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YAHOO
Official Expansion of YAHOO is 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle'.

Jerry Yang and David Filo,co-founders of Yahoo said they selected
the name because they liked the word's general definition, which comes
from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated,
uncouth."Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.


How Mobile Giant Nokia got it's name

What is known today as Nokia was established in 1865 as a wood-pulp
mill by Fredrik Idestam on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the
town of Tampere, in south-western Finland. The company was later
relocated to the town of Nokia by the Nokianvirta river, which had
better resources for hydropower production. That is where the company
got the name that it still uses today. The name Nokia originated from
the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta,
was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning a dark, furry
animal that was locally known as the nokia, or sable, or later
pine marten.


IBM
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and
nicknamed "Big Blue" (for its official corporate color),was founded
in 1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company by Herman Hollerith, in
Broome County,New York.It was incorporated as Computing Tabulating
Recording Corporation (CTR) on June 16, 1911, and was listed on the
New York Stock Exchange in 1916.IBM adopted its current name in
1924, when it became an international manufacturing company.

ORKUT
Orkut is a social networking service which is run by Google and
named after its creator, an employee of Google - Orkut Büyükkökten.