Hollywood Hunter

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Simon sent Martin Davis away and had dinner with Robert Egger who came to the West Coast for the afternoon meeting.

After the merger of the MCA, Robert Iger’s position remains unchanged, and he is still the president of Daenerys Entertainment Group, but the power in his hands has increased significantly.

In the next few years, while maintaining Daenerys Entertainment's superiority in the field of TV program production, the focus of Robert Iger's work will shift to the cable TV business, and the USA TV network will be the top priority.

Although this MCA eventually fell into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment, the previous seven Hollywood studios, Columbia and MGM have been bought by overseas investors, and now there is Canada’s Seagram Group, Overseas giants such as France's Prestige Group are eyeing other Hollywood studios.

Therefore, the US government and the media are aware of a problem. In order to prevent more Hollywood studios from being acquired by overseas capital, it is a general trend to liberalize the merger ban between the US domestic TV network and the studio.

Simon remembered that the legal limitation of the lifting of the ban was probably around 1994.

Immediately afterwards, Disney's acquisition of ABC emerged. CBS and NBC also changed ownership and merged with Hollywood studio giants.News Corporation's FOX TV network also completely got rid of a lot of legal constraints after that, and gradually developed to the scale with the traditional three major TV networks.

Speaking of that, if Simon now mobilizes the American Film Association (MPAA) and his own contacts to lobby, it is not impossible to lift the ban one or two years in advance.

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

Daenerys Entertainment's next step is definitely to acquire a national TV network and completely complete its horizontal layout in the field of media and entertainment. However, this matter needs to be digested and integrated in the MCA and the premise of Daenerys Entertainment's completion of the IPO under.

In the next M&A expansion, Simon still prefers cash acquisitions. In fact, many companies merge and acquire, and most of the acquired parties also expect to be able to cash out directly.However, under the circumstances that the debt burden is already heavy enough, Daenerys Entertainment is not suitable for adding too large-scale liabilities at one time, and can only adopt the method of cash plus equity acquisition.

Moreover, if the market value of Daenerys Entertainment is sufficient enough, even the full use of equity mergers and acquisitions is very cost-effective.

As for the equity to be sold out, wait until the company has sufficient funds before repurchasing the stock.

After dinner, Simon returned to Dumei Point Estate for more than eight o'clock in the evening.

Today is Tuesday, Janet flew to the busy Cersei Capital on the East Coast in recent days.

The overall situation of the Gulf War has been finalized, and basically the state of closure has begun. Cersei Fund Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, has also begun to close its fund hedge operations around this war.

Since the decision to abandon many opportunities such as the next pound crisis, this operation can be said to be the last big quote for the Cersei Fund Management Team to operate without any problems.

According to preliminary statistics from New York, from the outbreak of the war on February 17 to the present, about a month, Cersei Capital has achieved a book profit of more than 1.6 billion U.S. dollars, and the profit mainly comes from the S&P that soared 25% in just one month. 500 index related futures.

After this operation, Cersei Capital will focus more on Apollo Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company.

The improvement of the overall economic situation in the United States is precisely conducive to the development of corporate mergers and acquisitions, asset management and other businesses.Of course, Cersei Fund Management will still retain it, but will be more inclined to micro hedges of certain stocks and other portfolios.

After a busy day, I took a shower, changed a pullover and slacks, Simon looked at the time, it was already over 11 o'clock in New York, Janet must have fallen asleep, so I didn't call again.

Simon belonged to the night owl type. Los Angeles had just passed the hotel, and even had no sleepiness, he came 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 arranged such a computer room, mainly to facilitate himself to check the compatibility of various versions of IE browser developed by Eaglet on different operating system platforms and computers with different configurations.

Speaking of which, Simon does not like the coexistence of a large number of operating systems at this time, and is quite resistant to many low-profile personal computers.It's just that personal computers, which are generally quite expensive in this era, are far from being able to be replaced at will. If Igerit wants to get the most customers in a short period of time, it must be compatible with as many platforms as possible.

