Chapter 1473 The Battle of Tokyo

"Haha! Zhang, good morning..."

Song Ya does not own 100% of the new Goto company. In addition to the 20% Goto shares retained, she probably got 500 million knives in cash from the deal with YAHOO, and the 2.5% YAHOO that she re-owned shares.

CEO William Zhang and the original founder of Goto and other company executives and senior programmers also took this opportunity to become billionaires, tens of millions, and millionaires in an instant.

Song Yada, who had lost control, received a call early in the morning from William Zhang, who was no longer under him, and the carnival seemed to be continuing all night, "Yes, I'm going to Tokyo today, I wish you a happy life in the new company!"

He graciously congratulated the other party.

In the situation where Goto is expecting to be taken care of by YAHOO, it is a happy choice for everyone to let go at the right time.

And this time YAHOO is indeed generous, as if it has returned to the heroic and invincible industry leader when it took over Mark Cuban's Broadcast website for 6 billion before the stock market crash.

But the choice of CEO Terry Semel is not a big problem, and the subsequent positive reaction of the capital market also proves this point. The patent moat jointly created by YAHOO and Goto can give a fatal estimate to strategic competitors who are in the IPO preparation stage. hit.

Song Ya herself also needs more cash to go to Tokyo to deal with Sony.

"The Beats website..."

The biggest problem after William Zhang followed Goto to YAHOO was the original American music website. Now Beats has no boss, and it can bear the arduous task of Beats Walkman production and music store. William Zhang recommended the young Napster founder Sean Fanning to take over. Guo Daquan also promised to continue to allocate time to help, until the official launch of the music store version 1.0 in October before completely breaking away from work.

"OK, keep playing."

While chatting, a delicate body gently entangled her from behind. Song Yalue hung up the phone after saying a few words, and hugged Charis back.

Then Mira also opened her emerald eyes.

And still in the spring break of Haitang, Harley and Jenny, who finally entered the Catwoman and Sahara crews to start work, began to change their sleeping positions in a daze, half asleep and half awake.

In order to live up to this rare and beautiful time, Song Ya worked hard.

"Xuelin insisted on publishing Twilight..."

The departure time is approaching,

Satisfied physically and mentally, he pulled Jenny up from the paralyzed four girls, put on clothes and got up together, "You remember to ask Littman Publishing to win the film adaptation rights by the way."

"Why? Do you trust her eyes more?"

Jenny had previously stated that she was not interested in that book, and that she had a taste for the choice of a man, "Her historical record is not very good..."

"whee!"

Just say that she is a box office poison, and Song Ya was amused, "Find her something to do."

"Oh Bran, what a handsome boy."

The two went out playing around, and when Jenny saw Xue Linfen holding the baby, she immediately changed her face, went to her arms to pick up the baby, and praised enthusiastically.

Little Bran is really pretty, and she looks like a quiet girl when she is asleep. Song Ya teased her cute little face with her fingers for a while, and she liked it more and more. The Twilight project should be given to Xuelin Fern gave birth to his gift for herself, at worst, she would lose some money.

"Jenny, have you signed a contract with the author of Twilight?" Xue Linfen really asked Jenny anxiously.

"Negotiating, soon."

Jenny glanced at the man who was blinking at her quietly, with a look of benevolence on his face, and answered Xue Linfen according to her heart, "But once the contract is signed, the author will not continue to serialize on the website, and we must start preparing paper copies." Publishing... will take a long time, until the end of next year at the earliest."

"Huh? Can Litman Press send me regular manuscripts?"

Xue Linfen is obsessed with chasing that book now, and immediately became nervous when she heard Jenny's words, "I can't wait that long."

Song Ya stood behind Xue Linfen again and nodded to Jenny.

"Okay, but please don't reveal unpublished manuscripts." Jenny obediently agreed.

"No, no, I have been a producer for so many years..." Xue Linfen was happy, and she patted her chest repeatedly.

