This week was eagerly awaited by “Big Tech” observers: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple… all were going to publish their financial results for the first quarter of 2020, marked by a confinement of the planet from the month of March. This is an opportunity to take the temperature on the capacity of these sprawling giants to withstand a global health crisis, marked by a sharp slowdown in the economy. Were they going to show signs of weakness, at least for the most dependent on the very depressed advertising market?
The answer is now clear: Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft each post double-digit growth, whether for sales or net profits. No redundancy plans are on the agenda for these groups. Facebook has even announced that it will hire an additional 10,000 talents in the engineering and product design sectors by the end of the year. The social network
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