Chapter 1153: The Year of M&A

Little Bronfman has always been a personable nobleman, Song Ya didn't hear any special attitude from his tone, the super merger and acquisition case is ready to go, and it is understandable that he is too busy to socialize.

The two sides have in-depth cooperation in the record, film, and wine industries, and after the advent of their own three specializations, Universal Music's acquisition of A+ Records will not lose money, and the Blade Warrior project cooperated by A+ Film Studios and KM Pictures has created a good profit for the distributor Universal Pictures, and there will be two sequels that will also be distributed by Universal Pictures.

In the wine business, he also endured the sin of two old Sigram ministers who instigated Rieser to sign the long-term distribution contract of A+ Wines to Seagram, which was equivalent to picking up a big bargain in that matter.

It is natural for Song Ya to think that he is undoubtedly currently on his honeymoon with Bronfman Jr.

"I forgot to shoot a few sycophants, let's make up for it next time."

Disappreciatively, he put down the phone, "OK, what should we do now?" He asked, rubbing his hands together.

"Inner City Broadcaster, let's go to the conference room."

Sloan called his men in charge of this and led Songya and Alicia into the conference room.

are all very competent workaholics, and the three of them immediately entered the state, mainly to transfer the voting rights of Alicia to help Song Ya on their behalf, and after this deal with the braggart daddy, there are only two seats left, and they are officially transferred to Littleman Media.

"Okay, I don't have to run to New York in the future."

Because the inner city also took the opportunity to change the law firm during her coma, Alicia had the right to vote but did not have much personal interest, and during those five months, the board of directors of the inner city broadcasting company did not dare to rashly publicize a governor's wife.

After Alicia finished signing, she smiled and asked, "What about next?" ”

“APLUS。” Sloan pushed some of the documents to Song Ya and asked him to transfer the remaining 10 percent of the innercity stake in A+ Copyrights & Assets to Littleman Media.

"It's the last one, isn't it?" Song Ya confirmed after signing.

"Yes, you'll soon be able to get your 100 million from other financiers." Sloan Q&A.

“Hoho……”

Song Ya glanced at the calendar on her watch, "I can't wait, I have to rush back to the University of Chicago on time to report." ”

"Three years of law school is not so easy......

Alicia lamented the memories of his time in school, "But you should have a lot easier." ”

"I got in with my ability, 170 points, what was your LSAT score that year?" Song Ya asked her.

"Uh...... The law school I went to was not as well-known as Zhi. ”

She looked away and made excuses.

"Hey...... "That's not as high as me?" Song Ya was secretly happy in her heart, and she liked to compare her exam results with others the most.

"Miss Sloane."

A Littman media executive hurried in and whispered to Sloane.

"There's something new in the IPO for you, and I just got the news that Disney seems to be interested in buying Infoseek and entering the online industry."

Sloan hurriedly followed the person who informed the news out of the door, "I'm going to make a few phone calls with other financiers, and I'm not with you." ”

Traditional entertainment industry bigwigs enter the Internet? They have an advantage in content, in fact, after the Internet sector has soared for so long, many Hollywood and traditional media giants have been testing the waters, such as NBC, which has long cooperated with Microsoft to move the content of MSNBC News Channel online.

However, Infoseek has its own music community section, and if they can get Disney's support, they will inevitably be more inclined to entertainment content, which will in turn threaten the American music website.

After ousting DeLay and abandoning Netscape, Amerika Music has also ended its strategic partnership with Infoseek and switched to YAHOO, which has a better relationship with Microsoft......

"Are you going to be part of the fight?"

Alicia asked Song Ya who began to ponder, and her eyes gradually became solemn.

"Probably not, I can't afford Infoseek."

Even if Infoseek's share price is sluggish, it's still too expensive for him, and Kirsch, the owner who has supported DeLay, probably doesn't like him.

"Is that okay?" He asked a clerk in the corner who was using a laptop.

"Please."

The other party obediently moved out of the way.

Song Ya skillfully typed the Infoseek domain name on the Internet Explorer browser, and the web layout has been greatly improved, and there is a free email service.

Last year, after Yahoo acquired Rocket mail, the second free mailbox in the market share, Microsoft also spent 400 million dollars to win the first Hotmail in the market.

It's not easy to use, but it's not much different from others, but the user base is far behind.

Song Ya took a brief look, he remembered that he had a sense of familiarity when he first used Hotmail, but unfortunately, the Internet industry has made rapid progress under the abundant financing from the stock market and venture capital, and he didn't pay much attention to this aspect last year, when he was disturbed by coma and rehabilitation, saving his business, etc.

IT'S TOO LATE, HE OPENED YAHOO, IT HAS COMPLETELY COLLECTED ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE PORTAL SUCH AS SEARCH, ONLINE YELLOW PAGES, NEWS, WEATHER AND OTHER ONLINE COMMUNITY SERVICES, MI PEOPLE ARE MORE AND MORE FOND OF SETTING THE BROWSER HOMEPAGE DIRECTLY TO YAHOO, THE MARKET SHARE IS AMAZING, OR THE STOCK PRICE WILL NOT CONTINUE TO TAKE OFF, COMPLETELY REPLACING THE ORIGINAL NETSCAPE'S FIRST POSITION ON THE NETWORK.

