My 1999

"Hmm. Why didn't you go to rest?"

"You haven't come back yet, how can I sleep?"

She gently stepped forward and took off his suit, then squatted on the ground and changed his shoes.

"Soak your feet, I've prepared the water for you."

After serving Xu Liang, he changed into his pajamas and said.

"Thanks a lot."

"Being able to take care of Xu Jun is the most satisfying thing for me."

Seeing Futian Xinmei hurried away, Xu Liang smiled on his face.

Although there are many women around me, when it comes to caring and caring, none of them can surpass her.

He unconsciously thought of Christina and Helen in his mind, and shook his head subconsciously.

The former is fine, but the latter is a big trouble.

The night passed quickly.

The next day, Xu Liang didn't care whether the two women had left or not. He drove to the headquarters of Hongmeng North America in the morning.

Come to the conference room.

"Mr. Xu."

Alan Adham, who temporarily replaced Lu Xiaobo as the company's CEO, stood up quickly.

Behind him, the company's financial director, technical director and other senior executives also stood up.

Xu Liang quickly walked to the middle position, waved to everyone, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"Is Mr. Xie ready?"

Lu Hui said quickly: "It's ready and can start at any time."

"Open it."

Lu Hui picked up the remote control on one side and turned on the screen occupying the front wall in the middle of the conference room.

After the signal is connected, the picture becomes clear.

Xie Wen appeared inside with Hongmeng senior executives.

"Lao Xie, can you see clearly?" Xu Liang waved his hand.

"The signal is pretty good."

Xie Wen smiled.

"Haha, that's good. It's the first time to hold a video meeting. Everyone will get used to it. I guess we will have more understandings like this in the future."

After a pause, Xu Liang continued.

"Okay, let's get down to business.

Before today's meeting, an appointment will be announced.

In view of Qiangliang Studio's outstanding contribution to the "Warcraft 3" game, Alan Adhan, vice president of Hongmeng Games, president of Hongmeng Games North America subsidiary and director of Qiangliang Studio, has been officially appointed as the executive president of Hongmeng North America subsidiary. "

Within Hongmeng, the president of Hongmeng Games and the president of Hongmeng North America are on the same level, so Alan Adhan's promotion is only one level higher, which is within the acceptable range of everyone.

Alan Adhan stood up excitedly.

After this meeting, he was finally no longer temporarily in charge of the Hongmeng subsidiary, but the real president of the North American subsidiary.

"Thank you, Mr. Xu, and the head office for trusting me. I will do my best to make Hongmeng's North American subsidiary develop better."

After entering Hongmeng for a long time, he also learned Chinese-style promotion speeches.

Xu Liang nodded and waved for him to sit down.

"Hongmeng is a platform that values ​​abilities and achievements. As long as you have the ability and have achieved results, the company will not be stingy with high positions and money. Therefore, I hope everyone can work hard. Hongmeng still has broad space and platform for you to display."

After giving everyone a mouthful of chicken soup as usual.

"Okay, let's start today's main topic.

As you all know, the company has recently been trying to acquire a Hollywood film and television giant to support Hongmeng's pan-entertainment industry and develop this business.

But for more than three months, progress has been slow.

However, with the efforts of Mr. Xie and I, this matter was finally resolved.

A week ago, we reached an agreement with General Electric to acquire the three assets of Universal Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Universal Studios for US$5.8 billion in cash and US$3.9 billion in debt, for a total of US$9.7 billion. .

Now that the contract has been signed, what we need to do next is to get through the U.S. Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to get them to approve this acquisition. "

After hearing this, everyone who was originally happy felt a little heavy.

When the Japanese acquired Columbia Pictures, there was such a big commotion.

Now that Chinese companies have not only acquired Universal Pictures, they have also acquired the two core assets of the famous Universal Music Group and Universal Studios. It would be strange if the Americans don't explode.

"Mr. Xu, don't worry. I will hire the best lobbying team in the United States as soon as possible and try to get through all the links as soon as possible." Xie Wen said.

As the chief operating officer of Hongmeng, the second-largest person after Xu Liang, others can lack confidence and remain silent, but he cannot.

Xu Liang nodded, "I know what you are worried about. Don't worry, I will let Hanhua cooperate with Hongmeng's acquisition."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the two conference rooms became noticeably more relaxed.

As senior executives of Hongmeng, many of them have invested in funds under Hanhua, and they know very well how profitable Qinglong Fund and Pacific Fund are.

If you use this as an exchange, you can indeed win over many people.

"With the support of Mr. Xu and Hanhua, we will definitely be able to acquire Universal Entertainment assets this time. But if these assets are acquired, how will they be managed?

Should it be merged into Hongmeng's North American subsidiary, or directly under the headquarters? "

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Xu Liang, and Alan Adhan looked particularly concerned.

Xu Liang has been thinking about this matter for a long time and has already drafted it.

