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Chapter 322
Who is the most valuable company of American Internet Company? There may be names such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL that are undergoing transformation, but if you want to say who will become the next most valuable company, there will definitely be countless people who say ICQ's name!
The market capitalization of Microsoft and SUN are now over 2000 billion US dollars, and IBM's market value is more than 60 billion US dollars. The leading Internet company is still Netscape with a market value of [-] billion US dollars.

Yahoo is considered to be the next Internet company to surpass Netscape. Yahoo's current market value has exceeded US$40 billion, and it is sprinting towards a market value of US$50 billion.

The market value of Internet companies still seems to be far from companies such as Microsoft, SUN, and IBM. However, Wall Street institutions have predicted that with the current Internet market, it is possible in the future that a company similar to Microsoft, SUN, Intel, and Cisco will emerge. and other Internet companies on a par.

Among them, Yahoo is considered to be the company most likely to achieve this result, although it seems to be a bit too weak in comparison now.

But in the Internet industry, apart from Yahoo, ICQ is the most anticipated by countless investors!
Since its launch, ICQ has attracted much attention. It was launched by an upstart Internet company. It has created a new Internet industry. To provide revenue for it, it is the Internet company with the most users in the world!
Some people are the focus of the crowd as soon as they appear. This is the status of ICQ in the Internet industry. It can be called the rich second generation of the Internet industry. No one has ever worried about the future of ICQ. Only ICQ keeps breaking the records created by itself.

And so far, ICQ hasn’t disappointed anyone. It is still the darling of Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Now it is reported that ICQ will start financing, which means that ICQ’s listing is no longer in the foreseeable future!

There are naturally not a few people who are interested in ICQ. Even after ICQ released the news, whether it is a venture capital in Silicon Valley or a Wall Street institution, or even a traditional bank, technology company, and media group, I am afraid that they will come to ICQ in a hurry. cooperate.

After all, the predecessors of ICQ have already proved all of this. Even the most sluggish double-click has made the investor WPP Group and others earn several times more.

But the news released by ICQ this time is really scary. For a while, all parties who were about to make a move were a little overwhelmed for a while!
The news released by ICQ is to exchange 5% of the equity for 60 million US dollars in cash. What does this mean, that is, ICQ's management believes that the current valuation of ICQ has reached a shocking [-] billion US dollars.

An Internet company that has not yet been listed has an estimate of 60 billion US dollars, reaching the same level as Netscape, the big brother of the Internet industry today. This is no longer a lion's mouth, it is simply too scary!

Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the technology industry who heard the news were a little silent for a while, and even the well-informed media were a little speechless for a while.

On the media side, I don’t know whether ICQ is ignorant of the sky and the earth, or whether it really has the confidence to offer such an outrageous amount of financing.

Not surprisingly, even though ICQ only released the news through well-connected media without directly announcing it to the outside world, the news still detonated Silicon Valley and the media industry.

The news of "ICQ skyrocketing financing" began to spread all over the sky, and many media were speculating, which "taken advantage of it" is willing to suffer this knife? !
"ICQ's financing may create a new Internet financing history, but ICQ is worth it all!"

While many media were still guessing who would take advantage of it, the "Wall Street Journal" suddenly stood up and began to support ICQ, thinking that ICQ's sky-high financing was not a big mouth, but a "Excellent value for money".

No one expected that it was the Wall Street Journal who stood up first and told the people who eat melons not to "make a fuss" and not to use the eyes of the past to look at the future. The analysis invited by the Wall Street Journal in this issue The teacher also specifically cited Microsoft's performance in the past ten years. When Microsoft went public that year, its market value was only US$[-] million.

At the beginning, there were also a large group of analysts and investors who yelled that Microsoft was "too expensive" and had no investment value. As a result, the group of people who ignored Microsoft at the beginning can no longer afford Microsoft's market value of $3000 billion. Charge the gold bumps.

The "Wall Street Journal" is short of shouting out the classic saying that you don't need 998, only 98, no bully, no billions of dollars, only [-] million dollars, you can buy ICQ's stock back home up.

Comparing ICQ with Microsoft, let’s not talk about whether it’s some relatives wearing bamboo hats. Reasonable, if ICQ can really be like Microsoft, and its share price and market value will be doubled by one or two hundred times in the future, then it seems that it is not too expensive now?

