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With its groundbreaking Windows operating system, Microsoft transformed personal computing. Learn how founder Bill Gates turned Microsoft into one of the biggest companies in the world using cool technology and the power of coding.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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...