“The War between Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon” lecture featuring Farhad Manjoo will start at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. In 2008, he was hired as a staff writer for Slate magazine, covering technology, journalism and politics. He also is the author of “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.”

Manjoo recently wrote an article, “The Great Tech War Of 2012,” that outlines how Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google are competing with each other, as well as other companies, for markets in mobile phones, apps, social networking, retailing, advertising and finance, to name a few.

Manjoo wrote in his article about how these four American companies are on the “verge of war.”

According to the article, “To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies that have come to define 21st-century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Over the next two years, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will increasingly collide in the markets for mobile phones and tablets, mobile apps, social networking and more. This competition will be intense. Each of the four has shown competitive excellence, strategic genius and superb execution that have left the rest of the world in the dust.”

The lecture is part of the National Affairs Series: The Nation in Transition. There is no cost to attend.