Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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In a decade or so, the WiFi in these Starbucks and McDonald's locations will be free, and Tinkerbell wants to offer a mini-Internet café feature in the Starbucks chain, with questions about whether to charge and where the cost will be borne, and the reason the proposal was presented to Simon, C-Woman also wants Ygritte to get involved and share the cost.

If it had been a few years ago, Ygritte would have been happy to do so in order to reach more people online.

Even now, Silicon Valley's new tech giants actually keep pushing for more people to be able to connect to the web, as Facebook and Google once did, but this proposal, which is relatively more in Tinkerbell's interests, doesn't promote Igrete that much, and is therefore less than enthusiastic.

Simon came straight from the airport to Upper West 66th Street for a 10 a.m. meeting, entered a conference room in the East Coast headquarters building with some time to spare before the meeting, and hurriedly wrote down his comments on the paperwork.

Simon is not in favor of this proposal.

Instead of partnering with Starbucks, if only to provide a convenient upload interface for users of iCam, iRec, etc., Tinkerbell could have provided a dedicated Tinkerbell product web uploader in a high-traffic public place, similar to a vending machine or public phone booth, with a dedicated closed system designed to provide only relevant product applications, such as image uploading, video uploading or Audio downloads, which can greatly improve the efficiency of device applications.

By contrast, setting up a minicafe in Starbucks would certainly provide full PC Internet access, which Starbucks users may or may not use to connect to Tinkerbell products. Or, if it's a targeted closed-system device, it's bound to pay a licensing fee to Starbucks.

Immediately necessary.

The proposal was rejected, and cooperation with the Ygritte side was naturally out of the question.

Finally, Simon also suddenly remembered to remind C-girl on the notes that she could initiate the acquisition of Apple. This is the plan that Simon had decided long ago, Apple is now in the company's lowest state, take over Apple, Westeros can obtain a large number of core patents on the underlying operating system, Tinkerbell to expand its own hardware product line and global operations team, but also adopt Apple's system technology heritage, in the shortest possible time to develop a closed system of dedicated network upload device.

All in one fell swoop.

After writing the notes and giving them to the A-girl next to her to pass on to Silicon Valley, the time came to 10 o'clock.

Robert Iger and other Danielle's Entertainment West Coast core was basically sitting in on the meeting, which focused on ESPN's broadcast partnership with the NFL involving $9 billion, going around in circles until now, when things finally came to an end, with the meeting finalizing some final details and the agreement expected to be officially signed and announced next Monday.

With a massive contract involving $9 billion and the future of ESPN at stake, Simon certainly couldn't miss out.

However, Simon didn't interject too much into the morning's two-hour session, he's never been too keen on sports and avoids instructing amateurs as much as possible.

The morning meeting ended with lunch with Robert Iger and Steve Bernstein, who didn't leave afterwards, and the afternoon was busy from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., as well as participating in the review of the upcoming fall season of core programming for the major television stations under the Denise Entertainment Television Division.

Now the ABC Television Network, USA Women, the A&E Television Network, and other core platforms of Danielle's entertainment television business, shows such as "Seinfeld Plus," "Desperate Housewives," "Sex and the City," and the Stepford Wives reality series, as well as the super ace "American Idol" series launched by ABC last year, and even the "Old Friends" and "ER Stories" series that Simon intentionally transferred to several other major networks. All are still at a pretty hot stage of popularity at the moment, so the TV business in general is seeking stability this year and Simon is in no hurry to launch a new major show.

More attention is still being paid to the second season of American Idol.

The reality singing talent show, which created a national buzz last year, brought in a massive $860 million in revenue from advertising, title sponsorships and rights sales in its first season alone, bringing the Denise TV division to a gross profit of $630 million after subtracting $230 million in initial production and marketing costs.

The first season, followed by the national tour, related record sales, etc., has grossed over $300 million to date. This is in addition to the show's indirect contribution to the ABC network's overall viewership, the growth of Daenerys Records and other companies in the Westeros system such as Tinkerbell.

Totally a golden egg laying hen.

The second season of "American Idol," which has already started production, won't cost much more because of the sound planning that went into it in the first place, but it's expected that the number of episodes will be stretched again for a second season, and that the project will make record revenues and profits.

At the end of the day, a helicopter ride back to the estate on the northern outskirts of Greenwich and dinner were invited to B-girl Becky Hope and her fiancé Mark Heaner, who works at Long Term Capital Management.

Compared to A, C, D three, the last two years Simon and B girl met very few times, however, B girl created the Alia company has not slowed down the pace of development, taking advantage of the new technology wave driven by a wave of stock market East wind and Westeros system spared no effort to foster, coupled with low price strategy, Alia company's main Alia software has so far been developed in the world more than 260,000 subscribers.

Even if Aria's software product is only one tenth the price of Bloomberg Terminal, with 260,000 subscribers, it currently contributes more than $30 million per month to Aria's revenue, which is expected to reach $400 million in 1996, taking into account continued growth factors.

Compared to Bloomberg's billion-dollar level revenue, the gap between Alia and this direct competitor is still obvious, but, relying on the huge user base of Bloomberg, which has already far surpassed only 20,000 users, Alia has begun to build its own financial data ecosystem.

Once the Bloomberg system, which is actually very difficult to use, and the reason why Wall Street can't get away from it, the key is the data ecology, everyone is circled into the system, all the data is within the system, and if you want to get information about it, you have to use the Bloomberg terminal.

Aaliyah has already sent Bloomberg scrambling when it was still less than a tenth of the size of its once peak.

In the past two years, Bloomberg and Alia have been locked in a close, personal battle over everything from software technology to lawsuits to talent. Even, Aaliyah in quietly raise their own software prices, Bloomberg had to take a price reduction strategy to respond.

On the other hand, Alia this 'leprechaun' backstage is obviously too hard, and Bloomberg developed, deliberately bought back shares to dump their former partner, lost the way, and now Bloomberg has been at a clear disadvantage in this war.

Although there is no plan to go public, but the industry evaluation, just in accordance with 30 times the relatively conservative price-to-earnings ratio is expected, the net profit margin can reach more than 20% of the Aria company, the current valuation of about $2.5 billion. If the real listing, because of the obvious Internet properties of Alia, coupled with the high growth of the business, the market value to double no problem.

Even according to the $2.5 billion calculation, with B-girl's 15% stake in Alia, worth $375 million.

Another emerging billionaire close to the threshold of the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans.

This dinner but not too much discussion of Aria Corporation, but B girl and her fiancé Mark Heiner is about to officially marry in September, private relationship with B girl has been very close to A girl to set up this dinner, as early congratulations and blessings.

As for the next wedding, although the two extended an invitation at the dinner, Simon still declined.

To really say yes would have been a smash.

By the way, A, B, C, and D four girls, Simon happened to have never had anything with B. It was just that, apparently, outsiders must not believe it.

Even Simon himself wasn't convinced.

Hmm.

Whether or not there had been, this, there were so many women, it was really a bit ...... hard to remember.

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It was a little ghost of a certain girl when Simon and A made small talk after sending the two B-girls away. And then, well, got a night to herself, which Girl A took full advantage of.

The next morning, Jemma came next door to have breakfast with us, and saw that the strawberries had been planted by someone who had rarely been planted in the opposite direction, and even though her character was very ladylike, Jemma couldn't help but roll her eyes several times in front of someone.