The Five Most Unstoppable Companies in America!

These are the five most valuable companies in America.  Notice anything, they are all tech companies and their dominance is attracting attention from watchdog groups that say their market power is harming competition and the economy is it time to break up the big tax.

To answer that you have to understand how tech has exploded.

For our purposes let's imagine the top five tech giants as pac man or pac companies.

Except in this game, there are no ghosts around to avoid, no Blinky no Clyde. Those ghosts are US regulators for the past decade the US has been mostly hands off with a big tech company leading them to come even bigger by swelling smaller rivals are entering new markets.

Bloomberg data show that in the last ten years the Big Five have made close to five hundred acquisitions worth about one hundred forty billion dollars. Because consumers like the company's products, Amazon apple Facebook and Google have developed huge market shares. For example Amazon receives about ninety-three percent of all ebook sales.

Google holes at about seventy-eight percent of internet search ad spending in the U. S. Similarly, apple and Facebook dominate in high and smart phones and social media traffic. But being a monopoly isn't illegal in the US, or most other countries regulator stopped acquitting big with bad a long time ago. monopoly cases brought by the U. S. have also dwindled in fact the last tie profile case was filed in nineteen ninety-eight.

When the justice department successfully challenge Microsoft's dominance of computer operating systems and that twenty year dry spell a monopoly cases has led some watch dogs to say that Fortunately U. S. become too timid.

They say big tech is hurting innovation, jobs and wages. And some even blame the behemoths for a decline in successful startups.

In Europe, America's big tech companies a face more resistant governments more aggressively pursuing them. For example, the E. U. has find Google for abusing its market dominance and Germany is investigating Facebook for its privacy practices of course the big tech players don't think they need to be broken, they argue their dominance isn't guaranteed because new competitors can easily jump in. As Google likes to point out competition is just one click away.