Chapter 1492 Duty of Loyalty

Crying is all about crying. After venting a lot of emotions, Harley is still conscientiously setting out to promote "Catwoman" globally.

After winning the Oscar, this project gathered all the remaining dreams of her career in Hollywood, brought money into the group of a superhero commercial blockbuster, and is also the producer, the main heroine, and the actual power in the crew exceeds that of her first sister, Julia. Roberts, almost comparable to Jodie Foster's peak period.

Another success of this film will put her in the same league as Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon, who have directed their own film studios and directed blockbuster projects.

And Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon's performance ratings and awards are far inferior to hers, so she will truly reach the top of Hollywood's overall strength as the number one actress by then.

And now...

A Catwoman hit seems impossible, but it's not time to give up entirely.

"Yanhong and his wife reminded me to pay attention to this website."

Harley has always been so self-disciplined and hardworking, and Song Ya has no reason to relax. He pointed to a clean and concise website for Sloan: "What do you think?"

"FACEBOOK?"

Sloan glanced at it, "I know, it was probably Harvard's online alumni record at first, and it soon became popular on other university campuses in Boston. Now almost all Ivy League colleges and other famous school students like to play this... Likewise, the founders were also Jewish.”

"The invitation registration system has a closer interpersonal relationship with users than our blog site. I heard that many young people are proud to be invited." Song Ya said.

"But this website is in the middle of a plagiarism lawsuit, and the two Harvard alumni of the founder said it was plagiarized..."

Sloan clicked the mouse, and quickly found the news report of the lawsuit. The case itself was bloody. Harvard students Narendra Brothers created a small website called 2002. In 2003, they were verbally invited by friends. FACEBOOK founder, programming genius, and alumnus Zuckerberg wrote programs for the website. Unexpectedly, after Zuckerberg promised to help, he kept procrastinating with various excuses, but suddenly launched a similar FACEBOOK in early 2004...

"A verbal invitation...that's it."

Although it has been a long time since the application for the extension of graduation, Song Ya used the knowledge reserve of the students of the University of Chicago Law School to evaluate it, and felt that the lawsuit was worth fighting, and the investment interest was slightly reduced.

"Is Rashida free?"

Sloan pressed the intercom next to him: "Okay, then call her to my office."

"Hey, we haven't finished the business yet!" Song Ya protested.

"Don't you have other things on your mind?"

Sloan rolled his eyes at him in disgust, "Isn't Rashida a Harvard graduate?"

"Hey hey..." Song Ya scratched her head embarrassedly and laughed.

Rashida soon came here excitedly. She has a Facebook account but rarely plays it. After all, her blog personal homepage has been successfully managed by her. At Harvard, her popularity seems to be average, and she has no interaction with other users at all. , only a few female entertainment alumni who also have a Harvard degree, such as Natalie Portman and Paris Hilton.

"oh!"

In the dimly lit office, only the faint fluorescent light of the computer screen was on. Rashida's Facebook avatar was her own big headshot. Opposite the smiling face, Sloan was lying on the boss's chair with a dazed look, putting a hand into her hair. At the same time, he held Song Ya with the other hand.

'General Electric NBC and Vivendi Universal have officially completed all mergers and acquisitions. The new company NBC Universal will be a super media company that owns entertainment and media companies such as NBC Television Network, American Television Network, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios and Canal+ Television Network. group……'

‘In a joint statement, the two companies put the estimated value of the combined entity at $43 billion supermajority. Among them, General Electric holds 80% of the shares, and Vivendi holds 20% of the shares...'

'General Electric will pay an additional $5.5 billion for this transaction, including $500 million in cash paid to France's Vivendi and 1.7 billion in debt, and the other $3.3 billion will be paid to Vivendi Universal other shareholders of...'

On September 2, 2004, a piece of news detonated the American media industry, and a new giant was born.

Calculated at 20% of 43 billion, the French paid so much and only got back about 8.6 billion in market value, 500 million in cash, and got rid of 1.7 billion in debt. 10.8 billion, and they spent more than this amount on the American TV network, Universal Pictures, and Universal Studios, not to mention the old Canal+ TV network and other European media.

However, Universal Music still hasn't shaken off the big burden. Not only was the French eliminated by General Electric's media influence in the United States in one fell swoop, but they were also invaded by the other party's European stronghold.

However, due to the aftermath of Vivendi being tossed by the former CEO Messier, it is very good that it can get rid of so many burdens. At least the capital market recognizes that its and General Electric’s stock prices both rose after the transaction was completed.

