Haier- Chinese ? "sea" and ? (a transliteration character; also means "you" in Literary Chinese)
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HP- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
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Hitachi- old place name, literally "sunrise"
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Honda- from the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda
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Honeywell- from the name of Mark Honeywell founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co. It later merged with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company and was finally called Honeywell Inc. in 1963.
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Hotmail- Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" - the markup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. (If you click on Hotmail's 'mail' tab, you will still find "HoTMaiL" in the URL.)
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HSBC- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
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Hyundai- connotes the sense of "the present age" or "modernity" in Korean.
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