From The Escapist:

[QUOTE]I may be responsible for more than my fair share of the acronym problems 'round these here parts, but it's only because the organizations and business that I've been involved with were best served by blindly flowing the lead of others who had successfully blazed the trail.

The business-to-business publishing company that I ran, which only the old-timers will remember for brands like GameWeek, GameJobs, Game Over and GameDaily (sensing a theme?), was called CyberActive Publishing, Inc., ( CAPI) - "CyberActive" because it was a blend of two words that seemed to capture where the sector was moving, "cyberspace" and "interactive." Why "CAPI" and the intentional and equally unnecessary abbreviation? Because IDG (International Data Group) and ZD (Ziff Davis) already set the standard.[/QUOTE]

Editorial available [URL=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/editors_note/6651-Guest-Editors-Note-Alphabet-Soup]here[/URL].