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I hadn't heard of the term "big four" tech companies - does that denote Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft? (just my guesses)
by logicallee 10y ago
I hadn't heard of the term "big four" tech companies - does that denote Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft? (just my guesses)
- jbigelow76 10y agoI've always heard it as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. Microsoft isn't very sexy to the typical developers that participate in the startup/Silicon Valley "scene" and its accompanying communities (HNews included).
- jghn 10y agoBig four almost always includes google and facebook but the other two slots seem to vary a bit based on who is saying it. I've even seen companies like yahoo and twitter thrown in there.
- uiri 10y agoThe term Big Four originates in accounting where there actually are a specific set of four large, established companies. For tech, I usually remember it as AmaGooBookSoft - Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Apple is sort of a hardware company so sometimes it is included and sometimes it is not.