There were also two Chinese technology companies in the top ten most valuable publicly traded companies globally at the end of the 2010s – Alibaba and Tencent. Smyrnaios argued in 2016 that the Asian giant corporations Samsung, Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent could or should be included in the definition.[48] Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi, collectively referred to as BATX, are often seen as the competitor companies of Big Tech in China's technology sector. ByteDance has also been considered Big Tech.[49] Together, the combination of the Big Five, IBM, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent has been referred to as "G-MAFIA + BAT",[50]