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Simon protested: "Isn't this too shameless?"

Nancy just snorted, and continued to look at Sophia with a pair of bright eyes, showing a pitiful expression.

Sophia blushed and gave Simon a helpless look.

"Ok."

Knowing that there was no play tonight, Simon put down the coffee cup in his hand, got up and walked towards the two women.

Nancy was stunned, only to feel that a tall and straight figure of a man was pressing over him, leaning over and provoking Sophia's chin to kiss him presumptuously. When he could hardly bear to run away, the man finally let go of Sophia and said, "Then, good night."

Sophia's voice was soft and waxy: "Well, you, good night."

After Simon left for a while, Nancy finally opened her mouth slightly and took a deep breath, then looked at Sophia condemningly: "You really let him go."

How, as a woman, Sophia doesn't see the potential spark between Nancy and Simon.This best friend of mine has a strength that doesn't match her appearance, and the man who can make her fall in love is often a stronger man, and the guy who just left happens to be this kind of person.

There wasn't much space in that man's heart, and Sophia didn't want anyone to come and share it with her.However, apart from following the trend, she didn't plan to do anything too deliberately, because she knew it might backfire.

The next day is Saturday, September 9th.

Early in the morning, the "New York Times" announced that the U.S. Senate officially confirmed that it will hold a hearing on issues such as fraudulent information, endangering public safety, and low-price dumping in disguise on the 9list website of Eaglet Corporation on September 16. This will determine whether to conduct further investigations.

Eaglet immediately gave a positive response on its own portal, saying that it would try its best to cooperate with the hearing.

In the original time and space, Damen’s slack and arrogance in the congressional hearing on Microsoft’s monopoly issue directly led to a large-scale Microsoft antitrust investigation that lasted for two years, and Microsoft was once infinitely close to being split.

Later, in the Facebook privacy leak incident, Zuckerberg learned the lessons of his classmates in the university well, and he was very respectful and cooperative in the congressional hearing. A large number of congressmen were very satisfied with Xiao Zha’s performance. The $[-] million hearing turned into a farce for the discerning eye.

Although there are many other influencing factors, coaxing a bunch of officials and lords in Congress will definitely benefit a lot.

After all, everyone is a person who cares about face.

Congressional hearings require the presence of the head of the target company, and the CEO of 58list is Michael Novarek.However, in order to show the importance attached to this hearing, Jeff Bezos, the president of Eaglet Corporation, took the initiative to express on his Facebook page that he would attend the hearing and answer some possible questions from the congressmen on the spot .

Not only did they carefully prepare for possible problems in advance, Eaglet also invited a dedicated public relations team and government consultants to design all the details of next week's hearing.

However, for Senate Republican leader Bob Dole’s invitation to Simon to attend the hearing in person, Eaglet tactfully declined on the grounds that his boss wanted to accompany his pregnant wife.

Congressional hearings are, after all, not a very decent thing to do.

I have given all the face that should be given, and it would be wrong to push my nose on my face.

Simon flew from New York to San Francisco for two days on the weekend, spent the weekend with the female assistant, and returned to Los Angeles on Monday.

Janet has already talked with Veronica about staying in North America.

Veronica will then be based in New York as a special financial advisor to Westeros Corporation, mainly responsible for overseeing the financial status of AOL, Verizon Telecom and Nokia.

The three companies are all in a state of rapid growth, because of continuous expansion, the flow of funds is very active, and the senior management has a lot of autonomy.

In this state, the long-term lack of strict supervision is actually very dangerous. If you don’t pay attention, there may be a replica of the Enron incident in Simon’s memory.

The heads of the three companies all called Simon to express their objections to varying degrees after Veronica's appointment was made, but Simon did not make any concessions.As long as the three companies do not go in the wrong direction, he will not interfere too much with the management of Steve Case and others, but this does not mean that he will fully trust several executives.

