—but with a pathbreaking and formidable applications offering); Amazon (a pioneer and still-leading firm in both e-commerce and cloud services, as well as a revolutionary and expanding distribution model focused on quick delivery, among other efforts like space travel); Facebook (now Meta; a successful social-media platform expanding into virtual reality); and Google (now Alphabet; originator of the most successful internet search engine, also competing head-to-head with Apple and… [read post]