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Tech Giants Turning Pandemic Into Gold

The Washington Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin explains how the COVID-19 crisis is proving to be a golden opportunity for tech giants to expand their power and vast fortunes. Among other benefits of the pandemic, “The pace of the probes against these companies has slowed as regulators and lawyers are forced to work from home,” she writes. Meanwhile, they are already “benefiting from new consumer habits initiated during the lockdowns that analysts believe will turn into longer-term shifts in how people shop, work and entertain themselves.”

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