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Chapter 1105 Two birds with one stone

For Irene's speculation, Song Yang was noncommittal, neither supporting nor opposing, Skype was more of a move, and no one could guess what the game would be until the last moment.

"I hope that Microsoft or other companies can buy Skype!"

Song Yang sighed softly, "ICQ needs an opponent, whether weak or strong, a controllable opponent is much better than an invisible opponent!"

Even if Skype develops to the extreme, it can have hundreds of millions of users around the world and become the king of the voice call industry. To be honest, it is not a big threat to ICQ, because users will only use it as a tool for calls, nothing more, who will Care about a tool idea? !
In the Internet industry, if something is cheap or even free at the beginning, it may, never will be able to earn a dollar. From the beginning, users have accepted its setting, that is, they don’t want money and dare to take money. I kicked it immediately, and even would rather spend money to use another alternative than spend money on it. This is the reverse psychology, and Skype is likely to suffer such treatment in the future.

ICQ keeps Skype. To be honest, it sounds nice and has little impact. If it is sold, it may be sold for a sky-high price. A social platform with hundreds of millions of users sells for 80 billion dollars. Is it expensive? It is worthwhile to sell 200 billion US dollars. With it, it will immediately become the second largest social platform company in the Internet industry, second only to ICQ. Is this not worth it? !

As long as there is a rumor that Skype will be sold, the two giants of the Internet today, Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as other Oracle Group, Murdoch's News Corporation, IBM, Disney, etc., don't want to get a share? !
There are also communication operators who are destined to hate Skype, and they don’t want to buy this confidant and shut down Skype. Anyway, when the time comes, there will be methods to provoke people who like or hate Skype, for Skype And fight.

After selling Skype, ICQ will immediately have a rival. Even if Skype's market share is only 1%, it cannot be said that ICQ has monopolized the social network market in America.

Just like when Apple was in the most crisis, it was Microsoft who saved its life, because without Apple, Microsoft would really be involved in a monopoly, and it might really be split up.

In the same way, ICQ has a "seeming" opponent like Skype, so it cannot be said that ICQ has a monopoly. Although this opponent cannot threaten ICQ at all, the opponent is the opponent!

Now it is Xiangdang's world, and there will be no anti-monopoly case against ICQ, but eight years later, after Xiangdang stepped down, who dares to say that the donkey party will not attack ICQ, ICQ can create an opponent by itself, and it can stop Yoyo They can find little trouble with ICQ, fine them and scold them, but they can’t say that ICQ is a monopoly, so they dismantle ICQ.

After understanding Song Yang's meaning, the mentality of Irene and Wesley obviously changed, and the worry was gone.

Anyway, I was holding on to the idea of ​​selling Skype after it was fattened up, so I didn't have so many scruples. After selling it, I don't care if Skype is in trouble. Anyway, it has already been sold. What's the matter with ICQ? !
"If you don't care about other things, you can start Skype's trial operation as early as Christmas Eve this year!"

At this time, Wesley also directly said that before ICQ, there was a controversy over the Skype project, which made the development progress not fast. Now that there are not so many scruples, the development speed can naturally be accelerated, and the launch will start as soon as possible.

Song Yang nodded, looked at Irene, Wesley and other members of ICQ's founding team, "In the Internet social networking industry, there will be more and more products in the future, and no one can stop this!
If ICQ does not launch its own products to grab those new social markets, there will be new social platforms to replace ICQ. In the future, ICQ will launch new social products every once in a while! "

LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, INS, Burn After Reading, and WhatsApp, etc., have to be launched one after another over the years, no matter whether they can make money or not, and no matter whether they have a great effect on ICQ, they must be made and launched Yes, when the 4G era comes, ICQ will also be able to launch a live broadcast platform and a short video platform.

Instead of waiting to be overthrown and replaced by other companies, ICQ might as well launch new products by itself and continue to try and make mistakes, so that it can even kill itself!
After Song Yang attended the ICQ meeting, and stayed in ICQ for a long time, he got up and left. Song Yang now owns a lot of industries, but no matter how many industries he has, ICQ is the most important industry in Song Yang's hands. , to a certain extent, ICQ is even related to Song Yang's lifeblood.

