Chapter 700? May 95

In May 1995, there was a turmoil. The alliance formed by companies such as IBM and Microsoft refused to accept multiple new audio-visual digital format standards.

The founder, Terry Beard, began to hesitate again, but this time there was not much time left for him. DTS must be listed on Nasdaq before the end of the year, otherwise it is very likely that it will not be able to compensate for the C round of Wall Street investors. Bankruptcy due to gambling agreement. Of course, this is a game process. Wall Street investors will also lose money if they go bankrupt, and a compromise should be reached in the end.

In this respect, Terry Beard's slowness is also beneficial. He can always drag troubles to the last moment and make others unable to bear to actively seek solutions.

Netscape went smoothly. Unlike Song Ya’s repeater-style lectures, Jim Clark and Baxter frequently made high-profile speeches in various technology forums and media. Microsoft was wrong and Netscape was right. The future of the Internet is the future of the Internet. It is closely related to people's life, which can be described as a new information technology revolution. It is not profitable, but we have a market share, and we will eventually make a profit. Various subversive concepts have been proposed, and the response has been very enthusiastic.

Academia, the technology industry, the Internet industry, and Wall Street all like them, especially Baxter, whose jokes about Bill Gates and Ballmer have been widely reprinted and quoted.

However, Microsoft has not given any response so far, maybe they are used to it, they don't care about the clamor of a new small company, and they are wholeheartedly devoted to the development of the Windows95 operating system, which is advertised as an epoch-making operating system. Available in September or September.

According to Dr. Mei’s report, 3DFX is now on the right track. Their three founders with unconstrained ideas chose to open the 3D acceleration engine for free, which attracted a lot of game companies to join the 3DFX camp. Engine development games, in order to rush to the market as soon as 3DFX's hardware accelerator card is launched in the middle of next year.

Song Ya is very satisfied with everything. He didn't know that because of the sudden accident after seeing JavaScript, he escaped the disaster of being compressed by Jim Clark, and he didn't know that Goodman and others have quietly laid out the post-APLUS era All he knew was that his wife Mariah Carey flew to Silicon Valley because of the sudden 'illness' this time, and apologized in person, crying and crying, and promised not to cause trouble by changing agents next time.

For the United States, the biggest variable in May was the sudden breakdown of the auto trade negotiations with Benzi.

In the past, Benzi was basically submissive to his father. At most, he pretended to be coquettish and then coquettishly gave in. The strong reaction from the political and business circles in the United States is greatly underestimated. Starting from the textile trade war in the 1950s, color TV wars, steel wars, automobile wars, semiconductor wars, multiple textile agreements, iron and steel product agreements, color TV agreements, Automobile trade agreement, parts agreement, telecommunications agreement, mobile phone agreement, semiconductor trade agreement, Plaza Accord, Louvre agreement, financial services agreement, structural barriers agreement, comprehensive economic agreement and so on…

If you fail to compete, you will increase tariffs. If you fail to compete, you will be forced to limit production and accept American financial capital as a shareholder. If you fail, you will be forced to purchase American parts. Entrepreneurs and politicians with stinking books, in short, they will never give up until they achieve their goals. In the end, please swallow them obediently no matter what! The United States has become very proficient in this bandit tactics, and the economic ties between the United States and Japan have become deeper and deeper. Even financial products such as the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Pension Funds have been forced to open to American capital, let alone other large enterprises. up,

There is me in you, and in me...but not necessarily you...

Benzi Capital was badly pitted in the United States. Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, etc. left the market with huge losses. But from another perspective, the Benzi companies that can survive 95 years are all heroes, such as Sony, some large cars, etc. Enterprises, such as some low-key traditional industrial capital.

If the face is completely torn apart, both parties will be injured, and taking advantage of the crisis in power of the current general, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole suddenly announced his candidacy, officially kicking off the general election that will last more than a year.

Bob Dole is at the peak of his political prestige. He led the Elephant Party to regain the majority of the Senate and House of Representatives in the mid-term election of 1994, and forced Congress to pass a series of bills led by the Elephant Party. Pass the telecommunications bill smoothly to please the tech industry and throw all the pressure on the donkeys in the House of Representatives.

But he is not yet qualified to stand in front of the current leader. He has to kill the opponents of the Elephant Party in the primary election, persuade Colin and other powerful Elephant Party politicians, and do everything possible to prevent the Elephant Party from appearing in the last general election. A third party appears on the party ticket.

Similarly, Song Ya didn't know that Bob Dole called Giuliani to let Motura go, in order to appease the National Truck Drivers Union and other organizations that still had Italian or Mafia influence.

"Why!"

In New York, Carl Letterman asked the special prosecutor extremely angrily, "Motura has retracted all the perjury testimony, and with this little thing left, you agree to let him easily exchange for no prosecution!?"

"Perjury? What proof do you have that the testimony he retracted was perjury?"

While packing up the file, the special prosecutor asked back, "Just observe with your naked eyes?"

"Yes, a series of subtle reactions in his body, and the questions I asked specifically based on behavioral science, at least I know that his testimony about APLUS's prior shooting of a nightclub in Harlem is fabricated." Carl Letterman replied.

