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Everyone chatted about various topics for more than an hour. When it was getting dark, Jennifer came over to remind that dinner was ready. Everyone came to a large restaurant in the villa for entertaining guests. The four little guys did not leave. very bustling.

After dinner, David and his wife were sent to another apartment in the manor to rest, and the family was also free.

It has been agreed in advance to watch a movie together tonight.

Continuing to throw the three little guys to Veronica, the three of Simon came to the private screening room of Shell Villa.

The movie is "The Wire", which started painting last Friday.

Simon used to like this movie very much. This time, even though he had watched the sample film more than once in advance, Simon still didn't get bored.

Simon's movie-watching criterion is that it is better to watch a classic movie repeatedly than to watch many mediocre movies.

The two Jenny, but more enjoy the small time when the three of them get along intimately.

However, after the opening of the movie, the three of them were quickly attracted by the plot.

This summer, if "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" is a bottle of ice-cold Coke, and "Forrest Gump" is a bowl of strong and mellow wine, then "Heart" is a pot of tea worth savoring.

Although this is also a criminal action movie, what Simon sees from it is the lives of many people.

There is helplessness, disputes, happiness, and loss.

Some people are impermanent.

Simon loves Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in both roles.

A seemingly cold, but in fact the most true temperament.

He likes to tell people that there should not be anything in life that cannot be let go within 30 seconds. When he meets a tempted woman, he insists on saying 'I am alone, but not lonely (I;m alone, but not lonely)'. As a result, he I can't let go of my brother, I can't let go of my lover, I can't let go of my hatred.

In the end, I couldn't see the kind of seaweed that only glows once a year.

The other one is violent on the outside but gentle on the inside.

With a paralyzed face that can't express much after going through the world, he stares wide-eyed at those gangsters he hates from the bottom of his heart.

He wanted to keep all the evils in the world he had seen in his heart, and go home clean, and he didn't want his wife and children to know that there would still be evil and ugly things in the world, such as putting the baby in the microwave oven just because he hated the child being too noisy, but the result was not understood.

He pretends not to care about everything, but in fact he cares most.

Seeing a mother who collapsed after her daughter was killed, he would hug her tightly in his arms to comfort him, and he still couldn't make too many expressions on his stiff face.Seeing his mentally ill stepdaughter self-mutilating in the bathtub, he would tremble and say that all this should not be done, good people should not be like this, and bad people should have such an ending, speaking like the most innocent fool.

The nearly three-hour movie seemed to be over in a blink of an eye.

Janet said she likes De Niro because his character in the film is actually very similar to Simon.

Jennifer said that he liked Pacino's role very much, but it's a pity that such a good man couldn't find a good woman who could understand him.Then I also felt a little sorry for De Niro's role, wondering why he couldn't be a good person.

Simon has seen this movie many times.

Also understand more.

Doesn't De Niro's Neil want to be a good guy?

Of course I do.

However, he has been in prison. Although there is no more explanation in the film, many details have proved that Neil has a very high degree of education and a very smart mind. Such a person could easily manage a perfect and rich life However, once he was imprisoned, it became a stain that he could not get rid of all his life.

Like the black guy who was recruited as a driver.

He also wanted to reform himself, but because of his criminal record, he was abused like a dog by the restaurant manager without dignity.

A proud person like Neil must not be able to let go of his dignity.

So this is the only way to choose.

In this world, it is always difficult to understand without knowing the world. The world seems to be very big, and it seems that there are many choices. In fact, most people have no choice.

Early the next morning, Simon just got up when he heard the bad news.

The Instagram website was down last night.

Up to two hours and four 10 minutes.

Due to the rapid increase in the number of users, the website underwent another expansion and upgrade at two o'clock in the morning last night, which was carried out once last Saturday.

Then, due to an engineer error, the site suddenly crashed.

Girl D stays up all night.

Originally, if the Instagram website was limited to the west coast of the United States, this would only be done in the sleep of many people. When the website was restored, it would not be five o'clock in the morning on the west coast.

However, this is a website for global users.

And it just happened to receive a lot of media attention in recent days,

Not to mention anything else, but on the east coast, when the website was restored, it was already past [-] o'clock in the morning, and the European side watched the excitement for several hours. Many European media have already started to tease this matter.

Because many people know the identity of girl D.

Simon Westeros is so relentless in supporting the vase around him, look, now, it's a joke.

How good it is to make a vase with peace of mind if you don't have the skills.

When Simon called after work, Miss D still had a weary cry in her tone. Of course, the engineer had been fired by her, so Simon could only comfort him. This matter was also an advertisement for Instagram.

that's the truth.

As the news of the website downtime spread, although many media were ridiculed or even ridiculed, there is no doubt that the popularity of the Instagram website has increased a lot. As long as no losses are caused, ordinary users will not care too much about this kind of website. Unexpectedly, more people will be more curious about such a website, and then register to join.

Chapter 682 Anti-Monopoly Investigation Initiated (Revised)

The downtime of the Instagram website on July 7 proved to be a blessing in disguise.

