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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiraoka, Leslie S., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet.

Internet--Economic aspects.

Information superhighway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2015.

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe.

ISBN:

9780765615183

0765615185

9781315289892

131528989X

9781315289878

1315289873

OCLC:

988379535