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October 28, 2021 08:07 pm

With Facebooks change to Meta, whats the new Big Tech acronym?





A collage of Meta logos. | Image: Meta



The company formerly known as Facebook just revealed its new name, Meta. And while that change brings a whole lot of questions, there’s one that many of us at The Verge have been pondering for about 30 minutes: how does the Meta name change the acronym used to refer to the biggest tech companies in one fell swoop?


Before Thursday, FAANG — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google — was perhaps the most commonly used one. But that acronym already doesn’t quite work. Google is technically a part of Alphabet now, so there should be a third A. (FAAAN?) It’s missing Microsoft, which is just as mind-bogglingly huge as some of the other companies. And you could argue that Tesla should be part of the acronym conversation, especially now that...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/10/28/22751274/facebook-meta-name-change-new-big-tech-acronym-faang

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