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Is $412 billion in one quarter a Big Tech monopoly?

Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple just reported earnings of more than $3.2 million a minute, and they are still growing...

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Ricky Sutton
May 06, 2024
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Jeez, the Big Tech companies have just completed their quarterly financials, and they’re a jaw dropper.

Most reporting has been focused on the interests of high net worth investors, and those reports leave most of us mere mortals lost in the numbers.

But I want to understand more, to demystify it, and break down the explanations from Zuck, Satya, Sundar, and the like, as they justify this number, and that strategy.

I’m trying to sift the dollars from the sense, expose the landgrab, and report it through a news media lens.

So here goes…

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