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Chapter 110 The Swordsman
Song Yang is naturally aware of what Bledsoe Jayden has done in Silicon Valley, but sometimes it is not so easy to deal with a person who has lost his face.

It's not easy for Song Yang to deal with that guy himself now, he won't get any benefit from dealing with a rotten guy other than making his body dirty.

Only when Bledsoe Jayden makes a mistake, Song Yang only needs to give him a slight push to make him dig a hole and jump in!
After returning to San Jose, Song Yang basically ran between San Jose University and the ICQ office building.

The arrival of Whitman is also a big change for Irene, and Irene's way of handling things has also become a lot more sophisticated.

Song Yang didn't need to worry about the Double-click company. After Whitman joined, he immediately launched a fierce attack on Double-click's opponents and robbed many Internet advertising companies such as L90 and VCLK. Double-clicking on the new female master, the style of play is a bit fierce, it seems that they will not survive at all.

Hotmail mailboxes are still extremely hot. The number of global users has continued to explode. From reaching 300 million users, it has launched a charge towards the threshold of 500 million. For Hotmail, it seems that it is only a matter of time.

But in the technology industry, Hotmail is not alone. Whether it is a new player or an old player, they are desperately showing their presence.

Although there are countless players pouring into the Internet every day, the entrance of An Ran, a "rookie", is particularly eye-catching.

Now Enron Online advertisements have begun to appear overwhelmingly, whether it is the Internet or Wall Street, you can see Enron Online advertisements everywhere.

It's not even limited to America. In those old financial places in London, the advertisements of Enron Online are still loud.

"The next decade belongs to Enron", "the future global energy trading center is Enron Online", and other inspiring slogans keep ringing out, Enron Online has been shaped into a new "Holy Land of Wealth". Once you open a trading seat, you can get a dollar at your fingertips.

The overwhelming publicity has made Enron Online quickly known by the financial industry. The Enron Energy Exchange, which has not yet launched, has become an existence on par with the Chicago Board of Trade and the London Gold Exchange.

Countless players in this industry are gearing up to enter Enron Online and make a big splash in the new "online energy trading market".

Especially after Enron announced that it would spend a lot of money in Houston to build a "Houston Energy Exchange" building, the publicity of Enron Online reached its peak!
Enron paid more than 5000 million US dollars for this building. Once this energy exchange is completed, it will become the largest trading center in the world. Countless people who saw this news began to believe in online energy trading There is a lot to do, otherwise, how could Enron invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build only one building?
And just after Enron released the news, it was circled out of the land around the Houston Energy Exchange, and the land price began to soar. Securities, investment banks, banks, hotels and other companies poured in, all wanting to take over the surrounding areas of the Houston Energy Exchange. , They all want to use Enron's influence to develop their own businesses.

Think about it, once this energy exchange is completed, energy investors from all over the world will come here, and they will also be the richest people in the world. Who would not flock to this group of people? !
Houston and even Texas are naturally happy to see this phenomenon, and even contributed to it, transferring a large piece of land to Enron at a low price for building buildings.

When Song Yang saw these reports, he could only sigh, Enron is really a giant now, every move can affect countless companies and industries, even a city, they all follow Enron!

In addition to the rookie Enron, the old players also performed fiercely. Netscape, which completed the listing, handed over the answer sheet for the third quarter, with revenue exceeding $4200 million, a record high. In a single quarter, compared with the previous quarter, The revenue has doubled, which is equivalent to three times the annual revenue of last year!
As soon as the news came out, Netscape's stock price rose sharply, directly breaking through $120, and it seemed that it was far from reaching the limit.

Countless Internet and technology media have begun to shout that sentence, "The era of Netscape is coming!"

Yahoo, AOL, DoubleClick, Hotmail, Lycos, etc., are not enough to see in front of Netscape. The center of the Internet is Netscape, which is the voice of countless people.

"New York Times", Wall Street Journal, etc. began to report on Netscape again, "Netscape is the one that changed the world. Since Netscape went public, everything has been different..."

This is almost equivalent to the major media publicly acknowledging the role of Netscape. It has established a new era and can be compared with Microsoft.

But what really catches the eye is that after these media reports, Goldman Sachs, the leader of Wall Street, stood up and announced that it would transfer Microsoft's stock from buying to holding. Although Goldman Sachs said it was still optimistic about Microsoft, this statement, Investors understand with their feet.

The stock price of Microsoft dropped sharply that day. It is self-evident that Microsoft's stock price rating has been downgraded for the first time in the past ten years since its listing.

