Chapter 402

Simon saw off Martin Davis and had dinner with Robert egger, who came to the west coast to attend the afternoon meeting.

After the merger of MCA, Robert egger's position remains unchanged, and he is still the president of danielis entertainment group, but his authority has increased significantly.

In the next few years, while maintaining Denise Entertainment's advantages in the field of TV program production, Robert egger's focus will turn to cable TV business, of which USA TV network will be the top priority.

Although the MCA is finally in the hands of Denise entertainment, the seven major Hollywood studios in the past, Columbia and MGM, have been bought by overseas investors. At present, some overseas giants, such as sigram group of Canada and Vivendi group of France, are eyeing other Hollywood studios.

Therefore, the U.S. government and the media are aware of a problem. In order to avoid more Hollywood studios being acquired by overseas capital, it is an inevitable trend to release the ban on the merger between local television networks and studios.

Simon remembers that the legal limit was lifted around 1994.

Then came Disney's acquisition of ABC, and then CBS and NBC changed hands and merged with Hollywood studio giants. After that, Fox TV network of News Corp. completely got rid of many legal constraints and gradually developed into the scale of three traditional TV networks.

In a word, it is not impossible for Simon to lift the ban one or two years earlier if he mobilizes the MPAA and his own powerful contacts to lobby now.

However, doing so is not in line with Simon's plan for the pace of danilisi's entertainment development.

Denise Entertainment's next step is definitely to merge a national TV network and complete its horizontal layout in the field of media and entertainment. However, this matter needs to be digested and integrated by MCA and the IPO of Denise entertainment.

In the next step of M & A expansion, Simon is still inclined to cash acquisition. In fact, most of the acquired companies also expect to cash out directly. However, when the debt burden is already heavy enough, Denise entertainment is not suitable to increase too much debt at one time. It can only adopt the acquisition method of cash and equity.

Even if the market value of Denise entertainment is considerable, it will be very cost-effective to adopt equity merger and acquisition.

As for the stock rights to be let out, it is necessary to buy back the stock until the company has enough funds.

After dinner, Simon returned to domay point estate at more than eight o'clock in the evening.

It's Tuesday, and Janet has been flying to the east coast in recent days to get busy with cersei capital.

The overall situation of the Gulf War has been decided, and it has basically begun to close. Cersei fund management company of cersei capital has also started to close its fund hedging operation around the war.

Since we have decided to give up many opportunities such as the next pound crisis, this operation can be said to be the last big market for cersei's fund management team to operate without hindrance.

According to the preliminary statistics of New York, from the outbreak of the war on February 17 to now, cersei capital has made a Book profit of more than $1.6 billion in about a month. The profit mainly comes from the S & P 500 index related futures, which rose by 25% in just one month.

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 enterprise mergers and acquisitions, asset management and other businesses. Of course, cersei fund management company will still keep it, but will be more inclined to micro hedging of specific stocks and securities.

After a busy day, I took a bath and changed into a pullover and slacks. Simon looked at the time. It was over eleven o'clock in New York. Janet must have gone to bed and never called again. Women never like to answer the phone, especially when they are asleep.

Simon is a night owl. He has just passed the hotel in Los Angeles and is not sleepy, so he comes to the PC Room on the first floor of the villa.

The computer room is like a Mini PC Museum, certainly not as complete as a real museum.

Simon's arrangement of such a computer room is mainly for the convenience of checking the compatibility of various versions of IE browser developed by igrit on different operating system platforms and computers with different configurations.

Simon doesn't like the coexistence of a lot of operating systems at this time. He also resists a lot of low configuration personal computers. However, the personal computers, which are generally expensive in this era, are far from being able to be upgraded at will. If igrit wants to get the most customers in a short time, it must be compatible with as many platforms as possible.

However, igritte in the development of IE browser, also began to obviously tend to Microsoft's windows system. The function update of this operating system platform is more timely than other operating systems.

In the spacious room of more than 200 square meters, there are several rows of various personal computers. Simon randomly selects three IBM compatible computers with different configurations side by side, opens them, opens his chair and sits down. After the machines are turned on, he connects to the network and logs in to his e-mail.Click on an email from Carol Bartz.

Not surprisingly, the female executive in charge of igritte's software business is talking about raising the price of IE browser software in her email.

Based on the explosion of Internet users in recent months, igritte predicts that the growth of Internet users in 1991 will definitely exceed 5 million. Because of the free trial programs launched by AOL and other Internet access service providers, the number of installed IE browser software will only be more, and may even reach tens of millions.

According to the ISP pricing of $10 for each set of IE browser software, the installed capacity of tens of millions of level means hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.

Since Simon brought Tim Berners Lee to the United States at the beginning, he has created an enterprise with software sales revenue of over 100 million in just two years, which is very rare. However, Carol Bartz thinks that the commercial potential of IE browser software is far beyond that.

Simon certainly understands the commercial potential of IE.

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

Especially this time, igrit completely monopolized the patent of graphical interface browser on 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 on the world wide web platform. The market value of such a company easily exceeded $1 billion when it was listed.

Now, Simmons has no plans to open the patent license of World Wide Web browser, so browser software will be the only one on the world wide web platform at least.

Even other versions of browsers that bypass igritte's browser kernel are impossible, because igritte holds the lowest level technology patent of the world wide web. Other software manufacturers want to develop browsers unless they choose other network technology platforms.

However, with the world wide web technology now taking the lead, there is little room for other types of network technology to develop.

