The Goddess Shines on America

Chapter 292 Busy Reporters

The second week of April is still a busy day for many journalists. The aftermath of last Friday's news has not subsided, but more content keeps coming, which makes many people have to work overtime and stay up late, but always enjoy it.

Popular Electronics, a Seattle-based magazine, has a 28% market share on the West Coast, up from 35% just three years ago. However, the decline in market share is not due to poor management, but in just three years, the information technology industry has ushered in a new rapid development, and professional journals and magazines in the same field have also sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

"Zoe, are you still okay?"

As soon as he got to work early on Thursday morning, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Howard, just walked into the office for a minute, then pushed open the door again, and shouted to a newcomer in a corner: "I didn't mean to put the manuscript on the table this morning. !?"

Outside the transparent office cubicle is a place where fifty editors work together. Hearing Howard's loud voice, a beautiful brown-haired girl stood up in a panic: "Sorry, Mr. Howard, I'm a little late today , I will send the manuscript to you immediately!"

When she first spoke, she was frantically pulling out her purse, and now she had taken out a stack of thin manuscript papers, and quickly walked into the editor's room: "There are 3,000 words of manuscripts in total, please review them. "

Howard didn't say anything, and waved his hand to make Zoe sit directly in front of him: "Close the door."

The review process made Zoe nervous because she had only been with the magazine for less than three months. In fact, she just graduated from the Department of Literature three months ago, and she didn't go to an Ivy League school. It can be said that getting a current position in "Popular Electronics" is already a great achievement.

After a while, Howard had already read the full text of 3,000 words: "Zoe... Barnes, you only found five companies?"

As if there was a bang, Zooey's face turned red: "I'm so sorry, Mr. Howard, it's only been a week since the firewall went on sale, and I really don't have any more energy..."

"And, you actually even..."

First I wanted to say a few words patiently, but Howard's tone undoubtedly became faster and faster: "Although it's only been less than a week, the sales volume on the first day alone has reached more than 10,000 points, and the next door alone In the city of Redmond, Microsoft and Nintendo have placed a large order, not to mention that "Popular Electronics" itself is one of Cisco's users. In six days, five investigation reports, and I am not among them The three names just mentioned... Zoe Barnes, don’t you want to continue working here!?”

Finally, with a bang, Howard slammed the manuscript with the girl's leather purse on the table.

Zooey covered her mouth subconsciously: "Ah... I'm sorry Mr. Howard, I'm so sorry that I ignored such important information, I will, right away..."

"Now, immediately, immediately, while it's still early, go to Redmond to interview Microsoft and Nintendo! Cisco is such an important two big customers, and they are so close to us, you actually forgot to interview! Get out! If you can’t finish today, don’t come back tomorrow! Get out!”

What else could Zooey say? She quickly ran out of the editor's room with her arms in her arms. She didn't even have the time to say hello to the seniors nearby, so she rushed out of the office quickly.

Time waits for no one, because Popular Electronics now has too many competitors.

Last Friday, the first weekend in April, was the day San Jose-based Cisco Systems launched their new product, the firewall. In addition to professional weekly magazines such as "Popular Electronics", reporters from the Seattle Daily and the Los Angeles Daily have already made all preparations. Even the Wall Street Journal has reporters rushing to the scene to obtain first-hand information about sales.

In fact, this is also quite interesting. If it is said that several major communication operators headed by AT\u0026T are developing network infrastructure and are the gods who created the vast land, then companies like Microsoft and Apple, Cisco and Oracle are Like those pioneers of the American West who were not afraid of hardships. In addition, people from all walks of life have been enjoying the benefits brought by these pioneers bit by bit.

9:30AM EST on Friday is the exact moment when the product is going on sale. Long before this, tens of thousands of old Cisco customers who have routers and switches in their homes across the country have sent pre-orders to Cisco weeks and months in advance. Changed to "sold" status, totaling thousands!

Just at the instant of 9:30, the sales volume of Cisco's new products has reached this figure, and the money has already begun to be remitted from the bank to the company's business account even though the goods have not been shipped. This emerging and wonderful business model based on the Internet has made Cisco both the pioneer and the first profit maker, and it is very difficult for other companies to learn.