On September 9, the congressional hearing on the issue of the 16list website was held in Washington as scheduled.

There are actually three parties in this hearing, members of the Senate, senior executives of Eaglet Corporation, and delegations from several large newspaper groups in the United States.

In order to avoid being guided by traditional paper media out of context, Igret has made this hearing into a live TV broadcast. The two major network platforms, NBC and CNN, will live broadcast the hearing, which is expected to last three hours. .

FOX and ABC, which were originally friends with the Westeros system, chose to refuse this time because of their own interests in the print media field.

Simon was not surprised by this either.

At the same time, the Eaglet Portal will also conduct a comprehensive graphic and audio live broadcast of the hearing.

After more than half a year of technical upgrades, AOL has basically completed the ADSL transformation of its own network, which means that as of September, the basic network speed of more than 9 million World Wide Web users within the coverage of AOL has reached 2600Kbps, compared with the old dial-up Internet access. The maximum network speed of 256Kbps has been directly doubled.

In fact, there are still many users who have opened a higher-speed 512Kbps, which is enough for web pages to play audio content in real time.

As Simon began to allow the Westeros system to expand wildly, America Online, which has completed the ADSL layout, will also accelerate its industrial layout in other regions of the United States outside the east and west coasts.

Simon completed the three-hour hearing at the Point Dume Manor.

There were no special accidents during the entire hearing, and Ygritte's advantage was very obvious.

Most of the old-timers in the Senate obviously don't know what the Internet really means, so it will take Michael Novarek to explain a lot of things himself.

Novarek was very patient. These basic questions, such as what kind of service 58list provides and how the website relies on to make money, etc., inevitably occupied most of the hearing.

Although there is no shortage of sharp questions about how 58list will deal with fraud and false information, these questions were also resolved one by one by Michael Novarek with careful preparation in advance.

The climax of the hearing is likely to be the accusation made by representatives of several newspaper groups that 58list is involved in low-price dumping.

The paper media believes that 58list’s free model is completely destroying the traditional paper media’s classified information advertising industry worth tens of billions of dollars with a low-cost model in disguise. This behavior threatens the jobs of tens of thousands of newspaper practitioners. Moreover, Once it destroys the classified information advertising business of traditional newspapers, 58list may charge consumers higher fees by taking advantage of its own market advantages.

Ygritte did not give in.

Said that the launch of 58list service actually saves a lot of unnecessary expenses for the public.

It may cost $30 for a user to post a classified information advertisement in a newspaper. However, with this $30, the user can not only enjoy free news information, e-mail, social networking, online games, etc. one of them.

Moreover, the Eaglet Portal has its own business model, and its main income comes from the advertisements of merchants.

This is also the basis for 58list to provide free services.

In addition, it is impossible for the website to charge high fees to users in the future, because once it does so, there will inevitably be other free websites of the same type, and the accusation made by the representative of the newspaper group is totally unfounded.

According to the final statistics, during the three-hour hearing, the members of the House of Representatives basically had soy sauce, and the representatives of the newspaper group were completely defeated.

The more than 5000 million users who followed the hearing in real time on the Internet and TV platforms were overwhelmingly inclined to the side of Eaglet.The newspaper group, which wanted to protect its own interests, became the villain of this hearing instead.

Chapter 573 Sort Out (Repair)

San Francisco at the end of September did not give people the feeling of autumn at all. It was still sunny and green.

Mountain House in Woodside.

The time is June 9th, Saturday.

These days, Simon is basically in Los Angeles on weekdays, and spends two days in San Francisco on weekends with his female assistant.

In fact, she was driven to San Francisco by Janet.

Because Veronica flies in from New York every weekend to see the kids.

During the vacation days, most of the time seems to be very leisurely, because it is maternity leave, it is inevitable to be somewhat monotonous.

