Also, at that size you’re basically like a government service. Companies like this should be held to standards as if they were publicly owned utilities, on topics like pricing or transparency or free speech or whatever.
Also, at that size you’re basically like a government service. Companies like this should be held to standards as if they were publicly owned utilities, on topics like pricing or transparency or free speech or whatever.
Why was it so easy for Duckduckgo to establish itself?
Was was Brave able to take a bit from Chrome, even when Microsoft Edge failed?
Google faces strong competition. Even on its core revenue stream, advertising, Facebook was able to beat it.
Saying a company is "the largest by market cap" is very common. Just saying "largest" on its own is ambiguous. "Largest by revenue" is also very common.
"Biggest by market cap" -- https://www.investopedia.com/biggest-companies-in-the-world-...
"Microsoft is the largest company in the world, with a market cap of $3.13 trillion." -- https://www.fool.com/research/largest-companies-by-market-ca...
I think "large" usually means revenue, but it can mean market cap too.
Market cap refers to size“
Short term memory isn’t great?
> No one refers to the 'size' of a company is referring to market cap
Market cap is certainly used to evaluate the size of a company.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.as...
Market cap is used to determine a company's size, and then compare the company's financial performance to other companies of various sizes.It is true that they aren’t technically selling the stock, they’re diluting existing stock and then using the created stock as compensation, but this seems like an unimportant distinction.
This does grant the company some power. Not obvious to me that power is nefarious, but it’s quite real.
The Google tax is still going after profits: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/google-tax.asp
This merely encourages more creativity in accounting.
The jurisdictions that have sales tax. Sales are revenue.