Chapter 426

From New York to London, and then from London to New York, for 16 hours in a row, Alice Ferguson carefully arranged her time.

Six hours to rest, four hours to serve their own boss, the last six hours to work.

The igritte online app store project she is in charge of has been undergoing internal testing. It's just a simple software download sales platform, which is actually very easy to develop. However, in order to achieve a successful operation and build a complete business model, it is by no means simple, and numerous problems need to be solved.

Recently, the project team is working with the online payment team to develop a special security software for online payment protection.

After the Morris worm incident three years ago, hackers and viruses seem to be more and more popular in recent years.

As the most successful Internet site, igrit portal is undoubtedly the target of many hackers who want to show their technology. Just last month, the website went down for as long as 20 minutes due to hacker attacks. Fortunately, it was in the middle of the night at that time, which did not cause much impact.

If it doesn't involve online payment, these things will only bring trouble to the website, but there won't be too serious accidents.

Now, it is clear that this is no longer the case.

If users want to consume through the Internet, payment security must be guaranteed first.

Aware of the seriousness of the problem, igritte is now expanding his security team. It is inevitable to encounter attack, and it is feasible to reduce the risk as much as possible through a strong technical team and reasonable coping strategies.

My boss means to develop a free security software.

Aware of the business opportunities, of course, some people have mentioned charges.

However, Simon's words have dispelled many people's ideas: once the charges are charged, and then a security software industry in which other people have entered is formed, then the Internet is likely to suffer a large-scale virus havoc every once in a while.

Even Alice herself had to admit that the man was right.

As we all live in this world, because the interest chain involved in the military industry is too large, war is inevitable.

Boeing 767 re landed on the runway of New York's Kennedy International Airport. The housekeeper knocked at the door of a guest room in the middle cabin. When the other party opened the door, she said coldly, "Ms. Jenna, the car has been arranged outside. The driver will take you back to Manhattan."

Chris Jenna tried to get along with Simon's housekeeper all the way. She didn't get a response, so she stopped trying. At this time, he just promised to take his bag and walk out.

Alice followed her and took her out of the cabin. Even after more than ten hours, the woman's figure was still a little unnatural, and she could not help frowning.

There is a kind of shallow worry in the expression.

In the previous ten hours' journey, the woman was only sent out after staying in the front cabin for more than an hour. During this period, the housekeeper was called in by some hateful guy to deliver things, and then she naturally saw some pictures she shouldn't have seen.

Deep memory.

Therefore, I feel that if someone dares to do that to herself, she must resist.

Sure.

Seeing off the outsider, Alice took the other three girls to tidy up the cabin, watched the plane stored in the hangar, and left Kennedy International Airport.

Start the week.

First of all, we need to carry out routine cleaning of several properties belonging to our own owners in the New York area.

With the increasing number of Simon's properties, the maid team has been expanding. Now Alice has a team of more than 30 people.

But this time, many girls are directly arranged in the city where the property is located. Generally, a group of two girls is no longer as full-time as the first group. Instead, they spend one or two days a week cleaning the property, and they can get a very good reward.

Alice found that her boss initially asked them to travel between the cities in person, just worried that these properties would be used for other things if they were handed over to outsiders.

Over the past six months, with the rise of the Internet, Simon's scattered properties are all equipped with 24-hour video monitoring system. Villa inside and outside all have, internal monitoring only in check-in will be removed.

At present, the average user's network speed may only be 56K or 128K, which is naturally not a problem for Simon. All the connected properties are directly connected by 5m optical fiber, and the monitoring terminal is at domay point manor.

Another duty of the housekeepers is to check the work of the corresponding maids in the properties far away from Seattle or Miami and whether they have done anything wrong.

In advance to be reminded that there is monitoring in the villa, some people are still restless.

Some people use their high salary to hire other people to help clean, some people take a bath in the master bedroom of the villa without permission, some people try to slack off, and others plan to have a party in Simon's villaThese people were not only expelled, but also suffered punitive claims under the contract.

Therefore, even the housekeeper has now found the strong sense of primitive territory of her boss.

Alice is still in charge of several Simon's properties on the East and west coasts, so the girls need to fly on the East and west coasts at least once a week.

At first, the girls were very excited to have a private plane of their own.

After you get used to it, you get used to it.

However, Alice also noticed that her friends, in front of ordinary people, had a very obvious sense of superiority.

Even for herself, that's probably the case.

Yeah.

Except, of course, for someone to look up to.

From Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning, after cleaning several properties in Manhattan and Greenwich, Alice took several girls to their Gulfstream IV and returned to the west coast.

After another day of managing several properties in Los Angeles, the girls almost finished most of their work in a week.

Therefore, it's a fitting description to say that someone is totally throwing money to raise a vase.

In private, Janet told the housekeeper that they were Simon westrow's vases.

However, most girls are willing to be treated as a vase that is too well.

Even with a $10 million vase fund, many girls who are used to this kind of self-respect can't afford to do something.

Janet has promised that as long as they perform well enough, they can work until they are 30, not limited to a five-year contract.

Most people are too busy to make a million dollars in their lifetime.

At the age of 30, if you save millions of dollars, you can basically retire directly. In the future, you don't have to do whatever you want. Why should you be so tired.

What's more, the $10 million vase fund is not easy to get.

Alice certainly didn't have that idea.

If she didn't want to make a career, she would not accept the present job at all.

As for her "own job", the housekeeper has always been responsible. However, she has not wasted any of her spare time on the affairs of igritte company.

