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What's the Big 4 in this context? Generally that term applies to accounting firms (PWC, E&Y etc.)

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Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_tech_companies

ibm, microsoft, dell, hp

That used to be The Big 8 and people knew of them as The Big 8, even me. I think that The Big 4 is used now with a tinge of irony.

  Arthur Andersen.
  Coopers and Lybrand.
  Deloitte Haskins and Sells.
  Ernst and Whinney.
  Peat Marwick Mitchell.
  Price Waterhouse.
  Touche Ross.
  Arthur Young.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google.

Usually FAANG pre-Netflix

faag ?

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