No matter how many media with various complex emotions or ridicule or ridicule Simon forcibly propping up the vase around him, the result is that because the exposure rate of Instagram in the mainstream media has increased significantly, the number of website user registrations has skyrocketed in the following days.

从7月22日上午9点钟上线到7月29日上午九点，一个星期时间，Instagram的注册用户总规模达到379万，远远超过网站上线之前Instagram公司团队首周百万用户的期望值。

Not only that, the rapid popularity of the Instagram website has also directly led to the hot sales of digital camera products.

Just for the iCam series of Tinkber, the sales of the chain in the past week have increased by 46%, directly rushing from 15 units in the previous week to a record 22 units in a single week. A rare out-of-stock phenomenon.

Simon deliberately sent an email to several senior executives of Eaglet, reminding them again of the importance of the product ecosystem.

However, Instagram's success has also brought a small side effect.

Friday, January 7th.

At 10:[-] a.m. on the East Coast, the U.S. Department of Justice officially held a press conference, announcing the simultaneous launch of antitrust investigations against Westeros Systems Cisco, AOL, and Eaglet.

In the question-and-answer session with reporters, Instagram was specifically mentioned as evidence that the Westeros system monopolizes Internet resources.

Simon was in New York that day, watched the entire 10-minute press conference of the Ministry of Justice, and obtained more than 60 pages of investigation documents in advance.

The anti-monopoly investigation by the Ministry of Justice mainly involved clauses including Eaglet’s use of its own market advantages in the network business to force bundled sales of application software to customers, IE browser’s monopoly on Internet interfaces to restrict competition, and America Online’s alleged Exclusive agreements monopolize the market, AOL has malicious discrimination against small businesses in terms of network support, Cisco has established Internet standards in tandem with AOL and Eaglet to eliminate competition, and so on.

Attorney General Janet Reynolds told the live media that the goal of this antitrust investigation is to prevent the three companies, Cisco AOL Eaglet, from monopolizing resources in the Internet industry.

In order to achieve this goal, the Department of Justice will eventually be able to force Stelow to give up the multiple ownership structure of Cisco and AOL, and prevent the executives of the three companies from serving on the board of directors of each company in order to cut off the relationship between the three companies. The close interest relationship of the three companies, and at the same time split part of the business or products of the three companies.

In the early days of Cisco and AOL's listing, in order to promote communication between the three companies and also to control power in the hands of the Westeros system, Simon asked the executives of the three companies to serve as directors of each company's board of directors.

This move is obviously inappropriate.

As the antitrust investigations of the three companies by the federal government and various media became more and more popular, Simon has already withdrawn Tim Berners-Lee, John Chambers, Steve Case and others from the mutual relationship in advance. board of directors.

The Ministry of Justice's "revisiting the past" this time has actually achieved an anti-monopoly goal ahead of schedule.

The morning press conference just ended, and the Westeros system immediately responded to the anti-monopoly investigation.

The Ygrit Portal published a headline article, reiterating the great contribution of the Westeros system to the entire federal Internet industry in recent years by creating World Wide Web technology standards.

If Igret had not generously opened up the basic patents of the World Wide Web, the current vigorous development of the Internet industry would not have occurred. The Westeros system has no attempt to monopolize the market. The close cooperation of the three companies is only to jointly promote The development of the Internet industry.

The article also warns at the end that this investigation by the Ministry of Justice may not only not promote the development of the Internet industry, but will also damage the enthusiasm of innovators in the new technology field.

The capital market is always the most sensitive party.

In the past week or so, as the Ministry of Justice has continuously released news about the antitrust investigations of Cisco, AOL and Eaglet, the stock prices of Cisco and AOL, which have already been listed, have continued to fall.

The press conference on Friday morning has just begun. Half an hour after the opening of the market, the stock prices of Cisco and AOL have fallen by 3.1% and 2.3% respectively, and the market value of more than 30 billion US dollars has disappeared. The stock price will fall by more than 5% every day.

Simon has already planned for this.

Since June, Cersei Fund Management, a hedge fund under Cersei Capital, has gradually reduced its long positions in Cisco and AOL. Fund size shrunk to under $6 billion.

Simon certainly isn't turning bearish, though.

For tax avoidance considerations, a large part of the billions of dollars in cashback funds was directly transferred to a newly established sub-fund account under Black Rock Asset Management, which will continue to be used for technology stock investment in the future.

In the next few years, the overall trend of technology stocks in the U.S. stock market will inevitably go up all the way, but because of anti-monopoly and other reasons, the stock prices of the two leading Internet stocks Cisco and AOL will inevitably fluctuate continuously. For speculative capital who likes short-term hedging For this reason, the stocks of the two companies have undoubtedly become the best operating targets.

Simon, who is inclined to non-speculative long-term investment in his bones, does not intend to play this roller coaster game with them.

The re-downsized Cersei Fund Management Company will still focus on long-term hedging of technology stocks in the future, but it will no longer involve Cisco and America Online. The target will turn to Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN, etc. Technology companies may also consider traditional companies such as General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway that will also soar with the arrival of the bullish cycle in the US stock market.

While responding through the media, Cisco, AOL and Eaglet also began to expand their legal team to deal with the ensuing investigations and lawsuits.

