Oversize #18: Big Tech got bigger while the world shrank

Technology giants, often referred to as Big Tech, are some of the largest corporations in the history of the world, with a broad impact on everything ranging from pop culture to commerce and even governance.

A year of the COVID-19 pandemic, though, has made the already huge Big Tech companies even bigger thanks to a greater reliance on their products and services. There’s now little chance of a retreat from this dizzying growth. This newsletter could very well be called Supersize now.

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As the pandemic raged across the world, people began spending an unprecedented amount of time at home, …

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Abhishek Baxi

Abhishek writes on technology trends, gadgets and SMBs, and has over a decade of experience—both as an industry watcher as well as a participant. He quit Microsoft in 2011 to become an independent digital consultant, and to write more, travel randomly, watch a lot of movies and wake up late on weekdays.

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