I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1100: It must be deceiving
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In the evening, in WM's conference room.
The senior management of WM Company and several contracted professional model discussed the schedule of Paris Fashion Week in the afternoon, and then announced the adjournment.
Today is March 1.
The Paris Fashion Week opened on March 5th. WM ’s Kate · Moss and several other pillars had already rushed to Europe before the opening of London Fashion Week. This meeting, in addition to arranging a few new people The meeting was just for Carmen Case.
Everyone got up and left the meeting room. Carmen Case was called by Paul Roland again, and he personally urged her to leave.
Out of the meeting room, Carmen Case intended to return directly to the apartment, but was yelled by a group of girls just now.
"Carmen, everyone is going to dinner, do you want to be together?"
The girl named Carolina Kukova, from Czech Republic, signed a contract with WM earlier than her last year, and is also a key training target of WM. However, this girl is only fifteen years old this year, her career has just started, and the potential is huge. If it were before, the other party was far from her 21-year-old girl who would never have a chance to step forward if she could not take a step.
In the past six months, WM concentrated resources to make her another Gisele · Bündchen-type supermodel, which caused the dissatisfaction of the company's other professional model, so her popularity within WM has not been too good.
It's just that people are always like this. When others are stronger than themselves, it is easy to get jealous. But if people are thrown away, they often don't have the heart to compare, but will want to make friends with each other.
In recent days, after suddenly becoming the spokesperson for the Victoria’s Secret brand, she obviously felt this change within the company. Several people who were connected to Europe, Kate · Moss, warmly called back to congratulate her. The company The other professional model staying in New York changed her attitude towards her is even more obvious.
Feeling the gaze that a few girls were expecting, Carmen Case hesitated a little, and then nodded: "Okay, this way, I invite you all."
Although she has her own pride and stubbornness, she has never been a lonely person. In the years of Europe, she got along well with professional model of Brokerage Firm where she is.
The girls were naturally very happy. When she heard that she was going to treat her, she was not polite, and they all gathered around and walked around to walk outside.
A group of people found an English restaurant nearby. It sounds weird. Does United Kingdom have anything to eat? But this is precisely recommended by an United Kingdom girl among several people, and the reasons are also very good. United Kingdom dishes are famous all over the world. Choosing this restaurant, everyone will not be able to control their appetite.
Flying to Paris soon, no one dared to eat more at this time.
Ordering some simple food, a group of beautiful girls who caught the attention of the entire restaurant diners began to eat and chat. Everyone comes from all over the world, and there are very few common topics. Unconsciously, they have been involved in the recently popular The Blair Witch Project.
"Yesterday, the new line Film Industry issued a statement. It turned out that this matter was just a publicity for a movie. The movie seemed to be released on March 5th, the same day as the opening of Paris Fashion Week."
"No wonder, I lived in Maryland when I was Mama when I was a kid, and I specifically called back to ask her. She said that she had never heard of rumors like The Blair Witch Project."
"Not at all. I heard that this is the practice of the Maryland State Government to cover up the facts. Film Studio has undertaken this matter and promoted it as a fiction, so that everyone will not be held accountable for handling this matter in Maryland. Mistakes. It is said that many people have died in these years. If they are investigated, many people will be held responsible. "
"I also think so, the new line Film Industry only arranges 200 screening halls for this movie, obviously you do n’t want more people to see it. If you think about it, if it ’s really a movie, follow the current movie With such a high degree of attention, it can arrange 2,000 screening halls without saying much. "
"Released on March 5th, but unfortunately we can't catch up. However, after returning from Paris, maybe you can go and see."
"Well, when the time comes together, I just do n’t know if the ticket is good or not. The entire United States only has 200 screening halls, and maybe Manhattan may not have several theaters."
The girls tweeted, but Carmen Case was a little silent, but only occasionally echoed a few words.
She also paid attention to this matter a few days ago.
It's just that I've been too busy in the past few days, so I haven't thought much about it.
