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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by 0x37 on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:02PM (#12565587)
What is this inane trend here on HN of referring to companies with the names they are registered to stock exhange?
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by intsunny on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:23PM (#12565770)
For many of us its sheer laziness and its been this way for a long time. GOOG is faster to type than Google. (This is especially true for MSFT.)
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by bdcravens on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:36PM (#12565896)
I remember MSFT being a common reference on Slashdot way back when.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by jshevek on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:09PM (#12567962)
I like that it is more accurate than saying Google ( it's Alphabet now after all), while still using a reference we are familiar with.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by pboutros on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:19PM (#12565733)
It shows that we are #savvy.

/s

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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by Nicholas_C on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:17PM (#12568826)
Shorthand.
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