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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by jonny_eh on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:05PM (#25766562)
Why are we lumping in Netflix instead of Microsoft in the group of big tech?
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by codemac on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:14PM (#25766668)
Because the term was popularized by Jim Cramer on Mad Money referring to the growth of Facebook, Apple, Netflix & Google back in 2013.

$MSFT hadn't really taken off like the others until later that year.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by rusk on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:46PM (#25767741)
> $MSFT hadn't really taken off

This statement seems so funny considering 20 years ago Microsoft were all the FAANGs

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by jonny_eh on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:08PM (#25783392)
That makes sense. Netflix only belongs in that group when talking about "tech stocks".
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by Lammy on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:42PM (#25767006)
'GAFAM' is a popular term in some places.
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