"Your theories cannot be used as evidence in court, and Motura has withdrawn that part of his testimony."

the special prosecutor said flatly.

"Is it politics, right? It's political considerations, right?" Carl Letterman stared at him with piercing eyes.

"Whether it is or not, we have decided to reach a non-prosecution deal with Motura, so my task force will also be officially disbanded. This matter has passed."

The special prosecutor said: "Maybe a college campus is more suitable for you Agent Letterman. You should go there to teach psychology, human behavior or something."

"Aren't you from Mayor Giuliani?"

"I'm a member of the New York prosecutor's office, and I don't have an allegiance to a certain politician."

"Haha, I can tell you are guilty, Mr. Prosecutor. You are his man. Didn't Mayor Giuliani always show himself with an iron fist and selflessness? I didn't expect him to do dirty deals in private! ’ Carl Letterman said, ‘Can you guess something?’

"Don't treat me like a criminal! Carl! Don't be so romantic. Mr. Giuliani is no longer a prosecutor, but a mayor and a politician, OK?"

In front of Motula, the case was running anticlimactic, and the special prosecutor was unhappy, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he simply hinted: "This matter ends here, anyway, the New York prosecutors will not follow up, and I also remind you not to bother you." Director Frith, they are all in the same group!"

"Why!?"

Song Ya came back to Chicago Highland Park to learn the news, "Motura reached a plea agreement with the prosecution, and then he was let go?"

"We don't know anything about what deal they made."

Hamlin said: "Maybe some of Motura's testimony is against us. He hates you APLUS so much. Maybe it's time to use some New York political connections. Didn't you say that the police in the mayor's office Is the Commissioner one of Dinkins's?"

"Fxxk, I don't necessarily want to buy an inner-city broadcasting company." Song Ya said, "30 million for news? I'm not being taken advantage of."

"The latest negotiation result from Alicia's side is a 30 million capital injection. Before the deal is concluded, the Inner City Broadcasting Company took the initiative to divest some assets that suffered heavy losses in order to make their financial performance healthier."

Goodman analyzed: "Now there are two points that the Sutton family will never back down. The first is money. The inner city broadcasting company cannot survive 1995 without the 30 million, and the price cannot be negotiated. The second is Right, the Sutton family will maintain the management right until 1999 no matter what, and Dinkins also supports them. The result of their investment in the inner city broadcasting company is definitely not to let them out of the game."

"Yes." Song Ya spread her hands.

"You've also said before that you have some follow-up ideas for inner city broadcasters, what's your idea of ​​APLUS?" Hamlin asked.

"I was bluffing with Alicia."

Song Ya shrugged, "It's actually very simple. You have also read the provisions of the telecommunications bill passed by the Senate. Everyone judges that if the bill is passed, the competition and mergers and acquisitions in the cable TV industry will become more intense. The powerful African-American media people here are stuffed into several small TV stations under his family, packaged and sold to cable operators or TV networks at a premium. Last year, the broken TV station in Er was bought by Comcast at a high premium Yes, this should restore a lot of blood, at least it will save me some losses!"

"It's a smart approach, but we only injected capital into the inner city broadcasting company. If the Sutton family wanted to do this, they would not give up the radio station." Goodman smiled wryly.

"I know, that's why I don't want to buy it."

Song Ya walked around the room helplessly, "Well, Goodman, you go to Dingkins and ask him to find the police commissioner for information."

"This is a help, if you don't buy the inner city broadcasting company in the future..." Goodman reminded: "It's not a good operation to play Dinkins."

"I will buy it. If it doesn't work, there is a last resort. Hasn't Gordon of BET been looking for me to attract investment and want to start a new black 24-hour news station? After I bought the inner city broadcasting company, I put those Senior media people poached my new TV station, and then negotiated channel resources and other cooperation with other companies except TCI cable network where BET is located." Song Ya said.

"Then Johnson at BET will hate you," Hamlin said.

"The traditional media industry is not like the technology industry. This is not an emerging incremental market. The competition is that you have more and I have less competition. If I want to enter the game, it is impossible not to offend others at all. It depends on who is easy to bully. "

Song Ya's eyes lit up, "Johnson is from the Elephant Party. The Donkey Party now needs a black media mouthpiece comparable to BET. The Inner City Broadcasting Company is the main radio station, and Oprah is the main variety show and talk show. There are also serious news. There's some room to market. And since Motura was let off so easily by Giuliani of the Party, I don't have much to maintain friendship with them!"

"APLUS, there is some news that I think you should read."

At this time Linda came in and turned on the TV, "The father of the former billionaire and actress Milla Jovovich was sentenced today for being involved in a Ponzi scheme. Mr. Jovovich was convicted of multiple fraud charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The court ordered to return the 77 million dollars of illegal gains in multiple fraud cases and imposed a fine of 150 million dollars...'

A TV announcer reported: "Even without prior knowledge, investors' profits from the Ponzi scheme are illegal. New York prosecutors have started to pursue and appealed to some investors to return relevant profits voluntarily." '

"This unlucky ghost is indeed sentenced to a heavier sentence than some murders."

Song Ya looked at Mira's father who was ashamed on the TV screen, and murmured.