"Given that President Adhan has just taken office, and the assets of Universal Entertainment are too large to be suitable for merger, Universal Pictures, Universal Music Group and Universal Studios will be directly managed by the parent company as independent subsidiaries.

However, the eMusic music website and mp3.Com music website under Universal Music Group will be merged with Hongmeng Music Network (iMusic Music Network abroad). "

In addition to Universal Pictures, Universal Music, American Network and other assets, in May 2000, Vivendi Universal spent a total of 2.6 billion US dollars to buy the American Houghton Mifflin, eMusic music website and mp3.Com company.

Houghton Michelin was founded in 1832 and has published works by many famous American writers such as Longfellow, Henry Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.

The famous Mr. Xi's "Mein Kampf" and Fatty Qiu's Memoirs were both written by Horton.

It is now the largest educational publishing house in the United States.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Liang gave up the acquisition of Holden Michelin.

No matter which country they were in, student textbooks were very sensitive things and he didn't want to touch them.

The eMusic music website and the mp3.Com music website were both online music websites in the early days. With the support of Universal Music's huge copyright library, they accounted for approximately 23% of the English online music market.

Although it is not as good as Hongmeng’s iMusic music website and Apple’s iTunes, it still has nearly 30 million VIP users in total.

Especially in classical music, the number of users exceeds Hongmeng and Apple.

Xu Liang turned his head and said, "Alan, after you take office, your most important task is to integrate these two websites, with special attention to finance and personnel."

"clear."

If the two companies can be successfully integrated, the iMusic music website's share of the English market will completely overwhelm Apple.

Speaking of which, this matter is still Jobs' fault.

As the two giants in the global technology industry, the love-hate relationship between Microsoft and Apple can be traced back to the 1980s.

In 1984, Apple released the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, the Macintosh. This product quickly occupied the market with its disruptive design innovation and was recognized as the first successfully commercialized graphical interface computer.

The next year, Microsoft also launched its own computer using a graphics operating system, Windows 1.0, to officially compete with Apple.

Because the two products looked and felt surprisingly similar, Apple founder Steve Jobs angrily accused Bill Gates of plagiarism and filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in court.

However, a judge ultimately ruled that Apple had limited rights to the design, and Apple lost the high-profile copyright lawsuit.

After this incident, Apple kicked Steve Jobs out of the company in an internal fight, and then began to decline. By the end of the 1990s, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Microsoft opened up the world with its "Wintel alliance" with Intel. The road to becoming the king of the PC market.

It wasn't until 1997 that Jobs returned to Apple, carried out drastic reforms internally, and repaired its relationship with Microsoft externally. While selling $150 million in stock to Microsoft, he signed a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft, which helped Apple's stock price regain a foothold. .

Although they were reconciled on the surface, Lao Qiao was still holding his breath in his heart.

Therefore, after the iPod was born in 2001, it was not suitable for Microsoft's Windows system.

As a result, all users who bought an iPod can only download songs from Apple computers.

But 2001 is not 2011. At this time, more than 95% of computers in the world had Windows installed.

Therefore, iPod sales are extremely limited, but various pirated MP3 players are blooming everywhere.

Hongmeng Music Network, which has excellent technology and a large number of music copyrights, quickly occupied the market with strong capital promotion.

By the time the second-generation iPod adapted to the Windows system is released, Hongmeng Music has already occupied nearly 30% of the English market, rivaling Apple's iTunes.

"Alan, this is a great opportunity for us to completely surpass iTunes. You must pay attention to it."

Xu Liang asked again worriedly.

"Mr. Xu, I will definitely fulfill your order." Alan Adhan said seriously.

Xu Liang nodded, "Is Mr. Sui here?"

Hongmeng Music President Sui Fangmin quickly responded.

“After PolyGram was acquired by Universal in 1999, the label was shelved, which is really a pity.

After the acquisition of Universal Entertainment assets, this label will be re-registered in China and specially sign first-line Chinese singers. Now the Chinese singers under Universal have returned to PolyGram and will be managed by you. "

PolyGram has a great influence in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, especially in the Xiangjiang region.

Superstars such as Tan Zhang, The Four Heavenly Kings, Beyond, Grasshopper, and Xu Guanjie have all been its signed singers.

In the 1990s, they also released a series of albums of superstar hits. Unfortunately, due to the impact of pirated discs, their performance was very embarrassing.

Sui Fangmin became excited after hearing this.

There are quite a few Chinese-language superstars under Universal's umbrella.

Jacky Yau, Principal Tan, Lu Guanting, and Kelly Chen are the best among them.

Others include Chen Xiaodong, Chen Haomin, Li Huimin, etc.

Once joined, Hongmeng Music’s economic business income skyrocketed.

"Thank you, Mr. Xu, for your trust."

"Don't rush to thank me yet. I'm giving you my support. I want to see the results."

"yes."