Chapter 695 Litigation
Uncle Chen is still very patient with this junior in his own family: "Ah Cheng, tell me, how is that Bramble from Blue Star Network? It's okay to say wrong, just ...... him Compare yourself to Alebi, right?"
"Compared with Alie?" that Ah Cheng was quite surprised, "Alie was born in a famous family, and he has been a top student in a prestigious school since he was a child. Although there have been setbacks before, but being diligent and down-to-earth is better than that bombastic playboy, right?"
Unlike public opinion in Europe and the United States, Jing Jian's evaluation in the Chinese circle is not very high, mainly because he is not used to Jing Jian's high-profile style, and Jing Jian has not had much contact with those Chinese families.
Uncle Chen smiled slightly: "I still have the ability." If he can create such a situation, he is very good at seizing opportunities. This is the general view of the Chinese community, that Jing Jian's success is good luck. Moreover, they are relatively closed, and they do not know that since the "Microsoft acquisition", many of Jing Jian's cases have been used in the textbooks of American business schools.
Ah Cheng suddenly had a question: "Second uncle, high-tech stocks are so profitable? Judging from the financial statements of Lanxing.com, their main revenue has just reached breakeven, and they occupy the name of high-tech, and they actually have a market value of more than 300 million US dollars? That standard group is even more exaggerated, with annual losses of at least hundreds of millions of dollars, and just like that, there are still so many people chasing after them? What is the reason for this?"
Uncle Chen smiled and shook his head: "I have also discussed it with your father, and I also don't understand the reason for this, maybe we are old." Hehe, but doing business, making money is fundamental, and such a hype concept will not last long. But we might as well try the water, if this Alie acquisition is successful, his idea is better, combine the blue star network with the sales of Wang An computer, and bring the target customer base, this is the tree with roots, not the water without a source. If the acquisition is not successful, and that Bramble really makes a good move, then we can even invest it? He can make 300 million out of nothing, maybe he can make 1 billion or 800 million in the future, and we won't lose money, right? Hahaha!"
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These Chinese families have always been more conservative in their investments, and at this time they were still very resistant to high-tech investment, but were more accustomed to industrial investment. Therefore, in their eyes, such a website as Bluestar is very empty, and it has no value at all, but if it becomes the online sales department of Wang An Computer in the future, it will be much more practical.
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And sending Chen Bo away, Wang Lie excitedly clenched his fists and waved them a few times, as if he had already sensed that victory was in sight.
In fact, Wang An's computer is in trouble, which does not mean that the Wang family has no money. It is important to note that for a limited company, even if the company goes bankrupt, the debts owed will not be passed on to the shareholders. In the years when Wang An was in the computer scene, the annual dividend was a huge amount of money. Even if the company is losing money year after year, it is also the money of the loss-making company, which has nothing to do with the Wang family.
In addition, although Wang An Computer filed for bankruptcy protection in the future, bankruptcy protection does not mean bankruptcy. In any case, Mr. Wang An is a great inventor, and his Wang An laboratory has many patents on key computer technologies. In fact, after the business was compressed, Wang An Computer still survived well with patent royalties and other income, and in May 1999, it was announced to be acquired by GetronicsNV, a Dutch computer service company, for $2 billion.
Nearly 10 years later, in 1999, it was worth $2 billion, and now there are 700 or 800 million yuan? The Wang family owns about 60 percent of the shares, and the market value of these stocks alone can be more than 400 million. Therefore, for this acquisition, Wang Lie himself raised more than 70 million US dollars, and Chen Bo's uncles and elders supported another 7 or 80 million US dollars, especially using a lot of Wang An's personal connections before his death, so Wang Lie felt very sure of himself.
The reason why he took a fancy to Bluestar was mainly because Wang Lie was very unconvinced. In a short period of time, he was ousted from the position of chairman of Wang An Computer by his father, which made Wang Lie anxious to prove himself again. Especially when he was directly rejected by Jing Jian in Yangcheng at that time, this made Wang Lie very unhappy, and he also wanted to take away Jing Jian's industry and take revenge on Jing Jian.
Of course, after following his father Wang An for so long, Wang Lie's vision is still somewhat there. He also knows that the future is the Internet era, and Bluestar is currently the most successful comprehensive website.
However, in terms of business policy, it can be seen that Wang Lie's short-sightedness, he only wants to transform Bluestar into an online sales department of Wang An Computer, and he does not know the huge value of the portal at all, let alone the real profit model of the portal.
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Wang Lie's actions were fast, and before Veloso could find a result, two users in Boston filed a lawsuit with the court, demanding $10 million in compensation from Bluestar, and the reason for the lawsuit was Bluestar's current core business - spam.
Due to the extremely high cost of the current server and the small amount of memory, Bluestar launched a free email address when it was promoted. Maybe people nowadays may feel strange, what's so strange about free e-mail? However, in this day and age, the average commercial e-mail has to pay a few dollars, or even a dozen dollars, a month.
Therefore, Bluestar's free mailbox is quite popular and attracts a large number of new users. Of course, free use comes at a cost, that is, users are willing to accept the email advertisements sent by Bluestar.com, which is the notorious spam in the future.
By the way, users can also refuse to receive spam, but only for paid users. Generally speaking, though, it's not a big deal to get a few spam emails, and few users are willing to spend the money.
At this time, the network ecological environment is quite good, that is, there is no ecological environment at all. Since everyone gets spam, it's a matter of course, and no one complains.
And the "Advertising Act" of the United States stipulates that mail advertising is legal, just like the White Lotus in the past, no one cares about you if you send a thick product advertisement like an encyclopedia. But one thing to note is that it is illegal for you to advertise by fax. Why? Don't you need money for fax paper?
That is, in the United States, when you mail it, the customer doesn't spend a penny, that's legal. And as long as the user spends even a fax piece of paper, then you are illegal.
In the area of spam, there are no relevant laws in the world at present. In particular, it is quite convenient to send to users, the cost is almost negligible, and the effect is very good. In particular, there is no cost for customers to receive e-mails, right? So this form of advertising immediately proliferated on Bluestar.com......