"X" from founder Robert F.X. Sillerman. Other Sillerman companies include SFX Entertainment and FXM Asset Management. Clarion – named after the "bugle-like wind instrument used in ancient Greece", says the company, which wanted a name English speakers would find easy to remember. It was founded in Japan in 1940 as Hakusan Wireless Electric Company, making radios, and became Teikoku Dempa after merging with Takizawa Wireless Electric Industries in 1943. CNET – Computer Network CNN – Cable News Network Coca-Cola – derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Cola creator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' to make the name look better. Coleco – began as the Connecticut Leather Company Colgate-Palmolive – formed from a merger of soap manufacturers Colgate & Company and Palmolive-Peet. Peet was dropped in 1953. Colgate was named after William Colgate, an English immigrant, who set up a starch, soap and candle business in New York City in 1806. Palmolive was named for the two oils (Palm and Olive) used in its manufacture. COLT – from City Of London Telecom Comcast – from communications and broadcast Commodore International – supposedly named after the Opel Commodore, after the company's founder Jack Tramiel had unsuccessfully tried to name his company first "General" and then "Admiral". However, the Opel Commodore only debuted in 1967, years after the company's founding. Compaq – from computer and a sensational spelling of the word "pack" to denote a small integral object; Compatibility And Quality; or from the company's first product, the very compact Compaq Portable COMSAT – contraction of communications satellites. This American digital telecommunications and satellite company was founded during the era of U.S. President John F. Kennedy era to develop the technology. Comverse – from combining the words "communication" and "versatility" ConocoPhillips – formed from the merger of Conoco (from Continental Oil Company) and the Phillips Petroleum Company, named after the brothers who founded it: Lee Eldas "L.E." and Frank Phillips. Copersucar – Brazilian production cooperative in sugar and alcohol; its name is a contraction of Cooperativa de Açucar e Álcool Corel – Canadian software company; from Cowpland Research Laboratory, after the name of the company's founder, Michael Cowpland Cosworth – automotive engineering company named after company founders Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth CPFL – Companhia Paulista de Força e Luz (São Paulo Company of Light and Power), one of the largest in Brazil,