Big Tech
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- noun
- /bɪɡ tɛk/
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Big Tech
- With both sides increasingly suspicious of Big Tech, the regulation of online speech seems imminent.
- Big Tech companies
- Big Tech firms
So let's talk about big tech corporations first.
- So let's talk about big tech corporations first.
- We need to make sure that big tech can build bigger AI, more AI.
- So part of the appeal to the big tech Titans is not just money.
- But YouTube and other big tech companies censored my first guest for saying exactly the same thing.
- The layoff announcements from big tech companies all contain variations on the theme of we hired too many people during the boom years.
- The problem is that those that sort of digital town square is controlled by a handful of, of big tech companies and and sort of oligarchs.
- And that's more than you can say for most of their big tech companies.
- No, And that's a very open question because, you know, I've met most of the big tech Bros.
- Of course, paying for news content has never been part of Twitter's playbook or big techs.
- And there's some macroeconomic factors or some influence of big tech.
- They have an army that they've trained, and that army is based in Big Tech.
- You know, that is a source of great debate among the people like me versus Big Food, Big Tech, Big AG.
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The impact of Big Tech on the job market has sparked significant debate among economists.
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But I do think it is important that we break up these big tech companies.
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So let's talk about big tech corporations first.
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You know, it's not a coincidence that all of the big tech companies primarily start here.
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There is a fundamental problem in the way some big tech companies do business at the moment, and there is no doubt that it is anti-competitive and actually damaging to their own interests.
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The layoff announcements from big tech companies all contain variations on the theme of we hired too many people during the boom years.
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Recently, big tech companies including Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are pushing back, refusing to disclose even old communications without a warrant and effectively daring the government to press its policy in court.
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Many people are concerned about the influence of Big Tech on privacy and data security.
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Regulations for Big Tech companies are becoming increasingly stricter worldwide.
Synonyms
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Companies that make and sell computers, phones and software
How Dominant
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'Big Tech' is directly compositional: 'big' (large/important) + 'tech' (technology/tech companies) yields the idea of the largest or most influential technology companies, which a B1 learner who knows both words can infer. While it is conventionalized as a label for dominant firms, the semantic relation is predictable and cross-linguistically comparable, so it is transparent.
Etymology
Big Tech comes from putting big and tech together to make a picture of very large technology companies. Like older labels such as 'Big Oil', it shows these firms as 'large and powerful', so today the phrase means the major tech companies that shape the internet and digital services.