Seagate
Founded in 1978 as Shugart Technology, the company changed its name after it was hit by lawsuit from Xerox, which owned a company called Shugart Associates.
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Canon
Founded in 1933 in Tokyo as the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, and its first camera was the Kwanon, named after the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy.
Jira
Jira was initially released in 2002, and is a bug tracking and project management tool developed by Atlassian, a Sydney, Australia-based IT company. According to the company, Atlassian originally used Bugzilla for internal bug...
Samsung
Written in Hanja (Chinese characters), Samsung is 三星 in Korean or “three stars”, where three represents large and powerful.
Sony
Sony means two things. It’s derived from the Latin word “sonus”, and also alludes to the slang term “sonny boys”. Sonus is Latin for sound or noise. In post-World War II Japan, “sonny boys”...
Cisco
The networking firm is a contraction of San Francisco. Cisco was founded by a husband and wife team when they were working for Stanford University, which is located halfway between San Francisco and San...