Big Tech: Time For A ‘New Platform Deal’?

Michael G. Jacobides

Jul 25, 2020

1 min read

Updated: Dec 22, 2020

For most of us, the Covid-19 crisis has been truly abysmal. But for Big Tech, it’s actually been pretty good, if markets are anything to go by. Yet after a period when governments turned to tech firms for help, it seems the mood is shifting. The deposition of the four CEOs in the US Congress revealed a lot of concerns about their power and, while pent-up frustration has yet to change the regulatory landscape, change is afoot.

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