Fortunately, the all-music website did not grasp the opportunity of the turmoil of the American music website for nearly a year, in fact, when they interrupted the listing process of DeLay, many Silicon Valley and Wall Street capital turned around and went to find the biggest competitor of the American music website, all of them were rejected by the shareholders of the all-music website who had romantic beliefs, and they firmly claimed that they only wanted to be a professional record library, and let the opportunity to get rich slip away from their hands in vain.

Song Ya opened his own American music website, and the new president of DeLay, John Zhang, is a technical expert, he does not understand the entertainment industry or fan psychology at all, and will only concentrate on improving the web user experience and record database.

Yes, the record library, the whole music gang is respectable, but business is business, and business competition is so ruthless, and gratitude or something is too expensive.

If you don't seize the opportunity, then don't blame me for relieving my breath and taking it backhand, although I have lost the lawsuit, but this time Song Ya and Sloan both agreed that sooner or later the Amerika Music website will have its own record and singer database, so let's build it from scratch! Don't worry about funds, burn some money casually first, and then burn it after the listing to catch up, plus there are many leading users, it is not difficult to dig up the biggest advantage of this competitor, and completely eliminate hidden dangers.

The layout of the website is not as bells and whistles as in the Dilley era, and the stability and access speed, web page opening speed, and fluency have also been greatly increased.

'APLUS New Song Can't Hold Us Radio Pilot Edition Sentence by Sentence Analysis. ’

He saw a very popular post on his fan page by Rashida Jones, who had the prefix Artist, a noble certified real-name artist.

She is very 'hard-working', she is really analyzing word by word, and she is very professional. For example: 'Fat Cat, a fat cat, specifically refers to those rich and powerful and smug big guys, and the connection with APLUS in the latter sentence should be a metaphor for the record company executives who once suppressed him......

The girl also had a small suffix she added after each paragraph, 'Currently enrolled at Harvard University.' 'Entertained Song Ya.

"Hopefully, Disney won't be able to complete this deal before our IPO. Uh, you guys go out first. ”

At this time, Sloan came back from the call, and she drove her men away first, "APLUS, can you find Disney Emperor Eisner to find out?" ”

"Linton, it's me."

Song Ya and Eisner really didn't know each other, so they still grabbed the phone and called their old friend Linton.

"It can't be before your IPO in April." Linton reassured him, "I'm not in charge of that area, but Mr. Eisner should want to take back Starwave for now." ”

"OK, thanks."

Linton is still very powerful, and he will never reveal this kind of thing to himself if the relationship is not in place, although he may not realize how important this news is to him...... Well, Ben could have crossed him out.

Starwave owns the network business of ABC and ESPN, and the majority of its shares are currently in the hands of Paul Allen, Microsoft's second-largest individual shareholder.

She was also relieved when she relayed the news to Sloan, "This is probably a stupidity committed by the two media outlets when they didn't realize the speed of the rise of the Internet in the early days, and this is really much more important to Disney than the acquisition of Infoseek." ”

"It seems like all the major media companies are expanding this year?" Alicia asked.

"This year is the year of mergers and acquisitions."

TV stations are merging with each other, TV networks are merging with each other, the telecommunications industry is merging with each other, it seems that record companies and Hollywood are also going to join, and it is cross-platform, and the complete relaxation of the telecommunications bill will indeed be predicted by people of insight, and eventually create several super media groups.

"Lei Shidong's Viacom is expected to win the Global Television Network, BET, and CBS this year, attacking everywhere, Universal is preparing to buy Polygram, and other large media groups are not idle, crazy staking ground. If you change to this year, I don't think you even get your hands on Littleman. ”

"Small companies in print and traditional publishing are not worth much, but they can affect the media hegemony of big media groups," Sloan said. ”

"Hmm."

Song Ya didn't have a clue, "Anyway, let's go public first, let's talk about it, Disney's acquisition of Infoseek is bad for the stock price, right?" ”

"As long as there is no further definite news before the IPO...... Shall we have a meeting? ”

"Yes."

Sloan called people in and held the next meeting, Song Ya also participated in the discussion, and finally decided to release the news that Littleman Media was also targeted by other large companies before the IPO, and used the good rumors of being acquired at a high price to fight the bearish.

"Honey, I'm not going back at night, I'm a little tired from meetings, and I don't want to sit in the car for so long."

Song Ya glanced at the sky outside and the employees who had begun to leave work, and called Shakira, "There is a hotel in the town. Are you coming? Belch...... Don't bother...... All right. ”

Putting down the phone, he looked at the two elite women who were staring at him smiling a little apologetically, "No way, the new girlfriend is a bit pestering." ”

"It's going to take a while to get here from Tribeca."

Sloan glanced up at her Van Cleef & Arpels, took ten knives out of his pocket and shook them.

Shakira that night......

Previously in the car......

Song Ya swallowed her saliva, and her expression became a little tragic.

"MS. SLOAN, MR. APLUS!"

Fortunately, a staff member who had already left work turned back, "The latest news, it is rumored that AOL (米国在线) is trying to buy Netscape!" ”