tech industry

Digital business world

The tech industry encompasses companies that develop, manufacture, or sell technology products and services—hardware, software, semiconductors, internet platforms, and digital services.

The term often implies Silicon Valley giants and startups alike: She left finance to work in the tech industry.

In recent decades, the tech industry has dominated stock markets and shaped how people communicate, shop, and work.

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  • DevOpsSoftware delivery and infrastructure collaboration
  • debuggingError removal from programs
  • APIsSoftware communication protocols
  • codingWriting software instructions
  • 5GCurrent mobile network standard

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economic sector type

tech industryagriculture

Cultivation of land, livestock

farming · manufacturing · heavy industry · mining · forestry

innovation temporality

tech industrytraditional industries

Established economic sectors from earlier eras

sunset industries · smokestack industries

work culture and ethos

tech industrygovernment bureaucracy

State administrative apparatus

civil service · public sector · trades · academia · Wall Street

Family

industry, technology

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G