After all, the workload of processing so many orders at the same time is enough to paralyze the computers and local area networks of most enterprises. That is to say, Cisco, itself is the big cow in the Internet hardware industry. The company's network bandwidth is frighteningly wide, and the customers are also users of its products. The achievements that can only be brought about by making countless phone calls and receiving countless faxes.

In the first minute of its release, the turnover reached tens of millions of dollars, and it was directly used as the headline, making it to the front page headlines of countless newspapers, and that was only Saturday morning!

Of course, the news about the shutdown of the banking system was published in the "Wall Street Journal" at the same time.

"Hello, a ticket to Redmond!"

Feeling the destination in a hurry, as soon as he rushed into the passenger station, the young magazine reporter Zoe Barnes took out a hundred-dollar bill and said to the middle-aged black woman in front of him, "Ask for the nearest bus!"

The conductor checked the computer unhurriedly: "The most recent time... was a quarter past ten, young man."

"That's the class, thank you!"

Of course, the conductor had nothing to worry about, and there was no one queuing behind Zooey at the moment, so she operated the computer in a leisurely manner, and glanced at Zooey who was full of anxiety: "Hey, I said little girl, what are you doing?" Things made you anxious like that?"

Zooey stroked her long hair in embarrassment: "This...I have to rush to that city because of work needs..."

Her eye was already drawn to the Seattle Journal, which the conductor had cut aside.

"Hello, can I borrow the newspaper?"

The conductor issued a ticket and handed it to her: "Of course it's no problem, my dear, just take it and have a look."

Can't wait to take the ticket and the newspaper, Zoe sat on a chair beside her and looked through it.

The news on the home page linked an old giant with a new leading company.

"Boeing Buying Cisco Firewalls in Bulk? Hard working truck drivers! "

The picture shows the entrance of Boeing's headquarters building in Seattle, where seven or eight FedEx box trucks are parked, and the couriers are dumping the goods. Although the distance is a bit far, the photographer captured the pattern on the carton cleverly and clearly. The long and short lines are like artistic radio waves. Isn’t it Cisco’s LOGO?

"Even Boeing has purchased firewalls in large quantities? Yes, companies like them need this kind of products the most. After all, they are a large aircraft manufacturer. Maybe I can include it in the report?"

Zoe racked her brains to think about it, because many days have passed since the release date of the firewall, and statistics are already old news, so the task assigned to her by the editor-in-chief is to write a product evaluation report. After all, the hardware products used to maintain network security are as new as the router three years ago, and too many people want to know what it is like.

"Ah... yes yes yes yes, big mistake, how did I forget this relationship?"

Just thinking of Boeing, Zoe, as a newcomer, suddenly discovered another mistake of her own. Whether it is the firewall or other Cisco products, it was invented by Alice Wang, and she is also a shareholder of Microsoft. Such an obvious relationship, why didn't I see it? Howard gave it a whole week, and she put in so much effort to write five reports, but she was still behind Microsoft! ?

So, under the surprised gaze of the conductor Sanders, Zooey yelled in extreme annoyance, and pulled her hair frantically!

A similar scene is happening in many cities across the country, all because of Cisco's new products. While Zoe was tugging at her hair in frustration, Wall Street reporters were also milling around the Citibank building, and this had been going on for several days.

The reason is that as early as 9:30 in the morning last Friday, when the stock market just started, their entire bank's server crashed!

"Haha, it's really interesting~"

At this time, the sun was shining vertically at noon, and when seven or eight reporters gathered in front of the bank building to see if they could catch some suitable people to ask some questions, a handsome young man stood in front of a newsstand on the opposite street. While reading the "Wall Street Journal" of the day, he gloated at the bank executives who have been busy apologizing to the public until now.

"Well, it's a pity I didn't foresee this. If I did some short selling when Citigroup went wrong, I might already be a millionaire!"

After speaking, Jordan Belfort, who had just found a job at the Rothschild Bank, walked briskly to Starbucks on the other side of the street.

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