Is the new line Film Industry a subsidiary of Firefly Group?
I suddenly thought of the man again.
I do n’t know what he will do now.
Did you think of yourself?
The thought came to her mind, and she was a little flustered. How can I have such a strange idea!
"It must be deceiving."
Without a head or a head, this sentence blurted out of her mouth.
At the dinner table, when she heard her words, the girls who were talking heatedly stopped, noticed her embarrassment, felt that she might not like to talk about it, and changed the topic in an interesting way.
The discussion about The Blair Witch Project in a British restaurant in Manhattan is just an inconspicuous detail in the hot trend of the whole society.
After more than a month of incubation, the rumors about The Blair Witch Project have really turned into a storm of viral topics, and their influence is no longer limited to the Internet. Many traditional media have participated.
Because of too much conspiracy theory, and the The Blair Witch Project team ’s secret guidance after the clarification of the new line Film Industry, most of the public do not believe that this matter is just Film promotion.
So, in the next few days, the entire federal discussion on this matter became more heated.
When ordinary people are talking about The Blair Witch Project, AOL and Time Warner finally officially announced the long-awaited merger plan.
March 3.
AOL and Time Warner executives officially held a press conference at Manhattan AOL Headquarters, announcing that AOL will acquire Time Warner Group through equity replacement at a price of 63billion USD. After the merger, AOL will hold 55% of the shares of the new company, and the total shareholding ratio of the original shareholders of Time Warner Group will be 45%.
At the same time, based on the market value of AOL 77 billion USD, the total size of this merger will reach 140 billion USD. Although it is much lower than the ***** USD transaction scale in the history, this is the first super merger in the history of corporate mergers with a total transaction size of more than 100 billion USD, which still stirs the whole world.
On the day of the press conference, AOL and Time Warner shares both rose sharply, stimulated by Steve · Kies ’s enthusiastic outlook speech. As of the close of the day, AOL ’s share price rose by 17%, and Time Warner share price soared 26%.
The sharp rise in the stock prices of AOL and Time Warner also drove the entire NASDAQ market.
While the stock prices of AOL and Time Warner continued to rise in the following two trading days, the Nasdaq index once again set a new high, breaking the 2900 point mark, only one step away from 3000 points.
3000 points, which happens to be the highest peak of the Nasdaq index predicted by most Wall Street investment institutions.
Therefore, when the Nasdaq index broke through 2,900 points, the restlessness of the entire technology stock market became more apparent.
According to the news received from Wall Street by Chris, many investment institutions have already cleared all technology stocks held by them at this time. At the same time, a large amount of funds poured into the stock index Petroleum market, and began to establish a large-scale technology stock Petroleum position.
Despite maintaining a very high growth rate, Yahoo network companies with a price-earnings ratio of more than 600 times have undoubtedly become the most enthusiastic short targets for hedge funds.
As of the close of March 5, the number of Yahoo shares Petroleum sold by hedge funds has exceeded 76 million shares, equivalent to 6.1% of the total share capital of Yahoo, and the amount involved is 7700 million USD. Both the short-selling ratio and the amount of value far exceed that of other technology companies in the NASDAQ market.
However, the stock index Petroleum is a zero-sum game. Such a huge empty order is thrown out, which naturally means that the long contracts of equal size follow up.
So.
AOL merges Time Warner.
The Nasdaq index is approaching 3000 points.
Yahoo network company suffered a large short sale.
Any of these, the potential influence is enough to make the entire technology stocks turned upside down.
The three things happened together. There is no doubt that this March of 1999 will be the most erratic month in Nasdaq history.
The technology stock market is turbulent, but Eric has once again returned to the West Coast, first rushed to San Francisco to participate in the annual meeting of Firefly Electronics.
Firefly investment has drawn a large amount of cash through the reduction of AOL stocks, Yahoo network company has also successfully completed the listing operation, and has accumulated enough development funds to consume in the next three to five years. Eric is now completely seated on the Diaoyutai attitude.
