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Probably sensing that the Westeros Company has ceased to be in close contact with the Reynolds Nabisco Group, the Hearst family delayed until October 3 to respond to Simon's conditions.

William Hearst III does not intend to share the news resources of the "San Francisco Chronicle", but said that the Hearst Group's "Los Angeles Herald" on the West Coast can cooperate with Igret on a full range of content.

The Los Angeles Herald may sound like a serious newspaper, but it's actually similar to News Corp's New York Post, covering social news and entertainment gossip.

The positioning of Igret Portal in news is a comprehensive information platform, because it is mainly aimed at the wealthy middle-class elite at this stage, so it is more professional and serious in the pursuit of news content.

Although there will also be entertainment news, Simon has no idea of ​​turning the Igret portal into a portal for entertainment gossip.

Most importantly, William Hearst III took out the Los Angeles Herald to cooperate with Igret, but the fundamental reason was to extend the life of the newspaper, because the Hearst Group had planned The newspaper that had been underperforming for years has been shut down, and now, if it can get financial backing through its partnership with Igret, the paper can undoubtedly survive.

It can be said that Hearst III has no sincerity at all.

Simon then took a step back and told Hearst III through Leibold that the Igret portal only needs to get the content sharing of the domestic news section of the "San Francisco Chronicle", other international news, local news, entertainment news and sports news, etc. , Igret does not need it.

The result is still rejected.

On the other hand, after more than a month of negotiations, AOL finally reached that exclusive agreement with the three regional telecom operators Bell Atlantic, Bell Pacific and Nynex.

The negotiation of the agreement can be described as bumpy, during which there was a stalemate on the buyout offer of $1.50 for a single user.

The three carriers have joined forces to insist that AOL must offer each user an exclusive fee of $1.50 for the three networks, 50 percent more than the $1 offer the AOL team expected.

When the three operators thought they had completely grasped AOL and the Westeros company behind the company, Steve Case used a strategy of differentiation and unexpectedly broke the game, claiming that if the three operators insisted on a buyout offer of $1.50 , AOL was unable to support the cost and could only choose two of the three companies.

Only need to open its own line network, with AOL's size at this time, it will be able to obtain a total of tens of millions of dollars at almost no cost. In addition, with the development of AOL in a few years, the agreement price will still be It can be renegotiated that the three operators don't actually care that much about the business.

After the split in 1984, it was impossible for the Bell system to reconcile. After confirming that Steve Case was not threatening with false words, the three finally made a concession.

As a result, the final transaction price was confirmed at $1.3.

The three operators, Bell Pacific, Bell Atlantic and Nynex, including home users and business users, have a total user scale of 23.61 million, and the total exclusive fee that needs to be paid initially is 30.69 million per year.

In addition, the term of the exclusivity agreement is 10 years, which is only half of the originally expected contract term.

After the agreement is signed, AOL will be able to directly utilize the line networks of the three operators to carry out its own Internet access services. However, the three operators will not provide additional equipment and technical support for AOL outside the existing line network. If AOL has related needs, you will also need to pay a separate fee.

Although the terms of the contract on the surface are very biased towards the three operators, as long as this exclusive agreement can be signed, it is a victory in Simon's view.

AOL's number of users has continued to grow rapidly in recent months. However, the three operators are still unaware of the huge potential of the Internet industry.

This kind of thing is completely unimaginable for a latecomer like Simon, but it's just like HP didn't realize the importance of the invention of the personal computer by an employee named Steve Wozniak. , followed by the printer giant Xerox also made the same mistake. The first developed computer graphical interface operating system was only exchanged for a 'very convenient' evaluation from the company's president, and then it was copied to do two companies. One is Apple and the other is Microsoft.

After all, no one else in the world can see the future so clearly except Simon.

Based on the user scale of the three operators at this time, even if the five renegotiations have increased by 50%, the annual exclusive fee paid by AOL is less than 200 million US dollars. But if it completely eats more than 20 million users, AOL will be able to generate billions of dollars in revenue every year just relying on Internet access services.

What's more, within 10 years, as long as the regulation of the US telecommunications industry can be reopened as in the original time and space, Simon has enough confidence to let the now vine-like AOL anti-customers mainly swallow the few big trees that are attached at this time.

