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Lotus Development Corporation was co-founded by Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs in the year 1982.
Apple Computers was co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne in the year 1976.
Hotmail, web-based email service, was co-founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia and launched in 1996.
All these days i took it for granted that Linux is an Operating System. My friend poi
nted out today that Linux is the kernel used in GNU/Linux Operating System. GNU’s kernel wasn’t finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux. The combination of GNU and Linux is the GNU/Linux operating system.
Read more about it here.
Adobe Systems Inc. was founded by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in the year 1982.
Aditi Technologies was founded by Pradeep Singh in 1994.
Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in the year 1994 and was launched online in 1995.
Autodesk was founded by John Walker and twelve other co-founders in the year 1982.
Broadcom Corporation, an American supplier of ICs for broadband communications, was founded by Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III in the year 1992.
Sega: Sega is a very famous gaming console manufacturing company. Sega stands for SErvice and GAmes.
TWAIN: TWAIN stands for “Technology Without An Interesting Name”.
WIPRO: WIPRO Stands for Western India Vegetable PROducts.
Cisco Systems: The name Cisco is derived from San Francisco, the city where it was found.
Guruji.com: It is an Indian Internet Search Engine. Guruji.com is derived from the Sanskrit word for teacher,Guru. The search engine aims at giving its “students”(its users) what they require.
NOKIA Corporation: NOKIA gets its name from the town of Nokia by Nokianvirta river. The name Nokia orignated from the river which flowed through the town.
Company |
CEO |
| 3COM | Robert Mao |
| A.M.D | Héctor Ruiz |
| Adobe Corp | Shantanu Narayen |
| Accenture | William (Bill) D. Green |
| AOL LLC | Randy Falco |
| Amazon.com | Jeff Bezos |
| Apple Inc. | Steve Jobs |
| Autodesk | Carl Bass |
| Cisco | John T. Chambers |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions | Francisco D’Souza |
| Dell | Michael Dell |
| Fair Isaac | Dr. Mark N Greene |
| Google Inc. | Dr. Eric E. Schmidt |
| HCL Technologies | Vineet Nayar |
| Hewlett-Packard | Mark V. Hurd |
| IBM | Samuel J. Palmisano |
| Infosys Technologies | Kris Gopalakrishnan |
| Intel Corporation | Paul S. Otellini |
| McAfee | David DeWalt |
| Microsoft Corporation | Steve Ballmer |
| MindTree Consulting | Krishnakumar Natarajan |
| Motorola | Greg Brown |
| Novell | Ron Hovsepian |
| NVIDIA Corporation | Jen-Hsun Huang |
| Oracle Corporation | Lawrence (Larry) J. Ellison |
| Sun Microsystems Inc. | Jonathan I. Schwartz |
| Tata Consultancy Services Limited | S Ramadorai |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Jerry Yang |
Eric E.Schmidt- Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and member of Board of Directors of Apple Inc.
Young Steve Jobs!!!
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
Company |
Location Of Head Quarters |
| Symantec Corporation | Sunnyvale, California |
| Symbian Ltd. | Southwark, London |
| Tata Consultancy Services Limited | Mumbai, India |
| Texas Instruments | Dallas, Texas, USA |
| ThoughtWorks Inc. | Chicago, USA |
| Unisys Corporation | Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Vodafone | Newbury, England, UK |
| Wipro Technologies | Bangalore, India |
| Xerox Corporation | Norwalk, Connecticut, USA |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Sunnyvale, California, USA |
| Perot Systems Corporation | Plano, Texas, USA |
Company |
Location Of Head Quarters |
| AMD | Sunnyvale, California |
| Adobe | San Jose, California |
| Amazon.com | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| American Online | New York (operations in Dulles, VA), United States |
| Apple Inc. | Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California |
| Autodesk | San Rafael, California, USA |
| Compaq(now an HP brand) | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Epson | Suwa, Nagano, Japan |
| Google, Inc. | Google Campus, Mountain View, California, USA |
| HCL Technologies | Noida, UP, India |
| Hewlett-Packard | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| IBM | Armonk, New York, USA |
| Infosys | Bangalore, India |
| Intel | Santa Clara, California, United States |
| Ittiam | Bangalore, India |
| McAfee | Santa Clara, California, USA |
| Microsoft | Redmond, Washington |
| MindTree Limited | Bangalore, India |
| Motorola Inc. | Schaumburg, Illinois, USA |
| Novell Inc. | Waltham, MA, USA |
| NVIDIA Corporation | Santa Clara, California, USA |
| Oracle Corporation | Redwood City, CA |
| Patni Computer Systems Ltd. | Mumbai, India |
| Red Hat, Inc. | Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
| Sony Corporation | Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Sun Microsystems | Santa Clara, California, United States |
SUN Microsystems: SUN stands for Stanford University Network. It was incorporated by Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy, the first three being Stanford students.
GNU: GNU is a recursive abbreviation for GNU is Not Unix. It is an organization founded by Richard Stallman.
ITTAM: ITTIAM is an acronym for “I Think Therefore I AM“, propounded by Rane Descartes.
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