Présentation GAFAM

1. Amazon and Google’s True Advantage
2. I’m going to t        alk about an article about the gafam especially Google & amazon.

1 - These companies have mastered spending big to stay Big Tech. It’s intresting for us to know how the Big they work to stay the more successful companies in the world.

The GAFAM. Their sales and profits this year, during the pandemic, were incredible. It’s so much money. Even if the pandemic affects all companies all around the world, we can see that is not true for the GAFAM.

They have an ability to spend — because Big Tech has money. But how the companies spend it — « is one of the secrets to why the tech industry giants are so difficult to unseat. »

2 - A few examples:

- Amazon hired 250,000 full- and part-time employees — on average roughly 2,800 each day in the 90 days that ended in September — and then about 100,000 more people in October, the company said.

- Google has spent nearly $17 billion this year on things like hulking computer equipment — that’s about the same as Exxon’s comparable spending figure for digging oil and gas out of the ground.

- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg talked on Thursday about spending on futuristic projects like eyeglasses that overlay virtual images with the real world.

These exemple show that the big 5 will evoluate and become more than social medias or saling platforms. Will they contrôle our entire lives ?

3 - These technology giants that dominate our lives and often our leisure and work hours. They make lot of money, which means they have more money to stay on top. And they are earning money without paying taxes, it’s unethical… (because all of workers pay taxes, but the more important companies they don’t ?, they don’t participate to develop the infrastructures of a country for exemple.)

- I think this article have a bias point of view… And it’s normal, the author have a critical point of view on the Big Tech. She asks herself about the power of the GAFAM, and through this article we can imagine that she’s little bit afraid about their amazing power. Anything can happen and they become more powerful each day.

- I chose this article because I wanted to talk about the GAFAM, these companies which are controlled our daily lives ! And I wanted also to know if the pandemic can make their activities weaker or not …

- Their unique advantage is access to giant piles of money. And they’re using it to become more powerful and may be more than a country ?

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