And yet the logo of Nvidia, which was founded in 1993 ... and it must have helped that it sounded sort of like “video” to boot. There were no branding consultants around to take potshots ...

Quirky names for startups surfaced about 20 years ago in Silicon Valley, with the birth of search engines such as Yahoo, —which originally stood for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Failed New York City startup Quirky has risen from the dead. Quirky was founded in 2009 with the goal of "making invention accessible" by creating a platform for inventors to submit their ideas ...