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If you want to eliminate big tech from your life, Amazon/Facebook/Google owns more than you think, check the list for what they also own
posted ago by God_bless_geotus ago by God_bless_geotus +18 / -0

This list is representative of what came to my mind...

Apple:

  • Beats
  • Siri

Amazon owns:

  • Blink Home Automations
  • Cloud9 DNS
  • Double Helix Games
  • Drugstore.com
  • Gear.com
  • IMDB
  • Pets.com
  • Ring the security camera/doorbell company
  • Twitch
  • Wondery the podcast thingie
  • Woot
  • Zappos

Facebook owns:

  • Friendster
  • Giphy
  • Instagram
  • Oculus
  • WhatsApp

Google/Alphabet owns:

  • Adscape
  • Apigee (for our coder pedes)
  • Dodgeball (Social Media)
  • DoubleClick
  • Dropcam (Home security)
  • Fitbit (the wearable company)
  • GrandCentral (VoIP)
  • HTC (the cellphone maker)
  • Kaggle (for our data science pedes)
  • Looker (for our data science pedes)
  • Meebo (Social Media)
  • Nest (the home security company)
  • Plink (Image Search)
  • Quickoffice (Productivity Tools)
  • reCAPTCHA
  • SageTV
  • Slide.com (Online Gaming)
  • Sparrow (Mobile App)
  • Tenor (Image search)
  • Waze (the GPS app)
  • YouTube
  • Zagat (the restaurant guide)
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– AlaskaTrumper 3 points ago +3 / -0

I don’t need any of those.

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– Bluedangle 1 point ago +1 / -0

Don’t have or use any of this EXCEPT YouTube. Ugh.

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– GabenOfficial 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ad block?

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– ViduusMAGA 1 point ago +1 / -0

WhatsApp deleted.

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– God_bless_geotus [S] 0 points ago +1 / -1

Mods, does post earn to be stickied?

So who's shorting these bad boys on Monday morning at market open?

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