Hollywood Hunter

Because there are old people and children, just talking about some very common topics during the dinner. The homework of the two children. Some recent anecdotes in Greenwich City. Mr. President stopped the special plane on the runway and blocked others for more than an hour. .

More than eight o'clock, after the dinner, Sofia's parents took the initiative to take the two children away.

Simon, Sofia and Nancy came to the living room of the villa to continue chatting, and the topic also turned to more formal business affairs.

"Forbes" announced the new US 400 rich list this week, promoted to the world's first billionaire billionaire Simon's life has not changed much, but the media discussion on this topic is very lively.In particular, the hustle and bustle caused by the launch of the 58list website by the Igrid portal has not been completely dissipated. Most of the evaluations of Simon on traditional paper media platforms are not too positive.

"The layout of the Westeros system in the Internet industry is simply a higher level of existence than any previous monopoly alliance. You are almost involved in all aspects of this new technological revolution and have a strong voice. Given Wester The relationship between the Luo system and traditional paper media has started to deteriorate. I think that the most important thing you should worry about is the appearance of another'Aida Betar'."

In the living room, two women cuddled on the sofa next to them, talking about a series of disturbances caused by 58list, Nancy commented.

Sofia is a Frenchman, and apparently does not pay much attention to the long-standing antitrust history of the US oil industry. He is curious: "Who is Ida Betar?"

Nancy explained: "The author of "Standard Petroleum History", she directly through the ten consecutive heavyweight reports, directly led to the split of Rockefeller Business Empire."

Simon leaned on the single sofa next to him with a cup of coffee in his hand and said, "I remember a lot of analysis later, "Standard Oil Company History" was full of unrealistic prejudices. Moreover, after Standard Oil Company was split, It did not bring benefits to the public. In the following ten years, the price of oil rose sharply."

"Even if this is true, but who cares? Most of the public is stupid and easily provoked. They just need to see that the so-called justice is done."

Simon nodded: "I agree with this, so I have recently shown the public as much as they want to see."

The 58list website storm, the public opinion guidance that Igrid focused on, is that 58list website provides a large number of free facilities for the public.

Nancy said: "However, power is not really in the hands of the public."

"The Westeros system spends more on government lobbying this year than you think. I also urged Jeff to set up a special lobbying office in Washington some time ago."

Nancy looked at Simon a few times: "Are you really only 25 years old this year?"

Many people always have to eat a grain to grow a wit. A certain guy seems to be able to arrange many things in advance without having to experience it.

Simon slowly took a sip of coffee and said quietly: "I am actually 280 years old."

Nancy grabbed a small pillow and thrown it at Simon, but couldn't help saying to Sofia: "I think he might be a 280-year-old vampire."

Sophia smiled and asked, "How do you say?"

Nancy leaned out her small hand and laid a scarf around Sofia's neck: "The evidence is obvious."

Sophia suddenly turned red, opened Nancy's little hand,

Nancy just teased, instead of chasing after him, turned to Simon: "In fact, there is the most critical point, Mr. Westero, interests, interests are the root cause of all disputes."

"If you are careful enough, many of my layouts in previous years have been to mitigate potential conflicts of interest as much as possible."

"Unfortunately, this is not enough."

"I understand that whether it is the new technology industry or the Hollywood side, I actually hope that companies in the Westeros system will eventually become publicly held companies. Of course,

Nancy said: "Why do you still hold so much in your hands?"

Simon shrugged and said, "I can't let them go all at once. People are greedy. I'm too active. Some people think I'm too weak and then ask for more."

Nancy tilted her head, thinking for a moment, and couldn't help shaking her head: "It's a knot."

"Yeah," Simon smiled and said, "So, my next plan is for them to come over and fight for it."

The Westeros system is now in a capital jungle of weak meat and strong food.

Simon too actively threw the food he had stored to the surrounding beasts, which would only attract more predators.Although it is not intended to be opposed to everyone, before sharing food, smashing some tiger heads and wolf legs can also allow many hunters who want to go forward to hunt for their strength.

