In the pandemic economy, tech companies are raking it in

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From a pure entertainment perspective, I am genuinely sorry that the House’s antitrust hearing targeting the big four tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — took place Wednesday instead of next week. Because literally a day after a meeting attempting to determine if Big Tech was too big, three of the four companies in the hearing got bigger. (Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had a decline in revenue of about 2 percent, mostly due to a decline in search ads — but this was still better than analysts predicted.)

None of these companies wanted their earnings numbers read aloud to them before questioning began

The hearing was about how tech companies have consolidated their power. The coronavirus seems to be making that...

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