Chapter 746

After Toy Story 2, which won Zhou's second place, the list of "disguised geeks" is certainly promoted by wma.

After being selected by Simon, wma's design for MIA koshner is a tit for tat competition with Winona Ryder of ICM.

Orion film's biographical film "the poet and his lover" is obviously coming for the prize. The number of screen spots of the film is 17. Unfortunately, after its release, the public praise is very general. Let alone the prize, the possibility of box office return is very low.

"Bauhaus" released by Warner Bros. is following the documentary trend initiated by danielis entertainment in recent years, with 31 screen shots. It has a good reputation in the media and is expected to be nominated for the best documentary feature of the Oscars.

While Simon was busy with Daniels Entertainment's key projects in Los Angeles, "this man from Earth" quietly began filming on December 7 outside Toronto, Canada.

The plan is to follow up in person for a day or two. Before that, Simon went to San Francisco again on December 8.

December 8, just one month after the mid-term elections.

During this period of time, there was no situation, the possibility of further changes was greatly reduced, and Simon's tight heart was relaxed a lot.

After the completion of this operation, the layout of the westero system in the political field will turn into a state of intensive cultivation. Simon promised several big men in Washington last month that he would not influence more than 10% of the members of Congress, but he did not promise that he would not make efforts to the electoral system of local states and counties in the future.

The election system in the United States is a bottom-up system. Because of the inertia of human subconsciousness, the election results of each stage may have a crucial impact on the final presidential election. While maintaining his influence in Washington, Simon's next task is to quietly make political arrangements in some key states, so as to influence the direction of American politics at the critical moment.

In other words, the purpose of this trip to San Francisco is to discuss the settlement between Cisco AOL igritte and the Federal Department of justice.

Simon's original words with several big men in Washington still played a role. Of course, there must be some factors that have made the best of the westero system in this mid-term election process. Now, no one in Washington wants to offend Simon, just as westero system has not made much impact on the National Rifle Association by pushing it as a target.

As a result, the anti-monopoly investigation and reconciliation negotiations, which have been deadlocked for several months, began to take a turn.

In fact, most of the anti-monopoly investigations in the United States will not come to the final stage of trial, including the famous Microsoft anti-monopoly case in my memory, which only ends with the settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of justice.

After Simon proposed to Clinton several plans to use the federal new technology industry giant to capture the world, the executives of Cisco, AOL and igritte were invited to attend a series of secret meetings in Washington.

Whatever the way politicians think, they can't resist Simon's tempting plan.

Because once it succeeds, the United States will gain unmatched economic hegemony in addition to military power in the information age. Moreover, unlike the huge military expenditure required by military hegemony, this economic hegemony can continuously grab huge benefits for the United States on a global scale to make up for the growing domestic debt deficit.

Therefore, when such a plan for the benefit of the country and the people spreads in a small range among the top politicians, who can oppose it and who dares to oppose it?

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If we want the plan to go ahead smoothly, we must first untie the technology giants. The westrow system also took the initiative to make the established concession and gave the Ministry of justice a step forward. The two sides roughly agreed on a settlement plan in less than a month.

First of all, none of the three companies needs to be split.

This is the absolute bottom line of the westero system.

At least the bottom line at this stage.

Cisco and AOL can't be separated. As for igrit, Simon knows the potential of the company.

If we continue to make efforts in search engines, social networking sites and e-commerce, and keep the current industry advantages, then in 20 years, igritte will be the combination of Google, Facebook and Amazon in Simon's memory. Coupled with the monopolistic Internet basic software business and igritte's huge Internet investment portfolio, it is likely that igritte will become a leader It is a super big Mac with a market value of more than $3 trillion.

Not to mention the federal government, Simon doesn't want such an enterprise to exist. Therefore, Simon is bound to split igritte at the right time.

But not now.

Igritte wants to capture cities and lands on a global scale. In the next few years, it will need the current scale advantage very much.

In the final agreement, igritte agreed to open the homepage lock of IE browser. The new version of IE will not lock igritte portal any more, but will be changed to a mode similar to Google Chrome browser in Simon's memory. The software opening page is a search engine tool, with six common page boxes below. Users can set up their own six favorite websites as search engines Through train.In fact, it is to increase the number of home pages from one to six.

Of course, the single home page mode is still retained, and users are only required to set it freely.

For ordinary people, this kind of concession seems to be less important.

Only the industry knows that although igritte's concession does not open browser software patents as some people expect, it is also tantamount to giving up the monopoly of Internet interface. Next, everyone can make every effort to fight for their own traffic in a relatively fair environment.

Although the final settlement agreement has not been signed, but with the news, the industry has been jubilant.

Igritte also disagrees with Simon's decision to give up the monopoly of Internet interface, believing that doing so is self destroying and will affect next year's IPO. The four giants convinced by Simon also think that they should not be so eager. If they want to give way to calculation, they can compete with the Justice Department for another year or two, making igritte's advantages more deeply rooted.

Simon's attitude towards these objections is no longer to waste more words, but to strongly ask the management to carry out their own requirements.

Microsoft used to have a super interface like IE, but it didn't achieve nothing in the Internet field.

Igritte has accumulated enough advantages at this stage.

Continuing to maintain the monopoly of Internet interface will only make the company slack off.

Only competition can make progress.

Moreover, when most of the peers in the industry focus on the hot portal business, few people notice that this time, igritte officially pushed the search engine business to the stage.

In addition to igritte, Cisco's promise is to ensure that the equipment procurement of Internet service providers across the Federation can not be monopolized by Cisco, and that a single equipment provider can not account for more than 80% of ISP equipment supply. Congress will pass a similar bill to make a clear limit in the near future.

As for AOL, the most important point is to abolish the original exclusive agreements signed with the three regional operators on the east coast, and promise not to sign other similar exclusive agreements in the future.

These are the main clauses.

The final settlement, of course, will not be that simple.

In addition to the core terms, the settlement agreement also includes many details such as patent transfer, serial prohibition, etc. the whole settlement agreement involves all aspects of negotiation between the two sides, with a total of 170 pages.

Simon arrived in San Francisco on December 8 and held two consecutive days of meetings with the heads of the three companies. Finally, he and the representatives of the Ministry of justice adjusted some details. On December 12, the two sides officially announced that they had reached a settlement after months of anti-monopoly investigation.

of course, whether the agreement was signed, whether it was observed, and whether it was strictly observed, must be another matter.

Once Microsoft began to accept the anti-monopoly investigation of the Ministry of justice in the early 1990s, with continuous settlement, continuous breach of contract, and finally almost split.

The three companies will not discount the core terms, which is a clear explanation.

There is room for other details.

It is the nature of an enterprise to strive for the maximum benefit.

Simon is not going to interfere.

This settlement is far from the bottom line of the westrow system. If there is another conflict in the future, it is nothing more than throwing out some chips.