Nancy said: "Don't you worry that things can't be cleaned up?"

Simon glanced at Nancy: "Do you think a billionaire is a good bully?"

Nancy pouted: "You have started to be arrogant."

"It's self-confidence," Simon said, looking at his watch with his wrist up, and said to a small woman leaning on Sofia without any politeness: "Are you supposed to go back, exactly, I can send a driver to send you a bit."

Nancy blinked and quickly took Sofia's arm: "I plan to stay here tonight to sleep with Sophie."

Simon looked at the little woman wrapped around Sofia's body and said, "I'm already thinking about how to put your little shoes on."

"You give it a try. It's a big deal. I quit. I have been contacted by headhunters for the past two years."

"Otherwise, we give Sophie the right to decide?"

"Okay," Nancy said, holding her small arm tightly on Sofia's arm, looking at her girlfriend: "Sophie, do you choose me or me?"

Simon protested: "Is this too shameless?"

Nancy just snorted, and her bright eyes continued to stare at Sophia, still showing a pitiful expression.

Sophia blushed and made a helpless look at Simon.

"Ok."

Knowing that there was no drama tonight, Simon put down his coffee cup and got up and walked over to the two women.

Nancy froze, only to feel that a certain man's figure was overwhelmed, leaned over to pick up Sofia's chin and kissed arbitrarily. The slight noise of the shame made her subconsciously shrink back, and endure for a moment, just at her When he couldn't help but run away, the man finally let go of Sofia and said, "So, good night."

Sophia's voice is soft: "Well, you, good night."

Until Simon left for a while, Nancy finally opened her mouth slightly and took a deep breath, then looked at Sofia with condemnation: "You are too much to let him go."

As a woman, how could Sofia not see the potential spark between Nancy and Simon.This girlfriend of her own has a strength that is not commensurate with her appearance. What makes her tempting is often a more powerful man. The guy who just left is just such a person.

There is not much space that can be occupied in that little man's heart. Sophia doesn't want anyone to come and share with herself.However, apart from following the trend, she did not make any intentions too deliberately, because knowing this might be counterproductive.

The next day is Saturday, September 11.

Early in the morning, the New York Times announced that the US Senate formally confirmed that it will hold a hearing on the fraudulent information, endangering public safety, and disguised low-price dumping involving the 58list website of Igret, on September 16. To decide whether to conduct further investigation.

Igrid then gave a positive response on its own portal, saying that it will try its best to cooperate with this hearing.

In the original time and space, the slackness and arrogance shown by the door classmates in the congressional hearing on Microsoft's monopoly issue directly led to a large-scale investigation of Microsoft's antitrust case that lasted for two years, and Microsoft was once infinitely close to being split.

In the later Facebook privacy leak, Zuckerberg learned the lessons of his classmates very well. He was very respectful and cooperative in the performance of the Congress hearing. A lot of parliamentarians were very satisfied with the performance of Xiaozha. He originally vowed to punish Facebook for tens of thousands. The $100 million hearing turned into a farce in the eyes of the discerning eye.

Although there are many other influencing factors among them, coaxing a bunch of congressional officials is definitely of great benefit.

After all, everyone is face-saving.

Congressional hearings require the head of the target company to attend. The CEO of 58list is Michael Novarek.However, in order to show the importance of the hearing, Jeff Bezos, president of Eaglenet, actively stated on his Facebook page that he will attend the hearing and answer some questions that may be made by the lawmakers. .

Rather than just carefully preparing for possible problems ahead of time, Eaglet also invited a dedicated public relations team and government consultant to design all the details of the hearing next week.

However, for the invitation of Senate Republican leader Bob Dole to Simon to also attend the hearing in person, Igriette politely refused on the grounds that his boss wanted to accompany his pregnant wife.

After all, the Congressional hearing is not too decent.

All the face that should be given is given, and it is wrong to push the nose on the face.

