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Simon had reminded Miss C in advance that if many powerful electronics manufacturers, such as Sony and Panasonic, want to launch such a simple card camera, it may only take a month.

However, Tinkerbell's advantage is actually very obvious because of Ygritte's support.

In addition to the most obvious time advantage, the iCam shoots directly in the GIF image format developed by Eaglet, and the Photoshop software is also sufficient to provide a large degree of bonus, and there is official technical and promotional support from Eaglet.

With such an obvious advantage, if it fails to succeed, Simon can only let other electronics manufacturers enter this market.According to the previously set development plan, in any case, enriching the content of the Internet platform as soon as possible is the first priority.

Simon personally followed up the filming of "Wonder Woman" in the UK. In North America, the summer vacation is still going on.

6月28日到7月4日，《终结者2》开画首周，最终票房进账为5693万美元。

This achievement obviously cannot be compared with "Batman: The Dark Knight".However, the box office of $5693 million in the first week also exceeded most people's expectations, and Fox was even more relieved.

The box office reached 5693 million U.S. dollars in the first week, which means that "Terminator 2" is still very guaranteed to get 2 million U.S. dollars at the North American box office.

The box office in North America was 2 million US dollars, which basically recovered all the production and publicity costs in the early stage.

With the rising cost of Hollywood film production and the continuous expansion of overseas markets, video channels and TV platforms, the North American box office of Hollywood films has become less and less important.

Everyone regards the domestic box office more as a measure of a film's ultimate commercial potential.

Many movies with a budget of more than 5 million US dollars can only rely on local box office, and they can't recover the cost at all.

It is very rare for a film like "Terminator 2" with a total production and publicity budget of 1 million US dollars to be able to recover the cost just through distribution in North American theaters.

The domestic box office can reach $2 million, and the film's overseas box office potential is the same, and it may even be higher.

Including the follow-up video tape and TV broadcasting platform, the net profit scale of the project in the next three years can basically reach 2 million US dollars.

The profit scale of the two blockbusters in the DC movie universe can only be described as a miracle, and there is no comparison at all. A project like "Terminator 2" with an expected revenue of 2 million US dollars is the goal pursued by various Hollywood studios.

此外，6月28日到7月4日的一周，《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士》的票房跌幅为23%，再收3477万美元，累计票房2亿4205万美元。

The film's single-week box office fell back to the range of 3000 million to 4000 million US dollars, basically it will not have much impact on other summer movies.

According to the current box office trend, within three weeks at most, the North American box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" will exceed 3 million US dollars. As for whether it can hit 4 million US dollars, we can only look forward to the follow-up market performance.

Relying on the strong performance of overseas markets and peripheral derivatives markets, "Batman: The Dark Knight" has actually recovered all production and publicity costs on the books in the second week of the film's release. Keep making profits for Daenerys and Time Warner.

On July 7th, the atmosphere brought about by the American Independence Day holiday has not yet dissipated, and the North American theaters once again opened three films

They are the comedy "Little Genius 2" of Universal Pictures, which is now part of Daenerys Entertainment, the classic 2D animation "101 Dalmatians" re-released by Disney, and the drama "About Henry" produced by Paramount Pictures. ".

Now that they are in the summer file, although the three films are all key projects of each studio.

However, the market performance of these three new films is very average.

The best performer at the box office was Disney's re-release of "101 Dalmatians," which earned $1686 million in its seven-day opening week."About Henry," starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening, opened with just $1091 million.Universal Pictures is clearly trying to follow the trend of "Home Alone" at the end of last year. "Little Genius 2" also only earned $1029 million in the first seven days.

因此，7月5日到7月11日的一周，北美电影市场依旧是《终结者2》和《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士》领跑。

In the second week of its release, the box office of "Terminator 2" fell by 37% compared with the first week, which is better than that of "Batman: The Dark Knight".Of course, the box office opening volume of the two cannot be compared on this basis.

However, the box office of $4133 million in the following week also made the North American box office of "Terminator 2" quickly rush to $9826 million.

Basically, it can be counted as breaking [-] million in two weeks.

As a result, Hollywood studios have realized that the era of more intensive saturated full-scale releases has officially arrived with the release of the two films "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Terminator 2".

