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   Chapter 322 Get on the bus

Who is Amelica Internet Company, the most valuable company, there may be a number of names such as Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL that are in transition, but to say who will become the next and most valuable company, there will definitely be countless people saying it ICQ's name!

  The market value of Microsoft and SUN is now more than 200 billion US dollars, IBM's market value is also more than 100 billion US dollars, and the Internet company's leader is still Netscape with a market value of 6 billion US dollars.

   Yahoo is considered to be the next Internet company to surpass Netscape. Today, Yahoo’s market value has exceeded $4 billion, and it is sprinting towards a market value of $5 billion.

The market value of Internet companies still seems to be very different from Microsoft, SUN, IBM and other companies, but Wall Street institutions have already predicted that with the current Internet market, it may be possible in the future, there will be a company with Microsoft, SUN, Intel, Cisco Internet companies on a par.

   Among them, Yahoo is considered to be the company most likely to achieve this result, although it seems to be a little too weak in comparison.

   But in the Internet industry, apart from Yahoo, the most anticipated by countless investors is ICQ!

Since its launch, ICQ has attracted much attention. It was launched by Internet upstarts. It created a new Internet industry. To provide revenue for it, it is the Internet company with the most users in the world!

  When some people appear, they are the focus of the crowd. ICQ's status in the Internet industry is like this. It can be called the rich second generation of the Internet industry. No one has worried about the future of ICQ.

   And from the current point of view, ICQ has not disappointed people. It is still the darling of Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Now it is rumored that ICQ is going to start financing, which means that ICQ is no longer far away from listing!

There are naturally many people who are interested in ICQ. Even after ICQ's announcement, whether it is Silicon Valley venture capital or Wall Street institutions, or even traditional banks, technology companies, and media groups, I am afraid they will all rush to find ICQ. Cooperation.

   After all, ICQ's predecessors have proved all this, even the most sluggish double-click has made investors such as WPP Group earn more than several times.

   But the news released by ICQ this time is really scary, and for a while, all parties who were just around the corner couldn't resist it for a while!

  The news released by ICQ is to exchange 5% of the equity for 300 million US dollars in cash. What does this mean, that is, ICQ's management believes that the current ICQ valuation has reached an astonishing 6 billion US dollars.

   An Internet company that has not yet been listed has estimated that it has reached 6 billion US dollars, reaching the same level as Netscape, the big brother of the Internet industry today.

   Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the technology industry who heard the news were a little reticent for a while, and even the well-informed media were a little at a loss for a while.

  The media side, I don’t know if ICQ doesn’t know the sky is high and the earth is really strong, and it dares to raise such an outrageous amount of financing.

  No accident, even if ICQ only released the news through well-connected media and did not announce it directly, this news still detonated Silicon Valley and the media industry.

   The news of "ICQ's sky-high financing" began to fly all over the sky, and many media were speculating, which "take advantage" is willing to take this knife? !

   "ICQ's financing may create a new Internet financing history, but ICQ is worth it all!"

While many media were still speculating on who would take over the deal, the "Wall Street Journal" suddenly stood up and started to support ICQ very well, thinking that ICQ's sky-high financing was not a lion's big talk, but a big deal. "Excellent value for money".

No one expected that the Wall Street Journal was the first to stand up and tell the crowd who eat melons not to "make a fuss" and not to look at the future from the perspective of the past. The analysis invited by the Wall Street Journal in this issue Teacher, he also specifically quoted Microsoft's performance over the past ten years. When Microsoft went public that year, its market value was only $600 million.

There were also a large group of analysts and investors who shouted that Microsoft was "too expensive" and had no investment value. As a result, the group of people who ignored Microsoft at the time can no longer climb the market value of Microsoft to 300 billion. The golden knot of the US knife charge is gone.

The "Wall Street Journal" is about to shout out the classic phrase "Don't want 998, as long as 98, the old man will not be deceived, don't need billions of dollars, only need 300 million dollars, you can buy ICQ stock home." .

Comparing ICQ with Microsoft, let’s not talk about whether this is some relatives wearing a hat, and it’s still a little bit worse. The key is that when these words came out, many people who eat melons gave birth to such a feeling, which seems to be really a little bit. Reason, if ICQ can really be like Microsoft, the stock price and market value will double by one or two hundred times in the future, then it seems that it is not expensive now?