Jia Zhai He Ning, Song Ya was also very satisfied, and when he was waiting for his entourage to pack up and set off, he saw Kobe Bryant, a local Los Angeles player, on TV.

Earlier this month, Kobe, the darling of the Lakers, was arrested for allegedly raping a waitress in Eagle County, Colorado. Kobe has always had a good public image and is the player the NBA wants to build as Jordan's successor.

The Eagle County incident quickly became a global sensation.

Now Kobe has been released on bail, and he is rushing to the court under the pursuit of countless reporters, very embarrassed.

"Adidas and Apple just announced the temporary termination of his contract." Xue Linfen gossips.

"Um."

Of course, Song Ya knows that R Kelly, MJ, and now Kobe, black stars have become the focus of scandals one after another this year, which has caused black people such as Jesse Jackson to become more vigilant and think it is an abnormal phenomenon.

To a certain extent, these three cases were suddenly bound by the conspiracy theories of the black community, coupled with Jesse Jackson's appeals, none of the black Americans wants to lose now, so it is beneficial to both R Kelly and MJ.

"I am leaving."

Song Ya saw Linda's car appearing at the door, squeezed the faces of Xuelin and Jenny, kissed them, and said goodbye.

This time he went to Tokyo to prepare a huge and top-level team, including Linda from the record industry, Donna Dubinsky, CEO of Beats, Amelio, CEO of First Bank of New Jersey, and 3DFX who had just been dug from Sega, including IBM and DC Ryutaro Yamamoto, who has experience in game console projects, will also be responsible for the accompanying translation work.

Of course Litman Media CEO Sloan is indispensable.

Even if it is just for the 'small business' authorized by the music copyright library, if you boast in front of your subordinates that you have promised to finish it by October, you must finish it on time, and if you are a day late, you will lose your share!

"I'm busy APLUS."

Except for Linda who came to pick up Xue Linfen, the others were already waiting on the 757. While handling business on the plane, Sloan showed a very reluctant look, "Is it necessary to drag me?"

"Hey...Sony is also shrinking, selling, laying off employees, maybe talking about a good deal?"

In fact, Song Ya, who hadn't been back to Chicago for a long time, really missed her a little. With a hippie smile, she stretched out her hand and opened the documents in front of her, "Just take it as a vacation for yourself."

"I'm not as free as you." Sloan coldly pulled the file back to its original position.

"APLUS!" The two were bickering, and suddenly there was a burst of fragrant wind, and then Song Ya was hugged.

"Rashida? You...don't you need to host the hip-hop competition?"

Song Ya was taken aback by Rashida's pointed chin and vixen's nympho face.

"There is a schedule conflict for the judges, so I have not been working recently for the two episodes of quotations in advance!" Rashida gave a big kiss on the face in front of everyone.

"I asked him to help me when he came. Recently, the OpenDiary website needs to compete with competitors for the signing of some young stars in the entertainment industry." Sloan explained.

"who?"

"Paris Hilton, Britney, mainly these two." Sloan replied.

They are all big stars in the entertainment tabloids and internet gossip, needless to say Britney, the new DIVA, currently the most popular and most talked about female singer, and Superboy member Justin Timberlake's split and reunion drama It is undoubtedly the top gossip.

The socialite Paris Hilton is the queen of the new topic, with all kinds of weird traffic.

"Oh, do you need to rob someone again now?" Song Ya asked.

"The good days are back." Sloan smiled helplessly.

Indeed, the good days before the stock market crash seem to be back again, and the funds of various blog sites are gradually abundant, but what follows is the intensification of competition again, after all, the technical threshold of this industry is too low.

"Can you show me around here?"

Rashida is now extremely grateful to Sloan for helping her create opportunities, and anxiously wants to pull the man into the only bedroom on the 757 to live a rare two-person world.

"Uh... I have to have a meeting first, a meeting."

