Chicago 1990

The first thousand three hundred and thirty-nine chapter anti-monopoly

"Hahaha!"

Litman Media did not spend two money on the crimereads website at all. It has no ecological rivals for the time being, nor does it need to burn money to increase bandwidth, free space, and win over well-known bloggers and even servers like the opendiray website. They are all second-hand goods eliminated from the American music website and opendiray, programmers and editors, and there are not many employees.

A typical small Silicon Valley company with a glamorous appearance but with an extremely average strength, let alone its profit prospects. That's it, it can also be listed on the Nasdaq and have a market value of more than 200 million.

Song Ya didn’t know that there were a lot of bugs on the website, but that’s not important. Wall Street and stockholders would buy it and get money from the listing smoothly. Wouldn’t you worry about the website if the money was raised? Everyone in the Internet industry is like this now.

After mastering the invincible wealth code, modern photography, stereo review and other magazine Internet work will be handled in the same way. A bunch of traditional companies such as Disney and Warner are also doing similar things. Let's make a fortune together and make fun together.

Song Ya picked up the break between the shooting missions of Blade Warrior, and took his girlfriend Amy Adams to Los Angeles. First, he hosted a dinner for the cold mountain crew who returned from the Tokyo Film Festival in Amy’s Beverly Hills villa. Go to Jim Clark's appointment with Sloan.

Because the merger between AOL and Time Warner has basically been negotiated, and the two parties signed on January 1, 2000, and replaced the shares of Netscape with shares of AOL by the hand of aol's'small' shareholder Jim Clark, who just set up a business in Los Angeles not long ago. Super mansion.

Jim Clark's drunkenness is not about drinking. He actually calls friends to share with everyone the fun of the enemy of his life and the richest man in the world.

The Microsoft monopoly case is already very dangerous. In October last year, the U.S. Ministry of Justice formally filed a case. The lawsuit was not fought well in the federal district court of Washington State in Seattle. The prosecution has mastered very conclusive monopoly behaviors due to the former conspiracy of AOL. Evidence of unfair competition, Microsoft has a very high probability of losing the lawsuit.

Bill Gates was summoned to Washington during the day to participate in the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and his performance was... very difficult to describe.

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

The richest man with glasses and messy hair looked impatient at the hearing. He was very aggressive. He kept interrupting the Senate veterans' questions, and immediately showed a mocking smile after the other party asked very laymen and mentally handicapped questions.

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

"Mr. Gates, everyone, no matter how powerful he is, cannot be above the law."

Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Utah Elephant Party Senator Olin Hatch immediately grabbed his painful foot, and sternly refuted, "The latest testimony of Sun’s CEO McNealy and Netscape’s CEO Bucksdale is the same as yours. The content stated in the hearing does not match, are you lying to us?"

It is naturally impossible for the richest man to admit and answer: "Monopoly means that a company has the ability to restrict new companies from entering the market and manipulate prices in one direction. Microsoft does not have these two capabilities."

"I mean you will continue to refute the testimony of Mr. McNealy and Mr. Barksd?" Orinhatch did not interrupt him.

The richest man with a true temperament was embarrassed by the questioning. The hands that had just been waving strongly disappeared from the table, and his upper body began to sway back and forth, as nervous as an ordinary college student.

The lawyer next to him hurriedly whispered to him.

"I can't remember, I can't remember what I said, Mr. Senator." The richest man also chose the same strategy as Song Ya back then: Laipi.

"Do you want to cite the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution? Mr. Gates." The methods of the congressmen were similar. Olinhatch immediately dug a hole for the richest man, and Song Ya had a strong sense of sight.

"No..." he replied after consulting a 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 indefinitely.

The senators and observers at the hearing all laughed.

"Hahaha!" They are all like-minded generations who are unhappy with Microsoft for a long time. Jim Clark and his friends continue to laugh, and they have been pointing to this fun in this life. Jim Clark has a feeling of revenge, and he glimpsed proudly. Song Ya glanced, "Why don't you change to aplus!" He teased.

"Hehehe..." Song Ya also laughed with a glass of wine. It seems that there is no perfect person. The richest man's performance at the hearing was too broken. I knew that, so I didn't lick that last time...

If Microsoft is split, wouldn't it be 1949 to join 3dfx...

Song Ya was playing drums in his heart, but had to smile in front of Jim Clark and the others.

Damn it, maybe this is why Jim Clark invited him. After today's hearing, AOL's stock price seems to have to rise tomorrow.

Fortunately, I hedged a little aol stock, and also bet on the Internet like Jim and others present...

The market value of the opendiray website, which has hardly spent any of its own energy, is almost surpassing the painstakingly managed 3dfx. According to the current situation, the Internet industry should have the last laugh.

It's boring, he didn't even bother to participate in 3dfx's board of directors recently, the input and output are not proportional!

