Applied Materials Inc

Foundation Year
  •  1967
Founders
  • Michael A McNeilly
Taglines
  • Think it. Apply it.
  • Global Leaders. Local Fans
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Below  images are captured from the company history videos of Applied Materials and they might be company's previous logos.






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Some of the interesting facts

  • When the company was started, it was known as "Applied Materials Technology, Inc." and later in 1972 the name was changed to "Applied Materials, Inc."
  • Fairchild was the first customer of Applied Materials and it bought silane gas panels for delivery of the gases at Fairchild R&D. Other first customers were Microwave Associates and Intel.
For people who don't know, Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in Nanomanufacturing Technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass.


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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd

Foundation Year
  • 1987 
Founders
  • Dr. Morris Chang
Taglines
  • The proven path to success.
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Some of the interesting facts

  • TSMC pioneered the "dedicated silicon foundry" industry and is the largest silicon foundry in the world. (A business that operates a semiconductor fab for the purpose of fabricating the designs of other companies, such as fabless semiconductor companies, is known as a foundry. You can find more information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry_(electronics)).
  • Dr. Morris Chang was the first recipient of IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award for Exceptional Contributions to Microelectronics Industry.
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Texas Instruments Inc

Foundation Year
  •  1930 as GSI (Geophysical Service Inc) ; 1951 as TI (Texas Instruments Inc)
Founders
  • The original company GSI was founded by
    • John Clarence Karcher
    • Eugene McDermott
  • Later the company was purchased (in 1941 on the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked) by
    • Erik Jonsson
    • Cecil Green
    • Eugene McDermott
    • H. Bates Peacock
Taglines
  • Bringing affordable electronics to your fingertips - 1975
  • Creating useful products and services for you - 1979
  • The world leader in DSP and analog - 1996
  • Technology for Innovators
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The original GSI logo







Designed by Torger Thompson in 1951












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Insight on TI Businesses

Initially TI had started its business mainly focusing on Geophysical Services (1930s) but later it had diversified its business into engineering and manufacturing in electronics(1945s). From then TI focused primarily on various electronics business -  Military Electronics, Semiconductor business, Computer and Software and Industrial Controls, Sensor and Controls. Now, as part of new business strategy it divestiture some of its businesses and at present is focusing on  Semiconductor (Analog, Digital Signal Processing Digital Light Processing, Wireless) and Educational Technology.

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Novell Inc

Foundation Date
  •  January 25, 1979
Founders
  •  Dennis Fairclough
  • George Canova
  • Darin Field
  • Jack Davis
Taglines
  •  Making IT Work As One
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Did you know that till 1983, the company was known as Novell data Systems Inc and the company name was suggested by George Canova’s wife who mistakenly thought that “Novell” meant “new” in French. (In fact, the feminine singular of “new” in French is “nouvelle”).

You can get more information about the company from Wikipedia and Novell.

Cognizant

Foundation Year
  •  1994
Founders
  • kumar mahadeva
Taglines
  • Clebrating Work
  • Passion for making difference.
  • Passion for building stronger business. 2005 - till date
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Wipro Technologies

Foundation Year
  •  1945
Founders
  •  Premji
Taglines
  •  Applying Thought - 1998 to till date
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1998 to till date.







This logo was designed by Shombit Sengupta. The logo represents diverse businesses of Wipro Limited and its Values (human values, integrity, innovative solutions and value for money). The logo consists of three elements and each element has a specific significance.
  • First element - "Ranibow Flower" signifies 
    • Youthful & Energetic 
    • Multifaceted 
    • Innovative 
    • Large – diversified 
    • Vibrant
  • Second Element - "Applying Thought" signifies  
    • Powerful 
    • Intellectual 
    • Futuristic – Visionary 
    • Maturity 
    • Commitment to Innovation
  • Third Element - "Colors" signifies 
    • Red : Blood, Life giving, Dynamic, Auspicious 
    • Green : Fields, Prosperity, Freshness, Growth, Youth 
    • Yellow : Sun, Warmth, Vitality, Aspirations 
    • Violet : Intelligence, Innovation, Shrewdness, Mystery 
    • Blue : Sky, Sea, Transparency, Natural
By the way, company’s old logo was a large black W.

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Did you know that Wipro is an acronym of "Western Indian Products" and that it started (in 1945) with setting up of an oil factory in Amalner a small town in Maharashtra in Jalgaon District. The products Sunflower Vanaspati and 787 laundry soap (largely made from a bi-product of Vanaspati operations) were sold primarily in Maharashtra and MP.

