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   Chapter 851 Curse

   "ICQ's share price has exceeded 471 US dollars, which is only one step away from 400 billion US dollars, and beyond our sight, we may witness the birth of the first billionaire richest man in America's history!"

Bloomberg Rich List first reported, "In the latest issue of ICQ's investor list, Bruno Song is no longer a major shareholder of ICQ, and his shareholding is less than 10%. Even if ICQ's share price exceeds 400 billion US dollars, ICQ It's only part of Bruno Song's worth, even the least part..."

"Like the former richest man Bill Gates, Bruno Song has also invested in many industries other than ICQ. The manufacturer of the Alcatel P2 mobile phone, which ranks first in mobile phone sales in America this year, was acquired by Bruno Song two years ago. The latest valuation made by Wall Street institutions is 189 billion US dollars, second only to the market value of 230 billion euros of Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer!

  PA Semiconductor has just reached a merger agreement with America's largest MP3 manufacturer, Dimeng, and Dimeng was officially acquired by PA Semiconductor.

  Last week, the Microsoft Xbox game console, which just ushered in its world premiere and sold more than 500,000 units, uses chips developed by PA Semiconductors.

In addition to Microsoft Xbox consoles, chips used by Alcatel mobile phones, Apple computers, Dimeng MP3, Panda TV, Forita TV boxes, Siebel Automobiles and other manufacturers are all supplied by PA Semiconductor. In addition, PA Semiconductor also cooperates with Panda TV jointly developed the world's fourth largest LCD panel business.

  PA Semiconductor's latest valuation has exceeded US$84 billion. Although it is not much different from Intel's US$450 billion market value, PA Semiconductor is already the top five semiconductor manufacturers in the world!

  The monetary fund PMMF fund under the PayPal payment platform, currently has a scale of more than 84 billion US dollars, becoming one of the largest monetary funds in America, and more than 9 million users around the world are investing in PMMF funds…”

The Bloomberg Fortune Ranking lists the companies in Song Yang's hands one by one. At this time, the outside world suddenly discovered that Song Yang has established and invested in so many companies besides ICQ. firmly tied together.

  Alcatel mobile phone is now a national mobile phone in America. PayPal payment is the preferred shopping payment channel for American users when shopping in e-commerce. The fund investment users of PayPal have exceeded the users who purchased funds under Goldman Sachs.

PayPal's credit business is based on eBay and Amazon's merchants and users. In the first quarter of this year, the credit scale exceeded 40 billion US dollars, and the net profit exceeded 2.8 billion US dollars. , is always the most profitable!

Transaction fees, fund fees, insurance fees, credit, etc., these have become the most important means of revenue for PayPal. In America, PayPal is still somewhat restrained, but in Europe and South America, PayPal's interest is not low, PayPal It has more and more attributes of a money printing machine.

In addition to Alcatel mobile phones and PayPal, Amelica is already inseparable from the Hotmail mailbox, scans the virus every day, and cleans up computer junk. Wikipedia, a website for all kinds of information, the Xue Leshan game that is played every day, the Saipan music store that listens to music every day, etc., are all industries in Song Yang's hands.

   Seeing today's special issue of the Bloomberg Rich List, countless people understand that they use so many products from Songyang's industries on weekdays, and they may still use them in the next few decades...

  Bloomberg Fortune List lists the industries in Song Yang's hands, and then does not know where to get the valuation, and finally cites several Internet companies such as eBay and Fortis Antivirus.

   "If eBay, Fortis Antivirus and other companies can successfully enter the Nasdaq, then Bruno Song's worth will set a new record on the America's wealth list and become the first person to enter the 100 billion dollar knife club!"

The special issue of    Bloomberg Fortune List has caused quite a stir in industries such as finance, technology, and the Internet. Bill Gates has been the richest man for many years, and Americans have become numb and used to it.

But when Bill Gates was the richest man, he was not as ferocious as Song Yang. He became the richest man last year and may be worth hundreds of billions of dollars this year. Regardless of whether the report on the Bloomberg Fortune Ranking is reliable or not, this gimmick is indeed bluffing. I am used to seeing it. The American people who have reported various reports are a little frightened.

After the Bloomberg Rich List, Forbes, Vanity Fair and other media also started various reports. Some estimates of Song Yang's worth were low, and some were high. Vanity Fair even estimated Song Yang's worth. More than 130 billion US dollars, worthy of playing Hollywood, there is a way to do things.

But no matter which financial media, it is estimated that Song Yang's net worth this year may reach a record level. Ci estimates that this year's worth may exceed 90 billion US dollars, but compared with the intensive listing of companies in Song Yang's hands, it seems to be a bit slower...

San Jose is still a familiar scene. After so many years of development, the urban areas of the American states have basically been finalized, that is, some areas are full of high-rise buildings, and some areas seem to have stayed for decades. This situation is short-lived. In time, not much will change, probably for decades.

  San Jose is basically the same, most of which remain as they are, except that there are more construction sites and projects in the urban and suburban areas, and most of these projects are related to Songyang.

The suburb of San Jose, the huge construction site, is a new landmark of San Jose, the engineering project of Alcatel Mobile Headquarters. This headquarters project is not far from the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park. Global Headquarters.

The headquarters project is progressing quite quickly without the cost of the project. Oswald Construction Company, which is in charge of the project, convened more than a dozen construction teams, and a large number of mechanical equipment entered the site, so that the foundation of the Alcatel Mobile Headquarters building has been completed. , It is expected that before the end of next year, it will take more than two years to complete the construction of this headquarters.

The car drove past the construction site of the Alcatel Mobile Headquarters Building. When entering the urban area, it passed several construction sites in succession. The North American Global Investment Foundation Headquarters Building, ICQ Headquarters Building, etc. are all under construction, especially the ICQ Headquarters Building. This year At the beginning of the filming of the land, the bare land cost more than 370 million US dollars, in the city center of San Jose.

San Jose, where many big companies have gathered, along with the frenzy of the Internet, the emergence of a large group of Internet companies has once again increased the land and housing prices in San Jose. Now the housing prices in San Jose can not be said to be the highest in America, but it is by no means higher than that of San Jose. Manhattan, Los Angeles and other places in New York are much cheaper, and some villa areas are even more expensive.

As for the land, not to mention, there are many technology companies gathered, there are many big names and top giant companies, ICQ can win a piece of land in the city center of San Jose, or because the city of San Jose and the council do not want ICQ to move away because of a piece of land , only to approve that piece of land.

   Otherwise, I am afraid that even if you are rich, you may not be able to win a large piece of land in the central area of ​​San Jose.

  Song Yang, who was sitting in the car, looked at the land for ICQ headquarters. He wondered what ICQ would look like when the building was completed. Anyway, the Yahoo headquarters next door would probably not be built.

Yahoo also acquired a large piece of land and was going to use it to build the headquarters, but the headquarters, like a magic spell, could not be built. It is estimated that in ten years, it may not be able to be built. , made a lot of money, but the land for Yahoo's headquarters was bought by Google, which was once delivered to the door.

The land of ICQ's headquarters building doesn't need to be worried about being bought by some companies, and finally ICQ will show up. …

   The construction of the headquarters building is like a magic spell, causing countless companies to fall into the quagmire because of the construction of the headquarters building, but all companies are eager to have a headquarters building of their own, even if they have to borrow money.

   (end of this chapter)