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Chapter 548
Now ICQ is the world's largest emoji copyright provider, and has a dedicated emoji maker, who are all produced by students from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Every month, ICQ will release a large number of emoticons. Of course, if other forums and portals want to use them, they have to pay Xueleshan.

Cameron met forum administrators on the IGN forum, and some complained about ICQ’s overbearing, like ICQ emoticons, major platforms and website users are free to use, but users do not pay, forums and websites, You have to pay copyright fees to ICQ.

Cameron does not know exactly how much the copyright fee for the emoticons is, but he knows that almost all of the thousands of websites in Amerika are inseparable from the emoticons. ICQ pays the fee, or waits to receive ICQ's lawyer's letter.

What makes the American website even more uncomfortable is that ICQ always likes to send the lawsuit to Texas and Houston. Texas is now applying for a federal judge, and the world's first Internet case is being established in Texas. The court, that is, as long as the Internet is involved in the future, it will be tried in the court of Texas.

Let the courts in Texas pay for this kind of thankless work out of their own pockets. If there is nothing to say behind this, then it’s bullshit. Anyway, it is reported that the IAB Advertising Association, the Federal Advertising Association supported by the double-click company The Internet Association is contributing to the flames. The donations of these two associations to the Texas court last year were close to tens of millions of dollars...

In the Internet industry, it goes without saying whose territory Texas belongs to. As long as the lawsuit reaches Texas, it doesn’t matter whether Microsoft, IBM, or even Disney, which is known as the strongest legal department on the surface, is in Texas. If Saskatchewan encounters ICQ, it is estimated that it will have a bad nose. Of course, for the same reason, in Seattle, the hometown of Microsoft, and Florida, the hometown of Disney, ICQ will be close to death if it encounters them!
There are so many large and small websites in America, and the frequency of using emoticons is also frighteningly high. Even a small website only pays one or two thousand dollars in copyright fees to ICQ every month, and Yahoo and other large websites pay 10,000+ dollars. The knives, when added up, are not a small sum.

Not to mention, there are things that Cameron doesn’t know, not only emoticons, ICQ also holds font patents, message withdrawal patents, picture sharing transfers, screenshots, file transfer patents, etc. It can earn tens of millions of dollars for ICQ.

These are still ICQ's mercy, turned a blind eye, did not pursue those small websites, and abused ICQ's patents. If it is true and raises patent fees, it is estimated that all American websites will have to be banned. ICQ went bankrupt by more than [-] to [-]%...

Cameron and the users on the IGN forum would never have imagined that the emoticons, pictures, and shared pictures they posted on the forum were all the result of a secret game between the IGN forum and ICQ. If IGN withdraws these authorizations, the entire IGN forum will not be able to post emoticons, pictures, share, etc...

It is estimated that the fun of flooding the forum will be greatly reduced. Song Yang still has a few more disgusting patents, such as the rogue patent of "interactive network". got this patent.

This patent is disgusting. It is not very practical, but it is extremely insulting. When he fell out with Netscape because of Hotmail, Song Yang used this patent to apply for a ban on Netscape's use, so that Netscape's website It couldn't be accessed for a few hours. Although it didn't do much to Netscape, it really disgusted Jim Clark and Mark Anderson.

Cameron poured water on the IGN forum. His family education made him understand that these discussions on the forum, as well as the support and opposition of players, will not have any impact on Sega's acquisition. At most, it will make Sega, Make instant noodle kung fu, threaten to consider users' opinions and so on.

But pouring water, blaming Fang Qiu for pointing Jiangshan and so on, really makes people feel refreshed.

Just when Cameron felt that it was impossible to produce results today, a player who obviously worked on Wall Street suddenly threw out a link. He was the first to break the news that Sega was about to be sold.

"The latest news from the Wall Street Journal, Sega has completed the merger agreement with Sammy, and Sega will change its name to Sammy Sega in the future!"

The news that appeared suddenly caused the entire forum to become noisy again. Cameron didn't expect that Sega would sell himself so soon.

Just by listening to the changed name, one can tell who is buying whom this time!
Cameron clicked on that link, and suddenly saw the Wall Street Journal, which published the latest report on Yahoo Finance. Now that Yahoo’s influence is growing, various traditional media have also begun to open columns on the Yahoo Finance channel to publish the latest news. Media, compared with traditional media, is too fast.

