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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries
This book is an introduction to computers covering relevant topics
that include: computers and society, the Internet, social media,
Microsoft Office 2019, and high-level programming. The main goals
are to help students to define computers and information processing
and describe the main concepts related to hardware, software, and
their use. The author prepares students to identify how the
Internet has changed people's lives and develops critical thinking
about the role of computers in society, recognize the impact of
technology in the personal and professional base, to mention a few.
Emphasis is placed on developing skills in Word processing,
spreadsheets, presentations, and programming algorithms.
In the tradition of The Everything Store and Googled, award-winning tech journalist Christine Lagorio's We Are the Nerds is the incredible true narrative of the birth, and life, of Reddit.
Reddit hails itself as 'the front page of the Internet'. It's the sixth most-visited website in the world -- and yet, millions have no idea what it is. They should be paying attention.
We Are the Nerds takes readers inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving crimes and spurring millions in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and even landing Donald Trump in the White House. Reddit has become a mirror of the Internet itself: It has dark trenches, shiny memes, malicious trolls, and a heart-warming ability to connect people across cultures, oceans, and ideological divides.
This is the gripping story of how Reddit's founders, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, transformed themselves from student video-gamers into Silicon Valley millionaires as they turned their creation into an icon of the digital age. But the journey was often fraught. Reporting on Reddit for more than six years, conducting hundreds of interviews and gaining exclusive access to its founders, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin has written the definitive account of the birth and life of Reddit. Packed with revelatory details about its biggest triumphs and controversies, this inside look at Reddit includes fresh insights on the relationship between Huffman and Ohanian, staff turmoil, the tragic life of Aaron Swartz, and Reddit's struggle to become profitable.
In a time when we are increasingly concerned about privacy and manipulation on social platforms, We Are the Nerds reveals Reddit's central role in the dissemination of culture and information in history's first fully digital century. Rigorously reported and highly entertaining, We Are the Nerds explores how this unique platform has changed the way we all communicate today.
The success of many companies through the assistance of bitcoin
proves that technology continually dominates and transforms how
economics operate. However, a deeper, more conceptual understanding
of how these technologies work to identify innovation opportunities
and how to successfully thrive in an increasingly competitive
environment is needed for the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Transforming Businesses With Bitcoin Mining and Blockchain
Applications provides innovative insights into IT infrastructure
and emerging trends in the realm of digital business technologies.
This publication analyzes and extracts information from Bitcoin
networks and provides the necessary steps to designing open
blockchain. Highlighting topics that include financial markets,
risk management, and smart technologies, the research contained
within the title is ideal for entrepreneurs, business
professionals, managers, executives, academicians, researchers, and
business students.
Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned
Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade
they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that
'it's what you learn after you know it all that counts'. As they
helped grow Google from a young start-up to a global icon, they
relearned everything they knew about management. How Google Works
is the sum of those experiences distilled into a fun, easy-to-read
primer on corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making,
communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption.The authors
explain how the confluence of three seismic changes - the internet,
mobile, and cloud computing - has shifted the balance of power from
companies to consumers. The companies that will thrive in this
ever-changing landscape will be the ones that create superior
products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom the
authors dub 'smart creatives'. The management maxims ('Consensus
requires dissension', 'Exile knaves but fight for divas', 'Think
10X, not 10%') are illustrated with previously unreported anecdotes
from Google's corporate history.' Back in 2010, Eric and I created
an internal class for Google managers,' says Rosenberg. 'The class
slides all read 'Google confidential' until an employee suggested
we uphold the spirit of openness and share them with the world.
This book codifies the recipe for our secret sauce: how Google
innovates and how it empowers employees to succeed.'
As the power of computing continues to advance, companies have
become increasingly dependent on technology to perform their
operational requirements and to collect, process, and maintain
vital data. This increasing reliance has caused information
technology (IT) auditors to examine the adequacy of managerial
control in information systems and related operations to assure
necessary levels of effectiveness and efficiency in business
processes. In order to perform a successful assessment of a
business's IT operations, auditors need to keep pace with the
continued advancements being made in this field. IT Auditing Using
a System Perspective is an essential reference source that
discusses advancing approaches within the IT auditing process, as
well as the necessary tasks in sufficiently initiating, inscribing,
and completing IT audit engagement. Applying the recommended
practices contained in this book will help IT leaders improve IT
audit practice areas to safeguard information assets more
effectively with a concomitant reduction in engagement area risks.
Featuring research on topics such as statistical testing,
management response, and risk assessment, this book is ideally
designed for managers, researchers, auditors, practitioners,
analysts, IT professionals, security officers, educators,
policymakers, and students seeking coverage on modern auditing
approaches within information systems and technology.
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