At the end of the day, this is monopoly.

Simon has already rejected Carol Bartz's price increase proposal, and the low price strategy has been determined from the beginning. After all, if the sudden rise in the price of internet explorer makes the industry feel the threat of igritte to the monopoly of World Wide Web technology, it is difficult to guarantee that other manufacturers will not temporarily support the network technology standards based on other technologies.

Although it is difficult for other technical standards to threaten the world wide web technology, it is troublesome after all.

Simply replying to an email asking Carol Bartz to stop talking about it, Simon started browsing other unread emails.

While he was busy, Simon looked up from the computer screen. Claire, the c-girl, put a glass of water in his hand. The girl still held a folder in her hand.

Simon pointed to the side with a smile: "go to the Internet bar with me."

Claire put the folder on the computer desk and sat down next to it. A good smell of fragrance, let a person relaxed and happy.

Simon took a drink from his glass, motioned to the folder that girl c had put down, and asked, "what's this?"

Claire handed over the folder and said, "I've made a business plan recently. Boss, can you look at it for me first?"

Simon nodded, took the folder and opened it.

C girl explained: "the inspiration of this business plan comes from some documents you showed us by your boss. One of them is the eliminated igrit blog activity, which is a picture sharing activity. The reason why it was rejected is that it is too difficult for users to upload pictures to the Internet, and the steps are too cumbersome. Moreover, the mainstream can directly use floppy disks as the carrier Digital cameras that upload pictures to personal computers are too expensive. I will consider whether we can develop a card camera with moderate price, which is specially used to share photos with the Internet. With the growth rate of Internet users and the desire for performance that most people do not lack, I think this business plan is very promising. "

When Sandra entered igritte's homepage, Simon gave her a digital camera to share pictures.

Vaguely remember, the pixel level of that Panasonic digital camera is only 700000, but the price is as high as 6000 US dollars, which is more expensive than most of the current mainstream personal computers. It's really not affordable for ordinary people.

What's more, most personal computers don't support image display very well. Only in the last two or three years, the first computer combined with igritte's IE browser software, can achieve a considerable picture display function, but in fact, the display effect is only equivalent to the pixel level of paper newspapers, which is not comparable with Simon's memory 1080 display.

In order to adapt to the lower configuration computer, ie also specially developed the no graph mode at this time.

This is Simon's inspiration from using mobile phones in his previous life.

The first semi smart phone in my memory, with a 2.5-inch screen, can support touch screen and use 2G network, so the networking effect can be imagined. At that time, when the built-in browser of that mobile phone connected to the network, it supported no graph mode.Used to more high-end smart phones, for straight board machine browsing the network will be very unadaptable. But for Simon, who had been in touch with his mobile phone for the first time, browsing news, reading novels and logging into forums through his small mobile phone screen, even if the picture display was turned off for the sake of network speed and traffic saving, it seemed that Simon saw another world at that time.

Now the content of igrit portal is gradually enriched, for the current users, the same is true.

Even without pictures, igritte has plenty of information, blogs, email and even games.

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

However, although igritte's IE browser has done a good job in the low-end configuration computer's graph free mode, the image display is definitely a trend.

In the next few years, personal computers are destined to support more and more rich multimedia functions. Before the Internet develops to the age of streaming media, image content is also destined to be a crucial content classification on the Internet platform.

In addition, igritte's advance entry into social networking services will definitely increase users' desire to share pictures online. Therefore, this scheme proposed by C girl is really feasible.

Simon is browsing the business plan of C girl, but his mind is further spread unconsciously.

It's not just the limitation of uploading pictures. Nowadays, personal computers, whether it's the software of the operating system platform or the hardware surrounding personal computers, can only be described as lacking.

Igrit has started to promote the online software store program, which can greatly enrich the software ecology of personal computers in the next few years.

However, in terms of hardware.

Just from then on, you can see the main board interface of personal computer.

At present, there are only two kinds of hardware interfaces in the mainstream personal computers: serial interface and parallel interface. No matter the monitor, printer, keyboard and mouse, they can only be connected by these two interfaces. Simon's memory of the network crystal head interface, USB interface, PS / s interface and even audio interface, are still missing.

The lack of interface, in fact, also means the lack of personal computer peripheral hardware ecology.

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

In C girl's business plan, the digital card camera is planned to be developed with 3.5-inch floppy disk as the image carrier, which is probably the only choice for this camera to be promoted.

After all, there are not many ways to transfer the pictures from the digital camera to the computer conveniently and quickly, and then upload and share them on the network.

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

Now that there is no, but there is an inevitable huge market demand, it obviously means a big business with incalculable potential value.

Moreover, the interface does not need to develop too much, a USB is enough.

As long as the USB or similar interface scheme is developed in advance, we can try Microsoft's interface to build a whole hardware ecosystem. At that time, not only digital cameras, this interface can also be extended to keyboard, mouse, MP3 player, mobile phone, audio and other hardware.

Although it's just a small interface, if the annual installation amount reaches hundreds of millions, not to mention the benefits that the surrounding hardware ecology may create, it's just the patent licensing fee of the interface, which is enough to make the technology development manufacturers make a lot of money.

Simon's memory, WiFi technology patents in the hands of an Australian university.

Just the patent fees applied to all types of WiFi chips, the university can easily enjoy a net income of more than $1 billion a year.

By contrast, USB technology is far more widely used than WiFi.