{"id":4995,"date":"2023-01-27T10:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T10:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:05","slug":"acquisitions-by-big-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2023\/01\/27\/acquisitions-by-big-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquisitions by big-tech companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgafam.theglassroom.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Cdca7b5208ccb47eb145608db00489b0d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638104084086753876%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=q95p%2FC3kquP5i5AGR56qQVjN%2B5ZY9w8%2FT7A0C81VEUs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Gafam empire project<\/a> developed by DensityDesign Lab and Tactical Tech looks at the acquisitions conducted by 5 tech companies &#8211; Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft &#8211; from the moment they made their first one to the end of the summer of 2022.  This enables tracking of their dominance of market sectors, spread and impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gafam empire project developed by DensityDesign Lab and Tactical Tech looks at the acquisitions conducted by 5 tech companies &#8211; Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft &#8211; from the moment they made their first one to the end of the summer of 2022. This enables tracking of their dominance of market sectors, spread and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[767,769,768,100],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-marketing","category-media-and-communication","tag-big-tech","tag-market-dominance","tag-market-share","tag-mergers-and-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}