Chapter 200： [1 year of good harvest]

, The latest chapter in the latest global monopoly of technology!

With the passage of time, the global sales of Azure-X mobile phones of the Cote d'Azur company have already reached 1 million units on the second day of the third week, of which the mainland market accounted for 150,000 units.

In China, the Azure-X mobile phone is definitely a magical device. Whether it is in a restaurant, subway or other public places, this phone can be the focus.

For many places in China, especially those who do not have much Internet access, those who have seriously lag in receiving the first information, are very surprised to see this electronic product.

Can this phone call?

Mobile phones can still be made into this kind of straight bar, there are no keys, just click the screen with your finger.

high tech!

In addition, many people think that this is a high-tech product for foreigners, and they have never thought that it is a domestic brand, but this situation is gradually receding, because rounds of announced budgets are coming.

The Cote d'Azur has conducted in-depth reports even in the official media in the country. It was on the evening prime time news broadcast and took up about 3 minutes to report in detail.

You have to know that the total length of the news broadcast is only 30 minutes.

It is definitely a vigorous report. The main focus of the official TV news report is that the mobile phone of the Cote d'Azur company is selling well overseas. In addition, the most important thing is to emphasize that this product is a world-leading advanced electrical product. Extremely rare, countable by hand.

This makes many people proud.

I have to say that for this short three-minute report, for the Cote d'Azur companies, the spread of awareness brought by it is comparable to one or two billion yuan of publicity expenses.

And the company itself is also constantly advertising for the full opening of the domestic visibility, TV station media golden ads, and so on.

Being rich can do whatever you want.

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The time has come to January 17, 2007. After Luo Sheng's approval, Blue Star Technology Group formally released the fourth quarter of 2006 and the full version as of December 31, 2006 earlier than most listed companies. Annual financial report.

On Wall Street, SeekingAlpha was the first to report.

According to the financial report, excluding the exchange rate changes, Bluestar Technology Group's total revenue 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 generally forecast $ 5.29 billion.

Thanks to the strong fourth-quarter financial results, both revenue and net profit exceeded expectations, prompting Blue Star Technology Group's stock price to reverse Luo Sheng's cash flow in the previous period, and rose nearly 9% in after-hours trading. The market value The new high reached $ 144.752 billion.

At the same time, the market value of IBM has recently fallen from US $ 149.7 billion to US $ 143.38 billion. It has been surpassed by Bluestar Technology Group to become the world's listed technology company after Microsoft (US $ 294.6 billion) and Cisco (US $ 167.2 billion). Ranked third.

The annual revenue of Bluestar Technology Group in 2006 was 13.876 billion US dollars, an increase of 320.8% compared with 3.297 billion US dollars in the same period last year, and net profit was 2.916 billion US dollars, an increase of 885% compared with 296 million US dollars in the previous year.

Earnings per share for the fourth quarter were $ 2.13, which also broke expectations. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv generally estimated it at $ 1.89.

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

In addition, the consolidated financial statements include the already acquired Valve and CD ProjektRED Polish stupid donkeys, and the other Take-Two has no consolidated financial statements.

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

Blue Space has 224 million global users and 100 million active users; the international version of BlueSpace has over 400 million global users and 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 has accumulated 1 billion singles sold.

Cloud Search has reached 29% of 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 BluestarVideo has 390 million global users and 230 million active users.

No matter from what kind of statistics, Bluestar Technology Group is a well-deserved new social and Internet overlord in the world today. Regardless of the user overlap rate, the company's major business sectors, that is, the total number of registered "family buckets" has reached 2.2 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the world ’s population.

Bluestar Technology also released a data that looks 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 have used at least one of the "family bucket" This service is very scary data.

Early investors finally believed in Luo Sheng's original rhetoric, and they vaguely remembered that Luo Sheng said that Blue Star Technology was a platform, itself as big as the Internet, and the data is now fulfilling what he once said.

Because of the release of these data, Bluestar's shares rose about 9% in after-hours trading.

Immediately the day after the Bluestar Technology Group disclosed its financial report, Google also announced its annual financial statements.

There is a bit of a strong taste in the dark.

In 2006, "Google" was included as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Dictionary, and Google also collaborated with BlueStar Technology Group's main overseas rival MySpace to promote text ads.

This year, Google ’s revenue was 10.6 billion US dollars, with a revenue growth of 72.8%. It was surpassed by US $ 13.876 billion by Blue Star Technology Group and was US $ 3.276 billion. Google was born five years earlier than Blue Star Technology.

However, Google ’s net profit was $ 3.08 billion, which was $ 164 million more than Blue Star ’s $ 2.916 billion.

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

On the other hand, the other business segments of the company are basically at a loss, especially the online video business segment. Although the advertising revenue has been successively obtained and the growth is not bad, the rapid growth of users has also brought huge bandwidth costs. Expenses, as well as copyright fees, make video business expenses, and a series of expenses add up to make the business segment's operations always at a huge loss.

In addition, the copyright issue is constantly disputed. According to incomplete statistics, just because of the online video business problem, Blue Star Technology has almost 300 lawsuit disputes with Hollywood movie companies or studios, all due to copyright disputes. , But it's all a dispute.

The traditional media and entertainment company in Hollywood actually wanted to talk to Luo Sheng ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Because BluestarVideo's influence is getting bigger and bigger, not only can it get huge copyright license fees here, the key is also affecting To their own performance, although the impact is still very small.

After all, there are so many people all over the world and so many people with spending power, and everyone is 24 hours a day.

The video business is really a very expensive project. Not only Bluestar's online video business is losing money, all its peers around the world are losing money, so is Google Video, a subsidiary of Google. In this way, it is either backed by the Internet giants or maintained by financing.

In fact, because of this, there are not many people doing video websites in China, either there is no traffic, which is a big problem, or there is a larger problem with traffic, which is that the Internet fees cannot be paid.

Moreover, there is still a giant beast in the industry, Bluestar Video. Standing behind it is the Bluestar Technology Group. Who else in the industry can compete with the financial resources of Bluestar Technology? The financial report disclosed this time shows that Bluestar's current free cash flow has reached a horrible $ 12.8 billion, which is about ¥ 99.45 billion at the current exchange rate of around 7.77.