Big-Time Business: Social Networking: Big Business on Your Computer

Author: Nick Hunter
Publisher: Franklin Watts Ltd
Category: Work, Citizenship & Social Education, IT & Computing
Age Group: 12-17
Book Format: Paperback

Social Networking follows the newest multi-billion industry on the planet. The book explores how the social networking industry began and how tiny seedlings of companies grew into multinational giants that today make billions. Discover how social networking businesses are making money from your friendships and what the future potential of this baby of the business world could really be.Discover the world's biggest money-making industries and the secrets of their success in Big-time Business. From the pharmaceutical industry and entertainment world through to the business of beauty, banking, social networking and energy, find out why these enterprising worlds have a grip on the global economy and are considered the biggest money-generators on the planet. A high-interest exploration of the business world for 9+ readers.

Table Of Contents
1: Life online

1: Chapter 1: Home computers

1: Birth of the Internet

1: The first 'dotcom' boom

1: Web 2.0

1: Chapter 2: What is a social network?

1: Find your friends

1: Facebook effect

1: Chapter 3: A world of social networks

1: The blogosphere

1: Twitter and other microblogs

1: Sharing videos and music

1: Gaming

1: Chapter 4: Making money from social networks

1: Online advertising

1: The value of data

1: The freemium

1: Chapter 5: The big players

1: Social network billionaires

1: Funding the boom

1: Challenges ahead

1: Glossary

1: For more information

1: Index
About Nick Hunter
Nick Hunter is a prolific children's book author. His subjects range from science and history through to geography and social issues. Before Nick became an author, he worked in children's book publishing as an editor and publisher. He lives and works in Oxford, and is married with two children.

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SKU BK-9781445139234
Barcode # 9781445139234
Brand Franklin Watts Ltd
Artist / Author Nick Hunter
Shipping Weight 0.3800kg
Shipping Width 0.210m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.260m
Assembled Length 26.300m
Assembled Height 1.000m
Assembled Width 20.800m
Type Paperback

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