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Farhad Manjoo

Wednesday 21st of January 2026

The Frightful Five Nearly a year ago, I argued that we were witnessing a new era in the tech business, one that is typified … by a posse I like to call the Frightful Five: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet … As in 2016, they are half of the world's 10 most valuable companies … Their wealth stems from their control of the inescapable digital infrastructure on which much of the rest of the economy depends – mobile phones, social networks, the web, the cloud, retail and logistics, and the data and computing power required for future breakthroughs … they have begun to set their sights on the biggest industries outside tech … on autos, health care, retail, transporation, entertainment and finance. citation Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, Jan. 5, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Television As the broadcast era changed into one of cable and then streaming, TV was transformed from a wasteland into a bubbling sea of creativity. But it has become a sea in which everyone swims in smaller schools. Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, January 12, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com