In private, they are still looking for ways to get their own $10 million vase fund share.

Of course, we should not waste the treatment we deserve.

I have no intention of saving money for someone.

In addition, I also have some ideas about competing with another vase.

At the beginning, she was just hired by Simon's C girl.

Women are very vindictive.

The card camera project of C Girl CLAIRE Gaines and Simon's seemingly eccentric support made the housekeeper feel a slight threat.

Igritte officially bought the first 1000 ICAM 10 of Tinkerbell, and launched a free trial for blog users in June, which caused strong repercussions.

In order to promote ICAM, the blog team also developed a web interface.

All users who send pictures through ICAM will attach a "picture from ICAM" prompt on their blog post, which will be directed to the official website of Tinkerbell company.

Because it is the first product, ICAM inevitably has some small problems. However, in the face of the super high cost performance of this product, other professional digital cameras worth thousands of dollars in the same period are not competitive at all.

What's more, there is the full support of igritte.

During this period, led by the print out trend of igritte blog, many users have asked where to buy such a camera.

North American businesses with a keen sense of smell can not ignore such business opportunities.

By early July, Tinkerbell had received more than 100000 orders from electronics retailers across North America.

In a short period of time, such an order is obviously impossible to achieve, but it is absolutely a good start.

In her early discussions with Simon, c-girl also considered that once she could not establish a smooth retail channel, she would carry out remote sales through the Internet, just like TV shopping today.

Now, because of the popularity of ICAM, some things seem to come naturally.

Of course, competition is inevitable.

Simon reminded C girl in advance that many powerful electronics manufacturers, such as Sony and Panasonic, may only take a month to launch such a simple card camera.

However, Tinkerbell has obvious advantages because of igritte's support.In addition to the most obvious advantage of time, ICAM directly takes the GIF image format developed by igritte company, Photoshop software is also enough to provide a large degree of bonus, and igritte's official technical and promotional support.

With such an obvious advantage, if it can no longer succeed, Simon can only let other electronic manufacturers enter this market. According to the previous development plan, in any case, enriching the content of the Internet platform as soon as possible is the first priority.

Simon personally followed up the filming of wonder woman in the UK. In North America, the summer season is still going on.

From June 28 to July 4, Terminator 2 made $56.93 million at the box office in its first week.

It's obviously not comparable to Batman: the dark knight. However, the box office of $56.93 million in the first week also exceeded most people's expectations, and fox was even more relieved.

The box office in the first week reached US $56.93 million, which means that the North American box office of Terminator 2 is still guaranteed to get us $200 million.

The box office in North America is 200 million US dollars, which basically recovers all the production and publicity costs in the early stage.

With the rising production costs of Hollywood films and the continuous expansion of overseas markets, video channels and TV platforms, the box office of Hollywood films in North America has become less and less crucial.

We take the local box office as a measure of the ultimate commercial potential of a film.

Many movies with a budget of more than 50 million US dollars only rely on the local box office and can't recover the cost at all.

It is very rare that a film like Terminator 2, with a total budget of US $100 million for production and publicity, can recover its cost just by being released in North American theaters.

The domestic box office can reach US $200 million, and the overseas box office potential of the film is the same, or even higher.

Taking into account the follow-up video and TV broadcasting platform, the net profit scale of the project in the next three years can basically reach US $200 million.

The profit scale of the two blockbusters of DC movie universe can only be described as a miracle, and there is no comparability at all. Terminator 2, a project with expected revenue of $200 million, is the goal of Hollywood studios.

In addition, the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" fell 23% from June 28 to July 4, and received another $34.77 million, totaling $242.05 million.

The weekly box office of the film falls back to the range of $30 million to $40 million, which basically will not cause too much impact on other summer movies.

According to the current box office trend, Batman: Dark Knight's domestic box office in North America can exceed 300 million US dollars in three weeks at most. As for whether it can impact 400 million US dollars, we can only expect the follow-up market performance.

Relying on the strong performance of the overseas market and the surrounding derivatives market, "Batman: The Dark Knight" has actually recovered all the production and publicity costs on the book in the second week of the film's release. Now, this super blockbuster has been making profits for Denise and Time Warner.

On July 5, the atmosphere brought about by the Independence Day holiday in the United States has not yet dissipated, and the North American cinemas have painted three films again

they are the comedy "genius little monkey 2" of Universal Pictures, which is now subordinate to danielis entertainment, the classic 2D animation "101 spotted dogs" re released by Disney, and the drama "about Henry" produced by Paramount Pictures.

Now that they are on the summer program, the three films are all key projects of the studios.

However, the market performance of these three new films is very general.

The best box office performance was Disney's "101 spotted dogs", which earned $16.86 million in the first seven days of the week. About Henry, starring Michael Douglas and Annette bening, grossed only $10.91 million in the first week. Universal Pictures is obviously trying to follow the lead of "genius and mischief 2" of "kid's home" at the end of last year, with only $10.29 million in the first seven days.

As a result, in the week from July 5 to July 11, Terminator 2 and Batman: The Dark Knight still lead the North American film market.

In the second week, Terminator 2's box office decline was 37% compared with the first week, which was better than Batman: the dark knight. Of course, the box office opening volume of the two can not be compared.

However, the next week's box office revenue of $41.33 million also made the North American box office of Terminator 2 rush to $98.26 million.

Basically, it can be counted as breaking through 100 million in two weeks.

As a result, Hollywood studios have realized that the era of more intensive saturated full distribution has officially arrived with the release of Batman: the dark knight and Terminator 2.