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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by delecti on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:33PM (#38073695)
Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).
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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by Groxx on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:16PM (#38074320)
I think it works. Just think of it as a family with a troublemaker kid.

MAAA! THEY'RE DOIN STUPID STUFF AGAIN AND THEY WON'T LET ME USE MY COMPUTER!

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by hnuser123456 on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:31PM (#38074506)
MAAAM or MAMAA
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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by petters on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:46PM (#38074692)
You don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works
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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by Chilko on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:59PM (#38077764)
As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.
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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by bigstrat2003 on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:43PM (#38078281)
FAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).
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