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Slideshow: When All That's Left Is a Name

As tech and telecom companies close, merge and change names, the buildings that bear their corporate logos don't always keep up. By Joanna Glasner.
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Web design firm Organic has scaled down staff and moved offices, but its masthead still looms above its former headquarters in San Francisco.Joanna Glasner

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In Silicon Valley, For Lease, such as this one in Santa Clara, California, fills up space in empty corporate parks

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The AirTouch logo still looms above the skyline of San Francisco's financial district, despite the fact that the firm was acquired by European wireless giant Vodafone back in January 1999.

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Pac Bell Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, may soon be changing its name. SBC, which purchased California local phone provider Pacific Bell in 1997, wants the ballpark to bear its name in the 2004 baseball season.

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