12 February, 2013

Tech Companies and their name.


Do you know how these companies got their name, have a look .

HCL - is the  short form of Hindustan Computers Ltd,

HTC
- A contraction of High Tech Computer. 

IBM-A contraction of International BusinessMachine.

SAP: System Analyse und Programentwicklung (German for "System analysis and program development")

Wipro: Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd

Accenture- From "Accent on the future"

Google: An originally accidental misspelling of the word googol (Googol is equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred.) 

Skype- From Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype

Dell: Named after its founder, Michael Dell. 

Infosys: Short form of ‘Information Systems’ 

Cisco : Short taken from San Francisco

Microsoft : Coined by Bill Gates to represent Microcomputer Software

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