Infosys

Foundation Year
  • 1981
Founders
  • N. R. Narayana Murthy 
  • Nandan Nilekani
  • N. S. Raghavan
  • Kris Gopalakrishnan
  • S. D. Shibulal
  • K. DineshAshok Arora
Taglines
  •  Win in the flat world - 2006 to till date
  • Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values - 2002
  • Improve your odds with Infosys Predictability
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ArcSight Inc

Foundation Year
  • 2000
Founders
  • ArcSight was formed and launched by SVIC (Silicon Valley Internet Capital), LLC, a technology company creation firm that recognized the industry need for enterprise security management.
Taglines
  •  Protect Your Business
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LG Corp

Foundation Year
  •  1947
Founders
  •  Koo In Hwoi
Taglines
  • Life's Good - 2004 to till date
  • Expand Your Life
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  • Interesting meaning behind LG's logo: The circle symbolizes the globe. The stylized image of a smiling face in the symbol conveys friendliness and approachability. Overall, LG's symbol represents the world, future, youth, humanity, and technology.The symbol consists of two elements: the LG logo in Grey and the stylized image of a human face in the unique LG Red color.
    • Red, the main color, symbolizes friendliness and gives a strong impression of LG's commitment to deliver the best. 
    • LG's grey represents technology and reliability.
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Did you know that LG stands for Lucky Goldstar. Wondering what is Lucky and what is Goldstar. They are the two companies founded by Koo In Hwoi, in 1947 and 1958 respectively. Lucky was earlier (before 1974) named as Lak Hui and was basically a chemical industry (currently LG Chem) where as Goldstar was electronics company (LG Electronics Inc.). Later in 1995, Lucky Goldstar was renamed as "LG". Below is the logo of Goldstar company





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Adobe Systems

Foundation Year
  •  December, 1982
Founders
  •  John Warnorck
  • Chuck Geschke
Taglines
  •  Better by adobe - 2004
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Dec 1982 - Jan 1990. Designed by Marva Warnock, John Warnock's wife.
an 1990 -1992. Introduced by Luanne Seymour Cohen to allow for easier printing at small sizes.
Jan 1992 to till date.

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    Did you know that the company is named after the creek that ran behind John's home in Los Altos, CA and that until 2007 the company has acquired about 30 companies. Below is the list of the companies for your quick reference.
    1. 1991 Emerald City Software, creator of Type Font-manipulation software
    2. 1992 OCR Systems
    3. 1994 Laser Tools
    4. 1995 Visualware
    5. 1995 Hyphen, a printer software company
    6. 1995 Ceneca Communication, a PageMill and SiteMill website-creation software.
    7. 1995 Frame Technology
    8. 1996 Swell Software, a webserver software company
    9. 1996 Ares Software, a font-scaling software company
    10. 1997 DigiDox, a personalized PDF-creation software company
    11. 1997 FinePont, a company that provides Web graphics software for ImageReady.
    12. 1999 Attitude Software, a 3D technologies company
    13. 1999 GoLive Systems and CyberStudio, Machintosh-only web authoring tool.
    14. 1999 Photomerge, a photostitching software for panoramic images.
    15. 2000 Glassbook, a company that creates software for creating, reading and deploying eBooks.
    16. 2001 Fotiva, a digital photography software company.
    17. 2002 Accelio, leading provider of Web-enabled solutions that help customers manage business processes driven by electronic forms.
    18. 2003 Syntrillium, digital audio tools
    19. 2003 Yellow Dragon Technology, a developer of xml messaging and metagata management software.
    20. 2004 Q-Link, aleading innovator in business process management software
    21. 2004 OKYZ, makers of 3D collaboration software
    22. 2005 Macromedia
    23. 2006 FineLine Digital Rights Management division of Navisware,
    24. 2006 Trade and Technologies France, it specializes in the interoperability between CAD systems and Multi CAD Digital Mockup, allowing for data compatability between CAD systems
    25. 2006 Pixmantec Technology, digital imaging software
    26. 2006 InterAKT, develops tools for creating web-content management, intranet and e-commerce application
    27. 2006 Actimagine Technology, a company that develops, patents and licenses software solutions in the field of video and interactive vector graphics.
    28. 2006 Serious Magic, makers of Visual Communicator and video blogging application, Vlog It!
    29. 2007 Antepo, Inc and  Amicima Technology
    30. 2007 Scene7, which makes an image processing and display platform used in many retail sites on the web.
    You can get more information about the company from Adobe.

    Hewlett Packard

    Foundation Year
    •  1939, incorporated on August 18, 1947.
    Founders
    •  William (Bill) HewlettDavid (Dave) Packard
    Taglines
    •  Invent - 1999
    • Every thing is possible - 2002
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    Google Inc

    Foundation Date
    •  September 4th, 1998.
    Founders
    • Sergey Brin and Larry Page
    Taglines
    •  Don't be evil - It is company's unofficial slogan that was coined on July 2001
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    You can get more information about the company from Google and Wikipedia.

