text: Cash-sprinkler Softbank and Alphabet hand over $1.9bn to Manbang • The Register Forums
  Japan's investment cash firehose Softbank and America's definitely-not-Google holding company Alphabet want you to use Manbang, and are paying $1.9bn for the pleasure. They want workers at shipping companies to hail passing trucks in the same way that drunk revellers use popular app-based taxi hailing services. China's …
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 11:39 GMT Korev
  My other favourite name, Uparse
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 11:42 GMT Anonymous South African Coward
  Manbang, Dong Energy and Uparse.
  Right, any others that we can have a laugh at?
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 11:45 GMT S4qFBxkFFg
  "Right, any others that we can have a laugh at?"
  How about the joint venture between state energy companies of Russia and Nigeria?
  One of the very early websites from the 1990's, sadly long gone, belonged to a Mexican company called Grupo Industrial Arse.
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 15:46 GMT Sam Therapy
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 12:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
  Analtech.
  http://www.ichromatography.com/
  So if Manbank, Dong energy and Uparse want to collaberate on a project, we should all look (away)?
  Wednesday 9th May 2018 05:13 GMT rskurat
  They merged a few years ago, it's called Grindr.
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 12:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
  BAPS?
  The umbrella group for plastic surgeons in the UK changed it's name from British Association of Plastic Surgeons some years ago. Can't think why. I'm still feeling for an IT angle though.
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 12:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
  Back in the mid 90's I worked for a software firm which, to get around the single-user limitations of MS Access, developed it's own multiuser database called "Batch User Level Location System for Hierarchical Information Tasking". We were told to not refer to it by it's acronym after it was pointed out to senior management shortly after the guy that created it left the company. This chap was clearly ahead of his time as even today DBA's still emit the same.
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 17:17 GMT Pliny the Whiner
  Okay, what about Huochebang?
  I wonder if the parent company's name Huochebang is pronounced who-chee-bang? Yeah. "Hootchie" is an Americanism that means something all on its own.
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 18:01 GMT hj
  Re: Okay, what about Huochebang?
  Maybe that's where the "whole shebang" comes from?
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 17:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
  The Danish internet exchange is known as the DIX.
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 17:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
  I once worked at a University (one of the ex poly ones) that merged with another and they set up a page to suggest new names. The one suggested by some lady colleagues of mine was City University North Thames!
  Tuesday 24th April 2018 18:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
  Manbang is reportedly backed by China's Tencent group
  TenCent should be avoided at all costs!
  Recently, the Indian Army blacklisted 48 applications due to spying concerns.
  Almost all of them are related to TenCent:
  Over the past couple of days the Indian Intelligence Bureau has warned that the Chinese government has been collecting data through multiple apps made by Chinese developers. Many of these apps are made by Tencent, a known beneficiary of the Chinese government whose apps have been featured on this site a few times as well as DU Apps and Cheetah Mobile. Please uninstall any of these apps from your phone:
  What is even more interesting is that some of those apps that were blacklisted are produced at a company where one of the CEO's from Emerdata (Cambridge Analytica offshoot) used to be an admin.
  #Mr Johnson Chun Shun Ko used to be the "Independent Non-exucutive director" of: Meitu, Inc. that produce phones and apps such as:
  "Beauty Plus", "Beauty Cam", "SELFIECITY", "MeituPic" and others.
  More interesting than that is those Meitu apps I listed all contain the now infamous Facebook Graph API.