Big Tech

Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, the Big Five tech companies

Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants, are the largest information technology (IT) companies. The term generally refers to the Big Five tech companies in the United States: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.^[1]^[2] The term can also include Chinese tech companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi (BATX). Big Tech can also include tech companies with high valuations, such as Netflix and Nvidia, or companies outside the IT sector, such as Tesla.^[3]^[4]^[5] The concept of Big Tech is analogous to the grouping of dominant companies in other sectors.^[6]

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