Tech company stories

How John Carmack and John Romero made Doom and Quake and changed video games.

Inside Microsoft's Windows NT team from 1988 to its 1993 release.

Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, starts a third company in 1999.

The search industry from early engines to Google, and how paid search was invented.

How Google disrupted newspapers, books, television and advertising.

Facebook from its Harvard origin to 2010, with wide access to Zuckerberg.

A Microsoft co-founder's memoir of his ventures, successes and failures.

Google's technical and business decisions from Stanford research to 2011.

Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.

How Google hired and managed smart creatives, people who can't be told what to do.

How BlackBerry maker Research In Motion rose to dominance and fell after the iPhone.

Marissa Mayer's arrival at Yahoo in 2012 and her struggle to turn it around.

How games such as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars and Destiny were made, and the strain.

Subtitled Exploring the Rise and Fall of Nokia in Mobile Phones.

Facebook from its founding to 2019, from hundreds of interviews including Zuckerberg.

The Instagram story, its sale to Facebook and what Zuckerberg did to its founders.

Samsung Electronics and the Lee family that controls it, from inside.

How Facebook mishandled data and spread fake news and hate, and its inner politics.

Apple after Steve Jobs, told through Tim Cook's operations and Jony Ive's design.

A biography of Bill Gates covering his reinvention after Microsoft.

How Elon Musk's takeover wrecked Twitter.

How Apple built its manufacturing base in China, and what it gave China in return.

A former Facebook policy director's memoir of the company from 2011 to 2017.

Alex Karp and Palantir's path from CIA funding to the surveillance state.

Contemporaneous account of the NeXT failure.

Contemporary profiles including Yahoo's founding by Yang and Filo.

Sequel to Hard Drive, on the browser wars and the road to antitrust.

Unauthorised; Ellison tried to block it.

Microsoft's internal fights over the internet and over the antitrust case.

Video games from their pre-electronic origins to the industry of 2001.

Nokia's history, written with access to its boardroom records.

eBay: the cleanest early case of a pure marketplace take rate.

How the AOL Time Warner merger, the largest in US history, fell apart.

The AOL side of the AOL Time Warner merger, reported as it collapsed.

How Lucent went from industry leader to junk credit rating in two years.

Strategy comparison explaining how Samsung overtook Sony.

Dramatised founding story; source for The Social Network.

Video games from Atari and cartridge consoles to Nintendo and the global industry.

Inside Y Combinator in the years before Altman ran it.

Insider account of Facebook's ads business by a product manager.

Reporting on the culture that produced Uber's 2017 crisis.

Insider account by the engineer who built the iPhone keyboard.

By an early mentor and investor who turned against the company.

Insider memoir by the engineer whose blog post triggered the reckoning.

How renowned video game studios fell apart, and what happened to their staff.

Peter Thiel biography with substantial Palantir founding material.

The streaming wars Netflix started, from the studios' side.

The story of Tencent, Alibaba's main rival, and China's tech ambitions.

Fast narrative of the takeover and the layoffs.

Built on the Facebook Files documents leaked by Frances Haugen.

Twitter under Jack Dorsey's second spell as chief, through its sale to Elon Musk.

A tech reporter's memoir, including Sam Altman and OpenAI's board crisis.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, told through the employees who lived through it.

Insider account by a former Windows developer; hostile in tone.

Business-school style account of the memory and display strategy.

The short life of Danny Lewin and Akamai Technologies, which changed the internet.

Early and much-disputed argument that Apple declined after Jobs.

Scholarly account of the product and its user culture.