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Chapter 350
"Double-Click Company, which just finished its first trial yesterday, has another news that it will choose an opportunity to meet with Demos Morris of the Federal Trade Commission. Demos Morris has not yet commented on this!"

On the second day after the trial ended, when many American media were still reporting yesterday's lawsuit, Ella Cherry's shocking remarks, and the personal grievances with Song Yang, the Washington Post suddenly broke the news.

Here, Ella Cherry is still trying to get rid of the Double-Click Company, and the boss of the rear trade committee, Demos Morris, is directly betrayed!

When the news broke, I don't know how Ella Cherry's prosecutors felt. The media felt full all of a sudden.

Although the Washington Post broke the news that Double-Click was going to meet with Demos Morris, but those who are familiar with the routine understand that if it wasn’t for Demos Morris’ intention to meet with Song Yang, then this news It will not be released at all.

Demos Morris's meal operation can be described in one sentence, that is, the ministers are about to fight to the death, why did His Majesty surrender first?

The chief prosecutors and lawyers following Ella Cherry all felt absurd when they saw the news. They fought against the Double-click company in front of them. The boss of the Trade Commission, This is about to start to reconcile with Double-click, and it is possible to take the initiative to bow.

Demos Morris did not directly say that he would withdraw the lawsuit, but he set up a separate Internet Information Management Office, which is responsible for formulating the Internet Advertising Management Act, as well as other new Internet bills. In fact, Ella Che Li was kicked away!

Of course, it is impossible to say this in name, but Ella Cherry has no time to take care of the affairs of the Trade Commission, and let her be in charge of the double-click prosecution case!

But the key point is that the new Internet Information Management Office established by Demos Morris invites American Internet companies as consultants to formulate Internet bills together. Among them, the IAB Internet Advertising Association and the American Internet Association are invited. We all know what happened to these two associations, they were almost concocted by Song Yang.

Let the IAB, the Internet Association of America, and the Trade Commission jointly formulate the Internet Advertising Act. This is almost the initiative of Demos Morris to seek peace. Of course, according to Demos Morris's words, it is as soon as possible Introduce a complete set of Internet bills to maintain the face of the trade committee!
For the olive branch thrown by Demos Morris, the Double-click company naturally responded, and immediately revealed to the media that it was going to meet Demos Morris and began to seek "reconciliation".

It's already taken advantage of it. Double-click the company, and don't mind giving face and reputation to Demos Morris. In this tense scene, a strange scene suddenly appeared. On the New York side, Double-click and the people from the Trade Commission The head was beaten badly, and in Washington, the double-click executives flirted with the boss of the Trade Commission, Demos Morris.

Regardless of whether Demos Morris knelt first, but in the media reports, Ella Cherry tried her best not to let the Double-click company bow. The company suffered a big loss of face.

On the contrary, as soon as Demos Morris, who has always been a "good old man", made the tough double-click company come to ask for an interview, this made Demos Morris's reputation in America loud.

As the news spread, many political media and television stations in America were touting Demos Morris, praising him as a capable general of the Grand Commander, who stabilized the situation as soon as he made a move...

But in the technology industry, it’s a different scene. Seeing DoubleClick, this time really withstood the antitrust prosecution, then the Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Tennessee State Court, etc., pointed at each other’s noses and scolded each other. They all retreated completely, and even let the Trade Commission bow their heads first, which shocked the entire Silicon Valley!
Stronger than Microsoft, Wal-Mart, etc., have been tossed by anti-monopoly and almost fell apart. They had to compromise and double-click the company all the way. This time, they didn’t pay a penny for settlement and compensation. at last.

A media in Silicon Valley directly ranked Song Yang as No.1 in the latest report of the power list of the technology industry, surpassing Jim Clark of Netscape, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Case of AOL, and Mike of Sun Neely and the others.

"If DoubleClick wins this lawsuit, then DoubleClick will create a new history. Bruno Song has also done it, and Bill Gates, Jim Clark and others have never done it before!"

The media is not a fool. This time Double-Click’s strong comeback must have involved many games and a series of transactions. Just look at the series of supporters who stood up from Song Yang, including Adrian and Tom Delay After waiting for a group of people, you will know that the congressmen on Capitol Hill are probably also involved.

If this lawsuit can be won, it is enough to show that Double-Click or Song Yang has far more influence in America than other technology companies, and is not just an upstart in the technology industry. It's not just an insignificant chess watcher...