Simon flew from New York to San Francisco on the weekend two days, spent a weekend with a female assistant, and returned to Los Angeles on Monday.

Janet has talked to Veronica about staying in North America.

Veronica will be stationed in New York as a special financial advisor to Westeros, where she will oversee the financial status of AOL, Verizon Telecom and Nokia.

All three companies are in a state of rapid growth because of continued expansion, capital flows are very active, and senior management has great autonomy.

In this state, the lack of strict supervision for a long time is actually very dangerous. If you don't pay attention to it, there may be a copy of the Enron incident in Simon's memory.

The heads of the three companies personally called Simon after the appointment of Veronica's position and expressed different levels of dissent. Simon did not make concessions.As long as the three companies have not gone in the wrong direction, he will not interfere too much in the management of Steve Case and others, but this does not mean that he will completely trust several executives.

On September 16, the congressional hearing on 58list website was held in Washington as scheduled.

There are actually three parties to this hearing, members of the Senate, members of the executives of Igret, and delegations from several large newspaper groups in the United States.

In order to avoid being distracted by the traditional paper media to guide public opinion, Igrid has turned this hearing into a live TV broadcast. The two major network platforms, NBC TV Network and CNN TV Station, will live broadcast the expected hearing for up to three hours. .

FOX and ABC, which had been in good agreement with the Westeros system, chose to refuse this time because of their own interests in the field of paper media.

Simon was not surprised.

At the same time, Igrid Portal will also conduct a comprehensive graphic and audio live broadcast of this hearing.

After more than half a year of technical upgrades, AOL has basically completed the ADSL transformation of its own network, which means that as of September, the basic speed of more than 26 million World Wide Web users in AOL coverage has reached 256Kbps, compared with the old dial-up Internet The maximum network speed of 128Kbps has doubled directly.

In fact, many users have opened up a higher speed of 512Kbps, which is enough for web pages to play audio content in real time.

As Simon begins to allow the Westeros system to expand brutally, ADSL, which has completed the ADSL layout, will also accelerate the industrial layout in other regions of the United States outside the east and west coasts.

Simon completed a three-hour hearing at Dumei Point Estate.

There were no special accidents during the entire hearing, and Igreat's advantage was very obvious.

Most of the old antiques in the Senate are clearly unclear what the Internet means, so Michael Novarek still needs to explain many questions himself.

Novarek is very patient. These basic questions, such as what kind of service does 58list provide, and how the website makes money, etc., inevitably occupy most of the hearings.

Although there is no shortage of sharp questions about how 58list will deal with fraud and false information, but with careful preparation in advance, these questions have also been resolved by Michael Novarek.

The climax of the hearing is probably the allegation that several newspaper group representatives have allegedly dumped at a low price on 58list.

The paper media believes that the free model of 58list is completely destroying the tens of billions of dollars of classified information advertising industry of traditional paper media in a disguised low-price model. This behavior threatens the work of tens of thousands of newspaper practitioners, and, Once the traditional newspaper classified information advertising business is destroyed, taking advantage of its own market advantage, 58list may charge consumers higher fees.

Eaglet made no concessions.

It said that the launch of 58list service actually saved the public a lot of unnecessary expenses.

It may cost US$30 for a user to post a classified information ad in a newspaper. However, with this US$30, users can not only enjoy the free news, e-mail, social networks, online games and other services of Igreat. One of them.

Moreover, Igrid Portal has its own business model, and the main income comes from the advertising of merchants.

This is also the basis for 58list to provide free services.

In addition, the website will not be able to charge users high fees in the future, because once this is done, there will inevitably be other free websites of the same type.

Finally, the statistics lasted for a three-hour hearing. The members of the Senate basically played soy sauce, and the representatives of the newspaper industry group were completely defeated.

The network and TV platform paid attention to more than 50 million users of this hearing in real time, and even leaned on the side of Igrid.Newspaper groups that want to protect their own interests have become the villains of this hearing.