Global Monopoly of Technology

As time goes by, the global sales of Azure-X mobile phone of Côte d'Azur has exceeded 1 million units on the second day of the third week, of which the sales in the mainland market accounted for 150,000 units.

In China, the Azure-X mobile phone is definitely an artifact, whether in restaurants, subways or other public places, you can take this phone out of your pocket to become the focus.

For many parts of the country, especially those who do not have access to the Internet and suffer from a serious delay in receiving the first information, they are very surprised to see this electronic product.

Can this thing actually make phone calls?

The mobile phone can still be made into this kind of candy bar, and there are no buttons, just tap the screen with your finger.

high tech!

Moreover, many people think that this is a high-tech product of foreigners, and their first instinct is not to think that it is a domestic brand, but this situation is gradually receding, because rounds of publicity and distribution budgets are coming.

The Côte d'Azur has even carried out in-depth reports in the domestic official media, including the prime-time news broadcast in the evening, and it also takes about 3 minutes to report in detail.

You must know that the total length of the entire news broadcast is only 30 minutes.

It is definitely a strong report. The main content of the TV news of the official media is the sales of this mobile phone of the Côte d'Azur company in overseas. In addition, the most important thing is to emphasize that this product is an advanced electrical product leading the world, which is the most important in China. Extremely rare, can only be counted.

It also makes many people proud of it.

It has to be said that for the Côte d'Azur company, this short three-minute report has brought about the spread of publicity, which is comparable to one or two hundred million in publicity expenses.

And the company itself is also constantly advertising for the full popularity of the country, and the TV media's golden advertisements are inserted and so on.

Having money means you can do whatever you want.

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The time came to January 17, 2007. After the approval of Luo Sheng, Bluestar Technology Group officially released the fourth quarter of 2006 and the full year ended December 31, 2006 earlier than most listed companies. Annual financial report.

On the Wall Street side, Seeking Alpha immediately reported the signing.

According to the financial report, excluding exchange rate changes, the total revenue of Bluestar Technology Group in the fourth quarter was 5.928 billion US dollars, an increase of 324% compared with 1.39 billion US dollars in the same period last year.

Net profit was US$1.423 billion, an increase of 806% from US$157 million in the same period last year.

Wall Street analysts were expecting $5.29 billion.

Thanks to the strong fourth-quarter financial results, both revenue and net profit exceeded expectations, prompting Bluestar Technology Group's share price to reverse Luo Sheng's cash-out turmoil some time ago, rising nearly 9% in after-hours trading, with its market value rising by nearly 9%. Another new high reached $144.752 billion.

At the same time, IBM's market value recently dropped from $149.7 billion to $143.38 billion, surpassed by Bluestar Technology Group, becoming the world's largest listed technology company after Microsoft ($294.6 billion) and Cisco ($167.2 billion). ranked third.

In 2006, Bluestar Technology Group's annual revenue was US$13.876 billion, an increase of 320.8% compared to US$3.297 billion in the same period last year, and its net profit was US$2.916 billion, an increase of about 885% compared to US$296 million in the previous year.

Fourth-quarter earnings of $2.13 a share also beat expectations, with analysts polled by Refinitiv looking for $1.89.

At the same time, Bluestar Technology Group also disclosed the market size of its ten wholly-owned subsidiaries in its six main business sectors in this financial report. However, it is worth mentioning that the ten wholly-owned subsidiaries and the parent company consolidated financial statements , so the internal operations and performance of major subsidiaries do not need to be disclosed to the outside world, and the subsidiaries are not listed.

In addition, the consolidated financial statements include the acquired Valve Corporation and CD Projekt RED Polish Donkey, and the other Take-Two Corporation has no consolidated financial statements.

As of December 31, 2006, the data are as follows:

BlueSpace has 224 million global users, with over 100 million active users; the international version of BlueSpace has over 400 million global users, with 220 million active users.

Reddit has 397 million global users and 168 million active users.

