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   Chapter 152 Pandora's Box

   Listening to this request made by Song Yang, Greck and Marcus looked at each other, and they both looked at each other, wondering how Song Yang would make such a request.

   Looking for some powerful figures from some administrative departments in America to act as consultants, which is not uncommon in major companies in America.

For example, Wall Street is staring at America's financial and financial departments, the military industry specializes in poaching big figures in America's defense agencies as consultants, and the medical consortium colludes with America's Department of Health. Even the bosses of these departments are Wall Street and military industry. From a consortium or a medical consortium company, as long as the US knife is high, it is not impossible for the retired commander to be hired as a consultant.

   Now hearing that Song Yang is also going to play this set, and it is for a new project, Greg and Marcus are a little startled.

   "Song, do you know what this means?!"

Gleek still remembers that last year, after Double Click Company got the venture capital of WPP Group, the day after the celebration banquet was held, when he took Song Yang to see Adrian, he also told Song Yang the real rules of the game. .

   Now Song Yang has already started and put the rules of the game into operation. Gleick doesn't know if this is good or bad.

   "When you choose an ally, it means that you choose an opponent!"

Glick didn't know what Song Yang wanted to do, but the banking industry was also the traditional site of the Donkey Party. The American Bankers Association was also the most powerful association in America. No one wanted to provoke the guys who controlled the American money printing machine. To put it bluntly, these bankers can really kill people with US knives...

   But listening to Song Yang's words, it seems that he is going to dig a corner from America's banking industry, and maybe even start a competition, which makes Gleek a little worried.

   At this time, Marcus also had a solemn expression on his face. It was true that he supported Song Yang to invest in other industries, but he was not so mad when he fought against America's banking industry.

  Song Yang also had a helpless expression on his face, so he just mentioned the beginning, which shocked Greg and Marcus, showing how influential the banking industry is in America.

   "The new project requires the development of an online payment software PayPal, which needs to deal with Bank of America. I need banking, financial and other industry personnel to be public relations consultants for PayPal!" Song Yang said.

To launch PayPal, the most difficult thing is not to develop software, but how to implement it. In regions with developed credit cards such as America and Japan, online payment software such as PayPal is not very popular, let alone mobile phone QR code payment. .

   In addition to the implementation of PayPal, the most important point is to deal with the relationship with the American banking industry, and the launch of PayPal must be resolved quickly.

  It is necessary to have a certain number of users and merchants as a bargaining chip for PayPal, otherwise, when those banking giants react, some of them will target PayPal.

   In terms of strength and influence, Song Yang's side was simply no match for the wealthy banking industry. At that time, PayPal was probably facing pressure from all aspects of America.

   "In the future, not only will Double-click, ICQ, etc. have a large number of businesses, which need the support of online payment software, the Internet industry also needs PayPal. If PayPal can be launched, it can also enter more Internet and even other industries!"

Song Yang didn't say anything. What he has to do now is to develop PayPal and other things like Internet finance, and then survive under the siege of many American banks. As long as he survives, he may not have the chance to fight back. Even the anti-takeover of banks is not impossible.

  Greck and Marcus heard the PayPal project, and they felt their heads were big. They could feel that once this thing came out, I am afraid it would become the target of the Bank of America.

   "We will hire people from the Bank of America, the Treasury, the Savings Regulatory Authority and other industries to serve as PayPal consultants, but Song, this matter can't be rushed, and it can't be solved immediately!" Gleick and Marcus said.

Song Yang looked at the two and nodded. After PayPal was launched, it would definitely have to argue with the bank, or even fight a protracted battle. Only by dragging it out would the bank giants in America know that they could not kill PayPal. Slowly accepting PayPal into America's real playground!

When Greck and Marcus left, they both had complex expressions on their faces. They could all feel that Song Yang's net worth was increasing visibly to the naked eye, and the people around Song Yang were also powerful. Increasing.

Now Song Yang has started to invest in the industry, which means that Song Yang's net worth and status in America will reach a new level, but for the mobile phone, online payment and other industries that Song Yang wants to invest in, Greke, However, Marcus was a little worried. These two industry giants are everywhere, but none of them are easy to provoke!

   As the most popular company on the Internet after the beginning of the year, of course, it must be ICQ. Any slight disturbance will also be rumored.