This antitrust investigation is bound to be protracted, so Simon didn't put much thought into it.

In the morning, I watched the live broadcast of the Ministry of Justice press conference with James Raybould and others at the headquarters of Westeros Corporation in Manhattan. After briefly discussing the follow-up countermeasures, Simon started his day's work.

The first is the North American box office data of the past box office week.

Simon is more concerned about this matter than the antitrust investigation launched today.

In fact, most of the public are actually not too concerned about the Ministry of Justice’s antitrust investigation of the three companies in the Westeros system.

Daenerys Entertainment's 'God Watches Movies' buzz was different last week.

因为这一观点的持续传播，刚刚过去的7月22日到7月28日一周，北美单周票房总量一举达到1.87亿美元，相比再前一周的1.56亿美元周票房总量增加了19%。按照现阶段4.2美元的平均票价计算，相当于本周一举多出了700万观影人次。

Specific box office data.

After occupying the top five box office charts last week, Daenerys Entertainment directly gave up the single-week chart champion this week.

Paramount's Harrison Ford starred in the new film "The Chase", which had a box office of 3905 million US dollars in the first week, ranking No.1 on the weekly list.

After several consecutive new films failed this summer, Paramount finally turned around.

Simon also breathed a sigh of relief. From the beginning of 1994 to the present, there is finally a blockbuster movie that has nothing to do with Daenerys' entertainment.When faced with public opinion accusing Daenerys Entertainment of also monopolizing Hollywood, it is now possible to refute it confidently: Look, there is also "The Pursuit of Eyebrows".

Even, the follow-up of "Buzzing Eyebrows" will be written into Daenerys Entertainment's quarterly and annual financial reports to show that the company still has competitors in Hollywood.

This is not an insignificant little detail.

Many monopolistic corporate giants in the West will deliberately list their competitors in their financial reports to show that they do not monopolize the market. Even if most of the listed competitors have never been heard of by the public, they occupy very little market share Poor, but it has to be done.

After Paramount's "Rushing Eyes", the phenomenal "Forrest Gump" was released in its fourth week. Affected by the "God Watches Movies" topic, the box office fell again by a very respectable 21%, and it collected another 3078 million US dollars. , this feature film, which has been regarded as a masterpiece by many fans, has been in production for one month, and its cumulative box office has reached 1 million US dollars.

Even with a total production and publicity budget of US$8000 million, "Forrest Gump" has already begun to bring profits to Daenerys Entertainment. As word-of-mouth continues to ferment and spread, the box office in overseas markets is also very good.

In order to spread word-of-mouth in North America to overseas, Simon adopted the strategy of postponing the release in overseas mainstream markets.

This strategy has proven to be very successful.

In the case of a general delay of one to two weeks, the cumulative box office of "Forrest Gump" has easily exceeded 1.1 million US dollars.

No.3 on the list is "Firewire".

Although the duration of this criminal action film is close to three hours, under the stimulation of word-of-mouth marketing by Daenerys Pictures' distribution team and the topic of "God Watches Movies", it still achieved over 2293 movie theaters in the first week, earning 1.1 yuan in seven days. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.Because the three-hour time limit limits the number of screenings in a single day, the film's average price of 1.5 US dollars is actually better than that of many blockbuster movies of [-] US dollars.

James Cameron's "True Lies" list No.4.

In the third week of its release, the film continued to earn $2020 million, and it was also the film with the largest decline this week, reaching 33%.For a purely commercial film, facing many strong competitors, this drop is actually within a considerable range.

At the same time, the cumulative box office of "True Lies" also reached 9163 million U.S. dollars, officially breaking through the cost line of 9000 million U.S. dollars.

The cost of "True Lies" once reached 1.15 million US dollars, but this time, under Daenerys' strict cost control, the film's production budget was finally 9000 million US dollars, and the announcement investment was 3000 million US dollars.

It is estimated that the total domestic box office of between 1.4 million and 1.5 million US dollars will definitely not be able to return to the cost. Fortunately, counting the overseas box office, the two producers of Daenerys and Fox can directly realize profits through theatrical distribution.

Quentin Tarantino's "Blooded Romeo" list No.5.

It is also a crime movie, "Blooded Romeo" is a crime drama, "The Wire" is a crime action movie, and the word-of-mouth has reached the classic level. The topic of "Movies" skillfully linked the two films and promoted them as the two most worth-watching crime films in this summer.

As a result, after the first week's box office exceeded expectations, facing the menacing two heavyweight new films, the box office of "Blooded Romeo" fell by only 23% in the second week, and it collected another 1839 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 4236 million US dollars.

In two weeks, according to the ladder sharing rules, Gaomen Pictures has recovered all the production and distribution costs of 2500 million US dollars, and has begun to realize profitability.

Stimulated by the topic of "God Watches Movies", in addition to the top five, follow-up films such as "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Conjuring" have also been revived.

排行No.6的《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士崛起》本周跌幅为21%，继续进账1279万美元，累计票房达到3亿4526万美元，距离破4亿美元关口还有5500万美元的距离。