accessible Varig – Brazilian airline, its name is an abbreviation of Viação Aérea Rio-Grandense, because it was founded in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Verizon – portmanteau of veritas (Latin for truth) and horizon. Verkkokauppa.com – directly from the company's official URL. "Verkkokauppa" translates to "Internet store" in Finnish. Victorinox – derived from the name of the founder's mother, Victoria, and a French abbreviation for stainless steel, inox. Known for their Swiss army knife. Viking Line – from the prefix "Viking" appearing in the names of all the ships of Rederi Ab Sally, Viking Line's predecessor company. Virb – play on "verb", representing an action word in order to describe the product's users as "people who create" Virgin – founder Richard Branson started a magazine called Student while still at school. In his autobiography, Losing My Virginity, Branson says that when they were starting a business to sell records by mail order, "one of the girls suggested: 'What about Virgin? We're complete virgins at business.'" VMware – Virtual Machine [soft]ware Vodafone – from Voice, Data, Telefone. Vodafone made the UK's first mobile call at a few minutes past midnight on 1 January 1985. Volkswagen – from the German for "people's car". Ferdinand Porsche wanted to produce a car that was affordable for the masses – the Kraft-durch-Freude-Wagen (or "Strength-Through-Joy car", from a Nazi social organization) later became known, in English, as the Beetle. Volvo – from the Latin word "volvo", which means "I roll". It was originally a name for a ball bearing being developed by SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB or, in English, Swedish ball bearing factory). Vought – American series of aircraft companies. Chance M. Vought and Birdseye Lewis founded the Lewis and Vought Corporation in 1917. Lewis retired, and the original company was succeeded by the Chance Vought Corporation in 1922. That was acquired by James Ling in 1962 to add to his conglomerate, forming Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV, above); Vought's businesses were continued under the subsidiary LTV Aerospace, split into Vought Missiles and Space and Vought Aeronautics. In 1972, the two divisions were merged to create Vought Systems. LTV Aerospace was then renamed back to Vought Corporation in 1976, and then restructured back to LTV Aerospace and Defense in 1983—again split into aircraft vs. missiles. In 1992, Loral bought the missile division, while Northrop and The Carlyle Group bought the aerospace division. Northrop's successor Northrop Grumman bought