Baxter, the president of Netscape, on behalf of the two founders of Netscape, accepted the exclusive interview of "Time Magazine" with great glory. It was really Jim Clark and Mark Anderson who were on this thing, and they almost threw up, back and forth. I don't know how many times I have been featured in Time Magazine, so this time I gave Baxter the limelight.

In the interview with Time Magazine, Baxter still continued the style of Mark Anderson, cynicizing Microsoft.

"Microsoft is wrong, the future world is not a computer, but the Internet!"

When he said this, Baxter gave a smile that was enough to mock Bill Gates, "The Internet is a place where mistakes are not tolerated, and Microsoft can no longer find the right way, just like a skyscraper, a certain If there is a problem with the foundation, no matter how brilliant the building is, when you hear the sound of "creaking" from the building, be careful, and don't be hit by the building!"

The reporter of Time Magazine, upon hearing this, immediately said to Baxter, "President Baxter, do you think Microsoft will fall?"

"I never said that, it was just a little metaphor." Baxter said with a smile, without any intention of explaining, short of telling the world that Microsoft was the building with a broken foundation.

The reporter of Time Magazine was also sluggish. Seeing that Baxter was unwilling to confront Microsoft like Mark Anderson, he changed his question, "Then when do you think this building with foundation problems will be closed?" down?"

"I don't know, but it's possible that a small earthquake can cause a disaster. Netscape is about to launch a new browser that changes the times!"

At the last moment, Baxter hinted that although he didn't say it explicitly, he hinted that when Netscape's new browser was launched, it was estimated that Microsoft's time would be numbered.

Song Yang watched the report on the TV screen. Through the screen, he could feel the pride of Netscape at the moment, the eagerness to challenge Microsoft, the giant, and replace it. It should not be too obvious.

After looking through several channels, as long as it is technology, Internet, and economic channels, almost all of them are inseparable from the vocabulary of Netscape, which shows how popular it is.

There is still no movement from Microsoft, and it seems that they are still immersed in the joy of the Windows 95 system just released this year. 15 days after Netscape went public, Microsoft released a new system.

It is priced at US$210, and it has sold 2700 million copies in less than half a year, setting a series of new records in the software industry. Industry experts believe that its sales will exceed 4000 million copies this year!

The fact that Microsoft received money and received soft hands is a true portrayal of Microsoft this year. They simply don’t want to make too much money. Looking at it this way, it seems that there is nothing to be afraid of, such as the Internet that does not make money, and Netscape, which has repeatedly provoked it.

Song Yang didn't know when Microsoft, a behemoth, would set its sights on Netscape. Goldman Sachs lowered Microsoft's stock price this time, which should be more or less, which would alert Microsoft.

"Song!"

While Song Yang was watching the media reports, Gallo walked into the room of the rented villa in San Jose and said to Song Yang, "The person recommended by Prince has arrived!"

Looking at the TV for the last time, Song Yang got up and walked outside, but what Song Yang didn't know was that the atmosphere in the Microsoft headquarters was also very frozen at the moment, as if he was facing an enemy.

Goldman Sachs lowered its stock price, and Microsoft, which was still in the carnival, was indeed poured cold water.

Bill Gates, in the Emerald City of Seattle, took a serious look at Netscape for the first time when the news from Wall Street came.

Now Bill Gates is at the most glorious moment in his life. This year he will definitely become the richest man in the world. Microsoft is already the global software hegemony and a symbol of the technology industry. Anderson or something like that, Bill Gates didn't care too much.

In the past few years, the media has brought up many second Bill Gates. In the end, it depends on him as the master. Those second ones have long been cool.

But this time, when the new system had just been released, it was still selling soaring, and the stock price was soaring all the way, Goldman Sachs suddenly lowered Microsoft's stock price, which made Microsoft's board of directors very dissatisfied, and made Bill Gates check again. Netscape not taking it seriously.

The product department manager of Microsoft reported the status of Netscape to Bill Gates. He and the people in the technical department had reported to Bill Gates before, but Bill Gates' minds were all on the new system at that time, and he didn't think too much about it. Care about Netscape.

"The current Netscape Navigator browser has been updated in multiple versions, and its market share has exceeded 80%. It is reported that Netscape Navigator will enter overseas markets next quarter!"

"Also, I heard that the next updated version of Netscape browser will support plug-ins and programs developed in java language..."

Hearing this, Bill Gates suddenly raised his head, and the atmosphere in the entire office suddenly froze.

(End of this chapter)