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After returning from Tasmania, Jennifer spent three more days in Melbourne before returning to Los Angeles.

The entire Westeros system only counts companies directly held by Westeros Corporation, including the core four 'women', as well as a large number of listed or unlisted companies of various types such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, America Online, and Nokia. , the number has reached 36, and it is still increasing, and the number of other second- and third-level subsidiaries is even larger.

Although Simon decentralizes as much as possible, because of the large number of these companies, the affairs that he needs to handle every day are still very heavy and complicated.

The female assistant's status in Simon's business empire is now equivalent to his eyes, in charge of an assistant's office with six other assistants, constantly screening and summarizing the information of all enterprises in the entire Westeros system and transferring it to Simon for processing.

Simon remained in Melbourne to follow up on the production of "Batman: The Dark Knight" and to control the operation of the entire Westeros system.

Businesses always look vibrant in the early stages of development, especially in the Westeros system, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years.

Florence.

Continued turmoil in Europe has not affected Italy, but it has always been difficult for this country on the peninsula to have much of a say in Europe, both economically and politically.

Sofia Faisi is also rarely concerned with politics and has been negotiating with the Gucci family recently.

The last male member of Gucci's second generation, 85-year-old Aldo Gucci, passed away last month, and that was fine.

Melisandre has achieved absolute control of Gucci, and it is difficult for the Gucci family to have too much influence on this luxury brand no matter what.

However, the internal disputes of the Gucci family are also well known to many people. Aldo Gucci did not arrange his own affairs. He held 12% of Gucci shares in his name until the last second of his death, and then dumped it to several children.

Without pre-arranged family trusts, several of Aldo Gucci's children faced unavoidable inheritance tax problems.

A more serious problem is that several of Aldo Gucci's children can't come up with enough cash to pay inheritance tax. Although Gucci's recovery is very rapid, Sofia has used all the excess funds of the company for corporate expansion. In recent years, Neither intends to give shareholders a cent of dividends.

As a result, the Gucci family had to choose to sell the 12% stake.

Melisandre, who has the support of the Westeros system behind the scenes, is naturally the most suitable target to take over. Sofia also intends to take this stake. In addition to this 12% stake, Melisandre’s shareholding in Gucci is about 10%. can reach 75%.

However, compared to the initial total of $170 million paid by Simon to acquire 63% of Gucci’s shares, the 12% stake in the Gucci family’s rivals this time reported a high price of $150 million. Although the outside world’s assessment of Gucci’s market value is rising, Sofia is unlikely to accept such an offer. After discussing with Simon, Melisandre’s offer is capped at $100 million, so Sofia has been bargaining with the Gucci family.

Because there is only 12% of the shares, there is no way to encroach on the control of Gucci, and the price is still so high, except for Melisandre, the Gucci family cannot find a second successor in a short time.

Helsinki.

After Nokia's mobile communications department was owned by Westeros, there was no drag from other assets, and another $50 million was obtained. Jorma Ollila quickly started the research and development of mobile phones and base station equipment related to gsm technology.

The direct border with the Soviet Union and the turmoil in Europe this year has made all of Finland a little trembling, but it's time to pass.

Just in the first half of the year, Finland has started to build Europe's or the world's first gsm pilot network, although it is dominated by Germany's Siemens Group, and Nokia also takes part in it.

However, it will take at least a year for gsm to be officially commercialized.

It is impossible for Nokia's mobile communication department to completely throw away its accumulated heritage for many years. In the first half of the year, it continued to launch two analog signal mobile phones, and the sales were not bad.

New York.

While Simon and his female assistant were spending time together in a chalet in Tasmania, James Redbold officially signed a stake in San Diego-based wireless communications technology company Qualcomm.

In the past two years, Qualcomm has initially completed the patent layout of cmda technology, and has been recognized by at-t, Bell Pacific, Motorola and other companies. It has also established cooperative relations with South Korean telecommunications companies, and continues to obtain funds from all parties to invest in cdma commercial technology. 's research and development.

However, after several consecutive capital injections by at-t and other companies have been rapidly exhausted, Qualcomm has recently faced a shortage of funds.

If it does not accept Westeros’ shares, Qualcomm will have less than $200,000 in funds on its books, and even the employees’ August salaries may not be paid smoothly.

