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　　1, Tencent

Ma named the company Tencent, full of profound meaning. On the one hand, MA's name has a "teng" word, the company is closely related to themselves, on the other hand, "Teng" also has take-off, developed meaning. The suffix is "message", more because of the influence of old club run hearing on Ma. As for the English naming Tencent, more is the reference to the famous communications company Lucent (Lucent). Tencent later listed in Hong Kong, Tencent English name by Hong Kong people called "very money" (ten cent), just at that time Tencent is home SP (short message content provider) company, the user sent SMS Tencent charges a dime, just very money, name is very appropriate and image.

　　2, Alibaba

When he had a meal at a restaurant in the United States, Ma Yun had a whim to find a waiter in the restaurant asking if he knew the name of Alibaba. Waiter replied that know, and also with Ma Yun said Alibaba Open treasure the mantra is "sesame open the door." After this test, Ma Yun has repeatedly asked others, MA found that the story of Alibaba is well-known all over the world, and regardless of language, pronunciation is almost consistent. "From my grandmother to my son, they all read Alibaba. "So, final, Ma Yun will" Alibaba "identified as the company's name.

Ma Yun said: "I named Alibaba is not for China, but for the world, I do Taobao, one day to play to the world." We were not just trying to make money in the first place, but to create a global, 102-year-old company. However, the "Alibaba" domain name has been bought by a Canadian. Jack Ma identified the domain name will be spread around the world, he was in the start-up capital of 500,000 yuan, took out 10,000 dollars from the Canadian hands to buy back Alibaba's domain name.

　　3, Baidu

"Baidu" two words from the Chinese Song Dynasty ci Xin Qiji's "Green Jade case • Yuan XI" verse: "The public seeks her 1100 degrees, that person is in the lights dim place". Li said: I have been fond of Tang and song Ci since childhood, and the recognition of Chinese traditional culture is very strong. The idea was that the name of the website should have Chinese meaning, so that the Chinese could understand it. Also have a simple pinyin, can show the meaning of search, but not very directly called search what, to have the cultural heritage. Think of it, suddenly came out of Xin Qiji's words, immediately on the decision. Because the word "Baidu" has covered all the things we want to say.

　　4. Apple

More officially, Jobs was ambitious and determined to make the company a god-like Daniel, so the first sign was that Newton was holding an apple, because Newton's legend that the law of gravitation had been hit by Apple had become a household word. Later, it was too complicated to delete Newton, leaving only the apple. There is another saying, because jobs likes apples, so the logo picked an apple, but after the design to find a far look like a butt, I am afraid to be ridiculed, so just a bite on the apple, so that everyone knows it is an apple and not a butt.

　　5, Google

The term "googol" refers to the 100 power of 10, written in the form of a number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which can be used to represent the vast amount of resources available on the Internet +. But the name came from Stanford University student Shawn Anderson, who, when searching the Internet domain registration database, turned the word "Google. com" and found that the domain name was just right to use.

　　6, NOKIA

Nokia refers to a wild beast with long black hair and claws in Finland, which lives mainly on both sides of a river in Finland, so the name of the beast is named the river, called the Nokia River (River Nokia). 1865, When Frederick Ederstam (Fredrik Idestam) was ready to start a business, he chose to set up its company on the banks of the Nokia River.

　　7, Yahoo

Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels, invented the word Yaho. In the novel, it represents a person who is disgusting in appearance and behavior, and can hardly be regarded as a man. David Filo and Jerry Yang insisted on choosing the name because they liked the dictionary definition of Yahoo as "rude, unsophisticated, vulgar" and felt like they were.

　　8, Microsoft

Billgate the name, first appearing in a letter from gates to Microsoft's other founder, Paul Allen, in 1975. Says the company will focus on microcomputersoft-ware (micro-computer software), making it feel like a mixture of "microcomputers" and "software" words. Originally called Mi-cro-soft, then the middle of the "-" removed.

　　9. Facebook

Whether Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg or any other Harvard student's idea a few years ago has been a lot of controversy. But there is no doubt that it is coming from a flower game with a century ago. A century ago there was a painting game, that is, in the "master" of the "Facebook" (Face book) left notes or pictures, in addition, in 19th century and 20th century, the collection of visitors or friends wrote the idea or joke of the book is also very common practice. The name of Facebook comes from this.

　　10, Twitter

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, founder Jack Dorsey said he had taken pains to pick a proper name and had come up with a lot of names in the hope of expressing a feeling that the world was talking about buzzing, and wanted to use the word "twitch" But it does not allow the right image to emerge from the human brain. Then have to look for similar words in the dictionary, "Twitter" is a kind of bird calls, the founder that the birds are short, frequent, fast, consistent with the content of the site, so chose "Twitter" for the site name.

The above is Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Apple, Google, NOKIA, Yahoo, Microsoft and other names of the name of the source, we look at will have some understanding, thank you for reading!