Big Tech

Brand logos of the Big Five tech companies

Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants or Tech Titans,^[1] is a grouping of the largest IT companies in the world. The concept of Big Tech is similar to the grouping of dominant companies in other sectors like Big Oil, Big Media, etc.^[2] It typically refers to the Big Tech in United States tech companies: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle and Microsoft;^[3]^[4]^[5] or the Magnificent Eight, which includes Nvidia and Tesla.^[6]^[7]^[8] Big Tech can also include Chinese companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi (BATX).

^ Feller, E., Alphabet Earnings Preview: Tech Titans Battle for AI and Cloud Supremacy, Yahoo! Finance, published on July 18, 2023, accessed on June 22, 2024
^ Oremus, Will (November 17, 2017). "Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Tech?". Slate. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
^ "The Economics of Big Tech". Financial Times. March 29, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
^ "We're Stuck With the Tech Giants. But They're Stuck With Each Other". New York Times. November 13, 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
^ Birch, Kean; Bronson, Kelly (2022). "Big Tech". Science as Culture. 31 (1). doi:10.1080/09505431.2022.2036118.
^ "Tesla Just Officially Became Big Tech After Surging Beyond $1 Trillion in Market Value". interestingengineering.com. October 25, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
^ Bergan, Brad. "Tesla Has Officially Become Big Tech After Surging Beyond $1 Trillion in Market Value". www.autobodynews.com. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
^ Levy, Ari (December 31, 2020). "Tech's top seven companies added $3.4 trillion in value in 2020". CNBC. Retrieved April 22, 2022.

[1] Feller, E., Alphabet Earnings Preview: Tech Titans Battle for AI and Cloud Supremacy, Yahoo! Finance, published on July 18, 2023, accessed on June 22, 2024

[slate_origins-2] Oremus, Will (November 17, 2017). "Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Tech?". Slate. Retrieved November 22, 2021.

[3] "The Economics of Big Tech". Financial Times. March 29, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2019.

[4] "We're Stuck With the Tech Giants. But They're Stuck With Each Other". New York Times. November 13, 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2020.

[5] Birch, Kean; Bronson, Kelly (2022). "Big Tech". Science as Culture. 31 (1). doi:10.1080/09505431.2022.2036118.

[6] "Tesla Just Officially Became Big Tech After Surging Beyond $1 Trillion in Market Value". interestingengineering.com. October 25, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2022.

[7] Bergan, Brad. "Tesla Has Officially Become Big Tech After Surging Beyond $1 Trillion in Market Value". www.autobodynews.com. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2022.

[8] Levy, Ari (December 31, 2020). "Tech's top seven companies added $3.4 trillion in value in 2020". CNBC. Retrieved April 22, 2022.

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