"What happened to the 3.3 billion cash paid to other shareholders of Vivendi Universal?"

But Song Ya's attention was not on the main deal, "This amount... Little Bronfman must have gotten away with this deal, right?"

"Almost, the Bronfman family, as well as institutional investors such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Salomon Smith Barney, should have more or less left. internal situation."

David Geffen replied.

"Damn it!" Song Ya cursed and threw the report in his hand onto the table.

"Little Bronfman will only get out of part at most, and his holdings in Universal Music's market value of one billion dollars cannot escape."

David Geffen turned to comfort him: "Can you divide the 3.3 billion into a billion? It won't exceed 1.5 billion."

"Then it's..."

The third generation of the rich is really unstoppable, Song Ya calculated in his mind, even today, his personal assets are still nearly 2.5 billion dollars, and he can still rank around 200 in this year's global rich list, benefiting from this deal, Among them are nearly 1.5 billion in cash.

"Are you afraid he'll spoil the situation?" David Geffen asked.

"I'm afraid of him? A joke..."

An enemy with 1.5 billion dollars in cash...

When I was fighting with Jobs, Paulson, and Eisnardo...

Fortunately, the rich three generations who have been under house arrest by the old father should not be able to manage the family.

Song Ya explained to herself.

"You! Hurry up!" At this moment, the ex-wife opened the door and shouted, then turned away and left.

"Here we come! Forget it, let's see the situation for now... Let's go."

The two super rich had to trot to catch up with her.

In another battlefield, the French civil war between LVMH and PPR has also been settled. PPR finally won the Gucci Group, which was fiercely contested by the two sides, at a total cost of 8.8 billion dollars. It has been friendly and eagerly looking forward to Song Ya In the end, Pi Nuo and his sons of PPR Group did not wait for even a penny of his help.

But this is not good news for Gucci's artistic director, Tom Ford, an American fashion designer. During the competition between LVMH and PPR, he was the target of both parties, but now the situation has changed. He began to carry out drastic reforms, and he no longer pretended to lose his use value, so he left in anger and returned to the United States.

Song Ya and Tom Ford have a good relationship. Due to the need to always have a mind, Song Ya has always paid attention to the battle for Gucci, and Tom Ford has also been playing the role of his spy inside Gucci. Now Tom Ford has returned to New York to start his own business, so Song Ya naturally also has the duty to help.

Similarly, David Geffen also wanted to support Tom Ford, a member of the same-sex fraternity, so he and Song Ya and other good friends provided some financial support, and they all owned a small amount of shares in Tom Ford's new brand of the same name.

"Tom! Richard!"

Hungry for fashion brand endorsements, the ex-wife, who dressed up specially today, gave an extremely warm hug when she saw Tom Ford go up, and she almost said, "Choose me!" choose me! ’ said it.

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Kelly, Mr. APLUS, Mr. Geffen...Thank you for coming."

Tom Ford's skinny boyfriend Richard was shaken like a candle in the wind by her, and he shook hands one by one with a smile on his face, "Take a photo first?"

"OK."

Song Ya hugged shoulders with them intimately, and lined up smiling at the camera lens.

"Do you still design high-end clothes?"

"Of course, I want to make my personal brand the No. 1 in the United States and one of the top five luxury clothing brands in the world."

"Big five? LV, Chanel, Hermes, Gucci, Prada which one do you want to replace?"

"Haha, take it step by step."

Subsequently, the ambitious Tom Ford began to brainwash the investors in his hometown.

"Father……"

At the same time, little Bronfman, whose personal restrictions have been gradually relaxed, timidly walked behind his father.

"Edgar, with that money, I plan to set up a trust fund..." Old Bronfman told his son his latest decision.

"Trust..."

Little Bronfman endured and endured, and finally said what was in his heart, "Maybe we can gather some financial groups to offer Warner Records? At least create some trouble for our family's enemies."

"For God's sake, Edgar, don't always think about returning to the entertainment industry, okay?" The old man was frustrated by him.

In the late period of house arrest, Bronfman’s access to information was unblocked, and he also settled down to enrich himself, “I didn’t suggest this out of revenge or impulse, father… I think so: we have already obtained from Universal Partially escaped, there is no need to worry about APLUS anymore, the game situation has changed. On the one hand, the value of the record industry is indeed in a period of being greatly underestimated, as evidenced by the steady increase in sales of Apple and Beats online music stores .On the other hand, APLUS, which is provoking wars everywhere, is in a very weak state..."