   When ICQ announced that it would form a "Big Three" model to manage ICQ, what surprised the outside world was that another female CEO was in a high position!

   This is another female president in Silicon Valley after Whitman served as the double-click president, and she is also the president of a popular company like ICQ, which is even more eye-catching.

   However, the change of ICQ management has not affected ICQ's rapid progress in the Internet industry. After a week of launching, ICQ's user growth rate has gradually stabilized, but the single-day user growth rate is still jaw-dropping.

  According to the current growth rate of ICQ, it is expected that the end of the month will not be needed. In the middle of this month, only the local users of America will exceed the 5 million mark!

   In overseas markets, ICQ is also showing an unstoppable trend. In many areas that are regarded as Internet deserts, ICQ's share is quite amazing. The world's first instant messenger is much more popular than expected.

  ICQ also announced that it will launch several language versions of ICQ in Chinese, Russian, Japanese, German, etc. in the near future, and provide customized ICQs for cooperative companies. It seems that ICQ is very popular.

Not only is the number of ICQ users soaring, the ICQ space community is also among the young user groups, and there are continuous waves. Users who use ICQ have begun to use the ICQ space community as a platform to show themselves, and publish their own logs in the ICQ space community. Photos, etc., coupled with the constant admission of celebrities, make the ICQ space community become a gathering place for young Internet users.

   In the face of the popularity of ICQ and instant messaging, other major Internet companies naturally have to test the waters. Although it has not been officially announced, various news have already spread.

   The first news came out of AOL. As the most active Internet company in the past two years, AOL is almost a hot spot. Of course, the result is that AOL's stock price has skyrocketed.

This time, AOL's internal "unintentional" news came out. AOL's head Keith has developed an instant messaging software plan "AIM Instant Messenger" for AOL, which will become the second instant messaging company in the Internet industry. With this news The emergence of AOL's stock price soared again.

   Followed by AOL, Yahoo, which will be listed in a month or so, also announced its own instant messaging plan "Yahoo Messenger".

   On the contrary, Netscape and Microsoft, which are currently in full swing, are rarely silent. Netscape simply cannot spare the time and energy to open up new battlefields.

Microsoft seems to be hesitant and does not seem to want to confront its allies on the Internet, but it has not given up on the instant messaging project. It is rumored that at the Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, Microsoft has gathered a group of engineers and is secretly developing its own instant messaging. Software MSNMessenger software.

Microsoft seems to be very conservative in launching MSN's communication software. It doesn't want to give up the industry, and it is worried that it will compete with ICQ after its launch, and it will turn against Song Yang. Now Hotmail is diverting traffic to ICQ. If MSN is launched, then Hotmail Who is the mailbox for? !

   Not only several Internet giants, but other companies have also entered this market and started to grab the air.

  Mark Goldstein, founder of a small Internet company called United Online, announced the establishment of an online alumni record social networking site ClassMates, which is almost the same as Facebook's concept.

   In addition to ClassMates, there are also those who are eyeing the ICQ space community. A small forum, OpenDiary, was launched, and began to be revised according to the ICQ space community, allowing users to publish public or private diaries on the forum.

The entire Internet industry in America and Silicon Valley, after the beginning of the year, the first thing to do is to imitate ICQ. In just a few days, a large number of instant messaging companies have emerged. No matter whether they can make money or survive, anyway They all started to seize the air.

   But the most fun to play is the companies that engage in NFTs. The NFT avatars launched by ICQ are simply opening the door to a new world for these companies.

Although ICQ has repeatedly announced that it does not recognize NFT products made by other companies, there are still a large number of companies that have started to hype the concept of NFT. Post NFT pictures.

Many down-and-out artists also seem to have found a new paradise, mingling with NFT companies to develop NFT products, and then more companies, stars, brands, and personal collection players have poured in, and NFT pictures continue to sell. Sky-high prices seem to have become a hot new concept.

When the hype starts, a broken stone can be sold for sky-high prices, not to mention the NFTs with the most popular Internet concepts today. Once the hype starts, the more expensive it is, the more people will buy it. Successful people have always They only buy the most expensive and not the best. The more expensive NFT products are, the more attractive they are.

  ICQ's storm on the Internet is still going on, but the war between Netscape and Microsoft has entered a new stage. After the beginning of the year, Microsoft quietly began to bundle the IE browser with the Microsoft system!

   (end of this chapter)