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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.

Netscape Communications was co-founded by Jim clarke, Marc Andresson, Eric Bina in the year 1994.

Red Hat Inc. was co-founded by Marc Ewing and Bob Young in the year 1995.

World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1994.

Wikipedia, most popular free encyclopedia, was created by Jim Wales and Larry Sanger.

Computer Associates (CA) was co-founded by Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar in the year 1976.

Lindows Inc. (now called as Linspire Inc.) was fouded by Michael Robertson in the year 2001.

Cisco Systems was co-founded by Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack in the year 1984.

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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.

Dell Inc. was founded by Michael Dell in the year 1984.

Google, Inc. was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the year 1998.

HCL Technologies was founded by Shiv Nadar in the year 1976.

Hewlett-Packard was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in the year 1939.

Infosys was founded by N. R. Narayana Murthy and six others: Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora in the year 1981.

Intel Corporation was founded by Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce in the year 1968.

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the year 1975.

MindTree Ltd. was started by Ashok Soota, Subroto Bagchi, Krishnakumar Natarajan, S.Janakiraman, N.S.Parthasarathy, Kalyan Banerjee and Rostow Ravanan and 3 leaders in American IT business – Anjan Lahiri, Scott Staples and Kamran Ozair in the year 1999.

Motorola was founded by Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin in the year 1928.

Oracle Corporation was founded by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates in the year 1977.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd was founded by B.Ramalinga Raju in 1987.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was founded by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in the year 1982.

Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in the year 1994.

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.

Citrix Systems: Citrix name is a portmanteau of Citrus and UNIX.

Adobe: The name ADOBE came from the river Adobe creek that ran behind the house of John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe.

Fair Isaac Corporation: The company is named after the founders Bill Flair and Earl Isaac.

Compaq: The name “COMPAQ” was derived from “COMPatibility And Quality”.

Hewlett Packard: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Infosys: Infosys, an Indian Software Major, derived its name from INFOrmation SYStems”.

LG: The name is derived from combination of two popular Korean brands, Lucky and Goldstar.

Lycos: Lycos, a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content, got its name from Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders.

Vodafone: Derived from VOice, DAta, TeleFONE.

Company

CEO

Young Steve Jobs!!!
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

Steve Wozniak- Co-Founder of Apple Computers(now known as Apple Inc.)

Steve Case- Co-Founder, Former CEO and Chairman of AOL

Bill Gates

Larry Page- Co-Founder and President of Products, Google Inc.

Sergey Brin- Co-Founder and President of Technology, Google Inc.

Vinod Khosla- Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems

Scott McNealy- Co-Founder and Chairman of Sun Microsystems

Jonathan I. Schwartz- President and CEO of Sun Microsystems

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Location Of Head Quarters

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Location Of Head Quarters

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.

Nintendo: The word Nintendo is composed of 3 Japnese Kanji Characters Nin-ten-do which means “Heaven Blesses Hard Work”.

Apache Server: It was earlier called as “A patchy Server” because it was originally developed on top of the NCSA’s http daemon by applying series of patches. Later it became Apache server in Usage.

Google: The name Google was derived from a mathematical word “Googol” which means 1 followed by 100 zeros hoping that Google would contain a googol articles some day.

3COM: Company founded by Bob Metcalfe. 3COM stands for COMputer, COMmunication, COMpatibility.

EPSON: Epson is basically a printer company. ESPON stands for SON of Electronic Printers.

KYOCERA: KYOCERA stands for KYOto CERAmics Ltd started in 1959

TOSHIBA: TOSHIBA stands for TOkyo SHIBAura Electric Company.

INTEL: Intel stands for INTegrated ELectronics.

YAHOO!: Yahoo! stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle!. Word Yahoo is derived from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels”. Yahoo! means a person who is obnoxious in appearance and action and is barely human.

Linux: Coined by Ari Lemmke who made Linus Torwald’s OS available for download using FTP.

Accenture: The word “Accenture” is derived from “ACCENt on the fuTURE“. The name “Accenture” was submitted by an employee from the Oslo office named Kim Petersen.