Early the next morning, all the mainstream newspapers in the United States appeared the news that Eric and Buffett met again to reach a preliminary merger and acquisition agreement, because it was a weekend edition with increased space, and the "Los Angeles Times" also used a lot of space to show that the fireflies were reading the newspaper while eating breakfast last year, and there was a slight noise at the door of the restaurant. Turning her head, Kate appeared at the door of the restaurant wearing only a wide white men's shirt.

Eric found that the women did not find his clothes to wear without a teacher, mainly because they often wore formal dresses before spending the night in the Sharp Corner Manor, evening dresses can show off the charm of women, but they are not very comfortable to wear in everyday situations, so women often find him clothes to wear when they get up.

Kate noticed that Eric was staring intently at the two long legs under his shirt, and subconsciously slowed down to hide some strange steps.

It wasn't until she sat down at the table that Kate breathed a sigh of relief, remembering the scene of being tossed hard by Eric last night, and a fire suddenly rose in Kate's heart, but she quickly remembered what happened at the party last night, and when she saw the newspaper in Eric's hand, her tone suddenly became a little worried: "Eric, is there anything in the newspaper about last night?"

Eric knew what Kate was referring to, and replied with a wicked smile, "Yes, it's all headlines,"

Kate's heart tightened, and she hurriedly took a newspaper beside Eric, flipped through several pages in a row, and didn't see any information about the two making out at the party last night, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and then glared at Eric hatefully.

Eric got up and walked into the kitchen, brought the breakfast he had left for Kate and handed it to her, and said, "Don't worry, there is no photographic evidence of last night's incident, and no mainstream media will report it, even those third-rate tabloids want to catch the wind when they hear the news." Also think about the consequences, so at most it will only circulate in circles. ”

Kate had just relaxed and was about to eat a slice of bread, when she heard Eric's last words, she raised her head again: "So many people know about it, they will definitely talk nonsense in private." ”

"Let's look at it on the other hand. Eric sat down in his chair again, picked up the newspaper he had just received, and continued, "This doesn't do you any harm, does it?"

Climbing to such a big backstage as Eric certainly won't hurt anything, but it will take her acting career to the next level. But Kate pondered for a while, and still felt a little strange in her heart. However, for things that she couldn't figure out for a while, Kate didn't have the heart to get to the bottom of it. Coupled with the fact that the 'amount of exercise' last night was too large, Kate, who had been hungry for a long time, quickly put these aside and concentrated on breakfast.

Eric noticed Kate's expression change, and the smile on his lips became a little thicker.

The news will not cause much damage to Kate's reputation and career, after all, although he is at the top of the Hollywood pyramid, Eric is not one of those old men in his fifties and sixties. He is the same age as Kate and knows about their relationship. Most people will only envy Kate.

However, this matter will definitely not have any impact, and the most important point is that after knowing the relationship between Eric and Kate, there are not many men who dare to take the initiative to provoke Kate.

Kate smeared jam on the bread and looked up casually. Just seeing the smile on Eric's face, the woman's keen sixth sense made her realize that this expression must be related to herself, and asked vigilantly, "What bad idea are you playing?"

Eric laughed: "You said it was a bad idea, when have you ever seen a villain with a normal IQ take the initiative to reveal his thoughts?"

Kate snorted softly and sped up her meal. quickly swept away the breakfast in front of him, looked at the empty utensils in front of him and Eric, and hesitated, but Kate got up and took the initiative to clean up.

Back in the dining room, Kate saw that Eric had opened the laptop he had just put aside, looking at something.

Sitting down in the seat just now, seeing that Eric didn't take the initiative to talk to her, Kate bored and took the newspaper just now and flipped through it casually.

Seeing an article in which the FCC may conduct an antitrust investigation into the merger of Firefly and ABC, the writer used a very sensational tone, completely in the tone that it is impossible for Firefly and ABC to merge smoothly.

Kate gloated a little at first, but then felt that she shouldn't have done this, so she reached out and touched Eric lightly, and handed the page of the newspaper over: "Eric, is this true?"

Eric glanced at what he had just read, and said, "It's true, it's not true." ”

"You don't always be so perfunctory, it's too ungentlemanly. ”

"Well, since you want to know," Eric beckoned to Kate, let Kate sit next to him, and said, "You see, this article says that the biggest obstacle to Firefly's acquisition of ABC is within ABC, but the biggest internal obstacle Warren Buffett and Tom Murphy have already agreed to this deal, and the two of them control 40% of ABC's shares, plus other shareholders who have fallen to Firefly, the shares of shareholders who tend to merge have far exceeded 51%, and this article is no longer valid." ”

Kate listened to Eric say this, and suddenly felt that she really didn't seem interested in these things. However, since she provoked this topic, Kate had no choice but to point to the content of the report and asked, "What about this, the FCC's antitrust investigation?"

