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"Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech ... Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang take readers inside the complex court politics, alliances...
2) The accidental billionaires: the founding of Facebook : a tale of sex, money, genius, and betrayal
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Relates the story behind the founding of Facebook by Harvard University undergraduates, and describes how conflicting ideas for the future of the site destroyed the friendship of co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
3) The power of one: how I found the strength to tell the truth and why I blew the whistle on Facebook
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2023.
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English
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"The inside story of one woman's battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives."--Amazon.
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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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The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Palmer Luckey -- inventor, gamer, dreamer -- lives alone in a trailer in Long Beach, California, that he has transformed into a makeshift laboratory optimized to build virtual reality headsets -- a technology most believed died in the nineties. Luckey, however, is adamant about...
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Jonathan Taplin tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms -- Facebook, Amazon and Google -- that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries. Taplin offers a history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies,...
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Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? In half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising...
11) Facebook
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Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
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[2017]
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English
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"This title examines Facebook, the social media website. Readers will learn about company history and development, how Facebook operates, issues the company faces such as cyberbullying, and its impact on society. Key components such as News Feed and Like are also explored"--Amazon.com.
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Facebook claims that it is building a global community. Whether this sounds utopian, dystopian, or simply self-promotional, there is no denying that social-media platforms have altered social interaction, political life, and outlooks on the world, even for people who do not regularly use them. In this book, Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society-and its insidious consequences for our concept of...
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Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
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2015.
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English
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Mark Zuckerberg's story is an interesting one: who knew that a quiet, code-writing nerd would be the creator of what we call social media, the Chairman and CEO of Facebook Inc., and the youngest self-made billionaire.
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AMACOM
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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You can't create a $300 billion company by accident in between classes. You may think you know the legendary story behind the beginning of Facebook by wunderkind Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, but those who were actually there on the inside molding this social media idea into a game-changing, Goliath-sized company know the experience was far more tumultuous and uncertain than one might expect.
As a computer engineer turned marketing innovator who...
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The events surrounding the creation of Facebook did not look the same to everyone involved. Readers can step back in time and into the shoes of a Harvard student, Harvard professor, and a potential investor as readers act out scenes and compare and contrast various perspectives. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers engage and read aloud. Includes a table...
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Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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With over 2,000 employees, 800 million users, and annual revenues of more than $4 billion, it's hard to imagine that Mark Zuckerberg-in his Harvard dorm room-started Facebook less than 10 years ago. This is the astounding story of Zuckerberg's launch of "the Facebook," as it was originally called in 2004, and with it the revolutionizing of business and the way we communicate, and spread messages, throughout the world. This new way of communicating...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
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PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most widely recognizable figures in society today for his social media pioneering. In this book, readers will learn about Zuckerberg s early life and how it led to the development of Facebook. This book also presents ways that Zuckerberg s work has shaped our world and the way people use computers. This high-interest biography is presented with engaging text and brilliant color photographs. Information-rich sidebars and...
19) Mark Zuckerberg
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Bellwether Media
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2015.
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about Mark Zuckerberg. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Targeted is Kaiser's eyewitness chronicle of the dramatic and disturbing story of the rise and fall of Cambridge Analytica. She reveals to the public how Facebook's lax policies and lack of sufficient national laws allowed voters to be manipulated in both Britain and the United States, where personal data was weaponized to spread fake news and racist messaging during the Brexit vote and the 2016 election. But the damage isn't done Kaiser warns; the...
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