Corporate Name Origins

The Wikipedia is a source of general information on a great number of topics. One spinoff site is a collection of the etymologies (word origins) of company names. Some companies were named after their founders (i.e. Honda from founder Soichiro Honda, Rolls-Royce after founders Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce), others are acronyms (i.e. Sabre = Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment, Yahoo! = Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle), and others were named just to call them something. So if you ever wondered why a computer company would call itself Apple or a gym shoe company might call itself Nike visit the Wikipedia List of Company Etymologies and find out.