I’m in Hollywood Chapter 866: You ca n’t miss a penny

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Sony Records, BMG, and EMI have been dismissed by the Federal Court of San Francisco on the grounds that Fireflyer promotes the spread of pirated music, which indicates that this electronic product has a formal legal market position. With the unstoppable development momentum of Fireflyer players, traditional portable music player manufacturers are almost destined to be strongly or even devastated.

Stimulated by this news, the New York stock exchange just opened in the morning, and the stock price of traditional portable music player manufacturers led by Sony fell sharply. Until nine o'clock in the Western Time, the San Francisco Federal Court was formally held. The press conference announced the news that Sony's share price had fallen by 2.7%, and within a few hours, the market value of nearly 1.5 billion USD had vanished. Coincidentally, the industry's authoritative financial class newspaper "Wall Street Daily", the potential valuation of Firefly electronics is 1.5 billion USD.

Although Firefly Electronics is not a listed company, this news is still disguised in the stock market. That was Seagate Technology, which first developed a 1-inch microdrive in the industry.

The original commissioned development agreement stipulated that Firefly Electronics had the exclusive right to the micro-drive for three years after the company released the first micro-drive-related product. Accordingly, Firefly Electronics must also prefer to purchase micro-drives from Seagate Technology Hard drive products.

As the largest mechanical hard disk manufacturer in the original time and space, Seagate's strength at this time is far from comparable with the traditional technology giants such as IBM, Hitachi and Toshiba. Last year, Seagate's mechanical hard drive shipments were only 5 million blocks, less than 10% of the overall market share of mechanical hard drives.

Although the research and development of micro hard drives is not difficult, hard drive manufacturers with profound technical background such as IBM may only need half a year to come up with mature products, but due to the early occupation of the opportunity, they have the same with Firefly Electronics Seagate Technology Corporation is destined to become the main supplier of Fireflyer's built-in micro hard disk in the next few years, and to what extent Fireflyer's sales capacity can explode, almost no one can be sure now. Although the price of micro hard drives is much cheaper than traditional hard drives, Seagate Technology's micro hard drive business will even reach the scale of traditional hard drives by virtue of its quantity advantage.

After a series of press releases that day, while the stock prices of traditional portable music equipment manufacturers such as Sony fell across the board, Seagate ’s stock price was a blockbuster, and it jumped 12% in just one morning, perhaps to further stimulate In terms of stock price, the CEO of Seagate Technology Company specially held a press conference at noon that day to show the media that Seagate has successfully developed a sample of 2G-capacity micro hard disk, and said that this product may be used in the next generation Fireflyer player.

When the market was up and down due to Fireflyer-related news, an unexpected episode occurred. An newspaper of New York even dug out the original Firefly electronics. First contacted IBM to entrust the other party to develop a micro hard disk. According to the news, as a result of IBM's arrogant and sluggish response, this invitation to cooperation was eventually lost.

In recent years, under the leadership of the new CEO Guo Shina, IBM has begun to recover, but the situation is far from that year, and now there is a trend of Microsoft being supported by the original overtaking in market value. Although hard disk manufacturing is only the edge business of the IBM Group, the news of the internal problems of the IBM Group revealed by this news has to make this traditional high-tech giant cautious. IBM CEO Guo Shina even appeared in person later. Justify this 'little thing' in front of the media.

Jeffrey farm in Maryland.

Although it may be harassed by various news from outside, from time to time, the small farmhouse like a paradise still shows a beaming atmosphere.

The wedding ceremony will be held on the large lawn behind the house of Jeffrey. In order to cater to the schedule of most guests, the wedding ceremony time is selected at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning instead of the traditional afternoon. The wedding scene on the lawn was surrounded by flowers at this time, and some people were still conducting final inspections on the scene. The air was filled with pleasant floral fragrances.

Eric and Chris are welcoming the guests who are still coming. In addition to the guests who will arrive tomorrow, there will still be some distant customers coming today, such as Katzenberg, Victor McNeilly, Bill · Orr Mori, Jeff Bezos, etc.

Although it is already summer, the weather in the farm does not mean anything hot.

Has been busy until two o'clock in the afternoon and simply ate something. Eric hurriedly came to the lawn behind the villa. Here is a simple rehearsal for the wedding ceremony. Of course, it is mainly a rehearsal for the flower girl.

