Title: Broadbandits
Description: Investigating the financial fraud and misguided power plays that brought down the telecom industry   Once the foundation of the Dow and NASDAQ, the telecom industry has eaten up more capital than any other industry in recent history and has nothing to show for it. Today, it is by far the worst culprit in the spate of financial dirty dealings that have been splashed across the business pages, and yet the rewards reaped by top executives at many of these failed or failing companies have been inversely proportionate to their decline. Broadbandits takes readers behind the scenes to get the story they won't get in the media. Investigative reporter Om Malik follows the money trail and deciphers the actions and motivations of a generation of new economy "barbarians" that brought down this once lucrative industry. This intriguing book offers an inside look into the telecom bubble, with tales and anecdotes about mavericks who turned simple light and glass fibers into veins of g...
Subjects: Consolidation and merger of corporations, Corrupt practices, Telecommunication, Business failures, Nonfiction, Business, Consolidation and merger of corporations, united states, Télécommunications, Pratiques déloyales, Entreprises, Fusion, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, Media & Communications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Telecommunications
Places: United States