"No, no, I mean, now we're going to have to ask for $3 billion. Larry Page said with a shrug.

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel on the other side frowned, "Larry, you said last time it was $1 billion." ”

"Time is ticking, things are changing, Terry. Larry Page didn't change his attitude just because he was the CEO of Yahoo across the street, and he said lightly, "Google's development is very different from a few months ago, so of course our market capitalization will also change." ”

In fact, Terry Semel himself knows this, since the middle of 2000, Google has embarked on a rapid development path, although Shirley Sandberg still has to take care of the day-to-day operations of the group, but after the management team she sent took over, it helped Google avoid many detours.

This has made Google's business operations much smoother than in history, and Yahoo, which had a market value of $120 billion as early as 2000, has also shown interest in Google in the outsourcing cooperation of search business.

Google's web rating mechanism, PageRank, was also granted a North American patent by the Federal Patent Office last summer, so that Google, although it is not yet fledgling, has complete autonomy in hardware technology.

Coupled with the outsourcing of Yahoo and AOL partners, Google's search homepage has been officially and separately launched to the market, and Google already has its own marketplace.

"I'm going to go back and talk to our finance team before I can decide whether or not to accept your offer. After some more discussion, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel concluded.

"That's fine. Larry Page nodded, and then, after a few more conversations, Terry Semel left.

"Larry, if Yahoo really agrees to the 3 billion offer, are we really going to sell Google?" asked Marissa Mayer, who is now Google's vice president, with some concern.

"Hehe, it's not that simple. Even in the face of Marissa Mayer, who is currently dating him, Larry Page just laughed and laughed, and then he turned to his assistant and said, "Also, contact Sid, I'm going to talk to him on the phone." For such a big thing, he, the CSO, doesn't make any efforts, but it's not good. ”

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Sid was woken up by the sound of the phone, he struggled to open his eyes, and then he felt something pressing on him, and as soon as he looked down, he saw a beautiful blonde hair pressed against his chest, and below him was a female figure with an Otto surname, pressing against him.

"Uh-" Sid didn't have time to react before the shrill phone rang and drew his attention again, so he had to wrap one hand around the female body on his body, and then stretched out his hand to take the phone, "Hey, who is it?"

On the other side of the phone was Larry Page, one of Google's Big Three, and when he heard the words on the other side, Sid's head suddenly cleared up a lot, "Well, that's right, Larry, we definitely won't sell any shares to them, now use this trick to hang them, paralyze them, and definitely don't let them know our true intentions." ”

"You can hang it for as long as you can, but you won't give them a word, no, no matter how much they raise the price, even if it's 10 billion!" Sid said solemnly, and Larry Page on the other side nodded in agreement, and the two chatted a few more words before hanging up the phone.

After Sid hung up the phone, when he turned around, he saw a pretty smiling face looking straight at him in his arms.

"What's wrong?" Sid smiled and nodded Britney's Joan nose.

"Well, nothing. Britney shook her head, "I just feel like I'm dreaming." The perfect boyfriend, the perfect life, dreamy as if it weren't real. ”

Sid laughed when he heard this, and then took Britney's little hand, the two fingers were interlocked, Sid said with a smile, ""

Just when Sid and Britney were enjoying their long-lost love, the time of June was over in a blink of an eye.

On July 1, an untouchable piece of news instantly broke the calm of the North American business circle and Hollywood.

The Washington Post's front-page headline, "AOL's alleged financial fraud, AOL-Time Warner merger!?" captured the attention of all North Americans.

In this front-page news article, the Washington Post's reporters, along with their detailed data, revealed the financial fraud of AOL during the merger of AOL and Time Warner.

The article said, "AOL falsely reported its advertising revenue in order to gain the upper hand in the merger with Time Warner. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Council and the Department of Justice have stepped in to investigate. ”

The news of this shocking news caused AOL's stock to fall to $8.7 a share.

Although it subsequently rose to $16 a share, this shock wiped out the market value of AOL Time Warner by a full $280 billion!!

Perhaps no shareholder is more angry than Ted Turner, the vice chairman of AO Time Warner.

Of the $7.2 billion worth of his shares in the new company, only $200 million remains.

At a breakfast meeting, Ted Turner was in front of everyone in the Rainbow Hall of Rockefeller Center, and he exploded into foul language, mixed with the name of Jerry Levine, the former CEO of Time Warner.

But more importantly, the status of AOL in AOL Times Warner immediately plummeted, and the "four-point plan" they had originally vigorously promoted was urgently halted.

Originally, they also supported their board of directors to investigate the connection between the "false account incident" and the "Quadruple Plan", after all, the main promoter of the "Quadruple Plan" is the AOL family.

This made Steve Case's anxiety, and even Carl Icahn stayed away from Steve Keys and others for a while.

During this period, Steve Keys even called Sid to ask if Sid had cheated him, but Steve Case, who had obviously become the center of the storm, would never answer his calls.

Hell knows if his phone calls weren't listened to!

Although the board of directors of AOL, under the impetus of Time Warner, suspended the "four-point plan" on the grounds of financial fraud, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice did not burn the fire from AOL's financial fraud to a wider range.

In fact, this is also very understandable, AOL AOL's financial fraud is already a big enough fat sheep, and for listed companies like AOL Time Warner, the supervision of the investigation is always stricter.

Before there is evidence, the Ministry of Justice and the Securities and Futures Commission will not rashly burn the matter bigger, and the only people who know that Sid is using this to blackmail are actually Steve Keys and Carl Icahn, and Steve Keys will not even admit to financial fraud in order to get out now.

Therefore, it is difficult for Sid to be involved.