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It's a good acronym if you consider companies like the ones mentioned to be included. So because Google is there, Microsoft belongs there. Twitter goes with Fac
by benatkin 8y ago
It's a good acronym if you consider companies like the ones mentioned to be included. So because Google is there, Microsoft belongs there. Twitter goes with Facebook, and Spotify goes with Netflix. Yahoo! is missing but it should be IMO. It's neither huge like Google nor socially innovative like Netflix. The five mentioned companies encompass a wide range of powerful tech companies.
It's a concept that works if you don't take it too literally.
- Apocryphon 8y agoYahoo! is gone, but until recently it used to be a tech empire of its own, acquiring startups (Flickr, Tumblr, etc.) and inventing technologies (Hadoop, Pipes, YQL). I figured they would belong on a list of big buyer tech companies.
- joncrane 8y agoYahoo invented Hadoop?
- Apocryphon 8y agoA Yahoo! contractor invented Hadoop, and the company adopted it for internal use and greatly promoted it: https://www.wired.com/2011/10/how-yahoo-spawned-hadoop/ https://www.wired.com/2011/10/how-yahoo-spawned-hadoop/