Chapter 427 AOL Listing (Revised)

After a week in the UK and further trips to Finland and Italy, Simon returned to New York on July 7.

America Online will be officially listed on the NASDAQ exchange on July 7.

During the previous two-week IPO roadshow, AOL had aroused a very strong response among investor groups across North America. The cumulative number of subscribed shares exceeded 2.1 million shares, reaching 9.5 times the amount of new shares issued by AOL this time.

同时，为了配合7月12日的IPO，美国在线于7月10日提前发布了这家公司1991年第二季度的财务报告。

As of June 6, AOL had 31 million official users in the most prosperous areas on the east and west coasts of the United States. Compared with the previous quarter, the number of users increased by 363%. In the three months from April 56 to June 4, AOL's operating income reached US$1 million, a 6% increase compared to the first quarter.

Although the quarterly loss reached 1.6 million US dollars, no one can ignore the explosive growth of AOL.

At six o'clock in the morning, Simon woke up on time in his manor house in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

The woman in her arms quickly opened her eyes because of Simon's movements, and was confused for a moment, with a shy expression on her face.

Simon couldn't help pinching Sofia Feici's rosy face when she first woke up, and said, "Would you like to go to Manhattan with me?"

Sophia didn't avoid the man's hand, but just pressed it lightly, and said, "I'm going back to my home later."

I flew over from Italy with Simon yesterday, because I was greedy for sex, so I didn't go to see my son and daughter in the first place, which is why the woman was embarrassed just now.

Simon just smiled and said, "In this case, you can sleep a little longer."

Sophia rested her head on the pillow and watched the man put on his clothes, and then got up too, revealing a seductive spring after the sheets slipped.Seeing Simon looking over, he couldn't help but raise his hand to cover it, and then pretended to put it down inadvertently under his expectant gaze, and slowly found his clothes and put them on.

After Simon washed up, he went downstairs. The housekeeper Alice and C girl Claire had led the other girls to prepare breakfast.

The two women will attend the IPO bell-ringing ceremony with Simon today, before they officially take to the stage.

The outside world has always had a lot of speculation about Simon's increasingly low-key private life, including these beautiful girls around him.This time the two girls went to the stage, they will definitely attract some discussions, but this is also an experience they have to bear.It's better to let the public get used to something early than to expose it at the last minute.

After breakfast and saying goodbye to Sophia, Simon and his party set off for Manhattan.

I have already experienced the bell-ringing ceremony of Blockbuster's listing, and this time I am familiar with it.

However, compared to just showing his face last time, more procedures will be arranged this time, including the media interview that Simon will personally accept before the bell ringing ceremony.

AOL's IPO, apparently also attracted more media attention.

As soon as Simon's car appeared outside the headquarters of the Nasdaq Exchange in Midtown Manhattan, a large group of reporters surrounded him, and several TV stations' live interview vehicles were parked around.

The bodyguards got out of the car first, and a group of four surrounded Simon and the two women who got out of the car with him. There were four other bodyguards outside to push apart the crowd and forcibly opened a road for Simon to enter the exchange.

The surrounding reporters rushed to ask all kinds of questions, but got no response, so they quickly adjusted their strategies and frantically pressed the shutter on Simon, especially taking pictures of the two women who appeared with him today.

Some people have even begun to speculate on the identities of the two women, even involving ideas such as marriage changes.

But, of course, that's the only way to think about it.

If you write your ideas in newspapers without any tangible evidence, you probably can only wait for Westeros to be sued for bankruptcy.

The super tycoon had just filed for bankruptcy some time ago. Although Janet was basically doing the work, the outside world took it for granted that Simon was responsible for it.

Difficult to enter the floor of the exchange, James Raybould, Steve Case, Jeff Bezos, Carol Bartz, John Chambers, Raymond Raymond, who participated in this bell ringing ceremony Smith and other high-level executives of the Westeros problem system greeted them together.

In today's IPO, Steve Case, as the chairman and CEO of AOL, is only the protagonist in name.Everyone understood that a certain young man was the focus of everyone's attention.

With the continuous explosion of the Internet industry, more and more people have seen Simon's ingenious layout of this emerging high-tech field in just a few years.

Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, AOL, Igret, and even Bell Atlantic, which has officially changed its name to Verizon, are all like this.

Among them, Cisco, America Online, and Eaglet have formed the entire Internet industry chain of Internet equipment providers, Internet service providers, and Internet content providers. The three jointly created the popular World Wide Web standard, and in just two years It has already obtained an overwhelming penetration rate, and other companies of the same type have no time to follow up and participate in the competition.

Many people expected that whether it is Cisco, AOL or Eaglet, they will all become giant-like existences after the opening of an era in the future.

Therefore, the listing of AOL among the three companies far exceeds the attention received by Simon at the beginning of last year when Blockbuster went public.

Right now is not the time to greet each other, the time has already reached eight o'clock, everyone simply greeted each other and began to busy themselves with their own affairs.

Simon was also led into the interview area of ​​the exchange by the staff. This interview will be broadcast live on mainstream TV networks such as ABC, NBC, and CBS, as well as morning news programs of local New York TV stations.

The interview time is only 10 minutes, and each reporter is only allowed to ask one question.

Because it was one of the rare public interview opportunities for Simon Westeros, everyone cheered up.

There were two sofas in the interview area, and Simon sat down on one of them, next to Richard Seaman, a vice president of the Nasdaq Exchange who was the moderator himself.

After simple preparations, the vice president took the lead and said, "Simon, such an opportunity is really rare, so how about giving me a chance to ask questions first?"

Simon nodded with a smile, and said, "Of course, but you've already asked, so next."

Everyone at the scene was stunned for a while, and then laughed together.

This is of course just a joke.

Richard Seaman didn't take it seriously either, and insisted on holding the microphone and said: "This should be the second time you have come to the Nasdaq exchange. The last time was Blockbuster, and this time it was AOL. I would like to ask Yes, um, of course not which company it will be next time, although I really want to know, but what I want to ask is, what do you think of the current situation of the US stock market and the trend in the next few years, and if possible, tell everyone Some investment advice?"

This is obviously a big problem.

However, in Simon's current capacity, he is also fully qualified to comment on the economic trend of the entire country.

Although it deviates from the theme of AOL's IPO today, Simon thought for a while and said: "As we all know, the federal stock market experienced a strong rebound for several months in the first half of the year. Because of the weak economic situation, many people feel that this The rebound is very watery, but I don't think so. In recent years, or if you count it from 1987, the federal government has experienced two catastrophes in a row, the bursting of the stock market bubble and the collapse of the bond market. So, I believe this year will be the beginning of another bull market in the federal stock market.”

Listening to Simon's analysis, the people around couldn't help but nodded slightly. Seeing that Simon didn't seem to intend to continue after speaking, Richard asked, "So, what about the investment advice?"

Simon had no choice but to say: "In a market that is at the bottom and waiting to rebound, it is very easy for any investment to benefit. The key is to be patient. Of course, if you are more specific, I recommend that you invest in technology stocks in the next few years .For example, America Online, which went public today.”

Richard got his own answer, and stopped asking questions, and quickly handed over the questioning opportunity to an eager reporter in the audience.

The reporter from the "New York Times" took the microphone and immediately said quickly: "Simon, the issue price of AOL is 21 US dollars, which is equivalent to a business valuation of 31.5 billion US dollars. However, AOL's revenue in the last quarter It is only US$2.7 million, and the annual revenue may only be US$10 billion. The industry estimates that the stock price of US$21 billion is equivalent to a price-earnings ratio of about 35 times. Is this price too high? How do you think AOL supports such a valuation? value?"

Simon has considered this issue in advance, so he skillfully said: "For a company that has just IPO, the stock price should represent more of a future. This is especially true for America Online. The high growth of this company is well known, so , I don’t think AOL’s IPO price is high, in fact, I think it’s a little low.”

Simon's answer is more or less a panacea.

Anyone who has carefully analyzed AOL can probably see that this company not only represents a high growth rate, but also has a strong monopolistic nature.

Because the technical patents of the World Wide Web are in the hands of the Westeros system, not only AOL itself, which has exclusive agreements in the operating areas of the three major operators.Moreover, whether it is the upstream Internet equipment provider Cisco or the downstream Internet content provider Eaglet, there are many ways to protect AOL's advantages in the industry.

