow, that is quite deep.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: Yousuf.Chy on October 16, 2010, 03:52:04 PM
Thanks for informing us about these companies. I think you can post all these together in one post.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: tamzid_120 on October 16, 2010, 04:50:39 PM
Yeah I can but if I post all those things together then it will mixed up. So, that's why I post all this things separately.
I hope you may understand. 
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: papelrezwan on October 18, 2010, 01:50:39 PM
Thank you for arranging these. You also could post all these in a single post. That could be more handsome.
Title: Re: Famous Company Logos and their Meanings
Post by: goodboy on October 21, 2010, 10:48:48 PM
Thanks mr tamzid,
to give the usefull information.............................I came to know about the meanings which I wished for a long time...............