However, in the development of IE browser, Igrid also began to obviously lean towards Microsoft's Windows system.The function updates of this operating system platform are more timely than other operating systems.

In a spacious room of more than 200 square meters, there are several rows of various personal computers. Simon randomly selected three IBM compatible machines with different configurations to open side by side, opened the chair and sat down, and the standby device was connected to the network after turning on. , Log in to your own email.

Click to open an email from Carol Bartz.

Unsurprisingly, the senior woman in charge of Igret's software business is also discussing the issue of increasing the price of IE browser software.

According to the extent of Internet user outbreaks in recent months, Eaglet expects the growth of Internet users in 1991 to be more than 5 million.The installed capacity of IE browser software, because of the free trial programs launched by AOL and other Internet access service providers, will only increase in number, and may even reach the tens of millions level.

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

From the time Simon brought Tim Berners Lee to the United States to the present, it has been very rare in just two years to create a company whose software sales revenue is enough to exceed 100 million.However, Carol Bartz believes that the commercial potential of IE browser software is far more than that.

Simon certainly understands the commercial potential of IE.

However, apart from Simon himself, most executives inside Igrid felt that the IE browser software was underpriced.For $10, you can get more content and functions than most current operating systems, which is almost like giving away.

Especially this time, when Igrid completely monopolized the patent of the graphical interface browser of the World Wide Web platform.

In the original space and time, Netscape was only one of the authorized manufacturers of the graphical interface browser technology of the World Wide Web platform. Such a company's market value in the year when it was listed easily exceeded 1 billion US dollars.

Now Simon does not intend to open the patent license of the World Wide Web browser, so at least on the World Wide Web platform, browser software will be the only one.

Even, it is impossible to bypass other versions of the browser core of the Igrid browser, because the bottom-level technical patents of the World Wide Web are also in the hands of Igrid. Other software manufacturers want to develop browsers unless they choose to Other network technology platforms.

However, with the prevalence of the World Wide Web technology at this time, there is not much room for the development of other types of networks.

In the final analysis, this is monopoly.

Simon had previously rejected Carol Bartz’s price increase proposal, and the low price strategy was determined from the beginning.After all, if the sudden price increase of the IE browser makes the industry manufacturers feel the threat of Igreat's monopoly on the 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 other technical standards are difficult to threaten the technology of the World Wide Web, it is ultimately troublesome.

He simply responded to an email asking Carol Bartz to stop mentioning this topic, and Simon started browsing other unread emails.

He was busy and heard the sound of high heels in his ear. Simon looked up from the computer screen. Girl C Claire put a glass of water in his hand, and the girl was still holding a folder.

Simon smiled and nodded to the side: "Come with me online."

Claire put the folder on the computer desk and sat down next to it.A good scent came to make people feel relaxed and happy.

Simon took a drink from the glass and gestured to the folder that Girl C laid down and asked, "What is this?"

Claire handed over the folder and said, "A business plan I made recently, boss, can you help me see it first?"

Simon nodded and took the folder open.

Girl C explained next to her: "This business plan was inspired by some documents that the boss showed you. One of them was the outgoing Igerett blog campaign plan. It was a picture sharing campaign and the reason for rejection. It is too difficult for users to upload pictures to the Internet, and the steps are too cumbersome. Moreover, the mainstream digital cameras that can directly upload pictures to personal computers using floppy disks as carriers are too expensive. I will consider whether we can develop a price Moderate card cameras dedicated to sharing photos with the Internet, with the growth rate of Internet users and the expressive desire that most people do not lack, I think this business plan is very promising."

When Sandra entered Igrid's personal homepage platform, Simon gave her a digital camera for picture sharing.

I vaguely remember that the Panasonic digital camera has a pixel level of only more than 700,000, but the price is as high as $6,000, which is more expensive than most mainstream personal computers now. It is indeed not affordable for ordinary people.