In the past six months, Bell Pacific on the west coast and NYNEX on the east coast have not completely broken up with AOL. One of the reasons is the contract. The other is the lack of upstream and downstream technical and content support.

If these two companies tear up the original exclusive agreement in order to enter the ISP field, then it is obviously impossible for them to get the support of Cisco and Eaglet, let alone the authorization of the corresponding technology in the World Wide Web field.

If the torn agreement only needs to be compensated according to the agreement, then it is not impossible to forcibly infringe on the use of World Wide Web technology in the absence of technical authorization, even if the Westeros system is sued for bankruptcy.As long as it is a company with a slight bottom line of business ethics, it is impossible to do so.

However, it is impossible for Simon to express these relatively sensitive advantages clearly.

If you say it, you are giving someone a handle.

Warren Buffett has a very well-known "toll bridge" theory, to the effect that a company has a strong monopoly advantage in a certain area, and this company has absolute pricing power

At the beginning, this theory was put forward as a reference for Berkshire to find investment targets, but because Buffett said this in the public media, this theory became the target of his criticism in some corporate lawsuits. It is believed that Berkshire has the intention to manipulate the market at will.

Which company in this world doesn't want to be "the only one" and have a monopoly advantage?

It's just that too many things can often be done, but don't say it.

Therefore, Simon's answers to some questions may be regarded as unnutritious, and even ridiculed by some self-proclaimed shrewd people. However, even some entrepreneurs who like to teach successful experiences in the media, as long as their heads are not completely broken , and probably won't really confide in the public.

Of course, even if he deliberately hides his clumsiness, Simon actually revealed enough things in the next 10 minutes of interview time.

Over the past few years, the market has become very blind to Simon, who has created a series of wealth miracles in just a few years, and America Online is one of the core enterprises of the Westeros system. Therefore, when the bell rings As soon as the ceremony was over and inquiries began before the official opening of the market, AOL's stock price continued to soar.

So until 10:30, after five consecutive rounds of inquiries that lasted for more than an hour, AOL finally opened for trading at a price of $32.75.

32.75 US dollars, compared with the issue price of 21 US dollars, the increase has reached 56%.

However, this is just the beginning.

In the following several trading sessions, AOL's share price continued to rise, and the increase reached the level that some investors who subscribed for the stock in the early stage couldn't help but have the idea of ​​​​starting to sell.

Ultimately, AOL's stock price was finally set at a high of $3 by the close of trading at 30:43.25 p.m.

On the first day of listing, AOL's share price rose by 106% overall, and the market value at the close of the day was US$74.6 billion.

After the IPO, Westeros' stake in AOL dropped to 65.4%.

As a result, many people suddenly discovered that AOL, which was almost unknown in the asset statistics of Simon Westeros last year, brought the young man a paper wealth of 49 billion U.S. dollars in just one year.

Just this wealth of 49 billion U.S. dollars has already exceeded the total net worth of most of the richest people on the US rich list and even the global rich list.

However, it cannot be denied that AOL is only a part of the thriving Westeros system.

In the following weekend, the media continued to discuss AOL's box office trend next week, and at the same time began to focus on Simon's current personal wealth.

In the past year, it is no exaggeration to say that the Westeros system has definitely completed a leapfrog development, which mainly includes the acquisition of two industry giants, MCA and Bell Atlantic.What surprised the industry even more was that when everyone thought that the huge liabilities brought about by the two acquisitions would drag down the entire Westeros system, what followed was the stock market rebound in the first half of 1991.

Although both MCA and Bell Atlantic have been delisted, no one can deny that Simon Westeros completed a bottom-buying just right.

Even if the two acquisitions were delayed by a month or two, it would be impossible for the Westeros system to acquire these two companies at the original price after the Gulf War began.

Therefore, referring to the current state of the stock market, the current value of the two companies is definitely more than the original 140 billion US dollars.

Chapter 428 The second half of the summer file (revision)

Corporate IPOs usually choose to set the listing and trading date on Thursday or Friday, so that in case of emergencies, the weekend market break can provide a buffer for IPO companies to solve problems.

AOL is listed on July 7 is Friday.