in 1961 to become Ling-Temco-Vought. This then became a holding company with the subsidiaries LTV Aerospace, LTV Ling Altec (aka Altec Lansing, above), and LTV Electrosystems. In 1971, as part of an antitrust settlement, the name of the holding company was changed to LTV Corporation. By 1984, the company was primarily involved in steel production, and changed its name to LTV Steel, under which name it continued until it went out of business in 2000. LTX – semiconductor test equipment company formed by people who left Teradyne, and said to stand for "Leave Teradyne by Xmas" or possibly "Left Teradyne at Xmas" (Christmas). LTX merged with Credence Systems Corporation and is now part of Xcerra Corporation. Lucent Technologies – spin-off from AT&T, it was named Lucent (meaning "luminous" or "glowing with light") because "light as a metaphor for visionary thinking reflected the company's operating and guiding business philosophy", according to the Landor Associates staff who chose the name. It was taken over by Alcatel to form Alcatel-Lucent in 2006. Ludicorp – named from the Latin lūdere (to play) because the intention was to develop an online game, though co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake developed a successful photo-sharing website. They wanted to call it Flicker, but Fake dropped the "e" when the owner of Flicker.com wouldn't sell them the domain name. Ludicorp sold Flickr to Yahoo in 2005. The Oath division of Verizon sold Flickr to SmugMug in 2018. Lufthansa – founded as Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1926, where "Deutsche Luft" means "German Air" and Hansa refers to the Hanseatic League of medieval guilds. It was renamed Lufthansa in 1933. Lukoil – from the first letters of the three companies that merged to form the Russian oil giant: Langepasneftegaz, Uraineftegaz, and Kogalymneftegaz, plus the English word "oil" LVMH – from the initials of the 1987 merger of Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy. The former was named after Louis Vuitton while the latter was created in the 1971 merger of two earlier companies, Moët & Chandon (champagne) and Hennessy (cognac). Lycos – web search engine company founded in 1994 and named from Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders M Maggi – food company named after its founder, Julius Maggi. It was taken over by Nestlé in 1947 and survives as a brand name. Mailchimp – the email marketing company was originally going to be called Chimpmail but the domain was taken,