Qualcomm’s management was quite concerned by Westeros’ previous strong performance when it seized control of AOL and Cisco. However, it is difficult for Qualcomm to find a big gold that can immediately give out a large amount of money in a short period of time. host.

After some bargaining, Westeros acquired 4 million shares of Qualcomm's common stock at the cost of $35 million in funds, accounting for 20% of Qualcomm's total share capital at this time.

However, Westeros did not get a promise to maintain its own shareholding ratio in the follow-up financing or IPO process like other holding companies. After accepting Westeros as a stake, Qualcomm can also

Continue to push ipo work without restriction.

San Francisco.

With the further promotion of the Igret portal and World Wide Web technology, although July has not yet passed, the number of users of AOL has exceeded the entire month of June, and the number of users accessing the World Wide Web this month is expected to increase by 55,000 to 60,000 households.

In order to keep up with the pace of market expansion, both Igret and AOL can only use the phrase "funding is burning" to describe it.

Igreit is completely in a state of burning money. From browser software, server software, portal website technologies to the underlying javascript language development, the R\u0026D investment is huge, but the realization of sustainable revenue is far away.

Simon had hoped to subsidize the portal sector through software sales, a goal that is obviously not realistic in the short term.

Carol Bartz, who is in charge of the software department, has a strong personality. Although she has already started to earn revenue from the installation of browser software, she not only did not intend to subsidize the portal website department, but instead invested in the $20 million from Simon. The middle cut took $10 million for the development of the software department itself.

On Jeff Bezos' side, the remaining $10 million, the maintenance of the portal team and the latest construction of two brand new data centers will probably only last until the end of August.

Fortunately, Jeff Bezos has begun to explore the advertising business, and successfully got two advertising orders from ibm and Microsoft, the amount is not large, the total is only 800,000 US dollars, and he also refused Gates to increase advertising Investment in exchange for a recommendation to prioritize the development of browser software for the Windows platform.

Simon was very satisfied with such a reckless look.

In order to let users get the latest features as soon as possible, the IE browser under Igreit will be updated several times a month almost every month.

For customers, if the browser software on one platform is often updated in time than another platform, it will naturally produce bias unknowingly.

However, although the Windows operating system has begun to rise, Apple and traditional Unix computers are still the mainstream in these years. Although Westeros is a major shareholder of Microsoft, in order to promote the World Wide Web technology as soon as possible, and at the same time to avoid other competitors. For the time being, the IE browser is unlikely to be biased towards Microsoft.

As for the rivalry and disagreements between Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, Simon didn't get involved too much.

Appropriate internal competition is also beneficial to enterprise development.

And it's not yet time for the software sector to subsidize portals. If that day comes, Simon will not condone Carol Bartz's willfulness.

In addition, at the end of July, 100 Internet cafes opened by AOL officially opened their doors.

The excellent publicity and marketing in the early stage, the leisure environment of the Internet cafe is no less than that of a coffee shop, and the public's curiosity about the Internet has attracted a large number of customers for a while.

However, as originally estimated, these 100 Internet cafes are basically unprofitable.

The fee is $3 per hour, each Internet cafe has 20 computers, and the business hours are from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm. Calculated, even if an Internet cafe is fully operational, the theoretical monthly income is only $28,800. It's good to have half of it.

As it happens, the approximate break-even point for each internet cafe is $15,000.

If you want to make a profit, as originally expected, you can only rely on drinks and snacks or sell some peripherals.

Although the 100 Internet cafes have little hope of making a profit, AOL has no plans to give up the business.

After all, Simon's fundamental purpose is to promote the technology of the World Wide Web.

In the plan, after a period of exploration and operation, AOL intends to expand the Internet cafe industry by means of authorized franchise. Franchisees only need to pay a certain amount of franchise fee to AOL to obtain a full set of technical and program support. It is relatively easy to make a profit with flexible business methods, appropriately increasing the number of computers, increasing the price of Internet access, or developing additional services.

Los Angeles.

In Simon's absence, Daenerys Entertainment is still as vibrant as a little beast in spring.

The financial data for the first half of 1990 has been counted. Although the management has not released the detailed data, both the company's internal and external media have found a general idea.

