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1) Amazon
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Amazon examines the world's largest online retailer, detailing its founding by Jeff Bezos and its expansion into new areas such as hardware devices, cloud services, and drone deliveries. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
2) Apple
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Apple takes a look at the world's largest tech company, examining its many ups and downs in the decades since it was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
3) Facebook
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Facebook explores how founder Mark Zuckerberg grew his social networking site from a small service only available on a single college campus to the world's largest social network. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
4) Google
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Google studies how Sergey Brin and Larry Page, working out of a garage, created the world's most popular and powerful search engine that later grew into a multifaceted technology juggernaut. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
5) Microsoft
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Microsoft examines the software company behind such ubiquitous products as the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite, detailing how founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen grew the company from a two-person operation into a global leader in software. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo...
6) Netflix
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Netflix explores how founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph turned a small DVD rental service into a global media empire, leading the way in the streaming revolution and pioneering new ways to study TV audiences. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
7) Samsung
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Samsung takes a look at the electronics giant and how it grew from humble beginnings under founder Lee Byung-Chul into a massive corporate empire with influence in a wide range of industries. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
8) Twitter
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Twitter studies the influential social networking service and its founders, examining how a side project created by its four founders evolved into a powerful social network that influences entertainment, politics, and activism. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Falling for the matchmaker isn't part of the business plan...
Is Silicon Valley ready for the scandal?
Tech CEO Luke Dallas needs to save a business deal gone south at any cost-even if that means marriage! His solution is to hire executive recruiter Danica Novak to be his unconventional matchmaker. After all, marriage is just like business: a negotiation between two parties who have a mutual investment in a future outcome. Or so Luke thinks...
The...
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To claim her inheritance, she has to get past her boss…if she doesn't fall for him first, in this Titans of Tech story by Susannah Erwin.
She wants what’s hers…
and the boss who stands in her way.
Marguerite Delacroix must regain possession of her family’s ancestral vineyards. When she’s caught red-handed sneaking into the winery, she comes face-to-face with the new owner—tech titan Evan Fletcher. But he doesn’t turn her in—he gives...
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Reunion or one last fling? Find out as the sparks fly between ex-lovers in this Titans of Tech story by Susannah Erwin!
Matchmaker, matchmaker…
reunite with your ex?
With his revolutionary dating app, Will Taylor plays matchmaker extraordinaire-but he's still a cynical bachelor after Finley Smythe broke his heart. Now a starring turn in his own reality matchmaking show could change that, if his plans aren't upended by the storm that strands...
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Amazon has revolutionized online shopping, growing quickly to become one of the biggest companies in the world. Learn how Amazon became the tech giant it is today and get a glimpse of what's coming next.
"This useful series about the biggest names in tech is sure to have utility for report writers. . . . Thorough and well researched."-School Library Journal
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Since Steve Jobs helped found Apple in 1976, the company has been at the cutting edge of computing, introducing the world to personal computers, the iPhone, and more. Explore Apple's history and what the future of the company might hold.
"This useful series about the biggest names in tech is sure to have utility for report writers. . . . Thorough and well researched."-School Library Journal
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Social media is everywhere. It's popularity was fueled when Mark Zuckerberg helped to found Facebook in 2004. Learn how Facebook grew to conquer the world of social media and investigate the controversy the company has invited along the way.
"This useful series about the biggest names in tech is sure to have utility for report writers. . . . Thorough and well researched."-School Library Journal
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In the face of climate change, demand for electric cars is growing. Elon Musk founded Tesla, making a big bet on electric cars, in 2003. Learn more about Tesla's history and what it's planning next.
"This useful series about the biggest names in tech is sure to have utility for report writers. . . . Thorough and well researched."-School Library Journal
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