Otherwise, what to say, if you can fool people, it has to be on the Wall Street side. Black people can be called white, obviously cutting leeks, and when they get into their mouths, they can all become. This is ICQ for those investors. The opportunity of the car, if you miss it, you will not be able to get on this car!

   It must be the major Wall Street institutions behind it that can make Wall Street build momentum. This time, they helped ICQ burn a fire!

Wall Street's doing this will definitely not be a conscience discovery, or it is really going to be cheaper for ICQ, but to use ICQ to continue to hype Internet concept stocks. If ICQ's sky-high financing can be completed, doesn't it mean that the current Internet Company, or is it grossly undervalued?

If the listed companies such as Yahoo, Netscape, and Lycos are undervalued, if the stock prices of these companies can rise, then Wall Street will be able to cut a bunch of leeks, and the cheap money given to ICQ is not at all. what.

Contrary to what the outside world expected, it was the first two who wanted to invest in ICQ, not from Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street investment institutions, nor from the technology industry, but from the other two. One of the companies was Song Yang's old acquaintance, Enron, and the other was Comcast Group!

What is the highest state of    Flickering, that is, not only flickering other people, but also being addicted to it and unable to extricate himself.

Sometimes, I have to believe that there is God’s will in the shadows. Ever since Song Yang established DoubleClick, Anran has been very fond of Song Yang, and handed over a lot of advertising business to DoubleClick, and when it came to America Telecom, it was even more With all the support, now, An Ran, who wants to build the "America Western United Consortium", is the first to stand up, ready to use real money and silver to express support for Song Yang and ICQ.

Comcast, who jumped out from the other side, is somewhat beyond the expectations of the outside world. The strength of this old media group is naturally beyond doubt. Not to mention 300 million US dollars, even if it is 3 billion US dollars, for Comcast Especially, it's not a problem.

The key lies in the meaning of Comcast's jumping out this time. It was rumored that Disney was going to acquire the portal website. Time Warner and ABC TV stations were also rubbing off the popularity of the Internet, and Comcast was the first to clearly stand up. It shows that the traditional media giants can't help but start to the Internet industry!

   "Milia, be quiet!"

  In Song Yang's villa, Millia, Logan, who had summer vacation, came to San Jose with Da Anna.

In the villa, there were a lot of people gathered today. Daana and several people came, and Greck and Gallo naturally came back. On the TV in the living room, there was the Olympic Games in Atlanta, as a testimony to the prosperity of the empire after America and the bears were crushed. , the scale of the Olympic Games this time can be described as grand to the extreme, of course, the most eye-catching is the various advertisements.

It can be said that there are only things that the audience can't think of, and there is nothing that can't be played without the management committee this time. Not to mention that relying on this Olympics, the developers directly doubled Atlanta's housing prices and made a lot of money. Billion Dollars.

The most exaggerated thing is that even the floor of the gymnasium was sold in advance. In Atlanta's Memorial Park, it is said that 600,000 bricks have been pre-sold. Yes, the bricks of the Memorial Park have been sold. As long as thirty dollars, one person can buy a brick with his name on it from this Olympic Memorial Park, and relying on this pile of bricks that can't be sold, the contractor earns three tears in tears. More than ten million dollars, as for the cost, you can think about it.

Millia, who has become a little adult, has reached the age where people hate dogs. At this moment, she is running around the villa with a little bully dog ​​that Gallo gave her as a birthday present, attracting Daanna to incarnate. In the style of the Mexican-American aunt, she yelled at Millia, but Millia, who was already solid, escaped Da Anna's "capture" and ran away in a flash.

   "Gallo, you've done a good job!" Turning around, Daana raised her voice and scolded Gallo, who was grilling.

Logan was still sitting quietly on the sofa, with a guitar beside him. Greg brought a glass of wine by himself and sat by the pool in the backyard drinking. In the living room, Song Yang and Evan Spiegel arrived. Er whispered, seeing this scene, Daana smiled unconsciously on her face, as if she had returned to Houston.

"ICQ has reached an agreement with the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to make ICQ one of the Internet media companies for the Atlanta Olympics, and has also signed several Olympians to represent ICQ!" Watching the game on TV, Evan S. Pigel said to Song Yang.

   (end of this chapter)