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With MS and FAANG, it’s not so much forgetting as deliberately trying to avoid an unfortunate acronym.
by Telemakhos 3y ago
With MS and FAANG, it’s not so much forgetting as deliberately trying to avoid an unfortunate acronym.
- cableshaft 3y agoWell Jim Cramer was the one who originally popularized the term FAANG (then FANG)[1], and has since changed the it to MAMAA, which includes Microsoft (and the name change from Facebook to Meta, and Google to Alphabet)[2]. Also Netflix got excluded in the new one because "the digital streaming pioneer’s market capitalization has not kept up with the others." [1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/cramer-new-acronym-to-replace-faang-after-facebook-name-change-to-meta.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/cramer-new-acronym-to-replac...