Bluestar Music has 190 million users and 88.5 million active users; the international version of MusicSpace has 152 million global users, 80 million active users, and cumulative sales of 1 billion singles.

Yunge Search has a 29% share in the domestic search engine market.

Weibo has 166 million users and 75 million active users; the international version of MicroBlog has 140 million global users and 68 million active users.

Bluestar Video has 200 million users and 80 million active users; the international version of Bluestar Video has 390 million global users and 230 million active users.

No matter what kind of statistics, Bluestar Technology Group is a well-deserved new overlord of social networking and Internet in the world today. Not counting the user overlap rate, the total number of registrations of the company's major business segments, that is, "Family Bucket" has reached 2.2 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the world's population.

Bluestar Technology also released a data that seems to be extremely exaggerated. At present, the total number of Internet users in the world is about 800 million. Among these 800 million users, 650 million users use at least one of the "family buckets". This is very scary data.

The early investors finally believed in Luo Sheng's original rhetoric. They vaguely remembered that Luo Sheng said that Bluestar Technology is a platform, and itself is as large as the Internet. Now the data is fulfilling what he once said.

Because of the announcement of these data, shares of Bluestar Technology surged about 9% in after-hours trading that day.

On the second day after Bluestar Technology Group disclosed its financial report, Google also announced its annual financial statement.

There is a bit of a competitive taste both in the open and in the dark.

In 2006, "Google" was included as a verb in "Oxford English Dictionary" and "Webster's Dictionary", and Google also cooperated with MySpace, the main overseas competitor of Bluestar Technology Group, to promote text advertisements.

This year, Google's revenue was 10.6 billion US dollars, with a revenue growth of 72.8%, which was surpassed by Bluestar Technology Group's 13.876 billion US dollars to 3.276 billion US dollars, and Google was born five years earlier than Bluestar Technology.

However, Google's net profit reached 3.08 billion US dollars, which was 164 million US dollars more than Bluestar Technology's 2.916 billion US dollars.

The revenue is a lot higher than that of Google, but the profit is lower. There are two main reasons. On the one hand, it is the expense of labor costs. Google now has 10,674 employees, while the number of Bluestar Technology Group employees has reached 18,975. .

On the other hand, other business segments of the company are basically in a state of loss, especially the online video business segment. Although they have successively obtained advertising revenue and the growth is not bad, the rapid growth of users has also brought huge bandwidth costs. Expenditures, as well as copyright fees, make the video business expenses, and a series of expenses add up to make the operation of this business sector always at a huge loss.

In addition, disputes over copyright have continued. According to incomplete statistics, Bluestar Technology has nearly 300 lawsuits and disputes with Hollywood film companies or studios because of the online video business, all because of copyright disputes. , but it's all bullshit disputes.

The traditional media and entertainment companies in Hollywood actually want to talk to Luo Sheng, because BluestarVideo's influence is growing, not only can it get huge copyright licensing fees, but it also affects its own performance, although The impact is still very small.

After all, there are only so many people in the world, and there are so many people with spending power. At the same time, everyone is 24 hours a day.

Doing video business is really a very expensive project. Not only Bluestar Technology’s online video business is losing money, but all its peers in the world are also losing money. Google Video, a subsidiary of Google, is also losing money. Several video sites that have emerged in China are In this way, it is either backed by Internet giants or maintained by financing.

In fact, it is precisely because of this that there are not many people doing video websites in China. Either there is no traffic, which is a big problem, or there is a bigger problem with traffic, that is, the network fee cannot be paid.

What's more, there is still a behemoth Bluestar Video in the industry, and Bluestar Technology Group is standing behind it. Who else in the industry can compete with Bluestar Technology's financial resources? The financial report disclosed this time shows that the current free cash flow of Bluestar Technology has reached a terrifying 12.8 billion US dollars, which is about 99.45 billion yuan according to the current exchange rate of around 7.77.