Chapter 1153 The Year of Mergers and Acquisitions

Bronfman Jr. is always a handsome nobleman. Song Ya didn't hear any special attitude from his tone. It's understandable that a super merger and acquisition case is waiting to be released, so it's understandable that he is too busy to attend to socializing.

The two parties have in-depth cooperation in the record, film, and wine industries. After the three majors come out, Universal Music will acquire A+ Records. The industry has created a good profit, and there will be two sequels that will be released by Universal Pictures.

In the wine business, I also endured the sin of two old Seagram ministers urging Riise to sign the long-term distribution contract of the A+ wine industry to Seagram.

Song Ya naturally believes that he is undoubtedly in the honeymoon period with Bronfman Jr.

"I forgot to say a few words of flattery, let's make it up next time."

He put down the phone indifferently, "OK, what should we do now?" He rubbed his hands and asked Sloan.

"Inner City Broadcasting Company, let's go to the conference room."

Sloan called the men in charge of this aspect and led Song Ya and Alicia into the meeting room.

They are all very competent workaholics. The three of them immediately entered the state. The main reason is to transfer the voting rights that Alicia helped Song Ya to perform. In the hands of the media.

"Okay, I don't have to run to New York anymore."

Because the inner city also took the opportunity to change the law firm during his coma, Alicia held the voting rights but had no personal interests. During those five months, all parties in the inner city broadcasting company's board meeting did not dare to rush to public relations. A governor's wife.

After signing, Alicia smiled with relief and asked, "What's next?"

"APLUS." Sloan pushed some documents to Song Ya, asking him to transfer the remaining 10% of the inner city equity in the A+ copyright and asset company to Littman Media.

"This is the last stroke, right?" Song Ya confirmed after signing.

"Yes, you will soon be able to get your 100 million from other financing parties." Sloan asked and answered.

"Hoho..."

Song Ya glanced at the calendar on the watch, "I can't wait any longer, and I have to report back to the University of Chicago on time.

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"Three years of law school are not so easy to endure..."

Alicia sighed and recalled the past when he was in school, "But you should have a much easier life."

"I got into the exam based on my ability, 170 points, what was your LSAT score back then?" Song Ya asked her.

"Uh... the law school I went to is not as prestigious as the University of Chicago."

She averted her eyes and made excuses.

"Hey..." So the score is not as high as mine? Song Ya was secretly happy, and liked to compare test scores with others the most.

"Ms. Sloane."

A Litman Media executive hurried in to whisper to Sloan.

"The new IPO has troubled everyone. Just got the news that Disney seems to intend to acquire Infoseek and enter the Internet industry."

Sloan left behind a sentence and hurried out following the person who informed the news, "I have to make a few calls with other financing parties, excuse me."

Traditional entertainment giants enter the Internet? They have an advantage in content. In fact, after the Internet sector has skyrocketed for so long, many Hollywood and traditional media giants are already testing the waters. For example, NBC has long cooperated with Microsoft to move the content of MSNBC news station online .

However, Infoseek has its own music community section. If they were defeated by YAHOO, if they can get Disney's support, they will definitely lean more towards entertainment content, which will in turn threaten the American music website.

After driving away DeLay and abandoning the Netscape department, the American music website and Infoseek have also ended their strategic partnership and switched to YAHOO, which has a better friendship with Microsoft...

"Are you going to join the fight?"

Alicia asked Song Ya who began to meditate and her eyes gradually became serious.

"Probably not, I can't afford Infoseek either."

Even if Infoseek's share price is depressed, it is still too expensive for itself, and Kirsch, the boss who has supported DeLay, should not like himself.

"Is that okay?" he asked a clerk in the corner, working on a laptop.

"Please."

The opponent obediently stepped aside.

Song Ya skillfully typed the Infoseek domain name on the IE browser, the web page layout has been greatly improved, and a free email service has been added.

Last year, after YAHOO acquired Rocket mail, the free mailbox with the second market share, Microsoft also spent 400 million dollars to win Hotmail, which has the largest market share. Due to the low technical threshold of mail servers, other companies catching up behind chose to do it themselves. The same is true of Infoseek.

It's not very easy to use, but there is no big gap with the others, but the user base is far behind.

Song Ya took a brief look. He remembered that he had a sense of familiarity when he first used Hotmail, but unfortunately, with the abundant financing from the stock market and venture capital, the Internet industry is making rapid progress. Last year, he was comatose and rehabilitated to save his business. Waiting for things to interfere, I didn't pay much attention to this aspect.

It's too late now, he opened YAHOO, which has completely integrated all the elements of a portal website such as search, online yellow pages, news, weather and other online community services. Americans are more and more fond of directly setting the browser homepage as YAHOO , The market share is astonishing, otherwise the stock price rise will not continue to take off, completely replacing Netscape's original position as the number one Internet stock.

