Technology Brands in Brandle

Named from the Latin word for sharp, referring to precision engineering.

Named after Adobe Creek near cofounder John Warnock's home.

Its Claude assistant is widely believed to honour Claude Shannon, a founder of information theory.

Steve Jobs chose the name after visiting an apple farm.

Named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.

Its name comes from a Song dynasty poem about searching hundreds of times for someone in a crowd.

Its drag-and-drop templates made polished design feel accessible to non-designers.

Its direct-to-customer model let buyers configure PCs before that was normal.

It grew from tools built for gamers to coordinate while playing.

Drew Houston built the first prototype after forgetting his USB drive on a bus.

The elephant logo plays on the saying that elephants never forget.

Its mascot is the Octocat.

Dmitriy Zaporozhets started it in 2011 from his house in Ukraine, which had no running water.

A misspelling of googol, the number 10^100.

Its browser extension helped turn grammar checking into an always-on writing layer.

Seven engineers pooled a few hundred dollars to start what became an IT services giant.

Short for Integrated Electronics; the founders bought the rights to the name from a hotel chain.

A blend of Le from Legend (the company's previous name) and novo from the Latin for new.

Its chimp mascot is named Freddie.

The name blends microcomputer and software.

It began as a wood-pulp mill; a second mill by Finland's Nokianvirta river gave it its name.

A near-failed first version was rebuilt from scratch before the workspace app took off.

Its name came from a CIA database project codename.

Stands for Quality Communications; it pioneered CDMA, the technology behind many 3G networks.

It grew out of an online snowboard shop.

Derived from Sky Peer-to-Peer, shortened and altered for branding.

Originally a backronym: Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge.

Its channels and large groups made it part messenger, part broadcast network.

Its card-and-board metaphor made project tracking feel visual and lightweight.

Launched by Tencent in 2011, it reached 100 million users in 433 days.

Founded by two ex-Yahoo engineers who wanted a simple status app; Facebook bought it for $19 billion.

Its name originally stood for Western India Vegetable Products.

Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked an abandoned blogging tool in 2003; it now powers a huge share of the web.

Comes from xerography, Greek for dry writing, the copying process invented by Chester Carlson.

Its name became a verb during the remote-work boom.