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by zaphirplane 2793 days ago
The FAANGAMUs acronym doesn’t have a lot of hits, what did you add Microsoft Uber and Airbnb?
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Microsoft owns Bing, one of the most important search engines and advertising platforms on the Internet...

Uber had that secret API access granted directly from Apple so it could see which apps you had open at all times (in case you opened Lyft) so it could charge you different rates.

AirBNB is similarly large, so I thought they were worth mentioning.