Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Google, Apple, Meta (once Facebook), Amazon and Microsoft: five companies grouped under the acronym GAFAM, all born in Silicon Valley. In less than thirty years they have changed the way we communicate, shop and get our news, to the point of rivaling the power of some states. Understanding how they came to dominate, and the attempts to rein them in, is the best way into the balance of power in today's digital world.
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- 2A financial power larger than whole countries
- 3Monopolies that are almost impossible to challenge
- 4Europe, the world's digital policeman
- 5Digital sovereignty in question
Open-book quiz10 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary10 terms explained in a tap.
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