iSay: Kings of the Internet

The kings of the Internet cannot be escaped, and they are multiplying. They include the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. Discover how these kings and other Internet titans changed the world with their ideas. Illustrated studies of different web applications show how Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other companies developed their kingdoms. With this history, you'll learn • how Gates and Paul Allen founded a fledgling operation named Microsoft that became a software juggernaut; • how Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne took a simple computer-building company named Apple and made it into much more; • why open source software became popular and how IBM, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems used it to become kings. • why Google's Page and Brin initially did not want to include advertising with search engine results. Find out how the most powerful technology companies in the world began, how they are exerting their influence, and whether there will be an ultimate victor in iSay.