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Chapter 849

After the acquisition of Bronfman Group and the sale of Seagram Liquor, the stock price of ICQ did not fall, and continued to test for a market value of US$4000 billion.

ICQ is now the leader in the Internet, media and entertainment sectors. As long as the stock price of ICQ rises, hundreds of stocks in these sectors will follow suit. Window paper, at least not now, because it offends people...

If the stock price has not fallen, then there will be no objections to the ICQ matter, let alone a class action lawsuit.

There will even be leeks, brainstorming the scene where ICQ's board of directors and management have worked hard for the development of ICQ, and will take the initiative to defend Immelt. , but also get a huge cash flow, this wave of winning is numb...

Several major media groups turned a blind eye to the "peer" thing, sitting on the ICQ social platform, ICNC, NBC, Universal Music, Universal Film and Television, and ICQ is now a part of the Amerika Media Group. member.

There is generally a tacit understanding between the major media groups in America. They will not bombard their peers unless there is a last resort or when there is no war. The media needs authority. Where is the authority of the media, how can they fool leeks? !
The leeks did not cause trouble, and the small and medium-sized media got hush money, and because of Immelt's power, they did not dare to delve into it.

The big media group did not pick up the black material of ICQ as a peer. As for the Internet media, as a brother from America and even the global Internet industry, the representative of the Internet, which portal website, which community, which forum, which blog , dare to provoke ICQ? !
ICQ is not as domineering as Microsoft was back then, but it doesn’t mean that ICQ is easy to mess with. One day ICQ will be down, and those small websites and small forums dare to pick up ICQ’s black material, but now ICQ is in full swing, and it is in the Internet industry. That’s all for traditional industries. Who dares to be tough on ICQ among Internet peers?

Even if a really powerful Internet company wants to gain a position, it will be slapped to death by ICQ.

ICQ, PayPal, Double-click, Xueleshan online game platform, Fortinet antivirus, Hotmail, Firefox browser, Symbian system, Symbian music store, Wikipedia, IMDb, ebay, Amazon and many other Internet companies, at critical moments, They all want to stand with ICQ and shout for ICQ. When the time comes, who will the outside world believe?
In addition, the American Internet Association and the American Advertising Association are all on the side of ICQ, which provoked ICQ. Since then, this Internet company has never received a $[-] advertisement and is not protected by the American Internet Association. No information about this Internet company will appear on any mainstream website, and even the searched information is all negative news. In the Internet world, this company was directly "killed" by the company...

For the first time, ICQ "lightly" demonstrated its own power and influence to the outside world. With the help of it, in the Internet and media industry, it really felt a bit like calling the wind and rain. The news that Seagram Wine was sold, It just subsided quietly, at least temporarily.

After seeing the influence displayed by ICQ, many companies and big shots have a deeper understanding of this giant company composed of the Internet and media, and Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Lycos and other Internet companies, Cooperation with established media companies such as Disney, Fox, CBS, Gannett Media, etc., has begun to become intensive.

The matches in the fireplace made a sound of burning. Even after Christmas, when spring has begun in New York, Los Angeles, etc., it is still cold and windy here, and there is a world of ice and snow outside the room.

"Damn it, Cherry, why did they choose this place for you!"

The door was pushed open, and a figure entered with the cold wind, and complained to Ella Cherry, who was sitting by the fireplace, holding a cup of coffee and looking out the window, like a sculpture.

Ella Cherry, who was investigating the Double-Click Company and had a fight with Song Yang before sending herself to the New York Federal Prison, appeared here.

Ajit Wheeler, who was standing by the fireplace to warm up his body, saw Ella Cherry who was like a sculpture, and couldn't help but touch Ella Cherry's breath with her hands. Ella Cherry finally spoke.

"This may be the best place to calm down and think about something!"

During the years when Ella Cherry was in the New York federal prison, Ajit Wheeler, a professor of academic sociology, visited Ella Cherry the most times, and the two became close friends. The concept is the same, and they are all firm antitrust schools.

Looking at Ella Cherry, who had just been paroled from the federal prison, Ajit Wheeler felt that the past few years in the federal prison seemed to have worn away Ella Cherry's sharp-edged aura. Now he has become so restrained that he can't see Ella Cherry's mind at all.

"They shouldn't have treated you like that, you gave everything to deal with Bruno Song back then, what happened?
Facts have proved that you are the right one. Looking at ICQ, it is even more terrifying than Microsoft back then. Can you imagine that its market value is about to exceed 4000 billion US dollars, and Seagram Wine was sold off? To $40 billion, this is a company with an annual revenue of $30 billion! "

Ajit Wheeler is fighting for Ella Cherry, and he has no choice but to do all kinds of ICQ operations. As a bystander, he can see clearly, but no one wants to listen to him. Ah Kit Wheeler also wrote a lot of articles and comments on the possible bubble of the Internet and the possible birth of giant monopoly companies.

A few years ago, newspapers and media published his alarmist critical articles, but now with the frenzy of the Internet, no newspapers are willing to publish those things.

Because many of the users who bought those newspapers also bought Internet stocks. Who are the newspapers publishing Ajit Wheeler’s articles against? If the stuff written by Ajit Wheeler really came true, it’s okay , As a result, several years have passed, the Internet is still booming, and countless billionaires have been born. Users are not idle and have nothing to do, and they have to be scared several times a day.

Ajit Wheeler also felt it. It is impossible for him to win when he fights with Internet giants such as ICQ, AOL, and Yahoo. No matter how fierce he scolds, people will not even look at him Only an activist like Ella Cherry would be able to overthrow the Internet giants that have grown up.

But Ajit Wheeler is also a little worried. After several years of service in a federal prison, how much of Ella Cherry's original action and courage has been retained. What happened to Ella Cherry back then, put Any one person is a huge blow!

Listening to Ajit Wheeler's words, Ella Cherry just drank her coffee in silence, which was a habit she developed in the New York federal prison.

This time, Ella Cherry was accused of the antitrust school, and Congressman Edward Winslow, who made Ella Cherry a scapegoat at the beginning, was given to Ella Cherry after the incident of Ella Cherry subsided. Working together, she was released on bail.

It's just that, right now, it's inconvenient for Ella Cherry to appear in front of the media and the public. Ella Cherry herself doesn't want to be on the cusp of the storm, so she chooses to come to the icy and snowy Alaska. The ghost place has never been under the attention of the American mainstream media, and there are not many media reports at all.

Looking back at Ajit Wheeler, Ella Cherry sighed, and said helplessly, "It's completely different now than it was a few years ago. It's no longer necessary to deal with Internet companies such as ICQ and AOL." The original method can solve it, the beast has already come out of the cage and occupied the forest, and it is not easy to tame it again..."

Speaking of which, Ella Cherry was silent for a while. Back then, she wanted to take advantage of the fledgling Internet industry to put the Internet industry under shackles, introduced the Internet Act, tamed the young beast of the Internet industry, and prevented the Internet from appearing again. Such a giant, but who knows, when she encountered the first double-click company, she stumbled, not only failed to tame the Internet industry, but planted herself in it.

(End of this chapter)