"Sammy announced that it has formally completed the merger with Sega. Sammy has decided to hold Sega. Sammy will acquire Sega with a 35% stake and $11 billion in cash. This is the largest transaction in the Japanese game industry in recent years. acquisition.

After the merger, Sammy Sega will become the second largest group in Japan's game industry, second only to Japan's Sony, with annual revenue exceeding 4424.8 billion yen. "

More than 400 billion yen, that is, according to the paper data, the merged Sammy Sega looks like a giant in the game industry, with annual revenue exceeding 35 billion U.S. dollars. Of course, these are paper data. Whether it's true or not...it's hard to say.

"Satomi Osamu will be the president and president of Sammy Sega, and Hisao Koguchi will be the vice president. In the future, Hisao Koguchi will be mainly responsible for the development of arcade and console games. In the future, Sammy Sega may continue to be in the pachinko room industry in Japan. Further development!"

Cameron has only a half-knowledge of the twists and turns, but from this report, he can see some clues. It is obvious that Sega has been completely acquired by Sammy. People like Hisao Oguchi will also give up power in the future. , the whole of Sega is actually decided by Satomiji.

Cameron was a little puzzled by the last sentence. The players were all staring at Sega's mainframe, but the Wall Street Journal could tell that Sammy Sega was heading for the Japanese billiard room.

After Sega was acquired by Sammy, it immediately announced the formation of Sammy Sega’s board of directors. The new board of directors, of course, is dominated by Sammy, but still invited Hisao Koguchi, Nakayama Hayao, Peter Moore and others to join the board of directors, but these people, change No, Sega has become the status quo of Xueleshan's younger brother.

For the game industry, this is nothing less than a blockbuster, especially for players in the console industry. After Sega is acquired by the gold owner, it will either be resurrected with full blood. The original console industry, which is about to form a duo of Sony and Nintendo break in.

Or, Sega is completely doomed, and since then it has withdrawn from consoles and arcades, and Sega consoles have also become a swan song!
Sega's acquisition marked a change in Japan's game industry, and at the same time, it also allowed Wall Street to see the status quo after today's Soros and his gang, although it is still bearable, but many industries in Japan are was hit.

After Sega was acquired, many large institutions on Wall Street immediately rushed to Japan, ready to pick up the leaks.

After the acquisition was completed, Satomi immediately rushed to San Jose with Hisao Koguchi. For such a large acquisition, he needed to report to Song Yang and get the support of the parent company.

At the same time, we also need to explain to the funders who lent money to Sammy. The acquisition of Sega is only the first step for Sammy. Only support.

Not only Sammy Sega was rushing towards San Jose, Microsoft also sent people to rush there as soon as they got the news, and Sega's people from the American company were also in the rush.

Peter Moore, the president of Sega America, was shocked when he heard the news of Sega's acquisition, and then he couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard who the benefactor who bought Sega was. He ordered people to buy a plane ticket to San Jose immediately.

As for Niben Sega's side, they didn't even notify him of such a big deal as the sale of Sega. Peter Moore was furious. Apparently Niben Sega didn't care about him at all.

But after knowing that the one who bought Sega was actually Sierra, Peter Moore understood that it was time for him to stand up.

Now Niben Sega and America Sega are on the same starting line, and they are both begging for food under the banner of Xuele Mountain. The relationship between America Sega and Xuele Mountain is probably much closer than that of Niben Sega. After all, we are in America.

In the bedroom of a villa near the ICQ headquarters, there are a lot of clothes scattered on the floor. Irene, known as the number one strong woman in Silicon Valley and the number one female professional manager on Wall Street, after tossing with Song Yang on the bed for a long time, finally Crawled out of the quilt.

Lying lazily as a pillow in front of Song Yang, Irene at this time has a lazy aura on her body, no longer the stern expression she wears in front of the media with black-rimmed glasses.

Song Yang bared his teeth, and touched the scratches on his arms that were scratched by Irene. Irene's style on the bed has always been that of a little wild cat.

Seeing the scratch marks on Song Yang's arm, Irene couldn't help but blushed, and asked, "Jenny is coming back next week?"

Song Yang nodded. Jenny is looking forward to returning now. If the crew hadn't been filming reshoots, she would have flown back a long time ago.

Looking at the tired Irene in her arms, she put on makeup, but couldn't hide her heavy eye circles. Obviously, she was very busy during this time. Song Yang rubbed Irene's blond hair, "Worried about the listing of ICQ?"

(End of this chapter)