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   Chapter 849 Today is different from the past

   After the acquisition of the Bronfman Group and the sale of Seagram’s wine business, ICQ’s stock price did not fall, and continued to test its market value of $400 billion.

ICQ is now a leader in the Internet, media and entertainment sectors. As long as ICQ's share price rises, hundreds of stocks in these sectors will follow suit. Window paper, at least I don't dare now, it would offend people like that...

   The stock price has not fallen, so the leeks, there will be no objection to the ICQ matter, and there is no way to talk about the initiation of a class action lawsuit.

There will even be leeks, who make up their own minds for ICQ's board of directors and management to work hard for ICQ's development, and will take the initiative to defend Immelt, Seagram Wines and ICQ's technological attributes are not at all good, sell it. , and still get a huge cash flow, this wave has won numbness...

On the other side of the major media groups, facing the "peer" thing, they also turn a blind eye, sitting on the ICQ social platform, ICNC, NBC, Universal Music, Universal Pictures, ICQ is now a part of the American media group. member.

There is generally a tacit understanding among the major media groups in America. Unless it is a last resort, or when there is no war, they will not bombard their peers. The media needs to be authoritative. Where is the authority of the media, how can they fool the leeks? !

   The leeks didn’t make trouble, and the small and medium-sized media got hush money again, and because of Immelt’s power, they didn’t dare to investigate.

The big media group also did not pick up the black material of ICQ, as for the Internet media, as a brother from America, and even the global Internet industry, the representative of the Internet, which portal, which community, which forum, which blog , Dare to provoke ICQ? !

ICQ is not as domineering as Microsoft used to be, but that doesn't mean ICQ is easy to mess with. One day ICQ is down. Those small websites and small forums dare to dig up the black material of ICQ, but now ICQ is just like the sky in the sky. That's all for the traditional industry, the peers of the Internet, who dares to be **** ICQ?

  Even if a really strong Internet company wants to make a name for itself, it will be slapped to death by ICQ.

ICQ, PayPal, Double Click, Xue Leshan Online Game Platform, Forita Antivirus, Hotmail, Firefox Browser, Saipan System, Saipan Music Store, Wikipedia, IMDb, ebay, Amazon and many other Internet companies, at critical moments, They all want to stand with ICQ and cheer for ICQ. When the time comes, who will the outside world believe?

In addition, the American Internet Society and the American Advertising Association are all on the side of ICQ and provoked ICQ. This Internet company will never receive an advertisement for a dollar since then, and will not be sheltered by the American Internet Society. Any mainstream website will not have any information about this Internet company, and even the search results are all negative news. In the world of the Internet, this company was directly "dead" by the agency...

For the first time, ICQ "gently" showed a wave of its own power and influence to the outside world. With the help of it, in the Internet and media industries, it really felt a little bit of a call for wind and rain. The news that Seagram's wine industry was sold, It just calmed down so quietly, at least temporarily.

After seeing the influence of ICQ, many companies and big names have a deeper understanding of the giant company composed of the Internet and media, followed by Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Lycos and other Internet companies, Cooperation with old-fashioned media companies such as Disney, Fox, CBS, Gannett Media, etc. has begun to become intensive.

   The matches in the fireplace made bursts of burning sound. Even though Christmas had passed, and spring had begun in New York, Los Angeles, etc., it was still cold and windy, and the outside of the room was icy and snowy.

   "Damn it, Cherry, how did they choose this ghost place for you!"

The door was pushed open, and a figure entered along with the cold wind, complaining to Ella Cherry, who was sitting by the fireplace, holding a cup of coffee and looking out the window, like a sculpture.

   Ella Cherry, who was investigating the Double-click Company, had a fight with Song Yang, and ended up sending herself to the New York Federal Prison, but appeared here at this time.

Ajit Wheeler, who was standing beside the fireplace and was warming up, saw Ella Cherry who looked like a sculpture, and when she could not help but try to breathe Ella Cherry with her hands, Ella ·Cherry finally spoke.

   "This is probably the best place to stop and think about something!"

During the years when Ella Cherry was in New York federal prison, Ajit Wheeler, a professor of academic sociology, visited Ella Cherry the most times, and the two became close friends. After all, the two of the same ideas, and both are staunch antitrust schools.

Looking at Ella Cherry, who had just been released from federal prison on parole, Ajit Wheeler felt that her days in federal prison in the past few years seemed to have worn away Ella Cherry's sharp-edged atmosphere. Now he has become so introverted that he can't see Ella Cherry's thoughts at all.

   "They shouldn't treat you like that. You gave everything to deal with that guy Bruno Song, but what happened?

Facts have proved that you are the right person, look at ICQ, it is even more terrible than Microsoft in the past, you can imagine, its market value is almost over 400 billion US dollars, and the Seagram wine industry is unexpectedly The sale is less than four billion dollars, but this is a company with an annual revenue of three billion dollars! "

Ajit Wheeler held grievances for Ella Cherry, and was helpless to ICQ's various salacious operations. As a bystander, he could see clearly, but no one wanted to listen to what he said, Ah Kat Wheeler also wrote a lot of articles and comments about the possibility of the Internet bubble, and the possibility of the birth of giant monopoly companies.

   A few years ago, there were newspapers and media that published his alarmist critical articles, but now with the frenzy of the Internet, no newspapers are willing to publish those things.

Because many of the users who bought those newspapers also bought Internet stocks, the newspapers published Ajit Wheeler's articles, who was it that they were responding to? , As a result, several years have passed, the Internet is still booming, and countless billionaires have been born. Users are not idle and have nothing to do, and they have to be frightened several times a day.

Ajit Wheeler also felt it. He is a pen-player, and it is impossible to win against the Internet giants such as ICQ, AOL, and Yahoo. No matter how fierce he is, no one will look at him. Only an activist like Ella Cherry is estimated to be able to overthrow the gang of Internet giants that have grown up.

But Ajit Wheeler is also a little worried. After several years of federal prison career, Ella Cherry still retains a few percent of her original action and courage. It's a huge blow to anyone!

   Listening to Ajit Wheeler's words, Ella Cherry just drank coffee silently, which was a habit she developed in a federal prison in New York.

This time, Ella Cherry was the antitrust school, and Congressman Edward Winslow, who had blamed Ella Cherry, gave Ella Cherry's case after the turmoil subsided. Working together, she was released on bail.

However, it is inconvenient to present Ella Cherry in front of the media and the public in an upright manner. Ella Cherry herself did not want to be on the cusp of the storm, and she took the initiative to choose to come to the icy state of Alaska. The ghost place has never been under the attention of the mainstream media in America, and there is not much media coverage at all.

Looking back at Ajit Wheeler, Ella Cherry sighed and said helplessly, "It's completely different now than it was a few years ago. It is no longer necessary to deal with Internet companies such as ICQ and AOL. The original method can be solved, the beast has come out of the cage and occupied the forest, and if you want to tame it again, it is not too…”

Speaking of which, Ella Cherry was silent for a while. Back then, she wanted to put the Internet industry under shackles while it was still in its infancy, and introduced an Internet Act to tame the young beast of the Internet industry and prevent the emergence of Microsoft on the Internet. Such a giant, but who knows, when she encounters the first double-click company, she will fall into trouble. Not only did she not tame the Internet industry, but she planted herself in it.

   (end of this chapter)