Moreover, most of today's personal computers are not very good at supporting pictures.Only the first computer in the last two or three years combined with Igrid’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. There is no comparison with the 1080 monitor in Simon's memory.

In order to adapt to a lower configuration computer, IE at this time also developed a no-picture mode.

This is Simon's inspiration when he used his mobile phone in his previous life.

The first semi-smart phone in memory has a screen of only 2.5 inches and can support touch screen. The 2G network is still used, and the effect of networking is naturally conceivable.At that time, when the browser built into the mobile phone was connected to the Internet, it supported the no-picture mode.

I am used to more high-end smartphones, so naturally I will not be very comfortable with the Internet browsing of the candy bar.But for Simon, who had contacted a mobile phone for the first time, browsing news, reading novels, and logging in to the forum through a small mobile screen, even if the picture display was turned off for network speed and traffic saving, it seemed that Simon had seen another one. world.

The Igreat portal, which is now gradually enriched, is the same for current users.

Even if there is no picture, the information, blogs, emails and even games provided by Eaglet are rich enough.

After all, the newspapers people read in this era were not full of pictures on every page.

However, although Igrid’s IE browser does a great job in the no-picture mode of the low-end configuration computer, the picture shows that it is definitely a trend.

In the next few years, personal computers are destined to support more and more rich multimedia functions, and picture content is also destined to be a crucial content category on the Internet platform before the Internet develops into the era of streaming media.

Coupled with the fact that Igrid’s foray into social networking services in advance will definitely increase the user’s desire to share pictures online, therefore, the scheme presented by C Girl does have great feasibility.

Simon flipped through the business plan of Girl C, but his thoughts diverged unconsciously.

Not only the limitation of uploading pictures, nowadays personal computers, no matter the software of the operating system platform or the hardware surrounding the personal computers, can only be described as lack.

Igreat has already begun to promote the online software store plan, which can greatly enrich the software ecosystem of personal computers in the next few years.

However, in terms of hardware.

Just from the motherboard interface of the personal computer at this time, it can be seen.

At present, there are only two types of hardware interfaces for mainstream personal computers. Serial interface and parallel interface, whether it is a monitor, printer, keyboard or mouse, can only be connected by these two interfaces.The network crystal head interface, USB interface, PS/S interface and even audio interface in Simon's memory are still missing.

The lack of interfaces actually means a lack of hardware ecology around the personal computer.

AOL now connects users to the Internet because of the lack of hardware and interfaces. In addition to the modem, it is necessary to provide users with a hardware network card with a network cable interface directly plugged into the motherboard.

In the business plan of C Girl, the digital card camera planned to be developed uses a 3.5-inch floppy disk as the image carrier. This is probably the only option for this camera to be promoted.

After all, except for the floppy drives that are as popular as serial-parallel interfaces on personal computers at this time, there are really not many ways to quickly and easily transfer pictures from digital cameras to computers, and further upload and share them on the network.

As for the flash memory that people are accustomed to later, USB, what is that?

Since there is no such thing now, but there is an inevitable huge market demand, then this obviously means a big business with potentially inestimable value.

Moreover, the interface does not need to be developed too much, one USB is enough.

As long as the USB or similar interface solution is developed in advance, you can try Microsoft's interface to build an entire hardware ecosystem.By then, not just digital cameras, the application of this interface can also be extended to hardware such as keyboards, mice, MP3 players, mobile phones, stereos and so on.

Don’t look at it as a small interface. If the annual installation volume reaches hundreds of millions of levels, not to mention the benefits that may be created by the surrounding hardware ecology, only the patent licensing fee of the interface is enough for manufacturers of technology development to make a lot of money. .

In Simon's memory, WiFi technology patents are in the hands of a university in Australia.

Only the patent fees applied to various types of WiFi chips, that university can easily enjoy a net income of more than 1 billion US dollars per year.

In comparison, the application of USB technology is far more extensive than that of WiFi.