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"Boss, last year we made $103 million in game sales on Facebook, most of which came from the 2% to 10% of our users who pay $1 an hour to play premium games or buy virtual items. ..."

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room, Andy held his hand while looking at Ivana who was taking pictures in the yard, while listening to the report from Blair, CEO of Mockingjay Game Company, on his mobile phone.

"...we are now the maker of the most popular gaming app for Facebook users, reaching approximately 2.5 million players per day on Facebook."

"Good job!" Andy smiled and encouraged with satisfaction. Although his business has fully blossomed now, and the scale of the game company is no longer so dazzling among the business sectors he currently owns, Andy has always put The Mockingjay Game Company is the most important place in his heart, let alone other things, this is his biggest cash cow in the next ten years.

In order to get on the high-speed train of the social JIAO platform, Mockingjay Games specializes in developing multiplayer online games for social SHAO sites such as Facebook and MySpace. In addition to the launch of "Happy Farm" which was exclusively bought out by Facebook, what kind of " The improved version of "Plants vs. Zombies Web Version" and "Angry Birds Web Version", specially launched "Star Texas Hold'em", "Movie World Fool Wars" and other games are sought after by a large number of users. Currently, the games launched by Mockingbird It has attracted 71 million registered users and 46 million monthly active users.

The games and web games on the Modao social platform do not make money!

Andy asked about the construction of the headquarters building and the progress of various games under development. "Clash of Clans" and "Marvel Infinity" are all the masterpieces of the future company that he has high hopes for. Mockingjay Games has long since ceased to exist. No matter how small it is, he still needs to 'learn' some ideas from his previous life to make money. This small company has grown to the size of 50 game development teams, and the company's employees have reached 3,000 people. You know The team of "My World" alone has expanded to more than one hundred people.

Of course, the most profitable games at the moment, and the top few games on the list of downloaded games on the entire Internet are those created by him Andy Smith, which also makes the profits of Mockingjay very dazzling, and it is also one of the few games that can be sold on the Internet. A game company that made a profit and grew during the global financial crisis.

You know, such as EA, even in the entire fiscal year last year, 31 works sold more than one million, and several more exceeded five million, with sales of more than four billion, and a net loss of one billion US dollars, which is simply a loss. He vomited blood.

Well, after all, EA is the second largest game developer and publisher in the world after Activision Blizzard, and it has a big business. However, EA, whose current market value is only 6.2 billion US dollars, is vomiting blood. Street, no wonder the rumors of being acquired are endless.

"Boss, there have been rumors in the industry recently that Apple is considering acquiring EA. Compared with the rumors that Apple has acquired Twitter, it seems more reasonable for Apple, which is getting closer to the game industry, to acquire EA. According to the information I have received, the current , Apple’s cash stock has nearly reached 30 billion U.S. dollars, while EA’s market value is less than 7 billion U.S. dollars. Apple definitely has the strength to buy EA to expand their love madness and love to shoot the game platform.”

Although his boss fought fiercely with Apple because of the Liberty City APP application platform, this did not affect the good cooperation between Blair, the CEO of Mockingjay Games, and Apple. Both have the same boss, but after all, they are two independent companies, each with its own person in charge. Many games of the Mockingjay game company have made a lot of money with the popularity of Ai Crazy and Ai Ai De, and the cooperation is also very good. Happy, so Blair and He are very concerned about the news that Apple is going to acquire EA.

Hearing Blair was clearly tentative. Hoping for some verified reports,

Andy couldn't help but chuckled and shook his head. He naturally knew what Blair was worried about, and said with a smile: "Hehe, I haven't heard that Apple has any intention to acquire EA. The news of this kind of news may be just a small part of EA's desire to boost the stock price." It’s just a trick, don’t worry about it, after all, even if Apple really buys EA, what will happen? In terms of mobile electronic equipment, who can take away our number one throne?”

Hearing his own boss' rhetorical question, Blair knew that the rumors were unreliable, so he felt relieved. After all, as the developer of the games that come with Apple's mobile electronic equipment factory system, he doesn't want to run into Apple's new son rival, the exclusive deal is the most profitable.

Exclusives are indeed the most profitable.

But it's also something that many people don't want to see. Andy, who hung up the phone, was very upset about Apple's acquisition of Twitter. As a director of Apple, he naturally knew that this was not a rumor, but a genuine one. News, and it has been confirmed that Apple is holding "serious" negotiations with Twitter, which is about to be suppressed by his WhatsApp and ins. , Apple and Twitter will officially announce the acquisition.

Moreover, Apple is not the only company that has taken a fancy to Twitter. Facebook also wanted to acquire Twitter, and it almost succeeded. If the founder of Twitter, Lion, hadn't opened his mouth, it might have been annexed by Xiao Mazi up.

The reason why Twitter is so popular all of a sudden is that the key issue is the strong rise of WhatsApp and INS and the speed of communication. In addition, Andy himself spared no effort to suppress Twitter, showing a strong posture of dominating the market. It made Facebook's Xiao Mazi feel the potential huge threat. After all, INS and Facebook have produced many overlapping applications.

However, Facebook and Twitter eventually collapsed, and the deal was not reached. As for the reason, Andy wanted to laugh when he thought of it. Annexed Twitter without spending a penny, and Twitter, which was suppressed and almost out of breath, opened its mouth like a lion, asking for cash wholeheartedly. One has no money and wants to be a white wolf with empty hands, and the other wants money to escape. In the end the talk fell apart.

Now that Apple is offering 700 million cash to acquire Twitter, it is estimated that Twitter's founders and executives will find it difficult to refuse. The main purpose of Apple’s acquisition of Twitter is to allow users of Apple’s iCrazy smartphones to use Twitter to communicate, and ultimately to drive the sales of iCrazy apps.

However, in Andy's view, this is Apple's obvious acquisition of WhatsApp, which has become a must-have app for all smartphones. Exclusive application software.

You must know that Apple has been growing up on its own food for a long time. Apple is not willing to completely open up network standards to the outside world, while both WhatsApp and INS tend to be completely open. Because the two software applications are very popular among smartphone users all over the world, they have to support them and reduce the user's service experience, which makes Apple feel uncomfortable.

If this Apple acquisition is successful, Andy can imagine that although Apple will not blatantly not support WhatsApp and ins, it will definitely do small tricks to limit the operation of the iCrazy app and push the new Twitter.

This kind of situation is foreseeable by Andy, there is no way, he always likes to eat alone, and the extremely powerful Apple company is this piss, as for whether he will care about the face of Andy, a member of the board of directors, hehe, not at all!

Andy joined Apple's board of directors. From the very beginning, Jobs wanted to incorporate this free common stock shark, restrain Andy from making waves in the secondary market, and toss Apple's stock price.

This scruple cannot shake Apple's overall interests and strategic planning at all. Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Andy did not regard himself as an Apple person. Contradictions, sooner or later they will face each other again and become rivals.

There is no way, the strength really does not 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. To put it crudely, PG decides the head.

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