Facebook isn’t the first to rebrand itself to Meta: 10 other companies that underwent a name change
FirstpostFacebook Inc., has decided to change its name to Meta to reflect the technology company’s shifting focus on its virtual “metaverse” world Facebook ended its troubled week with an announcement — Facebook Inc., owner of the social network as well as Instagram, WhatsApp and other ventures, is changing its name to Meta Platforms. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his blog post that the existing brand could not “possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future”, and needed to change. When Apple launched iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo’s podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter instead. And on 21 March 2006, Dorsey sent out its first tweet, reading, “just setting up my twttr.” WWF wrestles with WWE After a long legal battle, the world’s biggest wrestling company was forced to change from WWF to WWE.
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