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> Guess what...NBC merged with Comcast and Comcast is a telecomm company, which guess what...distributes media.

Alice is a lawyer and Bob is a doctor and a lawyer. Why would that imply that Alice is a doctor?

> Panasonic is a hardware manufacturer...

And Twitter is a communications service.

They're not in the same line of business as the entities that employ reporters.



> Twitter is a communications service.

Ok so they're not a tech company. Glad we solved that. /handshake-emoji/


A communications service that operates using internet servers to run code they wrote... is a tech company.


So any company that uses internet servers to run code they wrote is a tech company? John Deere wrote the firmware on the machinery they sold to farmers that connects to a server on software they wrote. Are they a tech company?




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