Playing the guitar with the female assistant for a while, reading a few pages of the book, the afternoon sun made me tired, so I curled up next to Simon and fell asleep.The outdoor environment is somewhat unsuitable for pregnant women to sleep peacefully. Simon carried the sleeping female assistant into the bedroom, and returned to the backyard by himself under the eaves. He sat at a round table drinking coffee and flipped through some materials that Girl A had compiled today.

No longer being entangled in all kinds of meticulous work every day, Simon can finally sort out the entire Westeros system seriously.

Recently, the focus is on the impact of the Westeros system on the release of Daenerys entertainment movies due to the launch of the 58list website, which has led to opposition to traditional paper media.

Daenerys Entertainment's three labels, including Kieslowski's "Red, Blue and White Trilogy of Blue" released by Gaomen Films yesterday, this year's Venice Golden Lion Award-winning work, released a total of Four movies.

Among them, the more important one is Brian De Palma's new film "Dawn of Love", which will be released on September 9. This veteran gangster film that Palma is good at is starring Al Pacino, and the production cost is 10 million US dollars. , The number of opening screens is 3000.

The other two, one is the Cold War period drama "The Indictment" starring Anthony Hopkins, which was released by New World Pictures.There is also "Golden House" released by Gaomen Films, a film adaptation of the novel starring Meryl Streep, which tells the ups and downs of a Chilean girl with prophetic powers in her life.

Among the four films, only one "Dawn of Love Owl" is completely produced by Daenerys Entertainment, and the other three are all agency distributions that are either bought out or divided.

Based on the word-of-mouth and box office data of the four films, Daenerys Entertainment's publicity department judged that the obvious opposition between the Westeros system and the paper media had an impact on the company's film distribution.

Take "Dawn of Love" as an example. After the film was released on September 9, the media's comprehensive score was 10 points, which is slightly higher than the passing score, and it is not considered outstanding.Many film critics gave the evaluation that Brian De Palma and Al Pacino repeated the previous "Scarface", so the plot is old-fashioned and lacks breakthroughs.

In comparison, the comprehensive statistics of word-of-mouth for emerging Internet platforms can reach about 8 points.

The difference is very obvious.

However, in terms of box office, the box office of "Dawn of Love" was 1139 million US dollars in the first week, a 26% drop in the second week, and another 836 million US dollars. The two-week box office accumulated 1975 million US dollars.

Such commercial performance has basically met the expectations of Daenerys Entertainment.

With a production cost of US$3000 million, a publicity expenditure of US$1000 million, and a box office of US$3500 million in North America, the project is of course not a success. However, relying on overseas distribution and follow-up channels, it is not a big problem to recover costs and achieve certain profits.

When Simon approved the project, he had already expected this result.

Daenerys Entertainment cannot always be successful, and occasionally such tepid projects are needed to support the 'facade'.

Based on a comprehensive evaluation, traditional paper media has obviously affected the film reputation of "Dawn of Love", but it has not had a significant impact on the box office, which is actually not surprising.

At present, the proportion of Hollywood movie promotion expenditures used in traditional paper media only accounts for about 25%. The more important platform is TV channels, accounting for 50%. Other channels such as theater posters, street advertisements, and radio advertisements account for the rest. 25%.

The proportion of print media in publicity and distribution expenditures also means the influence weight of this publicity and distribution channel on a film's commercial performance.

25%.

does not have a decisive influence.

Of course, this ratio is actually for standard commercial films, such as literary films produced by Gaomen Films, it is impossible to give too high publicity expenses, and in many cases, it mainly needs to rely on the word-of-mouth of paper media for dissemination.

The "Golden Giants", which was released on September 9, directly hit the bottom of the media reputation, with a comprehensive score of only 17 points.

The quality of the film is indeed unsatisfactory. However, the Gaomen Films team also stated that the mainstream paper media is obviously too harsh on this film.

As a film with 513 screens, its box office in the first week was only US$171 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be only about US$500 million at most.However, the film's budget was as high as $2500 million.

