Company Name What’s in a Name

A COMPANY NAME Yahoo! Yahoo!                                                                Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

A COMPANY NAME Sony From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

A COMPANY NAME Co-founder of Jafra Cosmetics International Husband and wife team: Jan and Frank Day Ja Fra = Jafra

A COMPANY NAME Google 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

A COMPANY NAME In 1948, the first In-N-Out Burger was founded by Harry and Esther Snyder in Baldwin Park. Harry's idea of a drive-thru hamburger stand where customers could order through a two-way speaker box was quite unique. Where customer could be in to order and out to leave. (prompt service)

A COMPANY NAME What’s in your company name Where did the name of your company come from? Is there a meaning behind the name?