Even if the Nasdaq index really crashes ahead of time, a large number of technology stocks hoarded by the Clover Fund cannot be cashed out, and the development of the entire Firefly system will not be affected in any way.
With the annual financial reports of various companies in the Firefly system being released, Eric has spared no effort in investing in new technology companies for so many years and has finally received a more substantial return on substantial profits.
Among various companies, the Firefly system holds 51% of Nokia, and the net profit scale in 1998 reached 19.600 million USD. Cisco, which holds 26% of the shares, also reached 1.35 billion USD in 1998. Only the profit sharing provided by these two companies is enough to support the Firefly system to continue to invest in other new technology companies that are still in the discovery stage, and do not need to conduct blood transfusion through Firefly Group as before.
However, what makes Eric unexpected is the annual financial data of Firefly Electronics.
In 1998, Firefly Electronics was within the range of global, and the final shipment of Fireflyer players reached 23750,000 units.
Among them, the shipment of Fireflyer first-generation players is 4050,000 units, the shipment of Fireflyer second-generation 1G capacity players is 8300,000 units, and the shipment of Fireflyer second-generation 2G capacity players is 11400,000 units.
In the end, this electronics company, which has only one portable music player device, achieved annual sales of 8 200 million 5 2 million USD.
In addition, although the company ’s early marketing investment is very large, in addition to the MP3 player, it also has to undertake additional huge technology research and development funds related to tablet PC operating systems, processor chips, touch solutions, etc., but In the whole year of 1998, after setting aside taxes, Firefly Electronics still realized the net profit of 800 million 11 million USD.
If the financial data is made public, it means that this electronic product company, which has only been established for about four years, has successfully squeezed into the ranks of the top 500 North America companies, and the ranking is quite high.
According to the list rule of magazine of "Forbes", unless it is actively declared, or has detailed public financial data, otherwise, non-listed companies will not be included in the list of top 500 companies. In just a few years, an electronic company with a profit scale close to 1billion USD has been formed. If possible, Eric even hopes that Firefly electronic financial data will not be leaked.
But this is obviously delusional.
Although after operation, Forbes Group has agreed not to track the financial data of Firefly Electronics, nor will it add Firefly Electronics to the top 500 list. However, the sales data of the global portable player market is not covered by the Firefly system.
According to data given by third-party statistical agencies, in 1998, the total size of the global portable music player market reached 87million units, a 6% increase compared to 1997. Among them, the Fireflyer digital playback given by the other party The sales data of the 23 million unit is almost the same as the actual internal shipment of Firefly electronics.
Only based on these data, it is not difficult for the industry to speculate on the revenue and profit scale of Firefly Electronics. Even considering that the tablet PC R & D plan is still in a state of confidentiality, the outside world ’s estimate of the profitability of Firefly Electronics is definitely more than the actual situation Much higher.
In two years, the Fireflyer player has swept through and madly occupied 26% of the global portable music market. This has to be said to be a miracle.
But it also means that Firefly electronics, which enjoys huge profits alone, will also face competitive pressure from all parties.
After all, even if a closed patent fence was poured around the portable digital music player in advance, in the face of huge profits, other electronic manufacturers will undoubtedly find ways to even enter this market with all possible means.
With the gradual disclosure of the shipment data of the portable music player market in 1998, Sony, which has just completed a patent exchange with Firefly Electronics, ca n’t wait to announce that it will release the first digital music player product in June this year.
Speaking of which, the technical difficulty of digital music players is indeed very low. Some electronic manufacturers with strong technical strength may be able to understand the technical details of Firefly electronic Fireflyer player in just a few weeks. If it is not blocked by patent barriers, At this time, there will definitely be plans for more manufacturers to release digital music players.
In the face of strong competition that can be expected, even if Firefly Electronics has multiple technical and industrial advantages, everyone has to work together to make more efforts to maintain the leading edge of the Fireflyer player.