from the first letters of the family names of its founders Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman S Saab – founded in 1937 in Sweden as Svenska Aeroplan aktiebolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Company); the last word is typically abbreviated as AB, hence Saab and Saab Automobile AB SABC – South African Broadcasting Corporation Sabre – Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment SAIC – Science Applications International Corporation SAIC Motor – Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Saku Brewery – after the Saku small borough, Estonia, where the company was founded Sam's Club – named after the founder, Sam Walton Samsonite – named from the Biblical character Samson, renowned for his strength Sams Publishing – named after Howard W. Sams, who founded the company in 1946. It is now an imprint of Pearson plc. Samsung – meaning "three stars" in Korean Santander – Banco Santander was founded in Spain in 1857 and named after the port of Santander in the north of Spain. Sanyo – meaning "three oceans" in Japanese. The company was taken over by Panasonic in 2009 and the Sanyo brand name is no longer used. SAP – SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung (German for "System analysis and program development"), a company formed by five ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM. Later, SAP was redefined to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing). SAS – Scandinavian Airlines System, the flag airline carrier of Sweden, Norway and Denmark SAS Institute – originally an abbreviation for Statistical Analysis System Sasol – Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool en Ol. (Afrikaans for South African Coal and Oil) Saudi Aramco – Aramco name was derived in 1944 when California Arabian Standard Oil Company (Casoc) changed its name to Arabian American Oil Company. The Saudi government purchased the company in 1980, and changed its name to Saudi Arabian Oil Company or Saudi Aramco in 1988. Selver – from Estonian "selvehall" ("self-service market"), an earlier Estonian word for a "supermarket", and the noun suffix -r. SCB – from Standard Chartered Bank. The name Standard Chartered comes from the two original banks from which it was founded – the Chartered Bank of Sri Lanka, Australia and China, and the Standard Bank of British South Africa. Schick – manufacturer of shaving razors and blades, named after the inventor Jacob Schick SCO – from Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa