Chapter 1414

"Aplus, look at this!"

"Aplus, did you vote for Gore?"

On November 3, 2000, the U.S. general election began to vote. Song Ya appeared at the polling station of Hyde Park constituency early in the morning, personally supporting Al Gore, "yes, of course..." after voting, he came out, hugged aunt Susie and answered reporters' questions with a smile in front of the camera.

"Yeah, yeah, we all voted for deputy commander Gore, and I like him..." aunt Susie yelled in a black aunt voice.

"Aplus, about the recent Wall Street accusations against you..."

When a reporter opened his mouth, song Ya switched his hand to a wave of disgust. Then he turned away with aunt Susie, Connie, Tony and other relatives.

"No, Daniel, don't move it. Think carefully. Metropolitan distribution company will not do film business for the time being. This is something we have discussed for a long time. "

Back at a + records headquarters, Daniel had been waiting in his office for a long time. After experiencing the scenery of cold mountain, his glass pictures started three films at a time this year, all of them on the street. Taking advantage of his concurrent position as the president of the metropolitan distribution company, he planned to let the metropolitan distribution company take over the offer to his glass pictures and recover some personal losses, which was naturally stopped by Songya.

Daniel met to explain this matter, song Ya quietly and angrily back: "and your film has a distributor."

"The existing distributors are willing to change hands cheaply. Do I want to get it back, edit it again and try my luck in the overseas market? Maybe overseas tastes are different? No matter how hard it is, it's OK for the metropolitan distribution company to help shop the DVD products in the form of consignment, isn't it

After the great success of Lincoln Park, Daniel enjoyed the benefit and power of controlling part of their distribution affairs. On the other hand, he also realized that he had missed this unknown band. He couldn't help it. Who could call it that he didn't sign the group of mcxintian?

The status of the record industry has a rising trend in the past six presidents period, but the film industry can't bear to lose money this year. Daniel has not forgotten to lead yelemov, "not only me, your yelemov hasn't made a name for himself this year. It's time for the metropolitan distribution company to set foot in the film industry. Anyway, the overseas channels are ready."

For the first time this year, yelemov won the right to set up his own project, allowing a + entertainment to invest in a 20 million level burning Hawaii, a low-cost art film, and two independent films, all of which can be called Wolong Phoenix chicks with Daniel.

"No, I don't want to stimulate the big seven in Hollywood, and the bad movies you make will only make the distribution companies lose more money."

Songya shook his head like a rattle. "At most, I'll let yelemov buy your three plays into the film library of a + entertainment."

"Come on, you know I have a bad relationship with yelemov. The price he offered... I'm not short of pocket money." Daniel didn't want to again.

"Then don't worry about it. Admit defeat. Daniel, that's what making movies is all about

Songya picked up the microphone and chatted with the Secretary outside, then went to open the offices, "Mr. Littman, please come in."

It's business to ask Daniel to come here, "MP3 website, what does Doug Morris say?" After a little conversation with Littman, Sonya asked.

"He doesn't have much room for maneuver this time. Although little Bronfman is no longer in charge, he is climbed to the head by Ron Meyer again. He can't completely decide the lawsuit of global music and MP3 website." Daniel replied.

"Will MP3 sites sell to us?" Asked Littman.

Daniel shook his head. "We can't solve their imminent lawsuit! Their only way to save themselves is to reach a settlement with the litigant universal music. It's impossible to let them go if they sell it to us, so universal music is their only buyer. "

The final stage of the election is in full swing outside. In addition to work, life and study, song Ya himself doesn't have to spend too much energy to assist in the election. Money and resources are in place.

He did several things during this period. First, he appeased Wall Street Sheriff Spitzer in the case of lylcohn through David Patterson of Manhattan gang; Second, it has formally negotiated all matters concerning the acquisition of Houghton Mifflin. At the same time, it has diluted the proportion of shares held by leishidong's Viacom group, the covetous one, through the private placement of Littman media; The third is to sell the shares of juniper and other companies with O'Grady micro, a stockbroker, and find institutional buyers for the heavy positions of Yahoo and juniper.

In the middle of this, Littman, who has been dissatisfied with the domain name of Amelia music website, proposed to buy MP3 website, because with the stock market crash, the market value of MP3 website has reduced from more than 1 billion in the past to less than 100 million now.

The reason why they are not as good as Americana is that they are about to lose the infringement lawsuit with Universal Music

This company is also interesting. At the beginning, when the Internet music sharing trend was still in its infancy and unregulated state, it enjoyed and indulged with amelia music and other websites. After being warned for the first time by RIAA on behalf of the recording industry, it immediately became the first one to soften up and actively transformed into an independent music website.

Then, when Amelia music began to strictly abide by the Digital Millennium act, Napster rose. After they saw that Napster benefited from the flow of MP3 music sharing, the pursuit of venture capital and the expectation of listing, they regretted it. They jumped back and continued to infringe on the Internet. Fortunately, they caught up with the Internet tide, and the IPO was a great success. Napster, which has more traffic and more attention than them, has not been listed yet.

As a result, under the double blow of globegroup's lawsuit and stock disaster, MP3 websites were soon abandoned by investors, and their stock prices plummeted, so they had to turn back to globegroup for mercy. It is rumored that the website's top management and shareholders are willing to sell for about $80 million in order to seek a settlement with global music. The initial market value of more than 1 billion is like a dream for them. Of course, the founders, shareholders, executives and venture capitalists should have partially cashed out before.

"In other words, they have no choice but to sell themselves to universal music now?" Song Ya asked.

"Yes, winning the MP3 website at a low price is also beneficial to the personal career of Doug Morris, President of universal music. It can alleviate the negative impact of his defjam's lylcohn case, and create a small piece of good news for Vivendi global before it goes to Shanghai."

"Daniel replied:" although the lawsuit against MP3 website and Napster was actually pushed by little Bronfman

The rich three generation... In fact, some things actually did the right thing, such as pulling the Internet infringement act resolutely, for example, the Internet bubble burst last year.

Even after Vivendi global brought in Goldman Sachs, Lehman and Salomon Smith Barney to help it go public in rice, the Ministry of Commerce of the United States stopped. The latest news is that the settlement amount of the five major needs to be borne by the record industry has plummeted from the so-called billions to about $100 million, which can be described as a super discount price.

It's a pity that Fu San Dai didn't stick to the day of victory

Different positions, different buttocks, Songya and Underwood did not pursue and kill on that matter, but it does not mean that the Avengers alliance will sympathize with the rich three generations, "then there is no way." He shrugged at Littman.

Littman is quite disappointed, "MP3 website does not work, Amelia music website domain name always have to change, right? Buy a loud, simple, not so long, easy for netizens to remember. "

"No problem. Let's try again."

Sonya patted him on the arm encouragingly. "Oh, by the way, it's up to you to convince Shirley Fleming."

"All right." Littman nodded.

Shirley Fleming, editor in chief of Americana music magazine, has always disagreed with changing the domain name of the website. The old lady is very stubborn, but her health is getting worse day by day, and she has rarely managed the specific affairs of the magazine.

"Ms. Sloan, they're here."

Standing in front of the window, Daniel just saw a group of white people in suits and shoes being led by Sloan, coming from the opposite building of Littman media headquarters.

"OK, let's go down and welcome it."

Song Ya and the two go out to the elevator.

The merger of Littman press and Houghton Mifflin press under Littman media is coming to an end. The guests are all members of Houghton Mifflin's board of directors, senior executives of the company and the presidents of its branches.

In fact, Houghton Mifflin was negotiating with Vivendi about the sale before Vivendi merged with universal. Unexpectedly, the shareholders delayed in order to bargain until Vivendi was unable to protect itself, so they had to find another buyer in a hurry. As they are important competitors of Littman publishing house in the field of high school educational films, and hold much more market share than Littman publishing house, Sloan soon hit it off with them.

As for the publication of Mark Twain and other famous works... Now, Horton Mifflin has long lost the influence of that year. At present, he only focuses on the English education publishing market and ranks first in the domestic market of the United States.

2.2 billion is a good price in the 21st century when traditional paper media are gradually declining.

“APLUS！”

When the elevator door opened, I didn't expect to meet Quincy Jones. The old man looked angry. After seeing Songya, he asked, "what do you mean by m-fxxk? I've made a good start for your hip-hop competition... You'll lose me when you've used me up! "

The first season of ACE's ace program hip-hop competition is coming to an end. In fact, all the shooting tasks have been recorded, because the old man's bad temper and personal design when he was a judge really didn't appeal to the TV audience, and ACE didn't plan to renew his contract in the second season.

"Hey, Quincy."

Daniel and Littman quickly shared song Ya's worries and stopped the angry old man with a smile. "We are in a hurry to pick up Horton Mifflin's people. Will you wait a moment?"

"Little nager, you're always like this. You don't recognize people."

Quincy Jones won't stab Daniel and Littman, but he's not afraid of Sonya. The old man has such a temper for so many years, even his baby daughter... Right“ I created this high ratings column for you. The host of Rashida also performed very well. As a result, you want to kick me out now? This little nger... "A lot of abuse.

"Didn't Rashida renew his contract?"

Song Yana, the old master and cheap father-in-law, has no good idea. "You're not the one who didn't renew the contract. Annie Fletcher will not be in the next season."

Of course, he used some words. Annie Fletcher quit voluntarily because she wanted to focus on directing my life 4 next year. Among the three judges, only MC hammer renewed her contract.

"I don't care. Anyway, you don't want to fire me so easily. I heard that MC hammer got a good contract!" Quincy Jones was angry.

"He's willing to sign for several seasons." As the elevator was approaching the first floor, Sonya scratched his head and winked at Daniel, "so did Rashida."

"Can we talk about it later, Quincy?"

Daniel hugged Quincy Jones affectionately and stopped him from going out with him to make trouble in front of the guests. "OK, OK, let's go there first..."

Quincy Jones was coaxed and pushed by Daniel, his eyes fixed on Songya's more and more distant back, "OK, Daniel, I know how powerful this boy is now, I just complain, I won't do anything with him!"

"That's good, that's good, hey, hey..." Daniel's face was playful. They watched Songya walk out of the gate, bathed in the morning sun of Chicago, and welcomed a large group of white suit men.

“APLUS……”

"Welcome..."

Sonya and Littman smile and shake hands with Horton Mifflin. Sloan stands aside and introduces each other's name and position.

"It is said that you are very lucky. This time, Littman media suspended its trading before the second wave of stock market crash. I think it can avoid the most irrational period in the capital market?"

Asked the head of Horton Mifflin with a smile.

"Ha ha, just by chance."

The acquisition is a foregone conclusion. Sloan is in charge of the internal adjustment after the merger. Songya has nothing to do with it. Just treat the guests well with the friendship of the big boss. "Let me show you around?"

"Yes, please."

"Please."

The photo reporters outside repeatedly pressed the shutter until the group, led by song ya, entered the interior of the a + record building and ended the shooting task.

During the visit, the topic of chatting was all around the election. Everyone knew who Songya supported, so they all chose what he liked to hear and said, "Wow, is this Mr. Ballmer?" It wasn't until Horton Mifflin's people saw a group photo of Ballmer on the wall.

"Yes." Song Yale hehe introduced: "we took photos when he came here for a meeting."

"He came to the record company for a meeting?"

"No, I sometimes arrange meetings for other companies here." Song Ya replied.

"Ballmer can take a breath at last. Microsoft has just reached a settlement with the Department of justice."

The news of being a publishing house is naturally very well-informed. People from Houghton Mifflin asked, "I heard that the compromise condition is that Microsoft agrees that PC manufacturers can freely choose Windows desktop and open part of the source code of windows software, so that Microsoft competitors can also write applications on the operating system. The federal judge who violated the procedure and leaked secrets has also been punished and dismissed. Will the good news lead to the recovery of the software industry next week? "

"Ha ha, it's hard to say..."

Song Yacai will not express any opinions on the stock market and muddle through.

"Behind Microsoft, they have a series of state level lawsuits, as well as a lot of foreign lawsuits to fight." Sloan took the lead.

"Well, I know, a lawsuit in California is dangerous?"

"It should be."

When the party walked into the conference room, song Ya consciously sat in the first position on one side of the long conference table, and Sloan was dutiful to sit at the top.

As a matter of fact, there is nothing important to talk about. One after another, ACN, ACE, Littman publishing and other branch executives arrived. Many of them have dealt with people from Horton Mifflin, and then they will be a family. The overall atmosphere is relaxed.

As for the senior executives of other Internet listed companies under Littman, they are still in a mess due to the stock market crash and have no time to come to Chicago to destroy the atmosphere.

The days of the three listed websites of Littman are very hard. It's been a while since the novel website fell by one meter per share, and now it's standard junk stock.

Of course, no one in the conference room would mention that.

"Would you like a drink, hahaha?"

People in Houghton Mifflin laughed when they saw assistants coming in with Martell Royal Salute brandy and glasses. "By the way, I'm not congratulating you on winning Mr. aplus."

"No, it's only half." Song Ya put on a little bit, then raised a cup to invite each other with a smile.

"The latest news." Sloan answered the phone and said, "Viacom has won the bet network for $3.3 billion."

"Oh? Then Robert... "Song Ya picked his eyebrows.

"Yes, Robert Johnson will become a millionaire when the deal is officially completed."

Sloan nodded and added, "the second African American millionaire after you."

"Then I'll give him a call to say hello." Adam song calls Robert Johnson, the boss of bet, in front of everyone.

Robert Johnson was naturally in a good mood and sighed hypocritically, "ah! Bet is like my child. I'm still reluctant to part with it, but it's time for me to retire. The future belongs to you, aplus... "

"Do you have any plans next?" Song Ya asked this African American media tycoon who just got a lot of cash... Former tycoon, he has only cash left now.

And now Littman media is a media group across the Internet, traditional publishing, news and television industries. Although it may be far away from Viacom and other top giants, what about a + entertainment and a + records, metropolitan records, metropolitan distribution companies and so on? At least in the comprehensive market value is not weak.

Ten years through, today's report card is OK? Song Ya thought triumphantly.

"Not for the time being. Do charity." Robert Johnson replied.

"Enjoy life?"

"Ha ha, enjoy life... Yes." Robert Johnson has lost his heart in the past two years. The entertainment transformation of bet has been a success, but the profit is not big. All black entertainment has obviously met the ceiling. Due to the great influence of blacks in the field of American music, their music programs have also threatened Viacom's MTV, so leishidong has long wanted to win bet.

A TV network with 20 subscribers in the whole meter has sold 3.3 billion yuan. Robert Johnson is not dissatisfied with this price, and leishidong has also made some contribution.

Sloan then announced some follow-up arrangements and personnel adjustment plans during the meeting. When Horton Mifflin Department came over, it would basically put Littman press under their management, and some market resources such as high school education films would also be under unified management.

Then there was a big welcome lunch. Songya was the center of the audience. He and the crowd gathered in front of the TV to watch the election bulletin, so everyone gathered around and expressed their opinions on Gore's and George's campaign strategies.

“APLUS？” Rashda Jones appeared timidly behind him at some time to apologize for his father's offence this morning.

So song Ya found a place to accept her apology alone.

"What? OK, I'll come! "

He picked up a phone call and immediately picked up his pants, left Rashida and rushed out to say goodbye to the guests. Then he took a private plane to the 3dfx headquarters in Silicon Valley.

"Jim! Jim! Why are you leaving? "

Jim Keller, the chief designer of the new voodoo chip, just handed in his resignation. Sonya followed him and said, "wait for me!"

"I have completed my mission in 3dfx. I have talked with Broadcom and will go to them." Jim Keller was chased by big black. He went back to explain.

"Talk about..."? The contract hasn't been signed yet... "

Song Ya's careful smile: "if you have any dissatisfaction with 3dfx, you can tell me directly."

"I've made up my mind, Mr. aplus. You promised me to leave at any time, remember?" Top chip designers are so ruthless, "it's a waste of time for me to stay in 3dfx."

"Is there any dissatisfaction with the option award?"

"No, I'm very satisfied. I'm not going to talk about this anymore. I have to go..." Jim Keller continued to take a big step.

"No! Jim! Mr. Keller Song Ya had to chase all the way pathetically.

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