{"id":4283,"date":"2026-03-11T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:27:03","slug":"what-are-the-big-techs-where-did-this-term-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/en\/what-are-the-big-techs-where-did-this-term-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the &#8220;big techs&#8221;? Where did this term come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you follow news about technology, politics, or economics, you&#8217;ve probably come across the term &#8220;big tech&#8221; more than a few times. It shows up in headlines, in speeches by U.S. senators, in debates about data privacy, and almost always carrying a certain weight, as if it&#8217;s describing something too powerful to ignore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what does it actually mean? Where did the term come from? And why does it matter? Keep reading to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4284\" src=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1.webp\" alt=\"Composite image featuring tech executives Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk against a light blue background with newspaper cutouts\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1.webp 1200w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-330x220.webp 330w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-420x280.webp 420w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/O-que-sao-_big-techs__-Entenda-a-origem-do-termo-1-510x340.webp 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>What does &#8220;big tech&#8221; mean?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The literal translation is straightforward: &#8220;large technology.&#8221; In practice, the term refers to a group of technology companies with global scale, enormous market power, and a presence in the daily lives of billions of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worth noting: &#8220;big tech&#8221; is not a technical, legal, or official concept. There&#8217;s no regulatory list by that name. It&#8217;s a shorthand, coined by the media and popularized through use, to describe the industry&#8217;s giants quickly and directly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the &#8220;big&#8221; here goes beyond size. It carries the idea of influence: economic, political, cultural. These companies don&#8217;t just sell products; they shape behaviors, set standards, and in many cases determine what shows up (or doesn&#8217;t) when you run a search or open a feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Where did the term come from?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A search through the LexisNexis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2017\/11\/how-silicon-valley-became-big-tech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news archive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> indicates that the term started gaining traction in mainstream media around 2013, the same year Edward Snowden&#8217;s revelations about mass surveillance by the NSA came to light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before that, the words &#8220;big&#8221; and &#8220;tech&#8221; appeared together only as part of longer expressions, like &#8220;big tech companies,&#8221; without the weight the term would later carry. When the PC and software industry emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, companies like Microsoft and Apple were seen as young, irreverent, and rebellious, the opposite of what &#8220;big&#8221; typically evokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shift in perception was gradual. In American history, the prefix &#8220;Big&#8221;, capitalized, isn&#8217;t usually used out of respect or admiration, but out of wariness and as a setup for confrontation. Think &#8220;Big Oil&#8221; and &#8220;Big Pharma&#8221;: terms that emerged when those industries came to be seen as concentrating too much power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same thing happened with tech companies. As Facebook, Google, and Amazon came to dominate entire markets and were called to testify before Congress on election interference and data practices, the term &#8220;big tech&#8221; gained both momentum and connotation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Which companies are considered big techs?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s no official list, but the conversation tends to center on a core group: Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp), Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet (Google&#8217;s parent company). These five make up what analysts call the &#8220;Big Five&#8221;, or, in expanded versions, the acronyms <\/span><b>FAANG<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and <\/span><b>MAMAA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term FANG was popularized by financial analysts Jim Cramer and Bob Lang in 2013. Cramer added Apple to the group in 2017, giving birth to FAANG. Over time, the acronym kept evolving: Netflix came under scrutiny for not keeping pace with the others&#8217; growth, while Microsoft stepped into the spotlight after leading the race in AI investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The numbers speak to the level of power concentrated in these companies. The combined market capitalization of the FAANG group reached approximately $9 trillion in Q2 2024. To put that in perspective: the combined revenue of these five companies in 2023 was around $1.4 trillion, comparable to Spain&#8217;s GDP, which ranks between 14th and 15th among the world&#8217;s largest economies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the American players, Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance (owner of TikTok) are also part of the conversation, grouped under the acronym <\/span><b>BATX<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4285\" src=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1.webp\" alt=\"Smartphone app icon grid featuring Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, LinkedIn, Spotify, and Pinterest\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1.webp 1200w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-330x220.webp 330w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-420x280.webp 420w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quais-empresas-sao-consideradas-big-techs-1-510x340.webp 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why do big techs generate so much debate?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The short answer: concentrated power tends to invite scrutiny, in politics, business, and society alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the privacy front, these companies collect and process massive volumes of user data, raising serious questions about how that information is used and by whom. On the economic side, the accusation that they eliminate competitors before they can scale has become the subject of antitrust investigations in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Europe, the debate took on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/03\/07\/dma-digital-markets-act-europe-eu-big-tech-antitrust-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legal form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The European Union identified 22 services from six companies, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, as &#8220;core platform services&#8221; and required compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by March 2024. Companies that fail to comply can be fined up to 10% of their global annual revenue; repeat violations can push that to 20%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The regulator&#8217;s goal is to ensure that none of these companies use their size to crowd out competition or block new players from entering the digital market.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Is big tech the same as a startup or an IT company?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No. And the confusion is common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every big tech started as a startup: Amazon sold books out of a garage, Google began as a university project, Apple was founded in a garage in Cupertino. What sets them apart today is scale, a mature business model, and the level of influence they hold over their markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A technology company can be specialized, agile, and technically sophisticated without being a big tech. In fact, that&#8217;s often exactly where the competitive edge lies: smaller, focused companies tend to deliver what the giants can&#8217;t, proximity to the client, the flexibility to pivot quickly, and solutions genuinely designed around the actual problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4286\" src=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1.webp\" alt=\"Monitor displaying lines of code in a dark text editor, with a person typing in the background in a multi-screen setup\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1.webp 1200w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-330x220.webp 330w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-420x280.webp 420w, https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-tech-e-o-mesmo-que-startup-ou-empresa-de-TI-1-510x340.webp 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Technology that works for your business<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding what big techs are helps put the technology ecosystem in perspective. They set trends, move markets, and build infrastructure that countless other companies rely on. But when it comes to digital transformation applied to your business, size is not the same as fit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NextAge is a software development and IT outsourcing company that operates precisely in that space: where large corporations don&#8217;t show up with the agility the situation requires. With proprietary methodologies like <a href=\"https:\/\/nextage.com.br\/blog\/en\/it-staff-augmentation-8-reasons-to-hire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NextAge&#8217;s Staff Augmentation<\/a> and Nextflow AI, which integrates generative artificial intelligence directly into the development lifecycle, NextAge helps companies accelerate their digital products with high-performance squads, straightforward contracts, and a constant focus on delivering value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your company is looking for a technology partner to grow faster and with less friction, it&#8217;s worth getting to know how NextAge works.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow news about technology, politics, or economics, you&#8217;ve probably come across the term &#8220;big tech&#8221; more than a few times. 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