I have been wondering about "why Apple selected its name as Apple why not Banana?" and my next thought is "How the Names of the Popular Companies been chosen, Is there any reason behind that"?
As a result, in order to stop my enthusiasm, I have started searching for the reasons behind "How the Popular Companies devised their Name", and I think I got successful in achieving it.
So I found Reasons of few Companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Samsung, Redhat Linux, Apple, Adobe, Intel, HP, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Hitachi, Panasonic, LG and Akai.
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