Hollywood Hunter

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Simon sent Martin Davis away, and had dinner with Robert Iger, who had come to the West Coast for the afternoon meeting, and had a face-to-face opportunity.

After the merger of mca, Robert Iger's position remains unchanged, and he is still the president of Daenerys Entertainment Group, but the powers in his hands have been greatly increased.

Over the next few years, while maintaining Daenerys Entertainment's dominance in television programming, Robert Iger's focus will shift to cable television, with the usa network being a top priority.

Although this mca finally fell into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment, the seven major Hollywood studios in the past, Columbia and MGM, have been bought by overseas investors, and now there are Canada's Seagram Group, Overseas giants such as France's Vivendi Group are eyeing other Hollywood studios.

Therefore, the US government and the media are aware of a problem. In order to prevent more Hollywood studios from being acquired by overseas capital, it has become a general trend to loosen the merger ban between American TV networks and studios.

Simon remembers that the number of years for which this legal restriction was lifted was probably around 1994.

Immediately afterwards, Disney acquired abc, and after that, cbs and nbc also changed hands and merged with Hollywood studio giants. After that, the Fox TV network, which is owned by News Corporation, completely got rid of many legal constraints and gradually developed to the scale of side by side with the traditional three major TV networks.

Speaking of which, if Simon starts lobbying with the Motion Picture Association of America (mpaa) and his own power network now, it is not impossible to lift the ban a year or two in advance.

Doing that, though, didn't fit Simon's plan for the pace of Daenerys' entertainment development.

Daenerys Entertainment's next step is definitely to merge a national TV network and completely complete its horizontal layout in the field of media and entertainment. However, this matter needs to be digested and integrated in mca and the premise of Daenerys Entertainment's completion of ipo Down.

In the next step of M\u0026A expansion, Simon still prefers cash acquisitions. In fact, many corporate mergers and acquisitions, and most of the acquirees also expect to be able to cash out directly. However, when the debt burden is already heavy enough, Daenerys Entertainment is not suitable to increase the debt too large at one time, and can only adopt the acquisition method of cash and equity.

Even if the market value of Daenerys Entertainment is considerable enough, it will be very cost-effective even if it is fully adopted by equity acquisition.

As for the equity that is given up, the stock repurchase will only be carried out when the company has sufficient funds.

After dinner, it was more than eight o'clock in the evening when Simon returned to the Dumay Cape Manor.

It's Tuesday, and Janet has flown to the East Coast in recent days to keep busy with Cersei's capital.

The overall situation of the Gulf War has been determined, and the end state has basically begun. The fund hedging operation of Cersei Fund Management Company under Cersei Capital has also begun to end.

Since it has decided to give up many opportunities such as the next sterling crisis, this operation can be said to be the last big market for the Cersei Fund management team to operate without any ties.

According to preliminary statistics from New York, from the outbreak of the war on February 17 to the present, Cersei Capital has obtained a book profit of more than 1.6 billion US dollars in about a month. 500 Index related futures.

After this operation, Cersei Capital will focus more on Apollo Management and Black Rock Asset Management.

The improvement of the overall economic situation in the United States is just conducive to the development of business mergers and acquisitions, asset management and other businesses. Of course, Cersei Fund Management will still be retained, but it will be more inclined to micro-hedging of specific stock securities and other combinations.

After a busy day, took a shower, changed into a jumper and slacks, Simon checked the time, it was past eleven o'clock in New York, Janet must have fallen asleep, so she didn't call again, women never I don't like answering the phone, especially when I'm asleep.

Simon is a night owl type. Los Angeles has just passed the hotel, and he is not sleepy, so he came to the PC room on the first floor of the villa.

The computer room is like a mini personal computer museum, of course not as complete as a real museum.

Simon arranged such a computer room mainly to facilitate himself to check the compatibility of various versions of IE browsers developed by Igreit on different operating system platforms and computers with different configurations.

Speaking of which, Simon does not like the coexistence of a large number of operating systems at this time, and is also quite resistant to many personal computers with low configuration. However, the generally expensive personal computers in this era are far from being able to be updated at will. If Igret wants to get the most customers in a short period of time, it must be compatible with as many platforms as possible.

