Chapter 1340

"Ha ha ha!"

Littman media doesn't spend two dollars on crimereads at all. It doesn't have an ecological competitor for the time being. It doesn't need to compete with its peers like opendiray to increase bandwidth, free space and attract well-known bloggers. Even its servers are second-hand products, programmers and editors, which are eliminated by Amerika music website and opendiray, There are not many employees.

A typical small Silicon Valley company with bright appearance but average strength, let alone any profit prospects, can also be listed on NASDAQ and have a market value of more than 200 million.

Song Ya doesn't know that there are still a lot of bugs on the website, but it doesn't matter. Wall Street and shareholders buy it. If they can get money from the listing circle, they can't make a good website? Now everyone in the Internet industry is like this. It's not urgent.

After mastering the invincible wealth code, the Internet-based work of modern photography, stereo review and other magazines will be carried out in the same way. Disney, Warner and other traditional companies are also doing similar things. We will make a fortune together and have fun together.

In the interval of shooting without a blade warrior, song Ya took his girlfriend Amy Adams to Los Angeles. First, he held a dinner in Amy's Beverly Hills villa to entertain Lengshan crew who came back from the Tokyo Film Festival, and then went to Jim Clark's appointment with Sloan.

Because the merger of AOL and Time Warner has been basically settled, Jim Clark, the "small" shareholder of AOL, who signed on January 1, 2000 to replace his Netscape shares with AOL shares, has just bought a super luxury house in Los Angeles.

Jim Clark doesn't mean to be drunk. He calls friends to share the joy of the world's richest man, the enemy of his life.

Microsoft's monopoly case is already very dangerous. Last October, the U.S. Department of justice officially filed a case. The case was not well fought in the Washington District Court in Seattle. Due to the backwater of the former accomplice in AOL, the prosecution has very solid evidence of monopoly behavior and unfair competition, and the probability of micro soft losing the case is very high.

Bill Gates was summoned to Washington during the day to attend the hearing of the Senate judicial committee, and his performance was very difficult to say.

"Binding browsers in the operating system is a competitive behavior in the market, which is for the convenience of users. It should not be subject to administrative intervention by the government, let alone litigation!"

The richest man with glasses and messy hair was impatient at the hearing. He was very aggressive and kept interrupting the Senate elders' questions, and immediately appeared a sarcastic smile after the other party asked the very layman and mentally retarded questions.

"The success of the software industry is not driven by government regulation, which only limits innovation!" He said with a strong gesture.

"Mr. Gates, no one, no matter how powerful he is, can be above the law."

The chairman of the judicial committee, Senator Orin hatch of Utah elephant party, immediately seized his painful foot and righteously refuted, "the latest testimony of sun CEO McNeely and Netscape CEO Baxter does not match what you said in the previous hearing. Are you lying to us?"

Naturally, the richest man can not admit it and answer: "monopoly means that a company has the ability to restrict new companies to enter the market and manipulate prices in one way. And Microsoft doesn't have these two capabilities. "

"I mean, will you continue to refute the testimony of Mr. McNally and Mr. Baxter?" Olin hatch didn't interrupt him.

The wealthiest programmer with real temperament was very embarrassed when he was forced to ask. His hands just waved strongly disappeared from the table, and his upper body began to move back and forth, nervous like an ordinary college student.

The lawyer next to him whispered to him.

"I can't remember. I can't remember what I said, Senator." The richest man also chose the same strategy as song Ya in those years: being naughty.

"Are you going to quote the Fifth Amendment? Mr. Gates. " Congressmen's means are similar. Olin hatch immediately digs a hole for the richest man, and he feels strongly in Song Ya's eyes.

"No..." he replied after consulting his lawyer, "I just can't remember what I said before..."

"I can remind you."

"I can't remember, I can't remember what I said..." the richest man began to repeat.

Senators and listeners at the hearing laughed.

"Ha ha ha!" They are all like-minded people who have been unhappy with Microsoft for a long time. Jim Clark and his friends continue to laugh and live by this fun in their whole life. Jim Clark has a feeling of revenge and glances at Song Ya with pride. "It's better to change aplus!" He joked.

"Haha, haha..." Song Ya also laughs with his glass. It seems that there is no perfect person. The richest man's performance at the hearing is too bad. He didn't lick so much last timeIf Microsoft is separated, will it not be four or nine years since it joined 3dfx

Songya beat a drum in his heart, but he had to smile in front of Jim Clark and others.

Damn it. Maybe that's why Jim Clark invited himself. After today's hearing, AOL's share price will go up tomorrow.

Fortunately, I hedged a little AOL stock and bet on the Internet like Jim and others on the spot

Now, the market value of opendiray website, which has hardly spent any of its energy, is almost more than that of 3dfx. According to the current situation, the Internet industry should laugh to the end.

It's boring. He didn't even bother to attend the board of directors of 3dfx recently. The input and output are not proportional to each other!

"Aplus..." Sloan, who just went outside to answer the phone, came back and gave him a ring finger.