Simon has been discussing acquisitions for the two companies with the company's team in recent days.

Because I don't need to hurry, I still live with Janet at the manor in Greenwich every day.

Blink of an eye is already October 5th, Friday.

Simon had just arrived at the headquarters of the Westeros Company in Manhattan in the morning, and James Raybold took a copy of the newspaper and followed him to the office, saying, "Simon, look at this."

Simon sat down behind the desk, took the copy of the newspaper, and couldn't help frowning just by glancing at the title.

On the copy is an article titled "Warning about Emerging Internet Telecoms May Fall into Monopoly", and the commentary happens to be aimed at AOL's recently signed exclusivity agreements with the three major carriers.

As for the content, it's obvious just by looking at the title.

That's not the most important thing, though, the point is, this article is from the San Francisco Chronicle.

After roughly scanning the article, Simon shook his head and said, "The Hearst family doesn't want to pay at all."

AOL is still just a company with less than 500,000 users, let alone at-t, even if it is any of the seven Bells, it must be considered a behemoth in front of AOL at this time.

Moreover, similar exclusive agreements are actually not unique to AOL. Many companies operating telecommunications peripheral services will sign exclusive agreements with these giants in order to maintain their market advantages. Internet access services are currently also in the telecommunications peripheral industries.

However, the "San Francisco Chronicle" directly slapped AOL with a big hat of suspected monopoly.

The influence of the at-t split case has not completely dissipated. Telecom monopoly is still a relatively sensitive topic, and most companies do not want to touch such a bad head.

Therefore, the purpose of the Hearst family is obvious.

Perhaps he noticed Simon's initiative to evade the acquisition of espn shares and rejected the cooperation between the two parties in the content sharing of the "San Francisco Chronicle". After delaying until now, William Hearst III has probably lost his patience, and simply made it clear He gave Simon a warning asking him to quit.

James also had a wry smile on his face and asked, "What do we do now?"

Simon threw a copy of the newspaper on the desk in front of him and said, "Call Reynolds Nabisco, we'll quit."

James was a little surprised: "Fight now?"

Simon nodded and said in a flat tone: "Fight, there's no need to drag, since the Hearst family doesn't want to cooperate with us at all, then forget it."

In fact, James didn't want to conflict with the Hearst family. He was worried that Simon would be young and energetic. Seeing that he gave up so calmly, James had some slight resentment towards the Hearst family.

However, James also understands that starting today, the Hearst family is completely blacklisted by their own boss.

It's just that the Hearst family is not the counterparts of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood. Such an old-fashioned family with a hundred years of accumulation and a huge network of paper media is destined to be something that many people will not dare to provoke.

After James left, Simon began to calmly prepare for the morning meeting.

According to the latest news, this week, Panasonic President Akio Furui had a phone call with mca chairman Lou Wassalman. Perhaps, there will be an unexpected change in Panasonic's acquisition of mca next.

Once this is the case, Daenerys Entertainment must make a move in advance.

Combining the information in memory and the current situation, Simon felt that the reason why Panasonic's acquisition of mca in the original time and space was delayed for several months after the official announcement was probably mainly due to the lack of competitors. Since no one was competing, Panasonic can naturally grind with mca slowly.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment is staring at them. Although Panasonic is not so determined to acquire this acquisition due to the domestic economic situation in Japan, it should still hope to buy mca, so it will not continue to delay for too long. .

All aspects of work on mca have been completed ahead of schedule, and the morning meeting was still about the plan to acquire Bell Atlantic.

For more than two months, under the influence of the Kuwait war, oil prices continued to rise, and the US stock market continued to fall.

Bell Atlantic's latest market cap has slipped to the brink of $5 billion, with only $5.03 billion left at the close yesterday, down more than 10% from the early days of the war.

Now is the best time to do it.

Relying on its own sufficient assets as collateral, the Westeros company's team has solved the problem of funding sources, and several banks that have been secretly contacted are willing to provide the Westeros company with a total of 10 billion US dollars of funds.

Such a large-scale loan application must be hidden in the circle.