However, in the development of ie browser, Igreit also began to obviously tend to Microsoft's windows system. Feature updates for this operating system platform are more timely than other operating systems.

There are several rows of various personal computers in the spacious room of more than 200 square meters. Simon randomly selected three ibm-compatible computers with different configurations side by side, opened it, pulled out the chair and sat down, and connected to the network after the machine was turned on. , log in to your email.

Click on an email from Carol Butts.

Not surprisingly, the female executive in charge of Igreit's software business is discussing raising the price of IE browser software in the email.

Based on the extent of the explosion of Internet users in recent months, Igret expects the 1991

The growth of Internet users is definitely more than 5 million. The installed capacity of the ie browser software will only be more due to the free trial plans launched by AOL and other Internet access service providers successively, and may even reach the level of tens of millions.

According to the ISP pricing of 10 US dollars per set of IE browser software, the installed capacity of tens of millions of dollars means hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Since Simon brought Tim Berners-Lee to the United States, it has been very rare to create a company with a software sales revenue of over 100 million in just two years. However, Carol Bartz believes that the commercial potential of ie browser software goes far beyond that.

Simon certainly understands the commercial potential of ie.

However, in addition to Simon himself, most of the executives within Igreit feel that the pricing of IE browser software is low. For $10, you can get more content and features than most current operating systems, which is almost like a free gift.

Especially this time, Igreit has a complete monopoly on the patent of the graphical interface browser for the World Wide Web platform.

In the original time and space, Netscape was only one of the authorized manufacturers of the graphical interface browser technology for the World Wide Web platform. The market value of such a company in the year it went public easily exceeded 1 billion US dollars.

Now, Simon has no plans to open the patent licensing of the World Wide Web browser, so, at least on the World Wide Web platform, the browser software will be the only one.

Even other versions of browsers that bypass the Igreat browser kernel are impossible, because the technology patents at the bottom of the World Wide Web are also in the hands of Igreat, and other software manufacturers want to develop browsers unless they choose to other network technology platforms.

However, under the circumstance that the World Wide Web technology has taken the lead at this time, there is not much room for development of other types of networks.

At the end of the day, this is a monopoly.

Simon had already rejected Carol Bartz's price increase proposal before, and the low price strategy was determined from the beginning. After all, if the sudden price increase of IE browser makes the industry manufacturers feel the threat of Igreat's monopoly on World Wide Web technology, it is difficult to guarantee that other manufacturers will not temporarily support network technology standards based on other technologies.

While other technical standards are hardly a threat to World Wide Web technology, they are trouble.

Responding briefly to an email asking Carol Butts to drop the subject, Simon begins to browse other unread emails.

While busy, the sound of high-heeled shoes came from his ears. Simon looked up from the computer screen. C-girl Claire put a glass of water in his hand, and the girl was holding a folder in her hand.

Simon smiled and nodded to the side: "Come online with me."

Claire put the folder on the computer desk and sat next to it. A good smell came out, which made people feel relaxed and happy.

Simon took a sip from the water glass, gestured to the folder that Lady C put down, and asked, "What is this?"

Claire handed over the folder and said, "A business plan I made recently, boss, can you help me look at it first?"

Simon nodded, took the folder and opened it.

C girl explained: "The inspiration for this business plan came from some documents you showed us, the boss, one of which was the Igreit blog event plan that was eliminated, which was a photo sharing event, and the reason for the rejection. It is too difficult for users to upload pictures to the network, and the steps are too cumbersome. Moreover, the mainstream digital cameras that can directly upload pictures to personal computers using floppy disks as carriers are too expensive. I thought about whether it is possible to develop a price Moderately, a compact camera dedicated to sharing photos to the Internet, with the growth rate of Internet users and the expressiveness that most people do not lack, I think this business plan is very promising."

When Sandra entered the Igret personal homepage platform, Simon gave her a digital camera for photo sharing.

