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Airbnb Hits Back at Ridicule over its New "Vagina" Logo

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday July 22 2014, @10:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the S.-Freud-Cigars dept.

cafebabe writes:

In a move worthy of Mike Judge's Silicon Valley, the Daily Mail reports that a startup company has picked an unfortunate logo. In summary:

  • Logo unveiled to derision earlier this week
  • Thousands took to Twitter to point out it looked like a vagina
  • Firm is 'working cooperatively to address this issue' with tech firm Automation Anywhere which has similar logo

One commentator has a Not Safe For Work explanation for what the marketers were thinking.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday July 22 2014, @12:00PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 22 2014, @12:00PM (#72242) Journal
    So it looks like a vagina. So what?

    Is everyone 12?
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  • (Score: 1) by kwerle on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:46PM

    by kwerle (746) on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:46PM (#72315) Homepage

    On the internet? Yup.