Facebook Name Change: Five Big Companies That Changed Their Names To Save Face
News 18The brand name of a company is more than just a collection of letters and words. We present to you five companies that stood at the crossroads and took the road less taken or, to be more contemporary, we present to you five companies that pulled a Facebook.’ GOOGLE: It has been six years since the search engine, that is now considered a verb, changed its name from the widely-known ‘Google‘ to ‘Alphabet.’ The reasons, luckily, were not triggered by a mishap by the company but were completely due to company’s vision to expand its arms into various other ventures. Before 2007, Apple was known as ‘Apple Computers Inc.’ However, things changed after Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, launched what later became to be the flagship product of the company, the Apple iPhone. In 2014, McAfee associates decided to change the name to Intel Security Group since the company was owned by Intel at that time. But Intel let go of this crippling arm two years later, after which the company’s name was changed back to McAfee.
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