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"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is a call to arms about how to bring the big online platforms to their knees. It concerns the question of interoperability: the way that Facebook, Twitter etc make it very difficult for you to move and own your data. Doctorow shows that this is not a problem of technology but of law, business and apathy in face of growing monopolies. He covers ground such as anti-trust, and how the platforms deal with take down orders. Through this he shows...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
From an Idea to Google is a behind-the-computer-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest search engine. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn about the company that even earned its own catchphrase: Google it!
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit. At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. But to truly understand...
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the online search engine and its founders, from its inception as a unique searching algorithm to its evolution into a multi-billion-dollar industry leader in the field.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media landscape, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses--from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft.
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous--and, oddly enough, most beloved--monopoly ever known: The Every"--
An unlikely new hire at the Every, Delaney Wells is a former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic. She charms her way into...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1994, ... entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only 5 percent of Americans were using the Internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the Internet into the mainstream. Imagine Kremen's surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and...
13) Ex machina
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies....
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and one of America|s most accomplished entrepreneurs, shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. We are entering, he explains, a new paradigm called the "Third Wave" of the Internet. The first wave saw AOL and other companies lay the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. The second wave saw companies like Google and Facebook build on top of the...
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes Musk's work with a range of advanced technology companies, including PayPal, the space exploration company SpaceX, and the electric car company Tesla Motors, and discusses his plans for the future.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Business professor Scott Galloway asks fundamental questions about Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. How did those four infiltrate our lives so completely that they're almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world's first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chalƯlenge them? Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath...
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Publisher
Ingram Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Desde unos comienzos humildes, por no decir terribles, la historia de Elon Musk personifica el sueño americano. Nacido en Sudáfrica, Elon ha logrado un éxito increíble en el mundo de los negocios una y otra vez. Musk, multimillonario hecho a sí mismo, no se ha limitado a ganar dinero. Lo que le hace único es que, en todas sus empresas, su objetivo último es crear un futuro mejor para la humanidad. Este libro detalla la vida hasta la fecha del...
20) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
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