Chapter 900 1 Must Be Grasped

'Click, click. '

In the evening, I went to have dinner with the founders of DTS and Palm. The meeting was decided on the spur of the moment. Neither of them had any major issues. Terry Beard continued to concentrate on practicing surround sound technology, and wanted to find out if he was willing to take over the big director in June. Spielberg unlocked DTS stake.

Jeffrey Hawkins has already changed from a boss to a high-end wage earner. He now owns less shares in Palm than he owns, and the parent company of Palm, American Robotics, has the final say.

A+ Audio currently owns 5% of the shares of DTS and one director, and A+ Venture Capital also owns 5% of the shares of Palm, all of which have been accumulated from the very beginning. If there is any big conflict, to paraphrase Terry Beard's words, "APLUS is a very restrained investor", and the three of them have gradually changed from business partners to friends who can get along with each other more frankly.

Earlier this year, Xerox's patent-infringement lawsuit against Palm went to trial, and now that's a headache for American Robotics. Compared with wealth, the quiet and free research and development environment that Jeffrey Hawkins valued more was preserved. He breathed a sigh of relief, worked hard, and successfully persuaded the American Robotics Company to continue to support his PDA dream. Farewell to his failure, he gave the new PDA product a brand new name: PalmPilot. Just launched to the market, there are currently two models for sale, 1000 and 5000, using Motorola's processor.

Although this still bulky and rough black brick is far from the cute little thing that Song Ya saw in the apocalypse, it is beautiful, portable and can make a phone call, but Jeffrey Hawkins is full of confidence, and he gives everything on the dinner table People, including Alicia, gave away a high-end 5000 model machine.

Song Ya is currently not interested in increasing his holdings of DTS shares. Their stock price performance has not been very good since their listing, and they are not interested in Palm's new PDA products.

He cared more about Jeffrey Hawkins' unintentional bragging during the meeting. He said that Apple wanted to find American Robotics to acquire the handheld computer operating system created by him, Palm OS.

‘Apple’s self-developed system has a fatal security hole. In order to ensure the smooth delivery of the Macintosh 2 computer in early 1997, they may urgently need a more mature operating system to replace it. '

'It is rumored that Apple's financial report for the first quarter of 1996 is still a huge loss, and the stock price per share has fallen below 90 cents! '

‘Some small and medium-sized shareholders of Apple collectively suggested to the company’s top management to invite Jobs back as soon as possible! '

'In order to make up for the shortcomings of the PC operating system, Apple President Amelio seems to be in contact with potential acquisition targets, including the Be company founded by former Apple employee Louis Garcia and the NeXT company founded by former Apple chairman Jobs,

He even set his sights on some OS providers for other platforms. '

‘Amelio has other options, such as arch-rival Microsoft, who can pay a license fee for each computer to its Windows system. Microsoft should be willing, after all, the two are no longer companies of the same size. Or find the alliance of SUN and Netscape...'

"Um?"

Letting go of the mouse, Song Ya's eyes lit up. He originally wanted to know more about the company's recent situation for the Apple stock that he had smashed in his hand, so he browsed related news online, but he didn't expect to see this.

"One more general in the anti-Microsoft alliance!?"

He had an intuition that this could be done. As the founder of Apple, Jobs hated the executives who kicked him out, and he would never turn back. It seems that Louis Garcia also had a bad relationship with Apple's top management and left. And Apple bowed to Microsoft? They are also proud of it.

The crude Palm OS of Jeffrey Hawkins must be useless, and he himself does not believe it.

Doesn't Apple have only one choice left? This looks like an anti-Microsoft alliance. Anyway, SUN does not make personal computers.

Maybe the opportunity to unwind the Apple stock is just around the corner, and he must seize it, and even push it a little bit. He glanced at the time, gritted his teeth, and called Jim Clark.

"Jim! I just saw the financial news, are we and Sun negotiating with Apple?"

It's late, and to cut a long story short, Jim Clark has a bad temper.

Alicia in her arms was woken up. She just turned over, and Song Ya covered her mouth with her hand.

"Just chatting on the phone..."

As expected, Jim Clark had already fallen asleep, but he was in a good mood. He yawned and replied, "Sleep, APLUS, it's too early to spy on me, and the rotten people in Apple's management haven't reached the end of their rope yet." when."

"Not yet? Their stock prices have all fallen below 90 cents!"

"What's there to be surprised about? It's not that they haven't reached this price before, so they are not in a hurry. Oh, by the way, I remember that you have a lot of Apple stocks in your hand? How many dollars did you buy? Haha!"

The guy hung up the phone with a loud smirk.

"Bah!" Song Ya spat on the phone, "How much? The average price is only one yuan and three, Fxxkyou!"

"OK." The governor's wife pushed his hand away and replied.

"Perhaps buying new property."

It is not safe to be in a Silicon Valley hotel. The hotel staff here have no resistance to the green money waved by the paparazzi. A long time ago, Song Ya was approached by a real BABYFACE, "Hayden, find me a villa here , good privacy, not too big, cheap, close to A+ Audio, A+ Pedals, and Netscape."

Alicia has already slipped away quietly, she will stay in Silicon Valley to handle the remaining affairs of A+ Audio, while Song Ya is rushing to Los Angeles, the Oscars ceremony is coming.

"Okay, will you stay at the hotel tonight or Xue Linfen's house?" Hayden who came to pick her up asked.

"The hotel."

Song Ya glanced at the paparazzi motorcycle behind the car, and decided to be more reserved.

The forests of Los Angeles were in an uproar, calling and texting after learning of his arrival.

"Linda, have you investigated Mira's recent situation?"

For the time being, I can’t let myself go. Although the popularity of the news has been overtaken by various other topics, there are still many tabloids digging deep into my love history and evidence of cheating. I miss my ex-girlfriend a little bit. He called Lin and asked Lin Da.

"Luc Besson's new film has been filmed in Europe. The official announcement is that the heroine is David Copperfield's fiancée Claudia Schiffer. Since 1996, Mira has not walked in the show of a first-line clothing brand. Never appeared on the cover of even one front-line fashion magazine."

Linda replied: "There are rumors that the French no longer welcome her, and now it seems that she is indeed collectively banned there."

Claudia Schiffer is a real top supermodel in this era. Gaumont Films advertised that the production cost of the film called The Fifth Element would be as high as 100 million. Of course, Hollywood has always been skeptical of the French's courage. , thinking they were bragging.

Regardless of whether the production cost reaches 100 million or not, it would be a disaster for the heroine to be intercepted by Mira, and it is even worse if she is not favored by the French in the fashion circle. It seems that she and Luc Besson have indeed broken up, and the quarrel is not very happy. .

"Where is she?" Song Ya asked.

"Also in Los Angeles. A few days ago, a colleague said that she appeared outside the production department of Columbia Pictures, as if she was auditioning for some film project."

Hayden on the side replied: "Alone, led by a small Hollywood agent."

Wow, isn't this just silently approaching yourself? "What project?" Song Ya asked again.

"It seems that the name has not been decided yet. You can ask Escube, he is also in that project."

"Oh?" That's easy, Song Ya immediately called Eskub again.

"The disaster of the python."

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