internet industry

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Careers in e-commerce

2020
"What [electronic commerce] jobs entail, what they pay, and future prospects are discussed along with insights from industry insiders"--Provided by publisher.

Critical perspectives on digital monopolies

Discusses digital monopolies, how they affect consumers, and what various groups of people, such as governments, politicians and more, are doing to address it.
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The story of Google

Traces the history of Google, describing how the Internet search engine, which was started on a shoestring budget by two Stanford students, grew to become one of the most successful computer companies of the early twenty-first century.
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The story of Google

Traces the history of Google, describing how the Internet search engine, which was started on a shoestring budget by two Stanford students, grew to become one of the most successful computer companies of the early twenty-first century.

How to turn down a billion dollars

the Snapchat story
2018
"The . . . story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar Internet unicorn that has dramatically changed the way we communicate. . . . This book offers [an] . . . account of a company whose goal is no less than to remake the future of entertainment"--OCLC.
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Elon Musk

a mission to save the world
"Elon Musk is the visionary behind SpaceX and CEO of the electric car company Tesla. He is working on unique and daring improvements to both public transit and solar energy. And then, there's his highly-publicized plans for colonizing Mars... But behind the mind-blowing headlines and legendary drive is the story of a bullied and beaten school boy, who through creativity and determination decided to rewrite his story and find his own way to make the world a better place. And to do so with a sense of fun and style. From hosting raves to pay for college to re-writing the rules on space travel, Elon Musk has always gone his own way. And now, award-winning investigative journalist, Anna Crowley Redding takes readers on a well-researched trip through Elon's life and accomplishments"--Provided by the publisher.
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From an idea to Google

how innovation at Google changed the world
Explores Google's origins, their products and business ventures, and more.
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WhatsApp

2019
"WhatsApp is a messaging app used by nearly a billion people to trade information, photos, and chats more quickly and less expensively than 'traditional' texting. Inside, find out who created this . . . company, how it grew with shocking speed, and how it is looking to the future to become bigger and better"--Provided by publisher.
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Snapchat

2019
"SnapChat has become the . . . way to grab and hold people's attention, while also serving as a . . . communications link between friends, schoolmates, neighbors, and more. Inside read how the app began and how it has changed the way millions of young people 'talk' to each other"--Provided by publisher.
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The big nine

how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity
2019
We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we?the everyday people whose data powers AI?aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into?one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations?Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple?are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain. In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI?the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself?is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity. Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.

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