Big Tech

And the data confirm the view that Big Tech leans left.

In other words, Big Tech might actually now classify as a value investment.

See also: Big Tech tests the waters of the music stream.

There are plenty of other Big Tech skirmishes under way.

Despite this evidence, Big Tech's political persuasion is hard to pin down.

When directly confronted, Big Tech played coy about its politics.

None of the Big Tech companies rated as conservative.

Washington has a love-hate relationship with Big Tech.

“Also, those in Big Tech tend to be educated in the better schools, which lean left.

Big Tech has huge advantages over High Finance when it comes to defending its reputation.

It's hard to pin Big Tech down -- many companies refused to state an explicit political agenda.

You heard right: Big Tech leans left.

Such is the suspicion now surrounding Big Tech, however, that Internet.org has been met with widespread scepticism.

(For a table comparing Big Tech, please click link.reuters.com/jyh98r)

Is Big Tech Hoping For a Change in Congress?

In the end, Taylor says “whoever is in charge” of Congress will likely try to help Big Tech grow and will support its efforts.

Big Tech skews younger and hipper [and favors] social and environmental issues.

But if ideology trumps financial incentives, and if the data collected concerning actual contributions bears out, Big Tech will probably continuing leaning left.

Like Big Tech, major scientific corporations have contributed more to Democrats than to Republicans -- although without quite as much of a left-leaning bent.

(MORE: Learning to Hate Big Tech)

Unlike Big Tech, which has a record of making campaign contributions mostly to Democrats, Big Science is more evenly divided, Zafarnia told FoxNews.com.

To Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Banking, you can now add Big Tech.

“In terms of funding, Big Tech has always seemed to favor the Democrats,” Rob Enderle, a tech pundit with Enderle Group, told FoxNews.com.

Investors should brace for some of the biggest names in software and hardware -- from Microsoft Corp and IBM to Intel Corp -- to disappoint when Big Tech begins reporting numbers next week, analysts said.

Combine this with the fact that the Big Tech players - Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google - all choose to skip CES, and you get a seething puddle of pontification about the demise of the annual convention we love to hate.