renamed after the adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs. The company took over Sperry Corporation and became Unisys. Bultaco – Spanish company of motorcycles, which disappeared in the 1980s. Its name is based on the name of its founder, Paco ó. ByWater Solutions – library software company named after a village in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings C C&A – named after the brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer, who founded a textile company called C&A in the Netherlands in 1841 CA – Computer Associates was founded in 1976 as Computer Associates International, Inc. by Charles Wang and Russell Artzt. Cadillac – the car company, founded in 1902, was named after the 18th-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. Cadillac is a small town in the South of France. The company was taken over by General Motors in 1909 and survives as a GM brand. CAE – originally Canadian Aviation Electronics Campagnolo – from the name of its founder, Tullio Campagnolo Canon – originally (1933) "Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory", the new name (1935) derived from the name of the company's first camera, the Kwanon, in turn named after the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy. Capcom – Capsule Computers, the former name of the company and how they described the arcade machines they manufactured at the time Caprabo – Catalan supermarkets, founded by Pere Carbó, Jaume Prats and Josep Bonet Carrefour – chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets which started with a store near a crossroads (carrefour in French) in Annecy Casio – from the name of its founder, Kashio Tadao, who had set up the company Kashio Seisakujo as a subcontractor factory Caterpillar – originally Holt Tractor Co, merged with Best Tractor Co. in 1925. A company photographer exclaimed aloud of a Holt tractor that the tracks' movement resembled a caterpillar moving along the ground. The name stuck. Cathay Pacific – airline was founded on 24 September 1946 by American Roy C. Farrell and Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow, with each man putting up HK$1 to register the airline. They named it Cathay Pacific because Cathay was the ancient name given to China; and Pacific because Farrell speculated that they would one day fly across the Pacific. CBS – Columbia Broadcasting System Celera – inspired by 'celerity' or swiftness (in decoding the human genome), with "era of the cell" a