Although the relationship with Emily is better, neither Joanna nor Virginia is suitable for being a bridesmaid anymore, but Joanna ’s younger sister Eva · Pacula will join in the excitement.

Eric considered two women and also resigned from the role of Chris chief best man and gave it to a cousin of Chris. However, the three little guys will be the flower girl and ring boy at the wedding.

On the lawn, in addition to Joanna and Virginia, parents Jeffrey, Emily's parents Jack · Brighton and Melissa · Brighton are also on the scene, there are some other relatives on both sides, everyone smiled and watched five or six children Guy's performance.

Eric and Jeffrey greeted a few people, walked to Virginia and Joanna and sat down, looking at the middle aisle, the wedding ceremonies racked their brains to coax a group of restless little guys and asked Virginia with a smile: Would n’t it be nice for a couple of flower girls to ring children, so many little guys, will there be trouble tomorrow? "

"This kind of thing, even if there is a little mess, everyone laughed and passed," Virginia explained, and added in a low voice: "So many relatives and friends, only two children, it is not easy to arrange . "

Eric nodded, taking advantage of everyone's attention on the little guys, reaching for the arms of Virginia, and smilingly asked: "Envy?"

Virginia turned his head and stared at Eric, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, said: "Envy is dead, what are you going to do?"

"Why do n’t we have a wedding, I have n’t taken a wedding photo of three people, you and Joan together."

"Bah, you bastard, too lazy to toss with you," Virginia sipped, leaned back against Eric, raised his left hand, and shook the ruby-inlaid rose gold ring on his ring finger. : "I have negotiated with Joan. If you are not good to us in the future, we will take Kevin and Xiaxia to Europe and never see you again."

Eric laughed: "You two still secretly plot this kind of thing?"

"Yeah," Virginia glanced at Eric and said: "And, you still have to pay the maintenance. One year is 1 billion USD, and you ca n’t miss a penny."

"Wow," Eric said with a "shocked" face and a trembling tone: "How did you calculate this number?"

Virginia is very straightforward: "Of course it is calculated casually."

"What if I do n’t give it?"

"Me and Joan will find a new Papa for Xiaxia and Kevin together."

Eric immediately raised his hand to surrender: "Well, I admit defeat."

Joanna, who has been listening to the soft conversation between the two of them, reached out and called, and laughed softly: "Do n’t talk nonsense."

Virginia smiled, held out his hand to hold Eric, and looked at the Baby son in the eyes, saying: "There is something to discuss with you, Kevin and Xiaxia should go to school, both Hamptons There is no suitable school. "

Eric thought for a while and said, "If you move to Manhattan, there will be more private schools."

Virginia shook his head and said, "Me and Joan are used to living in Hampton, Manhattan is too noisy."

"Then we can't run a school for two little guys alone?"

Eric ’s unintentional words happened to poke into Virginia ’s heart, and the woman said: “Why not, then Rockefeller set up a school specifically for its own children, that is Manhattan ’s Brown Ning private school, and your current net worth. Is n’t it much worse than Rockefeller Family? "

Eric shook his head and said: "It is not just a matter of money to run a school."

Virginia insisted: "Anyway, you can pay the money, and I will do the rest with Joan myself."

Eric had to compromise. He knew that Virginia and Joanna are more important than their own in the education of a pair of children, so there is nothing to worry about, saying: "Well, I will pay, you can do whatever you want."

He had been busy preparing for a day, and many people did not have a rest that night. The next day the sky just lighted up, and the farm was lively again.

After breakfast time, guests who can only live in downtown Frederick due to limited farm space began to arrive. Although this wedding is not as grand as the so-called 'century wedding' that many rich people brag about, the total number of guests is two or three hundred. Three hours before the wedding, the farmhouse is already full of people.

The city of Frederick is only more than sixty kilometers away from the Washington special zone. At nine o'clock, the Clintons arrived at the farm by helicopter.

Although Chris cannot be regarded as a public figure, his wedding has still attracted a lot of media attention due to his reputation in the North America business community in recent years and the large number of heavyweight guests present this time.