I vaguely remember that the Panasonic digital camera has a pixel level of only 700,000, but the price is as high as 6,000 US dollars, which is more expensive than most of the current mainstream personal computers. It is indeed not affordable for ordinary people.

Moreover, most of the current personal computers, the support for picture display is not very good. Only the first computer in the past two or three years can achieve a relatively impressive picture display function with the IE browser software of Igret, but in fact, the display effect is only equivalent to the pixel level of the paper newspaper. , is completely incomparable with the 1080 monitor in Simon's memory.

In order to adapt to lower configuration computers, IE has also developed a no-picture mode at this time.

This is Simon's inspiration from his previous life using his cell phone.

The first semi-smart phone in my memory, the screen is only 2.5 inches, it can support touch screen, and it still uses 2G network, so the networking effect can be imagined. At that time, the built-in browser of the phone supported no-picture mode when connected to the Internet.

If you are used to more high-end smart phones, you will naturally be very uncomfortable with browsing the Internet on a candy bar. But for Simon, who was in contact with a mobile phone for the first time, browsing news, reading novels, and logging in to forums through a small mobile phone screen, even if the picture display was turned off for network speed and data saving, it seemed that Simon saw another one at that time. world.

Now the Igreit portal, which is gradually enriched in content, is also the same for current users.

Even without pictures, the functions of information, blogs, emails and even games provided by Igrit are rich enough.

After all, not every page of the newspapers people read in this era is full of pictures.

However, Igret's i

While the e-browser does a great job with no-picture mode for low-end computers, picture displays are definitely a trend.

In the next few years, personal computers are destined to support more and more rich multimedia functions, and picture content is destined to be a crucial content category on the Internet platform before the Internet develops into the era of streaming media.

In addition, Ygritte's advance into social network services will definitely increase users' desire to share pictures online. Therefore, the plan proposed by C girl does have great feasibility.

Simon was flipping through the business plan of Lady C, but his mind unknowingly diverged further.

Not only the limitation of image uploading, but the current personal computer, whether it is the software of the operating system platform or the hardware surrounding the personal computer, can only be described as scarcity.

The online software store plan that Igreit has begun to promote will greatly enrich the software ecosystem of personal computers in the next few years.

However, on the hardware side.

Just from the motherboard interface of the personal computer at this time, it can be seen.

Nowadays, mainstream personal computers generally have only two hardware interfaces, serial interface and parallel interface. Whether it is a monitor, a printer or a keyboard and mouse, these two interfaces can only be used for connection. The network crystal head interface, usb interface, ps/s interface and even audio interface in Simon's memory are still missing.

The lack of interfaces actually means the lack of hardware ecology around PCs.

AOL provides users with access to the Internet at this time. Because of the lack of hardware and interfaces, in addition to the modem, it must also provide users with a hardware network card with a network cable interface that is directly plugged into the motherboard.

In the business plan of Girl C, the digital card camera planned to be developed uses a 3.5-inch floppy disk as the image carrier, which is probably the only choice for this camera to be popularized.

After all, apart from the floppy drive that is as popular as the serial-parallel interface on the personal computer at this time, there are really not many ways to transfer the pictures from the digital camera to the computer conveniently and quickly, and further upload and share them on the network.

As for the flash memory and usb that people took for granted later, what is that?

Since there is none now, but there is a certain huge market demand, then this obviously means a big business with inestimable potential value.

Moreover, the interface does not need to be developed too much, a usb is enough.

As long as you develop a usb or similar interface solution in advance, you can try Microsoft's interface to create a whole hardware ecosystem. At that time, not only digital cameras, the application of this interface can also be extended to keyboards, mice, mp3 players, mobile phones, audio and other hardware.

Don't look at it as just a small interface. If the annual installation volume reaches hundreds of millions, not to mention the possible benefits created by the surrounding hardware ecology, just the patent licensing fee of the interface is enough to make the manufacturers of the technology make a lot of money. .

In Simon's memory, the patent for wifi technology was in the hands of an Australian university.

Just by charging for patents applied to various types of wifi chips, that university can easily enjoy a net income of more than $1 billion a year.

In comparison, the wide application of usb technology is definitely far more than that of wifi.

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