Fortunately, Quanmusic.com did not seize the opportunity of the American Music website’s turmoil for nearly a year. In fact, when they interrupted DeLay’s listing process, many Silicon Valley and Wall Street capitals turned around and found the biggest competitor of American Music. Music, but all of them were rejected by those shareholders with romantic beliefs in the whole music website. They firmly claimed that they only wanted to be a professional record database, and let the chance of getting rich slip away in vain.

Song Ya opened her own American music website, and the new president who replaced De Lay, John Zhang, is a technical expert. He has no understanding of the entertainment industry or the psychology of fans, so he can only concentrate on improving the web experience and record database.

Yes, record database, Full Music folks deserve respect, but business is business, business competition is so ruthless, gratitude or something is too expensive.

If you don't seize the opportunity, don't blame me for taking it back. Although Song Ya and Sloan have lost the lawsuit, this time they both agree that the American music website will have its own database of records and singers sooner or later. Build from scratch! Don’t worry about funds, just burn some money casually, and after listing, you can catch up from behind. In addition, with a much higher number of users, it is not difficult to dig out the biggest advantage of this competitor and completely eliminate hidden dangers.

The layout of the website is not as fancy as in the De Lay era, and the stability, access speed, web page opening speed, and fluency have also been greatly increased. Except that the user activity of the gossip and singer special editions is not as good as before, other aspects are still Ami, which was the number one market segment in the past. Liga music website.

'APLUS new song Can't Hold Us radio version first version analysis line by line. '

He saw a very popular post on his fan page, which was posted by Rashida Jones with the prefix Artist, noble certified real-name artist.

She is very 'hardworking', she is really analyzing word by word, very professional. For example: ‘Fat Cat, Fat Cat, refers specifically to those wealthy and powerful men who are smug and self-satisfied. The connection with APLUS in the latter sentence should be a metaphor for the record company executives who once suppressed him...’

The girl also added a small suffix she herself added at the end of each text, 'currently studying at Harvard University. ’ It made Song Ya amused.

"Hopefully Disney doesn't have time to close this deal before our IPO. Uh, you guys get out first."

At this time, Sloan came back from the phone call, and she drove away her subordinates first, "APLUS, can you talk to Disney Emperor Eisner?"

"Linton, it's me."

Song Ya and Eisner were really unfamiliar, so they still picked up the phone and called their old friend Linton.

"It's impossible before your IPO in April." Linton reassured him, "Although I'm not in charge of that area, Mr. Eisner should want to take back Starwave first."

"OK, thanks."

Linton is still very powerful, and he would never disclose this kind of thing to himself if the relationship is not in place, although he may not realize how important this news is to him... Well, Xiaoben could have crossed him out.

"Starwave owns the network business of TV stations such as ABC and ESPN, and currently most of the shares are in the hands of Paul Allen, Microsoft's second largest individual shareholder."

After relaying the news to Sloan, she also breathed a sigh of relief, "This should be the stupidity committed by the two media when they didn't realize the speed of the rise of the Internet in the early days. This is indeed much more important to Disney than the acquisition of Infoseek."

"It seems that all major media companies are expanding this year?" Alicia asked.

"This is the year of mergers and acquisitions."

Television stations are merging with each other, TV networks are merging with each other, and the telecommunications industry is merging with each other. It seems that record companies and Hollywood will also join in, and it will be cross-platform. Create several super media groups.

"Redstone's Viacom is expected to win Universal Television Network, BET, and CBS this year, and attack everywhere. Universal is preparing to acquire Polygram, and other large media groups are not idle, staking their land like crazy. If it is changed to this year, I don't think you can even get Littman Press."

Sloan said: "Print media and small companies in the traditional publishing industry are worthless but will affect the media hegemony of large media groups."

"Um."

Song Ya has no idea, "In short, let's go public with Litman Media first. Disney's acquisition of Infoseek is bad for the stock price, right?"

"As long as no further definite news comes out before the IPO... Shall we have a meeting?"

"Can."

Sloan called people in and started the next meeting. Song Ya also participated in the discussion, and finally decided to release the news that Littman Media was also being targeted by other big companies before the IPO, and use the positive rumors of being acquired at a high price to counter the negative.

"Honey, I won't go back at night, I'm a little tired from the meeting, and I don't want to take that long car ride."

Song Ya glanced at the sky outside and the staff who had started to get off work and left, and called Shakira, "There is a hotel in the town. Come here? Uh... don't bother... okay."

Putting down his phone, he looked apologetically at the two elite women who were staring at him and smiling, "I can't help it, my new girlfriend is a bit annoying."

"It's a bit of a ride from Tribeca."

Sloan raised his wrist and glanced at her Van Cleef & Arpels, took out ten knives from his pocket and shook them.

That night Shakira...

In the car before...

Song Ya swallowed, her expression became a little tragic.

"Ms. Sloane, Mr. APLUS!"

Fortunately, a staff member who had already left work turned back, "The latest news, it is rumored that AOL (America Online) is trying to acquire Netscape!"

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