After a long trans-Pacific flight, the 757 slowly landed in Tokyo.

After resting for a night and adjusting the time difference, Song Ya led the team to Sony headquarters, and the chairman, Nobuyuki Idei, personally entertained them.

A group of people visited Sony's product hall, took a group photo, had a working meal in the internal restaurant, and finally entered the conference room. Sony arranged for a video recording of the whole process.

Sitting in the middle of the long conference table, on the left is the most famous former Apple CEO Amelio in this book, and on the right is the guest translator Ryutaro Yamamoto. On the opposite side, apart from Nobuyuki Idei, there are some familiar Sony executives, CEO Kenmi Kutaragi.

Song Ya vaguely recalled the scene when he kept talking and talking in the conference room of Sony Beimi headquarters, trying to bring down Motura...

It's a pity that Gao Shu, who witnessed it at the time, has disappeared, and it seems that he has lost his job in Sony's internal office struggle.

But now, the lineup that Sony put out for the meeting has respected itself very much, and it has been a long time since the heavy pressure feeling back then.

Of course, never aftertaste to the best...

The sound of shutters stopped, and the photojournalists who tiptoed to take photos were invited out of the meeting room, and the negotiation officially began.

"Didn't sleep well? Mr. APLUS."

"It's okay, jet lag is hard. Where's Mr. Kutaragi Ken, are you free?"

"Yes, he has too much management to do at the moment."

After the polite remarks, Donna Dubinsky was responsible for explaining the purpose of her visit.

"Uh, this is APLUS. I understand that you want to obtain authorization from our music copyright company, but Sony has its own management discipline. This business should be in charge of Mr. Howard Stringer. He is in New York. You don't have to Seek far away."

Nobuyuki Idei said after listening to Donna's speech.

He still defends Howard Stringer now, in order to balance Ken Kutaragi who just took the CEO position from him.

"Howard Stringer turned us down."

Song Ya replied: "Under the circumstances that you have authorized Apple and the other five major record companies have agreed to license the copyright library to Beats, I personally think this decision is very unwise, and it does not make me understand."

"I believe his decision is based on his own business strategy considerations."

Those who can speak English in the notebook try to speak English as much as possible, and Yamamoto rarely needs to translate. Sitting at the end of the long conference table, Rashida, who is in charge of recording, sits in a hurry and writes.

APLUS: "So I hope that today's meeting can promote the cooperation between you and me. For business, there is nothing we can't talk about."

Idei: "Of course."

APLUS: "What can we exchange for authorization?"

Idei: "We have not considered this issue for the time being, and we need to discuss it in an internal meeting."

Amelio: "For example, we noticed that you will issue 2.5 billion knives of convertible bonds in December, and we are willing to subscribe for some."

The Japanese negotiators were slightly agitated and exchanged opinions in a low voice for a while.

Idei: "If you have studied our announcement, the convertible bonds will be issued in euros and yen."

Amelio: "That's not an obstacle."

Sloan: "Are you doing this to deliberately guard against American capital?"

Idei: "Don't worry too much, it's nothing like that."

Sloan: "What's the current subscription situation?"

Idei: "Very optimistic."

Amelio: "I heard that Terra Firma Capital in the UK is interested in a large purchase. The founder, Mr. Guy Hands, is a former executive of Nomura Securities."

Idei: "Sorry, that's a hard question to answer."

APLUS: "The CELL processor project you are cooperating with IBM costs a lot, right?"

Idei: "The project is under the responsibility of CEO Kenkyu Kutaragi."

APLUS: "Will it be used in the future PS3 game console?"

Idei: "Sorry again, I'm not sure, you can ask Ken Kutaragi."

APLUS: "I know that Mr. Kutaragi Ken generally doesn't care about the affairs of the entertainment department. The main purpose of my visit to you this time is to help the Beats music store obtain song authorization."

Idei: "We trust Mr. Stringer's judgment..."