Simply nothing.

Fortunately, the producer of the film is not Daenerys Entertainment, and the budget mainly comes from Europe.

A project destined to fail, the box office of 500 million US dollars or 700 million US dollars, the difference is actually not that big.The change of traditional paper media's attitude towards Daenerys entertainment is visible to the naked eye.

Daenerys Entertainment has been making friends with film critics in recent years. It is obvious that Simon overestimated the independence of film critics.

Also easy to understand.

Daenerys Entertainment can give some small favors to film critics, but this group has to rely on the manuscript fees of the paper media platform for a living, and it is impossible to be completely independent.

This is actually not a bad thing.

The lack of independence actually means that it can be influenced by external forces.

Simon thought for a moment, put down the documents, opened the laptop on the round table in front of him, and started writing emails to several executives of Daenerys Entertainment.

The key to Daenerys Entertainment's upcoming movie announcements is to ensure key projects, such as movies with several important schedules. For other movies, you only need to do your best.

If some paper media go too far, if necessary, they can kill chickens and monkeys.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the cooperation between Daenerys Entertainment and Igret Portal, and guide as many users as possible to log on to the Internet platform to view movie reputation and participate in movie discussions.As long as users can be introduced to the Internet, this will be the main battlefield of the Westeros system.

The number of Internet users in North America has reached one-third of the total population, and they are all high-quality consumer users.

As long as it is properly operated, relying on the home field advantage of the Westeros system on the Internet platform can offset the negative impact of traditional paper media on the announcement and release of Daenerys entertainment movies to the greatest extent.

After writing an email, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Girl A appeared quietly, helped Simon sort out the scattered documents on the desktop, and said, "Mr. Gates is here."

"Let him come here."

Alison nodded and turned to leave.

After a while, the classmate from Damen came over under the guidance of girl A, Simon got up and shook hands with the other party, and the two sat down at the round table together.

When girl A left again, the door-to-door classmate who pretended to sip coffee quietly withdrew his attention from Alison's Miaoman figure wrapped in the OL suit.

In his heart, he was a little dissatisfied with Simon's behavior of not even showing up to greet him just now, so Gates didn't exchange too many greetings, and went straight to the point: "Simon, what's going on with Linux?"

Just this Wednesday, Eaglet suddenly released a version of the completely open source Linux 1.0 operating system source code, which is the result of the work of the Eaglet Linux team for more than half a year. Watts' rough kernel, this version of the operating system kernel has 20 lines of code. Although it is not perfect, it can basically realize practical applications.

There has never been a mainstream operating system in the computer industry that can be completely open source and free.

Therefore, it is conceivable that this completely free and open operating system will have an impact on the industry.

The reason for the publicity is that Eaglet released this product to further demonstrate the openness of the company.

Of course, in private, this kind of openness is actually for the sake of long-term layout considerations.

For the computer industry, a piece of software, whether it is a large-scale operating system application or a simple program that only implements one or two instructions, can only form an industry if there are enough users, and even eventually achieve the goal of monopoly.

Eaglet's plan does not directly target the Linux operating system for commercial operation, but intends to rely on the Linux platform to provide further services such as application software and solutions.

The Red Hat company in memory is this mode of operation.

Later, in order to strengthen its own layout in open source applications, IBM even acquired Red Hat with a huge sum of more than 300 billion US dollars, which is enough to prove the feasibility of this business model.

However, the premise of all this is that the Linux system must be popular enough.

Eaglet's release of the source code of the Linux operating system, which has invested a lot of money and manpower to develop, is to promote this process in advance.

At this time, facing the question of Damen students, Simon just said plainly: "Bill, you must have understood that this is a public open source operating system project. Moreover, Ygritte's goal is the field of server operating systems, and will not be interested in Microsoft Cause too much impact. I know what you are worried about, Bill, and I can assure you that Igret will not further develop a Linux-based desktop operating system."