and Mac McDonald, who founded the first McDonald's restaurant in 1940. MCI Communications – Microwave Communications, Inc. The company later merged with Worldcom to create MCI Worldcom. The MCI was dropped in 2000 and the acquiring company changed its name to MCI when it emerged from bankruptcy in 2003. McSweeney's – Dave Eggers' publishing ventures started with Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. This was named after mysterious letters that he collected as a child, "written by a man named Timothy McSweeney, who thought he was related to my mother". (McSweeney was his mother's maiden name.) MEA - Middle East Airlines, an airline operating out of Beirut, Lebanon. Mercedes-Benz – formed from the first name of Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, who distributed cars of the early Daimler company around 1900, and the last name of Karl Benz, one of the owners of the Daimler-Benz company that the Daimler company merged into in 1926. Merillat Industries – named after Orville D. Merillat, who founded the company in 1946. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) – film studio formed from the merger of three other companies: Metro Picture Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Goldwyn Picture Corporation in turn was named after the last names of Samuel Goldfish, and Edgar and Archibald Selwyn. Metromedia – spun off by DuMont Laboratories as DuMont Broadcasting Corporation, it changed its name to Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation to distance itself from DuMont. This was later changed to Metromedia. MFI – from Mullard Furniture Industries. The original company was named after the founder's wife, whose maiden name was Mullard. MG Cars – from Morris Garages after co-founder William Morris. Under Chinese ownership, the company says: "We want Chinese consumers to know this brand as 'Modern Gentleman'." Microlins – from Microcomputers and Lins, a Brazilian city where the company was founded by José Carlos Semenzato Micron Technology – computer memory producer named after the microscopic parts of its products. It is now better known by its consumer brand name: Crucial. Microsoft – coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to microcomputer software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' disappeared on 3 February 1987 with the introduction of a new corporate identity and logo. The "slash between the 'o' and 's' [in the Microsoft logo] emphasizes the "soft" part of the name and conveys motion and speed." Midway Games – derived from the name of an airport