The tech giants dominated the decade. But there’s still time to rein them in | Jay Owens
by Jay Owens from Technology | The Guardian on (#4X1M8)
Google, Amazon and Facebook moved at a scale and speed governments couldn't match. Now regulators are trying to catch up
The 2010s will be remembered for a new era in the development of capitalism, one of mind-boggling scale. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are closing the decade as the world's first trillion-dollar companies. Last year, Apple's revenue was larger than Vietnam's GDP, while Amazon's research and development spending alone is almost as much as Iceland's GDP. Facebook boasts 2.4 billion users, a population larger than that of every continent except Asia.
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