{"id":437,"date":"2021-02-06T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/is-big-tech-now-just-too-big-to-stomach\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T13:08:26","slug":"is-big-tech-now-just-too-big-to-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/is-big-tech-now-just-too-big-to-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"Is big tech now just too big to stomach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid crisis has turbo-charged profits and share prices. But are the big six now too powerful for regulators to ignore?<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has wrought economic disruption on a global scale, but one sector has marched on throughout the chaos: big tech.<\/p>\n<p>Further evidence of the industry\u2019s relentless progress has come in recent weeks with the news that Apple and Amazon both raked in sales of $100bn (\u00a372bn) over the past three months \u2013 25% more than Tesco brings in over a full year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/feb\/06\/is-big-tech-now-just-too-big-to-stomach\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fbd124573ceee89230bf44d2d2ee99228a6523bf\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ad3db044a76a923d242029a17280a81\" title=\"Is big tech now just too big to stomach?\" \/>The Covid crisis has turbo-charged profits and share prices. But are the big six now too powerful for regulators to ignore?<br \/>\nThe coronavirus pandemic has wrought economic disruption on a global scale, but one sector has marched on throughout the chaos: big tech.<br \/>\nFurther evidence of the industry\u2019s relentless progress has come in recent weeks with the news that Apple and Amazon both raked in sales of $100bn (\u00a372bn) over the past three months \u2013 25% more than Tesco brings in over a full year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid crisis has turbo-charged profits and share prices. But are the big six now too powerful for regulators to ignore? The coronavirus pandemic has wrought economic disruption on a global scale, but one sector has marched on throughout the chaos: big tech. Further evidence of the industry\u2019s relentless progress has come in recent weeks &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/is-big-tech-now-just-too-big-to-stomach\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is big tech now just too big to stomach?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438,"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\/437"}],"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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}