In the first six months of this year, Daenerys Entertainment made a fortune with just one "Pretty Woman", which was an unexpected box office hit.

However, a film like "Pretty Woman", which is enough to prop up a film company's annual performance, brought Daenerys Entertainment in the first half of the year with a box office of more than 160 million US dollars, but it was not enough for Daenerys. It is one-tenth of the scale of Silk Entertainment's pre-tax profit in the first two quarters.

It's just that "Batman: War Hour", which was a big hit at the box office at the end of last year, made Daenerys Entertainment a lot of money in the first half of the year in terms of box office and peripherals.

In addition, since the end of 1988, Daenerys Entertainment has accumulated "Scream" series, "Dead Poets Society", "Rain Man", "Sixth Sense", "Bodyguard", "Flying Over the Childhood" and so on. A large number of blockbuster films continued to bring Daenerys Entertainment a large sum of money in overseas theaters, video tape markets and TV broadcasting platforms in the first half of 1990.

A series of hit reality shows and other TV series produced by Daenerys Television is also bringing steady income to the company.

Not only that, the Daenerys entertainment consumer goods department, including games and music businesses headed by Nancy Brill, is produced because of the company's

A series of projects have made huge profits.

Among them, the fighting version of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" video game released by Blizzard Studio in March, although it did not reach the best-selling level of the role-playing version of the game last year, but within three months, the cumulative sales of game cartridges also exceeded 1 million boxes, and the total sales are expected to be The amount will exceed 2 million boxes.

Because of the special quota from Nintendo, five games can be released each year at special rates. In addition to the fighting version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Blizzard Studio will also launch a role-playing version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" sequel in the second half of the year. The ea company that Silk Entertainment has a stake in will also provide three other games for the Nintendo console platform.

Taking all these together, in the first half of 1990, Daenerys Entertainment's net profit after tax has reached 573 million US dollars. With the success of films such as "The Ghost Story" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in the summer program, the annual net profit figure can at least double.

After the financial report came out, Amy Pascal was even in a trance this time.

She officially signed a contract in March 1987, and the contract ended in March 1991, for a total of four years.

Based on the company's first-half performance and her original compensation terms, her compensation this year, combined with cash and stock awards, is likely to exceed $100 million.

$100 million.

If someone had told her years ago that she could be a billionaire, Amy would have thought they were talking nonsense.

Hollywood executives, in addition to the top Steve Ross, Lou Vasalman and a few other bigwigs who have been in high positions for a long time and have made the enterprise large enough. Others, the salary is actually not high, everyone is busy, and they are just earning a hard-earned money.

Even Steve Ross, the total salary he received last year was only more than 36 million US dollars, but this has been scolded by the media and shareholders.

If you are really in Hollywood, you actually know that the most profitable people in this industry are only a handful of top superstars.

As for the senior management in the circle, although they seem to have great power, they are also hindered by many. Most of the time, they have to be angry with investors and try their best to accommodate the stars. They are not as beautiful as the outside world imagined.

And yet, she, Amy Pascal, a woman in an industry in which women are widely discriminated against, can make $100 million a year.

In a trance, Amy even occasionally thought very hopelessly, how should she spend such a large amount of money?

The last days of July 1990 passed silently between the vigorous expansion of the Westeros system.

In the last week of July, the situation in the Middle East, where the situation has been extremely tense, is getting more and more rainy.

Under the pretext of Kuwait's "stealing" Iraqi oil, after demanding Kuwait to forgive its debts and provide huge indemnities to no avail, Iraq's most elite Republican Guard tank and armored divisions have already been deployed on the Iraq-Korea border.

Not wanting Arab brothers to fight against each other, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak took the initiative to visit Iraq to speak for Kuwait.

Middle Eastern countries, which also feel threatened, held large-scale joint military exercises with the US Persian Gulf Fleet on July 24 to great fanfare in an attempt to deter Saddam Hussein. At the same time, international crude oil prices also surged rapidly in the last week of July.

In just one week, it has soared from a low of $13 to a high of nearly $20.

Cersei Capital liquidated all short contracts on Monday, July 23, only to be swallowed up by the rising crude oil prices.

In the last week of July, the price of crude oil soared, and the long positions that had suffered huge losses had turned losses into profits in just a few days, followed by staggering profits.

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