The day before leaving for the United States, Li Mu specifically confirmed the progress of several tasks.

Gubei Water Town has reached a cooperation agreement with Huaqing Travel Service, Yanjing Municipal Government in Yanjing Bank for the Gubei Water Town project to guarantee, Gubei Water Town's financial problem has also been fundamentally solved, Miyun County Party Committee fully supports, all approval documents give the green light, and even in order to speed up the Gubei Water Town project normally, the construction of the Beijing-Chengcheng Expressway Yanjing to Miyun section are required to speed up the construction period, be sure to open to traffic before the completion of Gubei Water Town and official business, for which the municipal government and the transportation department jointly bear the cost of nearly 100 million yuan to speed up the construction period.

At the same time, the film and television base project is also being actively promoted, the aerial survey company has begun to carry out aerial survey mapping of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Great Plain, and when Li Mu returns from the United States, the aerial survey map will definitely be done, and then you can take the aerial survey map to scientifically enclose the land, and then go to the local government to discuss cooperation.

The outdoor reality show variety show "Longing for Life" jointly created by Makino Imaging and Shonan Satellite TV is about to start filming, and the filming location chosen by Miyun has been basically renovated, and the program recording will start soon, Li Mu promised to be a guest in this show, but this will definitely not be able to be fulfilled until he returns from the United States.

As for Makino Technology and Taobao, Li Mu doesn't need to worry about it at all, Makino Technology is like a spaceship that is speeding in space, in this unique environment, it has no resistance at all, if it is not for its own initiative to slow down, its speed will not be affected at all;

The government recognized Taobao's efforts during the SARS period, not only gave a series of public praise and awards, but also gave a lot of practical support in many aspects, such as taxation, land, transportation, approval of various qualifications and various policy subsidies, this series of support not only helped Taobao reduce many burdens, but also provided Taobao with a stronger forward momentum.

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After more than ten hours of flight, plus a halfway landing to replenish fuel, Li Mu and his core members of the Apple Division finally set foot in the United States again, the last time he came to the United States was just Li Mu's first appearance in the United States, this time in the United States, Li Mu is already an influential heavyweight.

From the moment Li Mu's chartered plane took off in China, the American media, especially the Silicon Valley media, began to hype up the news that Li Mu was about to go to the United States.

At this moment, Li Mu has attracted almost the attention and attention of the whole United States.

From the popularity of YY, to "Paradise Town", "Plants vs. Zombies online", and now YYtunes, Li Mu has deeply infiltrated the Internet life of Americans and brought great innovation to their Internet life.

So far, YYtunes has been online for more than ten days.

In just over ten days, YYtunes swept through the entire West, especially the United States, like an unprecedented storm.

There has never been a music app that can bring people such an incredible experience, and on YYtunes, music is no longer just about appreciation, it has become a link between music lovers around the world.

Today's YYtunes is like the Instagram that came out of nowhere in the era of smartphones, YYtunes is music-based socialization, and Instagram is picture-based socialization.

In more than ten days, YYtunes handed in an answer sheet that shocked American Internet peers: according to the survey and analysis results issued by the tripartite research company, more than 90% of the users in the United States who use the Internet to listen to music or download music are using YYtunes.

In other words, as soon as YYtunes was launched, an almost absolute monopoly was formed.

In addition, the rapid popularity of YYtunes has also made the list on YYtunes the most valuable vane in the entire music industry.

Nowadays, there is no list more credible than YYtunes, which brings together hundreds of millions of users, and it has a more traffic-pulling effect, after a song or an album is on the list, it will get a lot of traffic from the list, and the traffic is greatly converted into paid downloads of singles and albums, which suddenly makes all the popular singers begin to pay attention to this list, and regard being on the YYtunes list as a new goal.

When Li Mu came to the new headquarters of Makino Technology's Silicon Valley branch, Lin Qingya had been harassed by a group of record company directors all morning, and in her words, it was really annoying.