    By the way, the name 'Google' comes from the term 'Googol', which is a mathematical term for a number followed by 100 zeros. This name was choosen to reflects the mission of organizing a seemingly infinite amount of infomation on web. Before this name, the company was known as 'BackRub'

    Oracle Corporation

    Foundation Year
    • 1997
    Founders
    • Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates
    Taglines
    • The information company. - 2004 to till date
    • Can't break it, can't break in, or Unbreakable. 2002 - 2004
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    Yahoo! Inc

    Foundation Date
    •  March 1st, 1995
    Founders
    •  Jerry Yang and David Filo
    Taglines
    • It's Y!ou - Sep 2009
    • Do You Yahoo!
    Logos


    Purple Logo - This is the official logo of Yahoo

    White Logo (transparent background)

    Y! Bang Logo

    1995 - Original Logo; displayed in the main page of Yahoo.com



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    For people who don't know YAHOO is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

    Dell Inc

    Foundation Date
    •  November 4th, 1984
    Founders
    •  Michael S. Dell
    Taglines
    •  Be Direct - 1998
    • Easy as Dell - 2001
    • FTW - For The Win - 2006
    • Purely You - 2006
    • Yours Is Here - 2007
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    The company started with the name "PC's Limited" and later was changed to "Dell Computer Corporation" in 1998. In 2003, it was again renamed as 'Dell Inc". You can get more information about the company from Dell and wired

    Microsoft Corporation

    Foundation Date
    •  April 4th, 1975; Incorporated on June 25, 1981
    Founders
    •  Bill Gates and Paul Allen
    Taglines
    •  Your potential. Our passion - 2002 - till date
    • Where do you want to go today? - 1994 - 2002
    Logos


    Microsoft "blibbet" logo, used until 1987

    Used since 1987 and later with slogan from 1994 - 2002.

    Used from 1994 - till date.


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    You can get more information about the company from Microsoft and Wikipedia. Also, you may like the vedio series that depicts the history of the microsoft - http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/History/

    IBM

    Foundation Year
    •  1889, incorporated 1911
    Founders
    •  Thomas J. Watson, Sr
    Taglines
    • THINK - 1925. this is most popular slogan of IBM and was developed by the IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
    • Solutions for a small planet - 1994 (This was the first slogan used for global  advertising campaign by IBM).
    • E-Business is the Game. Play to Win. - 2002
    • E-Business on demand. - 2003
    • On demand business. - 2004
    • What makes you special? - 2006
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    1924 - 1946 International Business Machines. The font used was "sans-sarif"and the logo intends to suggest a globe.

    1947-1956 IBM in transition. The logo was first time changed after 22 years. The type of the font used was "Beton Bold".

    1956-1972 IBM continuity. The font used is "City Medium".

    1972- till date - IBM international recognition. The horizontal stripes suggest "speed and dynamism". There are two versions of this logo, one contains 13 stripes and the other contains 8 stripes as shown above.(This logo was first used in 1967 and was later fully replaced the solid logo in 1972.)
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    Some interesting things about IBM
    • Before IBM, the company was known as "Computing-Tabulating-Recording" - CTR. It was named as "International Business Corporation" - IBM in 1924. 
    • The Computing-Tabulating-Recording company (CTR) was formed in 1911, by merging of three companies namely - "Tabulating Machine Company", "Computing Scale Company", and "International Time Recording Company" with the help of Mr Charles F. Flint. The logo of the company is as follows

    • The International Time Recording Company (ITR 1889-1914) began as the Bundy Manufacturing Company in Auburn, New York. ITR's main product line were mechanical time recorders invented and patented by Willard L. Bundy in 1888.  The logo of the company is as follows 


    • The Computing Scale Company (1891 - 1914) was incorporated in 1891 by Edward Canby and Orange O. Ozias, two businessmen from Dayton, Ohio by purchasing the patents of  the newly invented computing scale. The logo of the company was as follows

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    Intel Corporation

    Foundation Date
    • July 18th, 1968
    Founders
    • Bob Noyce (also known as Robert Noyce)
    • Gordon Moore

    Taglines
    • Intel. Leap ahead - December 2005 to till date
    • Intel Inside 1991 - 2003
    Logos
    • Intel, Leap Ahead, 2005 to present                               
    •  Intel Inside logo modifed with dropped 'e'.
    • Intel Inside, 1991 - 2003
    • Dropped-e, 1969 to 2005
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    You can get more information about the company from Intel and Wikipedia

    By the way, Intel stands for Integrated Electronics Corporation and before that the company was know as Moore & Noyce Electronics.

    Source: Intel and Wikipedia

    Apple Computer Inc

    Foundation Date

    • April 1st, 1976
    Founders:

    • Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
    Taglines
    • Think different -1997 - 2002
    • The Power to Be Your Best - 1990
    • Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples. - 1980s
    • Byte into an Apple. - 1970s
    If you are interested to know the product specific tag lines, then visit the link Apple Slogans.

    Logos
    • Used from 2007 to present.
    • Used from 2001 to 2007.
    • Used from 1998 to 2000.
    • Used from 1976 to 1998.
    • Original Apple logo.
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    You can get more information about the company from Apple and Wikipedia.

    Source: Wikipedia