The digital economy is an economic activity in which the main factor in production and service is information in the form of numbers, and with the help of processing a large amount of information and analyzing the result of this processing, various types of production, service, technologies, devices, is to implement solutions that are more efficient than the previous system in storage, delivery of products. In other words, the digital economy is an activity connected with the development of digital computer technologies in the provision of online services, electronic payments, Internet trade, crowdfunding and other types of industries. The article, in the study of the place of digital platforms in the world economy, comparative historical analysis, market capitalization of top and bottom companies, transnational in the analysis of development trends of companies based on digital platforms, statistical mathematical, statistical grouping and comparison of Internet coverage in regions methods were used. Also, the Internet is based on the development of the digital economy traffic usage situation is explained on the basis of dynamic analysis.

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