Global monopoly of technology

As time goes by, the global sales of Azure-X mobile phones of the Azure Coast Company have exceeded 1 million units on the second day of the third week, of which the mainland market accounted for 150,000 units.

In China, Azure-X mobile phone is definitely an artifact of dazzling technology, whether in restaurants, subways or other public places, you can take this mobile phone out of your pocket to become the focus.

For many places in the country, especially those who do not have a lot of Internet access and the reception of First Info is seriously lagging behind, they are very surprised to see this electronic product.

Can this thing make phone calls?

The mobile phone can be made into this kind of bar. There are no buttons. Just tap the screen with your finger.

high tech!

Moreover, many people think that this is a high-tech product of foreigners, and would never think of it as a domestic brand. However, this situation is gradually receding, because rounds of announcement budgets are coming.

The Côte d’Azur conducted in-depth reports in the country even by the official media, and was broadcast on prime time news in the evening, and it took about 3 minutes for detailed reports.

You must know that the total duration of the entire news broadcast is only 30 minutes.

It’s definitely a vigorous report. The main focus of the official media’s TV news is the overseas sales of this mobile phone of the Cote d’Azur. The most important thing is to emphasize that this product is a world-leading advanced electronic product. It is extremely rare and only countable.

This also makes many people proud of it.

It has to be said that for the Côte d’Azur company, this short three-minute report is comparable to a publicity expenditure of one or two billion.

And the company itself is also continuously advertising to fully open its reputation in the country.

If you have money, you can do whatever you want.

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The time came to January 17, 2007. After Luo Sheng’s approval, Bluestar Technology Group officially released the fourth quarter of 2006 as of December 31, 2006 and the whole year ahead of most listed companies. Annual financial report.

From here on Wall Street, SeekingAlpha immediately signed up to report.

According to the financial report, excluding exchange rate changes, the total revenue of Bluestar Technology Group in the fourth quarter was 5.928 billion US dollars, an increase of 324% from 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 estimate it is $5.29 billion.

Thanks to the strong financial performance in the fourth quarter, both revenue and net profit exceeded expectations, prompting the Bluestar Technology Group’s share price to reverse Luo Sheng’s cash-out crisis some time ago, rising by nearly 9% in after-hours trading, and its market value The new breakthrough reached 144.752 billion US dollars.

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

Bluestar Technology Group’s 2006 annual revenue was US$13.876 billion, an increase of 320.8% compared to US$3.297 billion in the same period last year, and its net profit was US$2.916 billion, an increase of about 885% compared to US$296 million in the previous year.

Earnings per share in the fourth quarter were US$2.13, which also broke expectations. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv generally estimated it to be US$1.89.

At the same time, Bluestar Technology Group also disclosed the market size of ten wholly-owned subsidiaries of its six major business segments in this financial report. However, it is worth mentioning that the consolidated financial statements of ten wholly-owned subsidiaries and the parent company Therefore, there is no need to disclose the internal operations and performance of major subsidiaries, and the subsidiaries are not listed.

In addition, the consolidated financial statements include the acquired Valve company and CDProjektRED Polish dumbass, and the other Take-Two company has no consolidated financial report.

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

BlueSpace has 224 million global users, with over 100 million active users; the international version of BlueSpace has over 400 million global users with 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 cumulative sales of 1 billion singles.

Yunge Search has a 29% market share in 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.

Regardless of the data statistics, Bluestar Technology Group is a well-deserved new social and Internet hegemon in the world today. Excluding the user overlap rate, the total number of registrations in the company’s major business sectors, namely "Family Bucket" has reached 2.2 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the world's population.

Bluestar Technology also released a data that seems 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 Buckets". This is very scary data.

The early investors finally believed Luo Sheng’s original bold words. They vaguely remember that Luo Sheng said that Bluestar Technology was a platform, which itself was as large as the Internet, and now the data is fulfilling what he once said.

Because of the release of these data, Bluestar Technology's stock rose by about 9% in after-hours trading that day.

Immediately after the second day of the Bluestar Technology Group’s financial report, Google also announced its annual financial statements.

There is a bit of competition, both light and secret.

In 2006, "Google" was included as a verb by "Oxford English Dictionary" and "Webster's Dictionary". Google also cooperated with Bluestar Technology Group's main overseas competitor MySpace to promote text advertising.

This year, Google’s revenue was 10.6 billion U.S. dollars, with a revenue growth of 72.8%. Bluestar Technology Group’s 13.876 billion U.S. dollars surpassed 3.276 billion U.S. dollars, and Google was born five years earlier than Bluestar Technology.

However, Google’s net profit reached US$3.08 billion, which was US$164 million more than Bluestar Technology’s US$2.916 billion.

Revenue is much higher than Google, but profit is lower. The main reason is two aspects. On the one hand, it is the expenditure of labor costs. Google currently has 10,674 employees, while the number of Bluestar Technology Group employees has reached 18,975. .

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

In addition, there are constant disputes on the issue of copyright. According to incomplete statistics, Bluestar Technology has almost 300 lawsuits with Hollywood film companies or studios just because of the online video business, all of which are due to copyright disputes. , But it's all babble disputes.

The traditional media and entertainment companies in Hollywood actually want to talk to Luo Sheng, because BluestarVideo's influence is getting bigger and bigger. Not only can it get huge copyright license fees, the key is that it also affects its own performance. The impact is still very small.

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

Doing video business is really a very money-consuming project. Not only is Bluestar's online video business losing money, but all its peers in the world are also losing money. So is Google Video, a subsidiary of Google, and several video sites that have emerged in China. In this way, it is either backed by 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 bigger problem with traffic, that is, the network fee cannot be paid.

What's more, there is also the giant Bluestar Video in the industry, and the Bluestar Technology Group stands behind it. Who else in the industry can fight Bluestar Technology's financial resources?The financial report disclosed this time shows that Bluestar Technology’s current free cash flow has reached a terrifying US$12.8 billion, which is about RMB99.45 billion at the current exchange rate of around 7.77.