Underwriting the internet how technical advances, financial engineering, and entrepreneurial genius are building the information highway

He covers the anti-trust case against Microsoft; the successes of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google; road-kills along the information highway such as the forgotten eToys; as well as the Enron implosion and other corporate scandals. After tracing this amazing story he concludes that the illegal practic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hiraoka, Leslie S., 1941-, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge 2015.
Edición:1st edition
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630318306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Boom, bust, and recovery
  • 2. Arpanet and PC prelude
  • 3. The information superhighway
  • 4. Dot-com front-runners
  • 5. Dot-com roadkill
  • 6. Microsoft curbed
  • 7. The bubble bursts
  • 8. The Enron debacle
  • 9. The telecom crash
  • 10. The revolution lives
  • 11. Epilogue : downloading music and doing no evil.