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Was Twitter ever part of that group? I thought it was Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.
by what_ever 10y ago
Was Twitter ever part of that group? I thought it was Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.
- tedmiston 10y ago+ Apple
- maxwell 10y agoEveryone always says four, yet swap Apple and Microsoft... This is apparently for historical reasons—there's always been a "big four" since the Great War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four It's clearly currently five. In order of market cap: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon. Note that these are now the five biggest publicly traded companies in the world, not merely in "tech" (a clearly archaic categorization).
- flexie 10y agoI was about to write that you are wrong because how could Facebook and Amazon be on that list. But you are right. All oil and gas, conglomerates, pharmaceutical, financial services, electronics, retail, commodities, telecommunication, utility and automotive companies that crowded the list until recently have been displaced by IT companies. It is truly stunning.
- nl 10y agoThe reason people typically don't include Apple is because they are diversified out of software, whereas Google/FB/Amazon/MS are all software tech companies. This isn't exactly a strong line though, since all are at least diversified into things outside software. Nevertheless, that was the original reasoning.
- hanoz 10y agoLast time I heard the expression it was Netscape, Oracle, IBM and Sun (vs Microsoft). I wonder how the OP would feel about working for one of them now.