Otherwise, if you can fool people, you have to be on Wall Street. Black people can be called white, and the obvious cut leeks can be turned into their mouths. This is ICQ for those investors. If you miss this chance, you won't be able to get on this car!

What can make Wall Street build momentum must be the major Wall Street institutions behind it, which are fueling the flames. This time, they helped ICQ burn a fire!

Wall Street's doing this is definitely not a conscience discovery, or it is really trying to make ICQ cheaper, but to continue to speculate on Internet concept stocks with the help of ICQ. If ICQ's sky-high financing can be completed this time, wouldn't it mean that the current Internet The company, or is it seriously undervalued?

If listed companies such as Yahoo, Netscape, and Lycos are undervalued, if the stock prices of these companies can rise, then Wall Street will be able to cut a bunch of leeks. what.

Unexpectedly, the first to express their opinion that they want to invest in ICQ are not Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street investment institutions, nor are they from the technology industry, but the other two, which are not so incompatible with the Internet. One of the companies is Song Yang's old acquaintance, Anran Company, and the other is Comcast Group!

What is the highest level of deception, that is, not only deceiving others, but also becoming addicted to it. An Ran is well versed in this, and the investment of flesh-cutting style can be called the most conscientious investor in America... …

Sometimes, I have to believe that there is God's will in the dark. Since Song Yang established Double-click, An Ran has favored Song Yang, and has given a large amount of advertising business to Double-click. When it comes to America Telecom, it is even more She spent all her money to support, and now, An Ran, who wanted to build the "America Western Union Consortium", was the first to stand up, ready to use real money to express her support for Song Yang and ICQ.

Comcast, which jumped out on the other side, was somewhat beyond the expectations of the outside world. Naturally, the strength of this veteran media group is beyond doubt. Not to mention 30 million US dollars, even [-] billion US dollars, for Comcast That being said, it's not a problem.

The key lies in the meaning of Comcast’s jumping out this time. It has been rumored that Disney is going to acquire the portal website. Time Warner and ABC TV station are also chasing the popularity of the Internet, and Comcast is the first to clearly stand out. It shows that the traditional media giants can't bear it anymore, and they are attacking the Internet industry!

"Milia, be quiet!"

In Song Yang's villa, Milia and Logan, who had a summer vacation, came to San Jose with Daana.

In the villa, a lot of people gathered today. Dana and the others came, and Greg and Gallo naturally came back. On the TV in the living room, the Atlanta Olympic Games was played, as a witness to America. , The scale of the Olympic Games this time can be said to be extremely grand. Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the variety of advertisements.

It can be said that there are only things that the audience can't think of, and there is nothing that the management committee can't play this time. Let alone relying on this Olympic Games, the developer directly doubled the housing prices in Atlanta and made a lot of money. One billion dollars.

The most exaggerated thing is that even the floor of the gymnasium was sold in advance. In the Memorial Park in Atlanta, it is said that 60 bricks have been pre-sold. Yes, the bricks in the Memorial Park have been sold. For only thirty dollars, a person can buy a brick with his own name on it from this Olympic Memorial Park. With this pile of bricks that cannot be sold out, the contractor earns 3000 in tears More than ten thousand dollars, as for the cost, you can think about it.

Millia, who has become like a little adult, has also reached the age when people hate dogs. At this moment, she is running around in the villa with a little bully dog ​​that Gallo gave her as a birthday present, attracting Daana's incarnation The style of the Mexican aunt yelled at Miriam, but Miriam, who had grown up, escaped Daana's "capture" and ran away in a flash.

"Gailo, you did a good job!" Turning around, Dana shouted and scolded Gallo who was grilling meat again.

Logan was still sitting quietly on the sofa, with a guitar beside him. Greg was holding a glass of wine alone, and was drinking by the pool in the backyard. In the living room, Song Yang and the coming Evan Spiegel Err was talking in a low voice. Seeing this scene, Dana smiled unconsciously, feeling as if she had returned to the original Houston.

"ICQ has reached an agreement with the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to make ICQ one of the Internet media companies for the Atlanta Olympics. In addition, it has also signed several Olympic athletes and let them be ICQ's endorsements!" Watching the game on TV, Evan S. Pigle said to Song Yang.

(End of this chapter)