E ach year, in May, Mary Meeker[1] releases her annual presentation about "Internet Trends". The presentation includes a slide disclosing the market caps[2] of the global internet leaders. Even if the market cap can be a questionable indicator[3] that triggers different assessments[4] as well as conflicting views, the figures for 2018 (Table I) are nevertheless impressive both from a quantitative (scope of the figures) and qualitative (as it reveals a strong domination of both Asia and China) viewpoint. This paper is simply meant to take a note of the issue, to give some perspectives about the meaning of the phenomenon, and to ask a few questions about the positioning of the EU.
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