{"id":2351,"date":"2021-08-01T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/01\/big-techs-big-week-raises-fears-of-blade-runner-future-of-mega-company-rule\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:51:30","slug":"big-techs-big-week-raises-fears-of-blade-runner-future-of-mega-company-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/01\/big-techs-big-week-raises-fears-of-blade-runner-future-of-mega-company-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Big tech\u2019s big week raises fears of \u2018Blade Runner future\u2019 of mega-company rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft all reported record-breaking profits amid a pandemic bonanza but recent Biden administration moves suggest US tech\u2019s easy ride is over<\/p>\n<p>Big tech provided the world with some startling numbers this week. In the last three months Amazon\u2019s sales have averaged over $1.2bn a day. It took the company less than four seconds to earn the $52,000 the average American makes in a year. Apple is now sitting on nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/earnings\/call-transcripts\/2021\/07\/28\/apple-aapl-q3-2021-earnings-call-transcript\/\">$200bn in cash<\/a>, more than this year\u2019s expected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-26\/covid-shot-makers-to-share-in-up-to-190-billion-sales-bonanza?sref=1GGBZino\">sales of Covid 19 vaccines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus shook the world economy to its core but for the US tech giants it has proven a bonanza of historic proportions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/01\/big-techs-big-week-blade-runner-future-amazon-google-apple-microsoft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/11970ea0cebfecdd971d9660c7bb531d055c09cb\/0_198_3504_2103\/master\/3504.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=34c99b9cc77d99222f1e446752cd58ba\" title=\"Big tech\u2019s big week raises fears of \u2018Blade Runner future\u2019 of mega-company rule\" \/>Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft all reported record-breaking profits amid a pandemic bonanza but recent Biden administration moves suggest US tech\u2019s easy ride is over<br \/>\nBig tech provided the world with some startling numbers this week. In the last three months Amazon\u2019s sales have averaged over $1.2bn a day. It took the company less than four seconds to earn the $52,000 the average American makes in a year. Apple is now sitting on nearly $200bn in cash, more than this year\u2019s expected sales of Covid 19 vaccines.<br \/>\nThe coronavirus shook the world economy to its core but for the US tech giants it has proven a bonanza of historic proportions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft all reported record-breaking profits amid a pandemic bonanza but recent Biden administration moves suggest US tech\u2019s easy ride is over Big tech provided the world with some startling numbers this week. In the last three months Amazon\u2019s sales have averaged over $1.2bn a day. It took the company less than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/01\/big-techs-big-week-raises-fears-of-blade-runner-future-of-mega-company-rule\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big tech\u2019s big week raises fears of \u2018Blade Runner future\u2019 of mega-company rule<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}