In the future, the influence of the Internet will become greater and greater. ICQ, Twitter, and AOL portals held by ICQ, as well as Facebook, Youtute, and short video platforms in the future, will become important platforms to influence public opinion.

Coupled with ICQ's media platforms ICNC, NBC, CNN, Time Magazine and other TV stations, newspapers and magazines, ICQ has the ability to influence public opinion in America, even old Europe, Asia and other places.

In the Taiping era, when there was no war, public opinion was like a knife, which could easily ruin the reputation of a person or a company, and even bear innocent grievances. Song Yang didn't want to hack anyone to death with this knife, But make sure that this knife is in your own hand, so as not to be hacked by others with this knife.

In the San Jose Manor, Jenny is raising a baby. She has already turned off all the big and small entertainments, and concentrated on waiting for the lucky one to get it. The baby clothes and various supplies have begun to fill up a room in the San Jose Manor.

"WPP Group, the world's largest advertising group, is revealed by informed sources that it is experiencing the largest internal strife in history. The members of the WPP Group's board of directors headed by Roberto Quarta want to remove the current president of WPP Group. Post by Martin Solo.

According to sources, Martin Solo is suspected of being accused of multiple crimes and may even face prison. So far, Martin Solo has not given any explanation for the rumors.

So far this year, WPP Group's stock price has fallen by more than 39%, and it is the advertising group most implicated by the Internet. This is probably one of the main reasons for Martin Solo's predicament! "

In the living room, Song Yang took a sip of his drink and watched the news reports on TV. The matter of WPP Group was still exposed, and it was obvious that he was in trouble if it could be exposed by the media.

Only when internal troubles cannot be resolved, or when it is necessary to use public opinion to exert pressure, such internal news of a large company will be exposed and used to put pressure on opponents.

Obviously, it is not so easy for Roberto Quarta, the board of directors of WPP Group, to win over Martin Solo, who has been in WPP Group for many years.

Song Yang felt that the internal battles within the WPP Group were not fierce enough. Martin Solo might last for a while, and only when he was at the end of his rope would he think about finding foreign aid. At that time, it would be good for Song Yang to intervene opportunity.

After the news of WPP Group, Song Yang saw the news of Sun, EMC, Dell and many other local technology companies in America.

Sun company is declining, and it fell from the top of the mountain all the way to the bottom of the mountain without slowing down. In this way, the head of Sun, McNealy, didn't even think about retiring from his talents, and still firmly grasped the power of Sun company. Ci knew how to avoid the limelight, but McNealy refused to give in. No wonder the media began to curse.

Unlike Sun, the founder of Dell has given up his talents ahead of time, which is why the entire American media has been shown off. Fighting, killing, and giving up the position of the head, the result is that Dell has all kinds of troubles, the stock price plummeted, and all kinds of bullshit happened. The voice of the founder of Dell returning is more than one wave .

"EMC Group, the American storage giant, announced last quarter's revenue, with a huge loss of more than 9 million dollars, the worst performance in ten years. EMC President Jotus declared that EMC Group has reached the most dangerous moment, but EMC Group will not just collapse. Down.

Although the stock price of EMC Group continued to fall, Wall Street analysts believed that the most undervalued professional manager in America, who had saved Wang An Group, would lead EMC Group through the difficulties! "

After Song Yang saw the news about the EMC Group, his eyes flickered for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he still made two phone calls.

Greck, who has recently been busy acquiring the French Alcatel Group, came to the San Jose Manor just after returning from Washington.

"We and General Electric's public relations department have already settled Washington's side, and Card has promised that the commander-in-chief's side will stand by us!"

Gleick took a big sip of water, "In addition, members of Capitol Hill, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Securities Commission, and the Federal Foreign Affairs Commission will stand by us and General Electric this time!"

No longer facing the delay of Song Yang, after facing the pressure from the joint efforts of Song Yang and General Electric, the commander-in-chief did not think much about it, so he readily agreed, and the commander-in-chief's chief of staff, Card, also started Get this thing working.

Glancing at the time, Greck said to Song Yang, "As soon as today, there will be news about Alcatel France and Alstom from America, and news about our acquisition of Alcatel France will also come out. !"

(End of this chapter)