Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Underwriting the internet

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

974642031

Responsibility statement

Leslie S. Hiraoka

Sub title

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

Summary

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 practices and the ensuing USD7 trillion loss in equity markets slowed the Internet revolution but could not snuff it out, and with worldwide economic recovery e-business surges onward

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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