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Chapter 676
As a hardcore "Song Chui", the Oakland Tribune questioned the data released by Sierra Mountain, not because the question was too high, but because it was too low!
"Half-Life's sales volume on the first day is definitely more than 160 million sets. There are still four hours before 24 o'clock in the morning. Some sales in Europe, Lao Maozi, and Asia have not yet been fully counted. According to the survey of Nielsen Data Corporation , Half-Life's global sales on the first day should be between 180 million and 190 million sets, surpassing "StarCraft" and becoming the best-selling game in game history!
Sierra is reshaping the game industry. The first-day revenue of "Half-Life" has exceeded 99% of the box office of Hollywood movie premieres. The game industry is surpassing Hollywood movies. The total output value of the global game industry will exceed 500 billion US dollars in the next two years ..."

The Oakland Tribune believes that the sales statistics of Sierra Mountain have shrunk seriously. The first-day revenue of "Half-Life" today has definitely exceeded [-] million dollars. This kind of speed of harvesting dollars can only be achieved by Microsoft's release of a new operating system. Only then will I be able to see it.

Like the Oakland Tribune, there are quite a few Silicon Valley media with the same attitude. They all watch the excitement and don’t think it’s a big deal.

Of course, among these media, the pure Song blowing of the Oakland Tribune is simply blowing about the company in Song Yang's hands, while other Silicon Valley media more or less have some purpose.

Now Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Lycos and other major technology companies have established their own game departments, and Half-Life is a big hit. These companies can also take advantage of the popularity of "game concept stocks", regardless of the sales of the games they develop. What's the matter, layer heat is absolutely good at it, and with the heat, the stock price can rise again!
In addition to these, there is also a voice that the "Wall Street Telegraph" newspaper, which has just been established, has questioned the existence of improper transactions between ICQ and Sierra Mountain.

"We have reason to suspect that Xueleshan's split is a long-planned "big show". At the critical moment of ICQ's listing, Xueleshan's game department was split off, and ICQ lost the most important profitable department. I think This may be a planned conspiracy, of course, these are my personal guesses, need to be confirmed by the Federal Securities Commission!"

This report was published by the founder of Wall Street Telecom, and it is rumored that Mundell, who will receive the next Nobel Prize in Economics, published it.

Regardless of whether Mundell was doing publicity for the "Wall Street Telegraph" to attract attention, or he really couldn't stand ICQ's showmanship, this large-scale report immediately caused an uproar.

Doubts about ICQ's splitting of Sierra Mountain suddenly started to rise. It was really the Williams couple's discord with Irene that came too suddenly.

All of a sudden, "conspiracy theories" began to spread rumors. The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, The New Yorker, Barron's, and other large and small media began to make conspiracy theories. After all, serious reports, how can there be such conspiracy theories? Reports attract attention.

At this time, the Robinson Law Firm in New York suddenly jumped out and called on ICQ investors to initiate a class action lawsuit against ICQ, threatening ICQ to engage in internal transactions, false publicity, defrauding investors, etc., and to claim a staggering $54 billion from ICQ , according to three times the financing scale of ICQ when it was listed!

This law firm is a well-known vulture law firm in America. It specializes in class action lawsuits. It has been established for less than five years and has filed more than 400 lawsuits, including Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Ericsson, Dell and other companies. I was sued by it, anyway, if I have nothing to do, I just make a wave, winning a penny, and losing is fine.

Whenever there is any scandal or incident in a certain company, Robinson Law Firm will take the lead in mobilizing investors to sue collectively, and then they represent the lawsuit. If they win the lawsuit, they will take 30% of the compensation. If they lose, they will also From the litigant, the lawyer's fee of three or four million dollars is not a loss anyway.

This time, Robinson Law Firm and several other vulture law firms also want to take advantage of ICQ!
However, to engage in ICQ, Robinson and several vulture law firms must obtain the consent of Goldman Sachs and several major institutions. Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Deutsche Bank are the main players holding ICQ stocks. ICQ stock.

No one would have thought that Xueleshan’s games were selling well, but ICQ was lying on the ground. All kinds of doubts continued. In fact, they still couldn’t eat grapes and said grapes were sour. Seeing Xueleshan’s valuation skyrocketed, ICQ couldn’t get it at all. One, not only will the stock price not rise sharply tomorrow, but it may fall, how can investors be satisfied!
"Jeffrey of Robinson Law Firm will join several other vulture law firms to file a class action lawsuit against ICQ!"

Pellet Greene walked into Paulson's office and reported the news to the boss of Goldman Sachs, with a bit of schadenfreude in his words, let alone those small investors, after seeing the sales volume of "Half-Life", Pellet Greene is a bit of a motherfucker.

If Xueleshan is still under the banner of ICQ, then with the sales volume of Half-Life, the stock price of ICQ is estimated to be able to pull up a big wave.

After Paulson saw the sales volume of "Half-Life", he couldn't help but take another look, earning a small goal a day. Paulson didn't know how many hens that could lay golden eggs in Song Yang's hands!
And Xueleshan’s game sales are not only related to just one game, maybe the entire industry chain, game concept stocks, game retailers, game consoles, game peripheral products, etc. related to "Half-Life" , may all follow suit.

"President Paulson, do you want Goldman Sachs..." Pele Greene was eagerly looking at Paulson.

Paulson naturally understands what Pellet Greene means. When Robinson Vulture Law Firm is biting ICQ, Goldman Sachs can make a lot of money by following along. Goldman Sachs bit off a big piece of meat, which is a common practice on Wall Street.

Paulson shook his head. He also knew that he could get enough benefits by attacking at this time, but Paulson didn't want to only eat this wave, but wanted to put a long line and catch big fish!

"I mentioned to you that ICQ will make a big move. According to the information we got, ICQ is about to make a move. At this time, it is not worth the loss to attack ICQ!"

Hearing Paulson's words, Pellet Greene regretted, "Just let ICQ go like this?!"

Paulson laughed, shook his head and said, "Of course not!"

"Let the analysts of Goldman Sachs release a favorable analysis report on ICQ. ICQ is a chicken that lays golden eggs, but it must also belong to Goldman Sachs. Bruno Song knows how to choose."

Paulson said with a bit of complacency that Goldman Sachs will not only not attack ICQ at this time, but will speak up for ICQ, and then ask Song Yang to invest in Xuele Mountain. Paulson believes that Song Yang will make an appropriate decision. The choice comes.

(End of this chapter)