This was the original names of the great multinationals before adopting the current

Facebook has been on the mouth of everyone since it has been called a goal to wash its international image and because it is committed to metaverso as the future of the Internet.Changing the company's name is always a good option when you need to reinvent yourself to continue growing or to solve a problem that entails the same nomenclature.

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In its beginnings Sony was a radio repair store called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo ("Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation").When they tried to expand internationally they saw that in the United States they did not know how to pronounce their name.It was like that when they decided to change the name to Sony, a word game between Sonus (Sound in Latio) and Sonny (at that time it was used to say ‘ready’).

Nintendo

Nintendo is the most longeva multinational on the list, it was founded in 1889 selling letters from playing traditional Japanese under the name Marafuku Company.It was not until 1951 that the company adopted the name of Nintendo Playing Card Company, mainly because like Sony it was a very complicated name to export to the US market.Over the years the name was too long and bet only on Nintendo.

Nike

In the beginning, what we now know as the great multinational sports shoes and sportswear, in the 60s it was known as Blue Ribbon Sports.They also did not create footwear as such if they were in charge of distributing other shoes brands.Until one day he associated with an athletics coach to create his own shoes that were called Nike in honor of the Greek goddess of the Niké victory.

Google

The Internet search engine in its beginnings was called Backrub, a name that referred to the links of some pages that lead to other websites: the backlinks.The more Backlinks had a website before it came out in the top search positions.However, in 1997 the search engine had such a amount of data that refounded it with the name of Google, a name that is an equivalent to one and one hundred zeros.

Yahoo

The Yahoo search engine was created by Stanford student Jerry Yangi who founded her as Jerry’s Guide.A little later he joined the business David Filo and that was when the guide began to be called Yahoo, the acronym of Yet Another Hyarchical Office Oracle (another informal hierarchical oracle).

Pepsi

The Pepsi drink was created by the pharmaceutical chemist Caleb Bradham in 1893, so, in the beginning he baptized her as Brad’s Drink.However, only six years later was renamed Pepsi-Cola, referring to the pepsin digestive enzyme and tail nuts.

Amazon

Amazon was at first an online sales business of books and its founder, Jeff Bezos, baptized him as Cadabra, a derivative of the magical word Abracadabra.His lawyer did not like the idea very much since he thought that magic had a darkest point and also the word cadabra looked like an body.Following his lawyer's advice, in 1995bezzos the name of the Amazon company changed referring to the longest river in the world, the Amazon.