"The Internet Office newly formed by Demos Morris has indeed released news that he intends to invite the IAB and the American Internet Association to participate in the formulation of the Internet Act!"

In the office of Double-click Company in New York, Whitman reported to Song Yanghui. This time it was unexpected, but Demos Morris did mean "reconciliation". The prosecution case really has a chance to be resolved, and Whitman couldn't help showing joy.

Hearing this, Song Yang couldn't help shaking his head. No matter what happened between Demos Morris and Ella Cherry, it was indeed beneficial to Double-click Company, but if it wasn't for the attitude of Double-click Company He was tough and gained the upper hand in this court trial. "Good old man" Demos Morris may not necessarily stand up to "preside over the overall situation."

"You tell someone to tell Demos Morris. When the prosecution case is settled, I will go to Washington to see him!"

Song Yang said to Whitman, no matter what idea Demos Morris had, anyway, Song Yang was determined to let Double-Click win this lawsuit so as to avoid future troubles, and he would not be a troublesome court External reconciliation, at most, cooperate with the performance, and let the media report that it was Demos Morris and the trade committee that "won". Only under this premise, will he meet with Demos Morris.

After clapping his hands, Song Yang said to Whitman, "Now it's time to free up your hands and clean up those vampires who short double-clicked the company's stock!"

Song Yang tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Whitman word by word. Whitman saw Song Yang's expression and knew that Song Yang's patience with those hedge funds had reached its limit.

Now the three mountains that hang over DoubleClick, the fine for false advertisements, and the Federal Department of Justice have died down and withdrawn it voluntarily. Tennessee’s class action case has also fallen into a stalemate. Starting to gain an advantage is enough for Song Yang to free up his hands and teach the hedge funds who shorted Double-Click the company a lesson!

Creamer's group of hedge funds is like a toad crawling on its feet. It doesn't bite people. But Creamer's group is not only a disgusting person but also a vampire. The short-selling report completely regarded the double-click company as a cash cow, and tried its best to squeeze the wool.

Just like dealing with Ella Cherry, Song Yang also needs a stick to beat the Wall Street short-sellers headed by Creamer, so that those people never want to dare to touch double-click again, as well as ICQ, which may be listed in the future, The stocks of companies such as American Telecom and Fortinet will do.

Otherwise, it will be like the Nasdaq Chinese concept stocks in later generations, and it will become the back garden and cash machine of Wall Street short-selling institutions. When things are in doubt, they will sell short-term stocks. If they want to short, they will release some negative news. , and then the stock price of China concept stocks plummeted immediately.

There are even things like muddy water that specialize in air concept stocks. If there is a slight turmoil, they will cut the leeks of the Chinese concept stocks. Song Yang does not want the double-click and other companies in his hands to become such companies in the future, which are specially shorted by Wall Street. The organization is on the lookout, so this time, those people have to be beaten up so that they don't dare to covet Double-click again!
Whitman listened to Song Yang's words. Song Yang really did not take the usual path. The American company was shorted. He usually thought he was unlucky and would not think about fighting those vultures and hyenas. After all, There is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. Once you are entangled by those hyenas and vultures, you will have no peace. Giants like American Airlines, who are shorted, choose to spend money to avoid disasters. Give some money to kill those hyenas. Sent away.

But Song Yang, this is going to clean up the group of short-selling Double-click companies. This is completely different from just increasing the double-click stock price.

"If it is just to increase the double-click stock price, then as long as the double-click board of directors agrees to repurchase, the double-click stock price can be raised. If you want to deal with those short-selling institutions, I am afraid that you will need too much money!" Whitman looked at Song Yang and said .

For repurchase, you only need to spend a sum of money, or even tens of millions of dollars for a show, to attract leeks to enter the market, which may save money, but what is needed to fight against the short-selling institutions is not With such a little money, I need to keep buying double-click stocks to make long orders, blow up the double-click stock price, and completely blow up the bunch of short sellers. The funds needed are a huge sum of money!
"With the current capital of the double-click company, I'm afraid it can't be done at all!"

Whitman said, Double-click is not short of money now. The financing at the time of listing, coupled with the support of WPP Group, has allowed Double-click to keep ordering, barely maintain a balance of payments, and the cash flow has begun to roll up. The cash flow of tens of millions of dollars is not enough to deal with those short sellers!

(End of this chapter)