"Aplus..." Sloan, who had just gone outside to answer the phone, came back and snapped his fingers.

"what?"

Just getting away, Song Ya followed, "Do you want to punch in?"

"Bah! Don't talk nonsense! Business!"

Sloan glared at him sternly. "Look." She found another TV in Jim Clark's house.

‘Siegram Global Group and Vivendi today reached a document of intent in France, which paved the way for the merger of the two companies. ’

The shorter the news, the bigger things get.

"Let me just say, the speed of the rich three generations has always been faster than we expected."

Song Ya looked at the four people in the news photos, who were shoulder-to-shoulder and confidently smiling at the camera, Bronfman, Vivendi’s ceo Messier, and Universal Music President Doug Morris, and asked Sloan: “This fifth person is Who?"

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

Sloan whispered: "He has always reminded us to pay more attention to the movements of the old Bronfman. The old man has stayed in France for so long and may have started talking to Messier very early."

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

Song Ya answered. Vivendi is expanding very fast, shopping everywhere in the world, buying everything, faster than Seagram Global Group, and the debt ratio is also high, and Vivendi is a listed company, which is convenient for a series of operations in preparation.

"Call Underwood."

The long and tedious preparations and the overtaking of the rich three generations, coupled with the fact that the two sides have not had too many contradictions in the past six months, made Song Ya feel that the whole thing is about to become boring, anyway, everything has a plan, he ordered.

"Hahaha!"

In France, the rich three generations at this time happened to be watching the Senate hearing video. The shameful performance of the richest man made him very happy, who was purely watching the show, and laughed several times.

"If you are replaced by you, Microsoft should be able to escape the destiny of being split. You were much better than him in the hearing last time." Doug Morris flattered, but the latter part of this sentence is indeed true.

"It's too arrogant. Does he think that he has a net worth of 90 billion yuan this year and is so omnipotent that even the U.S. government doesn't need to look at it? Hehe, there is really no need to be so rude to the elders, and this hearing The whole world is watching."

The little Bronfman, who was sitting on the sidelines, pointed the country.

"Yes, I don't know how your government intends to split Microsoft, just like the Bell Telephone Company of the year?" Vivendi CEO Messier asked.

In 1984, the Bell Telephone Company, the overlord of the US telecommunications business, was split into seven companies including the US Telegraph and Telephone Company (Atandt) and Southern Bell by the Ministry of Justice relying on the antitrust law. They were known as the Bell Seven Brothers, and they were spun off in 1995. Lucent and ncr, which are engaged in the manufacturing of telecommunications equipment, are all broken.

It wasn't until the Internet boom started that these companies were able to reintegrate, such as the shocking merger of atandt and John Malone's tci company not long ago.

"Maybe." Little Bronfman replied.

"Your company's share in the record industry is already very dangerous, right?" Messier asked again: "I heard that your online music business with the Sony Duo Alliance has been suspended?"

"Yes, but it does not affect the cooperation between you and me. If Seagram Universal and Vivendi merge, there is no such problem." The spirited old Bronfman raised his glass.

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

"Of course, I wish well." Messier clinked with everyone. Vivendi doesn't have much record and liquor business, and the merger with Seagram Universal doesn't have to worry about touching the red line of monopoly.

"Mr. Ceo." At this time, a senior Vivendi approached and whispered to Messier.

Messier heard this with a weird smile on his face, "Mr. Bronfman, I just got the news that the UU Reading www.uukahnshu.com U.S. Department of Commerce has discovered the latest opinion on the early monopoly of your six major record companies. "

"Oh?" Little Bronfman's face changed and he immediately forced a smile. "What did they say."

"They claim to fine your six record companies 2.1 billion meters. That is to say, New Universal Music, which owns Universal Music and Polygram Records, will bear nearly half of the fine?" Messier asked.

"This is impossible. The resale price of CDs is only maintained. Even if it is classified as a monopoly, it cannot be punished so much." Doug Morris retorted solemnly. "It is estimated that the total fine will not exceed 100 million dollars. Ten years of experience in the recording industry is guaranteed!"

"After all, this is a big uncertainty, right? Write it down." Messier faintly ordered his men, "It should be reflected in the subsequent merger negotiations between our two companies. Two Mr. Bronfmans, are you okay?"

"No problem, there is no way to stage this kind of lawsuit."

Little Bronfman shrugged indifferently.

"At this sensitive time when our two companies had just announced their merger, the Ministry of Commerce of your country suddenly stated...Does it mean that there are other conflicts between you and the US government?" Messier asked again.

"You know Messier, the business is as big as you and me, and enemies are indispensable."

The old Bronfman raised his glass to signal to the TV: "Even the richest man in the world, isn't he in a dilemma now?"

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

Don't know if they can fool it, the father and son exchanged glances quietly, and a touch of worry flashed in the old Bronfman's muddy eyes.

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