When she saw Li Mu, the first thing Lin Qingya did was to complain to him, and she said helplessly: "Mr. Li, recently, all record companies in the United States have been staring at YYtunes, and all popular singers are the same. ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "You can recruit a director who is specifically responsible for music affairs, or set up a music division, you don't need to do this kind of thing yourself." ”

Lin Qingya said: "The music business has just started, in order to ensure that these copyright owners work closely with us, all the copyright owners who come to the door are personally received by me, after all, you attach so much importance to YYtunes, and I can't take it lightly." ”

Saying that, Lin Qingya pretended to be mysterious and whispered: "Recently, I am talking about exclusive cooperation with these copyright owners, and the number of active users of iTunes has plummeted, and there is not much room for profit for them, so I am privately promoting exclusive licensing, so that these copyright owners can exclusively authorize all music online copyrights to us, and if it goes well, we can sign the first exclusive licensing agreement this month." ”

Li Mu was surprised for a moment, and said with a smile: "You are going to give Apple a trick to draw salary." ”

Apple's core service of iTunes is the online audition and paid download of music, but the current United States is not the China of the year, even a small individual webmaster in China back then, dared to openly pirate music from all over the world on the Internet, but in the United States, even if it is a crime for individuals to download piracy, and no company will do such a thing, so if iTunes has no copyright authorization, it is basically equivalent to a supermarket without goods, and the future is even more bleak.

Lin Qingya smiled slightly and said, "After the bottom of the kettle is drawn, you have to take the pot away, otherwise it will burn your hands." ”

Li Mu smiled, looked at her new office, and said, "This building is in a good location, take me to visit?"

Lin Qingya nodded with a smile and said, "Then I'll introduce you while taking you around." ”

Li Mu took Li Ziwei and followed Lin Qingya to visit a whole office building newly rented by Muye Technology Silicon Valley Branch.

Lin Qingya introduced that the building has four floors above ground and two floors underground, with a total area of 16,000 square meters, a building area of 9,000 square meters, and an office area of 30,000 square meters, which can accommodate up to 4,000 people and provide more than 2,000 parking spaces.

With the company's internationalization process getting faster and faster, Li Mu needs to build the U.S. branch into the largest headquarters of Makino Technology outside China, and the office building that can accommodate 4,000 people is just the beginning, if the IPO is completed, the total staff of Makino Technology in the United States may exceed 10,000.

And even in the hinterland of Silicon Valley, it is not crowded at all, the building density is low, the green area is large, the floor height is generally not high, almost every shoe building is a small park, the internal depth is large enough, and the distance from other office buildings is very far, and the internal environment is very quiet.

In contrast, the dense feeling of a large number of reinforced concrete buildings in Zhongguancun is accompanied by a sense of noise, urgency and high pressure at all times.

The gap between the two is as big as the gap between the high-end rich villa area and Tiantongyuan, the largest community in Asia.

However, Li Mu knows in his heart that this kind of thing is not enviable, the land resources of the United States are much richer than those in China, and the land area of the entire United States is about the same as that of China, but more than half of the United States is plains, but the flat area of China only accounts for 12%, and the plain area is only a quarter of the United States, and the population of the United States is 300 million, which is less than a quarter of China, so calculated, the per capita plain area of the United States is 16 times that of China.

At present, all the employees of Makino Technology USA Branch are about 1,000 people, and the vacancy rate of this building is still relatively high, so the company directly uses the fourth floor as a staff activity center, with lounges, restaurants, and gyms.

According to Lin Qingya, the closest big company to Makino Technology is Google.

Lin Qingya also said that when the branch moved, Google founder Larry Page came to congratulate her in person and gave her a case of French champagne.

Li Mu smiled: "Larry Page didn't send a few flower baskets?"

Lin Qingya smiled and said, "Americans don't have this custom, they mostly like to send some small gifts to the person in charge to congratulate." ”

Li Mu nodded, mentioning Larry Page, he remembered that the last time he came to the United States, he had a dinner with him, and at that time he also helped Sequoia convince him to accept Sequoia's investment.

As for Google, it has not yet been listed, but judging from their last round of financing and the current valuation given to him by the capital market, he is more than an order of magnitude worse than Makino Technology.

Thinking of Google and the determination to acquire Apple, Li Mu can't help but think of a great god, that is, the founder of Android, Andy Rubin.

If memory serves, Andy Rubin founded Android in the second half of this year, and two years later, Android was acquired by Larry Page's Google, and it is said that Andy Rubin and Larry Page had a personal relationship before Android was founded, so Li Mu believes that they know each other now.

Apple is already determined to win, should it get Android founder Andy Rubin into its camp in advance? In that case, will it be able to basically monopolize the smartphone operating system market in the future?

After all, in the future smartphone market, Symbian is like a mentally retarded person whose IQ can never exceed five years old, and it will slowly fall behind in the competition of adults; Blackberry's own bottleneck is a fatal hurdle that it can't resist by itself; as for the powerful Microsoft's performance in the field of smart phones, it is really hehehe, if IOS and Android are in their pockets, then the smartphone market is really a game that can not be beaten......

Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn't suppress his excitement and said to Lin Qingya: "Help me contact Page, make an appointment for a meeting during working hours, and I'll go to Google to meet him." ”