Underwriting the Internet: How Technical Advances, Financial Engineering, and Entrepreneurial Genius are Building the Information Highway

by Leslie S. Hiraoka

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765615176
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2004
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Underwriting the Internet; 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