He handed the prepared materials to old Bronfman.

Some shareholders of Palm expressed fierce dissatisfaction with Apple, a competitor of the First Bank of New Jersey, which is controlled by the chairman APLUS. Claiming that class action lawsuits are not ruled out...'

"Why!"

Old Bronfman sighed deeply after reading it, "I don't have a few years to live, and APLUS is much younger than you. I admit that you have made great progress during this period, but I am still not optimistic about it." What good will happen if you return to the record industry? You mentioned the Beats music store just now. Don’t forget who owns it. As for the current situation of APLUS...don’t just focus on his assets on the water and ignore him Last time when I shorted Vivendi Universal, I was able to quietly mobilize funds that far exceeded the expectations of the outside world. I finally took advantage of the conflict between General Electric and Vivendi to try to get back this money. Think about the future of the family, Edgar. "

"Father……"

"Stop talking about Edgar, when I die, all the money, responsibilities and obligations to the family will still be yours..."

No matter how helpless, there is still only such a usable single seedling in front of him in his children's lifetime, and the old Bronfman closed his eyes tiredly.

"Why do those three guys still have 3DFX stock?"

After Palm shareholders were manipulated by those who wanted to make a fuss, the founding trio of 3DFX, who had already gone to Apple to work, started to make trouble again, saying to the media that "APLUS still needs to give 3DFX an explanation for losing Apple's orders, and we will do it next year. The general meeting of shareholders vetoed his re-election as chairman of 3DFX. '

After watching the news, Song Ya was full of black question marks, "Someone must have taught them this kind of thing. If they have this kind of ability, they won't be kicked out by me casually!"

"If one party has an advantage or influence over the other party, and this advantage or influence is due to the trust of the other party in him, then there is a relationship of trust between them. Since the directors are Appointed to manage the company's affairs on the basis of the trust of the shareholders, he must act solely in the service of the company and must not use his position for personal gain..."

His personal lawyer, Song Zecheng, replied: "The problem with 3DFX is not big. Palm's shareholder meeting next year may be a bit troublesome."

"I know the law."

Song Ya glanced at him, "Anyway, the soldiers come to block, and the water comes to cover it!"

"Okay, boss, then I'll go out first." Song Zecheng backed out with a smile, and closed the door from the outside.

"What were you talking about?"

The two of them usually communicate in Chinese, so Harry in his arms naturally couldn't understand.

"It's nothing... what are you going to do in the future?"

Song Ya hugged her lovingly. The global box office of Catwoman costing 100 million yuan was only a little over 80 million dollars. Warner Pictures was wailing. Harley, who had just entered the 20 million club, had a bloody head and ended the global publicity event. Then she hid in her Highland Park to lick her wounds.

"have no idea……"

Harley, who cried a lot for several times, murmured sickly, "I heard that next year's Golden Raspberry Awards will choose me as the worst heroine..."

"Don't be discouraged, this doesn't look like you anymore!"

Song Ya comforted her with a smile: "Do you still remember that you didn't give up when you were so down and out in New York? It's just a one-time hit on the street, and then you can take on the show, or just concentrate on stock trading. Don't you like stock trading?"

"I'm not interested in that either now..."

Harry's eyes fell on Amy who was quietly reading on the sofa, reaching out to touch the pickled cucumber, and asked in a low voice, "This time...why is her belly so big? It's almost like a balloon, twins?"

"One, the obstetrician said it's just bigger than the average fetus." Song Ya replied.

"Or a boy?"

"should be?"

"Have you thought of a name yet?"

"Amy said if it's a boy it's Garland..."

"Oh." Harry curled up in his arms again and did not speak.

Song Ya didn't bother her and continued with the work at hand. Since Palm would be a bit troublesome, he first called Palm CEO Jeffrey Hawkins, "Jeffrey, why is our Tero650 smartphone operating system still It is the follow-up version of PalmOS5, didn't you say that it will be upgraded to PalmOS6?"

"The development progress of the operating system has been delayed..."

The two quickly chatted about the change of some shareholders, and they chatted for more than half an hour.

"Let them all come! In the first half of next year, Disney, Palm, and Apple's shareholder meeting cycle, just in time for us to have a total liquidation!"

Song Ya put down the microphone after saying a domineering and cruel word.

"What's wrong?"

When he lowered his head, he found that Harry in his arms was staring at him with shining beautiful eyes.

"I don't want to work hard anymore, give me a long-term meal ticket."

Harry whispered in his ear, "Sugar Daddy..."