Therefore, the bank has more than once tested whether Simon intends to completely rely on loans to acquire the company, and keep the huge overseas money overseas.

This guess is actually quite reasonable.

When overseas assets are transferred back to China, a one-time payment of a huge asset gains tax of 28% is required. In contrast, the annual interest rate of obtaining funds through loans is only about 5%. If overseas funds can operate properly, even if they generate 10% of the annual income, it is very cost-effective to do so.

Simon actually considered this option.

Only finally gave up.

On the one hand, there is no market other than North America that can host the multi-billion dollar investment that will generate enough revenue for Simon in the next few years.

On the other hand, this money, to be precise, the tax money when the money is transferred back to the country, can also be regarded as a bargaining chip, a bargaining chip that can push the federal government to approve the Simon acquisition plan.

after all,

A one-time capital gains tax of $2 billion is definitely not a small amount that can be ignored at will for the federal government, which has a severe fiscal deficit. If the federal government does not agree with Simon's simultaneous acquisition of mca and Bell Atlantic, Simon will certainly continue to keep the funds overseas, which is certainly not what the federal government wants to see.

"We've bought 2.7% of Bell Atlantic's shares so far, and we'll have a 4.9% stake by the end of the month. However, on the Bell Atlantic side, the main problem we face is actually the management. If we can get the chairman of Bell Atlantic With the cooperation of CEO Raymond Smith, with the support of sufficient funds, this acquisition should be very smooth. I don't think that with the current economic environment and the nature of Bell Atlantic itself, there will be other competitors jumping. Come out and fight us for this company."

Having dinner with James at noon, Simon listened to him and nodded: "Wait at the end of the month. If the time is right, I will meet Raymond Smith in person once."

James said: "Raymond Smith is very interested in literature and drama, you two can definitely chat."

Simon has also seen the Raymond Smith profile collected by the company and said: "It's not enough, if it's just because the topic is similar, he agrees to Westeros' acquisition of Bell Atlantic, and I'm also considering the acquisition. Do you want to keep him after you're done?"

James affirmed: "Raymond Smith's ability is unquestionable, but if you don't expect the two of you to reach a cooperation because of similar topics, the result is that we still have to spend a lot of time."

Simon laughed: "For a multi-billion dollar business, if all goes well, I'm going to wonder if I've fallen into a trap."

The two chatted about these things, and after having lunch, Simon rushed to the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment in Greenwich Village according to his schedule. He was no longer in Los Angeles for a week, and there were a lot of things that he needed to deal with in Hollywood.

Arrived at one o'clock in the afternoon until nearly four o'clock, busy for three hours, and roughly finished the work accumulated in a week, Simon leaned on the office leather chair and picked up a plan for the Antarctic documentary that Gaomen Pictures planned to produce The draft looks over.

It was sparked by Janet's promise to little Gemma during a visit to Sophia's house for lunch last week.

Janet originally only planned to let some people who went to the Antarctic shoot some videos for the little girl and bring them back. However, Simon remembered the "Emperor Penguin Diary", which created a documentary box office record in his memory, and produced a serious Antarctic documentary. plan.

It's just that Simon doesn't know much about Antarctica. He plans to test the waters of an ordinary documentary first, train the team, and then come up with the shooting plan of "Emperor Penguin Diary" in his memory.

It is autumn in the northern hemisphere, but spring in the southern hemisphere.

Start preparing now, just in time to move to Antarctica in the southern hemisphere summer, and finish shooting in the fall.

Looking at the plan in his hand, Simon suddenly thought of Sophia again.

Sophia has recently been in Manhattan preparing for the Gucci brand event tomorrow and Saturday, and her work today has been completed.

After a moment of hesitation, Simon dialed the number of the woman's mobile phone.

After chatting for a while, it didn't seem to be that busy over there. Simon asked Sophia if he wanted to come and have coffee together. The woman reminded him that he had quit coffee for a long time.

Then there was a little embarrassment.

Then, Simon simply put on the air of the boss and asked Sophia to wait for him in his penthouse on Lexington Avenue, and there was something to discuss.

What is Sophia asking?

Look to the bottom of it.

This, of course, will be discussed later. Can't the boss still find something for the employees to do?

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