Rana Foroohar Bücher

Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news advertising spend. Amazon takes half of all e-commerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - the digital titans. How did these once-idealistic and innovative companies come to manipulate elections, violate our privacy and pose a threat to the fabric of our democracy? Through her skilled reporting and unparalleled access, Rana Foroohar reveals the true extent to which the 'FAANG's (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) crush or absorb competitors, hijack our personal data and mental space and offshore their exorbitant profits. What's more, she shows how these threats to our democracies, livelihoods and minds are all intertwined. Yet Foroohar also lays out a plan for how we can resist, creating a framework that fosters innovation while protecting us from the dark side of digital technology.

Eight years after the significant market crash of 2008, crucial lessons remain unlearned, leaving our financial system vulnerable. While many recognize the government's failure to fix the banking system post-subprime mortgage crisis, few understand how flawed financial practices have permeated all American businesses, setting the stage for another potential disaster. Through thorough reporting and exclusive interviews with top figures in Wall Street and Washington, Rana Foroohar illustrates how the "financialization of America" has allowed finance to dominate the economy, exacerbating wealth inequality and threatening the American Dream. Policymakers focus narrowly on regulating "Too Big To Fail" banks, yet the issues extend far beyond that. Over the past 40 years, only about 15% of money in the market reaches the real economy, with the financial sector capturing a quarter of corporate profits while generating just 4% of jobs. The tax code favors debt over equity, incentivizing companies to stash cash overseas rather than reinvesting domestically. Major corporations prioritize stock buybacks over innovation and research. Many promised financial regulations post-2008 remain unfulfilled due to the close ties between lawmakers and wealthy financiers. Foroohar explores how this financialization harms society and emphasizes the urgent need to reverse this trend for a more sustainable economic future. Through compelling stories of "

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Thomas Friedman, in The World Is Flat, declared globalization the new economic order. But the reign of globalization as we've known it is over, argues Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst Rana Foroohar, and the rise of local, regional, and homegrown business is now at hand.[Bokinfo].

"Nie czyń zła" to pierwsza zasada korporacyjna Google'a, przyjęta w czasach, gdy firma miała utopijną wizję przyszłości. Obecnie, zarówno Google, jak i inne firmy Big Tech, odchodzą od tych ideałów, a utopia staje się dystopią, gdzie dominują cyfrowa inwigilacja, utrata prywatności, dezinformacja oraz drapieżne algorytmy. Jak doszło do tego, że idealistyczne przedsięwzięcia przekształciły się w chciwe monopole, które wpływają na wyniki wyborów i gromadzą nasze dane, unikając regulacji i płacenia podatków? Rana Foroohar, dziennikarka Financial Times, w swojej książce przedstawia kluczową historię o tym, jak Big Tech stracił swoją duszę. Dzięki niemal trzydziestoletniemu doświadczeniu w relacjonowaniu biznesu i technologii ujawnia, jak giganci tacy jak Google, Facebook, Apple i Amazon przekształcają nasze dane i uwagę w zyski, nie oddając nam nic z tych kolosalnych dochodów. Foroohar proponuje również sposoby na sprzeciwienie się tym praktykom, wskazując na potrzebę innowacji, które jednocześnie chronią nas przed negatywnymi skutkami cyfrowych technologii.