Although the entire farm is private territory, it is not easy to stop journalists from sneaking into sneak shots. Eric only thinks that the biggest benefit of the Clintons is that they can stop the media reporters who want to spy on the wedding, and the Secret Service agents scattered around the farm take the initiative to help them.

Everyone originally wanted to completely privatize this wedding, and did not accept any media interviews, but since the Clintons arrived, the White House hoped to have media reporters present.

After a brief discussion, Eric arranged three reporters from ABCTV Station, "New York Post" and "The Washington Post" to rush to the wedding site. ABCTV Station is the industry of Firefly Group, "New York Post" belongs to News Corp, "The Washington Post" is introduced by Warren Buffett, Berkshire · Hathaway is the major shareholder of "The Washington Post".

At eleven o’clock, all the guests were seated, the music sounded, and the groomsmen, bridesmaids, and flower girls appeared one after another. Eric sat close to the aisle, watching their children walk in front, Kevin Holding a ring pillow, a small and solemn look, this is obviously the result of repeated teachings by Virginia. Hawaii is holding a small flower basket, and his eyes are still curiously looking around. Emma behind Hawaii is throwing petals excitedly. It seems that it is impossible to reach the end of red carpet, the little guy's flower basket will be empty.

Then the bridegroom entered the ceremonial table, and everyone immediately rose to welcome the bride.

In the attention of everyone, a series of wedding processes were completed quickly, such as speeches, oaths, exchange of rings, hugs and kisses. When all the ceremonies were over, Chris and Emily temporarily left to take pictures, and the guests also started to leave the wedding site and rushed to the immediate Outdoor banquet venue.

Eric just got up, Emma wearing a pink flower girl skirt flew over Pā Tà Pā Tà, compared to a pair of children, Emma seems to stick to himself. Watching the little guy stretch his arms to hug, Eric smiled and reached up to hug her.

"Papa, I still have petals Oh, so fragrant," the little guy put his hand around the neck of Eric, spread out the other hand, and sent the petals of the palm to the Eric nose: "You smell." /

Eric smelled in the palm of the little girl and nodded: "Well, it ’s really fragrant, Emma is also very fragrant."

"Oh," the little girl smiled happily, and instead covered her belly, said: "Papa, I am hungry."

"Obviously, you are about to eat," Eric said. Seeing the Clintons walking towards them, they handed over Emma to Joanna who was next to them, and then greeted them.

Clinton glanced slightly at the two women and the three little guys, and then looked back, with a smile on his face, and asked casually: "Eric, you will definitely stay in Maryland for a few days, right? ? "

The helmsmen of more than ten companies such as Firefly Group, Nokia, Cisco, Qualcomm, AOL, Firefly Electronics, Amazon, etc. under the Firefly system gathered in Maryland. Jorma · Ollila even flew over from Northern Europe to make such a big move It is naturally impossible for everyone to simply eat, drink and have a meal before leaving.

Eric naturally has a detailed plan. Next, everyone will stay in the farm for at least three days to discuss the development of the companies in the Firefly system and the cooperation between each other.

I do n’t understand why Clinton asked this question, Eric nodded anyway, which is not classified anyway.

Clinton nodded when he saw Eric and said, "That's it. I was planning to hold a high-tech entrepreneur dinner in the White House recently. I wonder if you are interested?"

Although it is impossible to be re-elected, the Clintons are clearly far from giving up their ambitions for Zhengzhi, which is also proved in Eric memories. Firefly Investment has almost brought together a group of high-tech Internet companies that have been the most popular in recent years. If these companies can be recruited, they will definitely form a powerful help for them to continue to carry out Zhengzhi ambitions in the future.

Eric is just a bit vomiting. If you say such things, if we are not interested, are you going to hold this dinner or not?

However, he certainly would not do such a boring thing that deliberately spurned President. He nodded and smiled quickly: "Of course, Bill, I will tell them, but we will probably stay in Maryland for three days. "

"Oh, the time is right," Clinton said with a faint look on his face, and he said, "Yes, you will come by then, right?"

Eric is not so refreshing this time. He really does not have a cold for the Clintons and is ambiguous: "Maybe, I have too many things recently, and I may not be able to spare time."

Clinton did n’t mind. He patted on the shoulder of Eric and said, "I hope you can come by then." (To be continued.)