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Isis mobile wallet will rebrand to avoid sharing name with violent militant group

08
Jul
2014

Isis is facing an identity crisis. The company behind the mobile wallet app has announced it will rebrand to avoid sharing its name with the extremist militant group ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The group is directly responsible for thousands of gruesome deaths across Iraq and Syria in recent months. We have no interest in sharing a name with a group whose name has become synonymous with violence and our hearts go out to those who are suffering, said Isis CEO Michael Abbott.

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