Chapter 1842

"Boss, last year we had $103 million in game sales on Facebook, most of which came from two percent to ten percent of users who paid $1 an hour to play paid games or buy virtual items..."

In front of the floor to ceiling window in the living room, Andy takes a look at Ivana, who is taking photos in the yard, and listens to the report of Blair, CEO of Mockingbird game company, on his mobile phone.

“。。。 We are now the most popular game app manufacturer for Facebook users, attracting about 2.5 million players a day. "

"Well done!" Andy's mouth is smiling, and he encourages him with satisfaction. Although his career is now in full bloom, and the scale of the game company is no longer so dazzling in the business sector he owns now, Andy has always put Mockingbird game company in the most important position in his heart. Otherwise, this is his biggest cash Nai bull in the next ten years.

In order to catch the high-speed train of social Jiao platform, Mockingbird game company specially developed multiplayer online games for Facebook, Myspace and other social Shao websites. In addition to the exclusive purchase of happy farm by Facebook, such as the improved versions of "zombie page version of plant war", "angry birds page version", Star Texas poker, movie world, etc The games such as "world fool's war" are popular with a large number of users. At present, the game launched by Mockingbird company has attracted 71 million registered users and 46 million active users every month.

The games and webpage games on the platform of Modao society don't make money!

Andy inquired about the construction of the headquarters building and the progress of each game under development. Tribal conflict and marvel infinite are the masterpieces of the company he hopes to build in the future. He laughed at the fact that bird game company is no longer a skirmish, but also a small company that needs to learn from his previous generation to make money. It has developed to 50 of its own companies The size of the game development team, and the company's employees are up to 3000, you know, a single "my world" team has expanded to more than 100 people.

Of course, the most profitable games now are the ones created by Andy Smith, who are among the top download games on the Internet. This also makes Mockingbird's profits very dazzling, and is also one of the few game companies that can make profits and grow in the global financial crisis.

You know, for example, EA, even though 31 works sold more than one million in the whole fiscal year last year, and several of them exceeded five million, with sales of more than four billion and net loss of one billion dollars. It's a loss of blood.

Well, after all, people's EA is the second largest game development in the world after Activision Blizzard. It's a publisher with a big business. But at present, EA, with a market value of only 6.2 billion US dollars, has such a spitting hair. It won't be long before it really spits out. No wonder there are so many rumors about its acquisition.

"Boss, it's widely spread in the industry recently that apple is considering acquiring EA company. Compared with the rumors of Apple's acquisition of twitter, the acquisition of EA by apple, which is increasingly moving closer to the game industry, seems more reasonable. According to my information, Apple's cash stock is close to 30 billion dollars, while EA's market value is less than 7 billion dollars. Apple definitely has the strength to buy EA to expand their crazy and racquet game platform. "

Although the big boss of his own family fought with Apple Corp for the APP application platform of Freedom City, this did not affect the good cooperation between Blair, as the CEO of mocking bird game company, and Apple Corp Many of the company's games have made a lot of money with the hot sales of crazy and love shooting, and the cooperation is also very happy, so Blair and apple are very concerned about the news that they want to buy EA company.

Hear Blair clearly with a feeler. Hoping to get some verification reports, Andy can't help chuckling and shaking his head. He naturally knows what Blair is worried about. He laughs and says: "ha ha, I didn't hear that Apple has the intention to buy EA. This kind of news came out. Maybe it's just a small part of EA's intention to raise the share price. Don't care. In other words, even if Apple does buy EA, how about that? In mobile electronic equipment, who can take our first throne? "

Hearing his boss's rhetorical question, Blair was relieved when he knew that the rumor was not reliable. After all, as the developer of the game brought by Apple's mobile electronic equipment factory system, he didn't want to meet Apple's new son's opponent, and the exclusive business was the most profitable.

Exclusive, it's the most profitable.

But it's also something many people don't want to see. Andy, who hung up on the phone, was very upset about Apple's purchase of twitter. As a director of apple, he naturally knew that this was not a rumor, but a true news. Moreover, it has been confirmed that Apple was holding a "serious attitude" with his WhatsApp and INS, which were about to be hit by twitter If the negotiation goes well, apple and twitter will officially announce the acquisition on the opening day of Apple's 2009 Global Developers Conference on June 8.

What's more, apple is not the only company interested in twitter, Facebook is also the one who wants to buy twitter, and it almost succeeded. If it wasn't for the founder of twitter, Shizi would have been swallowed by pockmarked.The reason why Twitter is so popular suddenly is that the key problem is the strong rise of WhatsApp and ins and the popularity of information speed. In addition, Andy and his two companies spare no effort to suppress twitter, showing a strong dominant position in the market, making Facebook's pockmarks feel the potential threat. After all, ins and Facebook have produced a lot of application overlaps.

However, Facebook and twitter finally broke down, and the deal didn't come to an end. As for the reason, Andy wanted to laugh. He couldn't help it. The chicken thief's pockmarks wanted to use stocks that were twice as overvalued as Facebook's value. He didn't spend a penny to merge twitter, while the suppressed twitter that was almost breathless was the lion's big mouth. He wanted cash. He didn't have any money to cover white hands Wolf, another desperate for money, wants to get rid of his shell, and finally talks about it.

Now apple is offering $700 million in cash to buy twitter, which is hard for its founders and executives to reject. The main purpose of Apple's acquisition of Twitter is to enable users of Apple's crazy smartphone to use Twitter for communication, and ultimately to drive the sales of crazy apps.

However, in Andy's view, this is Apple's obvious acquisition of WhatsApp, which has become a necessary app for all smartphones. At the same time, it also sees the advantages and development potential of WhatsApp, and wants to make a unique app for apple.

You know, Apple has been growing up on its own. Apple is not willing to fully open its network standards to the outside world, and both WhatsApp and INS tend to be fully open. Because the two software applications are very popular among smartphone users all over the world, they can't help but reduce the user's service experience, which makes Apple uncomfortable.

If the acquisition of apple is successful, Andy can imagine that although Apple won't support WhatsApp and INS in a blatant way, it will definitely make small moves to limit the operation of the crazy app and push new twitter.

Andy can foresee this situation. He can't help it. He likes eating alone all the time. Apple is such a powerful company. As for whether he cares about Andy's face as a member of the board of directors, ha ha, not at all!

Andy joined the board of directors of apple. From the beginning, jobs was to take in the floating common stock shark, restrain Andy from making waves in the secondary market, and beat up Apple's share price.

This scruple can't shake Apple's overall interests and strategic planning at all. So, from the beginning to the end, Andy didn't see himself as an apple person. He was very clear that there was a huge contradiction between himself and apple that was difficult to reconcile. Sooner or later, he would face up again and tear his face to become an opponent.

There's no way. Strength really doesn't allow Andy to keep a low profile. When a person is in a different position, he will have different positions, which determines that he will have different ideas. In a rude way, PG decides the brain.