"Ah?"

Just to get away, song Ya said, "do you want to punch in?"

"Bah! Don't talk about it! Business

Sloan gave him a stern look. "Look." She found another TV set at Jim Clark's house.

"Sigram global group and Vivendi reached a document of intent in France today, paving the way for the merger of the two companies."

The shorter the news, the bigger the story.

"Let me just say that the three generations of the rich are always doing things faster than we expected."

Songya looks at the four men in the news picture, who are shoulder to shoulder and smile confidently at the camera. They are Mr. Brown and his son, Vivendi CEO Mr. Messier and Universal Music president Doug Morris. They ask Sloan, "who is the fifth person?"

"Merrill Lynch. David Geffen is right... "

Sloan said in a low voice: "he has been reminding us to pay more attention to the movement of the old man, the old man stayed in France for so long, may have started to talk with Messier very early."

"Well, but Vivendi can. At this stage, we can't think of any acquisition object more suitable than Vivendi."

Song Ya replied. Vivendi is expanding very fast, shopping all over the world and buying everything. It is faster than sigma global group and has a high debt ratio. Moreover, Vivendi is a listed company, which is convenient for a series of operations in preparation.

"Call Underwood."

Long time, tedious preparation and the completion of the anti super rich three generations, plus the two sides have not had too many conflicts in the past six months, making song ya feel that the whole thing is going to become boring, anyway, everything has a plan, he ordered.

"Ha ha ha!"

In France, the third generation of the rich happened to be watching the video of the Senate hearing. The disgraceful performance of the richest man made him very happy and laughed several times.

"If it were you, Microsoft would be able to escape the fate of being split. You were much better than him at the hearing last time." Doug Morris was flattering, but the second half of it was true.

"It's too arrogant. Does he think that he has a fortune of 90 billion this year, so that even the U.S. government doesn't need to pay attention to him? Ha ha, there's no need to be so impolite in front of the elders, and the whole world is watching this hearing. "

Little Bronfman, who looked on coldly, pointed the way.

"Yes, I don't know how your government plans to split Microsoft, just like bell telephone company in those days?" Asked Vivendi CEO Cecil.

In 1984, bell telephone company, the dominant Telecom Company in the United States, was dismantled by the Ministry of justice, relying on the anti trust law, into seven companies, namely atandt and Nanfang bell, known as Bell seven brothers. In 1995, Lucent and NCR, which were engaged in the manufacturing business of telecom equipment, were separated and smashed.

It wasn't until after the Internet tide started that these companies were able to re integrate, such as the amazing merger of atandt and John Malone's TCI company not long ago.

"Maybe." Answered little Bronfman.

"Your share of the record industry is already very dangerous, isn't it?" "I heard that your online music business with the Sony duet alliance has been shut down," Messier asked

"Yes, but it doesn't affect the cooperation between you and me. If sigma global and Vivendi merge, there will be no such problem." The sprightly old brown man raised his glass.

After a few months of recuperation in France, the old man's body is much better than before, and finally found the wrongdoer, that is, Messier in front of him, and his psychological pressure is relieved a lot.

"Sure, good luck." Messier clinks a glass with everyone. Vivendi doesn't have much record and wine business. When it merges with sigram global, it doesn't have to worry about touching the red line of monopoly."Mr. CEO." At this time, a Vivendi high-level approached and whispered to messier.

After hearing this, Messier had a strange smile on his face. "Mr. Bronfman, I just got the news that the U.S. Department of Commerce has found the latest opinion on the monopoly case of your six major record companies in the early years."

"Oh?" As soon as little Bronfman's face changed, he immediately grinned, "what do they say?"

"They claim to impose a fine of 2.1 billion yuan on your six record companies. In other words, the new universal music, which owns universal records and Polaroid records, will bear nearly half of the fine?" Asked messier.

"It's impossible. The resale price of CD is only maintained. Even if it is determined as monopoly, it can't be punished so much." Doug Morris retorted solemnly, "it's estimated that the total fine in the end will not exceed $100 million. I guarantee it with decades of working experience in the record industry!"

"It's a big uncertainty after all, isn't it? Write it down. " Messier light command under, "to be reflected in our two subsequent merger negotiations.". Two Mr. Bronfman, is that all right? "

"No problem. There's no way to get involved in this kind of lawsuit."

Little Bronfman shrugged indifferently.

"At the sensitive time when our two countries announced their merger, your Ministry of Commerce suddenly made a statement... Does it mean that there are other contradictions between you and the U.S. government?" Asked messier.

"You know, messier, when you're as big a business as you and I are, there's no place without enemies."

Old Bronfman raised his glass and motioned to the TV: "even the richest man in the world, isn't he in a dilemma now?"

"Ha ha, that's right." Messier took a sip of the wine with a smile and began to greet the others.

I don't know if I can fool him. Father and son secretly exchanged a look. There was a touch of worry in old brown man's turbid eyes.

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