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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hiraoka, Leslie S., 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Routledge, 2015.
Subjects:
Internet.
Internet > Economic aspects.
Information superhighway.
Internet > Aspect économique.
Autoroutes électroniques.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Information superhighway
Internet
Internet > Economic aspects
Online Access:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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