By Eva Dou (2025)
Pages: 448 , Final verdict: Great-read
This story has it all: UN sanctions, Deng Xiaoping, the Iraq war, the smartphone market, and Trump. A lot of Trump.
In House of Huawei, longtime Washington Post (and former Wall Street Journal) journalist Eva Dou pieces together the story of...
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By Marc Hijink (2024)
Pages: 426 , Final verdict: Great-read
Imagine a machine the size of a double-decker bus. It costs more than a Boeing 787, is built from over 100,000 precision-engineered parts, and can only be put together in a room that’s 1,000 times cleaner than a...
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By Steven Levy (2007)
Pages: 286, Final verdict: Great-read
If you’ve ever owned one, you know: the iPod was special.
From 2001 to 2022, Apple sold more than 450 million of them. Along the way, it morphed from a music player into a social phenomenon. If you had one,...
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By Steven Levy (2020)
Pages: 592 , Final verdict: Great-read
Steven Levy is what you might call an OG tech journalist. Starting in the 80's, he has done everything from contributing to Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Software Catalog, publishing for the NY Times, Wired, Macworld and writing...
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By Jimmy Soni (2022)
Pages: 496, Final verdict: Great-read
PayPal's impact transcends the company. I heard this a few times before picking up Soni's latest book, and for good reason. Yes, Paypal is - at the time I'm writing this in May '23...
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