"This is my custom-made rose gold jewelry in Moscow, and I have one for you. ”

Natasha turned over on the bed and opened the box, and saw a pair of very exquisite rose gold earrings inside, she looked at it in surprise, and then said to Yang Jie: "Did you give your little girlfriend the same earrings?"

"I designed these earrings, and that's the only pair in the world. Yang Jie said with a smile.

"I'll wear it in the future. Natasha said to Yang Jie with a grin.

Yang Jie was about to speak, but the mobile phone placed on the bedside rang, and he walked over to answer it.

"Yang Shao, I heard the news that Sony is in contact with Microsoft, and I heard that Sony is also going to establish a music online offering that is the same as ours, is our offer lowered?" Hu Huanzhi said on the phone.

"No, Sony is here to be a-stirring stick, don't pay attention to them, we don't need to rush, and we have to hurry up the negotiations with the Recording Association of America. ”

"Yes, Yang Shao. Hu Huanzhi said.

"What's the matter?" said Natasha.

"Our company is negotiating with Microsoft, and Sony, a music giant, can't sit still. Yang Jie also told the reason for this.

In the second half of last year, the Japanese branch of Quantum Networks, a subsidiary of Huaxing Technology Group Co., Ltd., took advantage of the financial turmoil to sweep through Asia, and acquired the global music online website at a price of less than one million US dollars. Traditional music distributors, including several major international record labels, have obtained authorization for a large number of music copyrights and online sales, and have also obtained authorization from many local record distribution companies in Japan, and Warner Inc. injected $80 million into Music Online in March this year, receiving 10% After more than ten rounds of negotiations, it is now coming to an end, and the two sides have also agreed that the download of each song is set at 0.99 cents, and the copyright owner accounts for 58% of the income, and the album song record company Music Online, which has been released for more than three years, only agrees to give 30% of the annual revenue to the album song record company Music Online, which has been released for more than three years, and also promises that Music Online will be listed on the NASDAQ in the United States this year, strengthening anti-piracy technology, and finally satisfying these traditional record companies.

The music online developed by Quantum Networks now has music online software on the window operating system and Linux system, which can play music and MV videos online, and the downloaded music can be transferred to the digital music player, but the music files are set up with anti-piracy technology, and the copied files cannot be played on other players.

Huaxing Technology Group has also put a lot of effort into anti-piracy technology, which is also one of the important factors that various record companies will agree to.

"I think Warner only spent $80 million to get 10 percent of the shares, and within a few months, you offered Microsoft $2 billion, and Warner's top management must be secretly happy. Natasha said.

Compared with the tens of millions of dollars invested by Huaxing Technology Group Company before, if Microsoft accepts this offer, it means that Huaxing Technology Group's investment has obtained nearly 100 times excess returns in less than a year.

Moreover, after the music is listed online, Huaxing Technology Group Company will be able to circle a large amount of money from the US stock market.

"We also wanted them to help our company negotiate with the Record Association of the United States, and I am still very satisfied with the results of the negotiations. Yang Jie said with a smile.

"Why are you so powerful?" Natasha looked at Yang Jie with a pair of beautiful eyes: "Now you bind so many record companies to your digital music player and music streaming software, and a company as big as Sony can't compete with you, right?"

"That's not for sure, Microsoft may not agree to Sony's negotiations, but both companies have their own interests, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be, our company's music online is about to go public, and the registered members of music online have exceeded five million, and by the end of this year it is estimated that it will break 10 million, and the revenue is expected to reach 400 million US dollars, according to a very reasonable valuation, the company's listing valuation is expected to be 6 billion US dollars, and the scale of this digital music market will continue to expand, and people with a little business vision will not see this。 ”

"Then you have to leave me some after your company issues shares. Natasha laughed and said, "I took out all the 10 million dollars I had on hand." ”

"Okay. Yang Jie smiled and nodded, he had a physical relationship with Natasha, and he naturally had to take care of her if it was beneficial.

The next day, Yang Jie was also woken up by Natasha, and he said in a daze: "I'm too tired, or I won't shoot today......"

"No, I have a shooting schedule today, and I have to go there. Natasha got dressed and kissed Yang Jie: "Honey, get up quickly." ”

"Then wait for me to get dressed......"

When Natasha dressed him, she took Yang Jie's strange hand away.

After Yang Jie and Natasha rushed to the studio, Brian's attitude changed 180 degrees, and the advertising shooting went very smoothly.

In the next few days, Yang Jie was also tired of being with Natasha, and he basically handed over the negotiation to Hu Huanzhi, Chen Qiumei and others to complete.

However, Yoshiki Yijian, who made a special trip to the United States to contact Microsoft, panicked -

Music Online has completed negotiations with the Recording Association of America, and Music Online has begun to release a large number of popular songs from American record labels, and iPod products have begun to slash prices, and the second batch of products has begun to be released.

This time, Huaxing Technology Group launched four products in the North American market, with prices ranging from $199 to $699, and the highest-end four-core 512 megabyte iPod is priced at $699 in the market.

Sony, as a nanD-type flash memory provider, has only just developed a prototype of a 1g flash memory chip, and it is expected to be put into large-scale commercial production in less than a year. Although it is impossible to accurately judge the level of flash memory technology reached by Huaxing Technology Group Company, it can be roughly judged that the technical gap between them and Sony in flash memory chips is between the first and second generations.

If necessary, Huaxing Technology Group should also have the ability to put 256M of flash memory particles on the market in large quantities.

Toshiba and IBm are focusing on micro-hard disk technology with a larger storage capacity, compared with the technical prospect of micro-hard disks, the storage capacity of flash memory chips can be mass-produced at the end of next year at the earliest is still too small.

Toshiba and IBm have been developing microhard drive technology for more than a few years, but it has not been very smooth, and flash memory chips are still the core factor that determines the price of iPods.

Liangmu Yijian knows that the current Huaxing Technology Group Company has a considerable initiative in the digital music player market, and they want to significantly reduce the price of iPods in North America to stimulate the rapid growth of the hardware market, and promote the global music online to gain greater growth space at the expense of hardware profits, and the equity value of the global music online will naturally rise.

Even if the price of the highest-end iPod is cut below $300 now, Huaxing Technology Group will not lose money.

Now Sony is extremely passive, and after the implementation of a series of strategies of Huaxing Technology Group Company, Microsoft also stopped private negotiations with Sony.

Hearing the news, Ryoki Yijian also sat heavily on the sofa chair and couldn't speak for a long time.

Microsoft's deal with Huaxing Technology Group also includes the licensing of iPod product technology, which means that once Huaxing Technology Group reaches an agreement with Microsoft, the iPod hardware market will squeeze out a giant crocodile to eat.

Although Microsoft has not yet shown its skills in the consumer electronics hardware market, what consumer electronics manufacturer in the world dares to underestimate Microsoft's expansion?

And the initiative of all this is in the hands of Huaxing Technology Group Company, including Toshiba and Panasonic, everyone is looking at Huaxing Technology Group Company and watching the interests of Huaxing Technology Group Company weigh up.

Toshiba and Panasonic are better, after all, the two companies also injected money into Music Online at the beginning of the year to get 10% of the equity, and their profit loss in hardware sales can at least make up for some of the equity appreciation.

If Microsoft accepts the offer of Huaxing Technology Group, Toshiba's equity acquired by investing $40 million will increase to at least $600 million.

Toshiba's total net profit for all consumer electronics, communications, and computer businesses last year was less than $600 million!