Since the mid-1970s, the world has witnessed the rise and rise of the so-called Big Tech Companies, the five largest companies operating in information technology. Also called GAFAM (an acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft), they have been able to build intellectual property empires of technologies and systems over the past 50 years through acquisitions of companies large and small, centralizing technological innovation in them.

In collaboration with Tactical Tech Collective, "GAFAM Empire" brings together a longform site analysis of more than 1,000 acquisitions to reconstruct a look back at the evolutionary history of this industry sector through publicly available online data. Through them, a panorama of acquisitions can be reconstructed that identifies common themes of interest, explored later in a temporal perspective in the lens of each GAFAM.

The project focused on analyzing, visualizing, and publishing data found on the web regarding acquisitions by GAFAM. Computational and non-computational data analysis activities identified areas of interest of each acquisition, and the technologies they introduced to the market.