| Description |
1 online resource |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Internet.
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Internet -- Economic aspects.
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Information superhighway.
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Internet. |
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Internet -- Aspect économique. |
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Autoroutes électroniques. |
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Internet. |
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Information superhighway |
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Internet |
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Internet -- Economic aspects |
| Other Form: |
9780765615176 9780765615183 |
| ISBN |
9780765635662 (electronic bk.) |
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0765635666 (electronic bk.) |
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9781315289892 |
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131528989X |
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1315289881 |
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9781315289885 |
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0765615177 |
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9780765615176 |
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1315289873 |
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9781315289878 |
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