"The definition of monopoly in the federal anti-monopoly law is often very vague, and 90% of the industry giants have developed to a certain extent, and there will be some edge monopoly behavior, which is inevitable, as long as no one is held accountable, the government departments rarely take the initiative to find trouble. Most of the antitrust investigations are actually provoked by peer companies to suppress competitors, but this also requires a lot of money and connections. If you want to fight a lawsuit, Firefly is absolutely not short of funds, as for connections, in order to cultivate the company's spokesperson for Zhengzhi, Firefly now spends more than five million dollars a year on paid Zhengzhi consultants and Zhengzhi donations, and the same is true for ABC. Moreover, the merger of Firefly and ABC did not violate federal antitrust laws, and even if someone jumped out to stop it, it would only serve some delay. He didn't get any benefit, and he erected two powerful enemies for himself at once. I don't think anyone wants to do this kind of thing. ”

Kate nodded slightly, not knowing whether to continue the topic, and there was a ticking sound from the laptop next to her, which sounded similar to the ringtone of a pager.

Eric was also a little surprised to see that a conversation window appeared on the computer screen at some point.

Followed by. A line of words quickly popped up in the dialogue window: "This is the beta version, I'll install it for you, how about trying it?"

Staring at the name of 'Steve' in the dialog box for half a second, Eric was first a little happy that Steve Mitnick finally got the instant messaging software out, and then scolded the damn hacker in his heart, and then quickly typed out a reply: "Don't you think it's rude that you hacked into my computer?"

"Oh, sorry, I just thought it would be easier for you to put it on. ”

Eric didn't make out any sorry in that sentence. Helplessly hold the mouse and start to view the various functions of the software,After putting forward the idea of instant messaging software,Eric has successively passed some of the information in his memory to the other party,Although the interface of this instant messaging software is a little simple,But the function of the software is relatively good,Account level、User information settings、Simple expression、Email association and chat groups are not lacking,And it runs very smoothly。 Steve Mitnick may be a procrastinator, but his technical prowess is absolutely top-notch.

Kate has been staring curiously at Eric's conversation with Steve Mitnick. Seeing Eric checking the software, he asked curiously, "What is this?"

"A chat app. Eric replied, "With this, you can text chat with friends who are in a different place over the Internet." ”

"Oh," Kate was suddenly interested, and curiously stretched out her little hand to type a 'Hello' word on the keyboard, and pressed the enter key just like Eric. Then, like a child who sees a funny toy, he stares at the words he utters on the window with some joy, looking like he is expecting a response from the other party.

Steve Mitnick was quick to respond: "What does that mean?"

Eric typed a sentence back, "My woman is greeting you." ”

Kate was about to protest against Eric's name, when another sentence came from the other side: "Oh, I heard that you have a lot of women." ”

“……”

Eric grabbed the small hand that was reaching for his waist. patted it soothingly, and complained in his heart: Will you speak, and you don't look at the occasion.

Sure enough, it turns out that the heavy procrastination patient at the other end of the network cable still has emotional intelligence: "Sorry, this sentence seems out of place, you woman is not angry, right?"

Kate withdrew her hand, gave Eric a roll of the eye, and then awkwardly tapped the keyboard and sent a message, "I'm angry." ”

The other side was silent for a while before replying, "I'm sorry." ”

Eric didn't want the two of them to communicate so painlessly, snatched control of the keyboard, jumped his fingertips, and quickly communicated with Steve Mitnick: "Now that the software has been made, let's make the promotion plan as soon as possible, and in addition, I will send you some of my ideas from time to time." ”

"It's just a beta, and I think it's better to go public in June. ”

"Any questions?"

"There are a lot of problems, although I have done many improvements, there are still many bugs, and I found that I have at least a dozen ways to crack the encryption system of this software. ”

"I can't think of a single method, so don't think of others as being too big like you, there are still more normal people in this world. ”

"I'm not too much. ”

"I won't fight with you for this, take out the promotion plan within a month, and, don't forget the registration of patents, as for the bugs you said, just fix them slowly in the future, there is no 100% perfect software in the world." ”

"Okay," Steve Mitnick compromised, "I'll let them come up with the promotion plan first, and besides, you said you'd come to Boston to talk, when are you coming?"

Eric said, "Do you follow the news?"

"Yes, it looks like you were at the Golden Globe Awards, I just saw that. ”

"That was more than a month ago," Eric was speechless, "I'm busy right now, maybe I'll be free next month." ”

"Next month, then," the other replied, quickly adding, "Oh, I just glanced at the Yahoo homepage and knew what you're up to." ”

After finishing the conversation with Steve Mitnick, Eric opened his email and saw that Alan had already sent his schedule.

"I'm on the plane at three o'clock in the afternoon," Eric said to Kate, gesturing to the table on the screen.

"I seem to have something to do today," Kate subconsciously stood up and said.

Eric shook his head, pulled Ketra over and sat down again, and said with a smile, "You can't walk well, what else do you have to do." ”

Kate blushed and hammered Eric, "It's not all your fault. ”

"Of course, I didn't deny it," Eric laughed, "Last night you said you wanted a nice beach house, why don't I ask them to send some housing information, you can pick it?"

"No," Kate refused without hesitation, "I'll go back and stay with Charlie." ”

Eric nodded and said, "Okay, that's it. ”

Kate was stunned, she thought that Eric would definitely persuade her, but she didn't expect this man to skip this matter so easily, and she suddenly felt a little lost in her heart, but fortunately she didn't show it on her expression.

The two spent the morning in the villa, and in the afternoon, Eric left Kate in the villa to recuperate and flew to New York by himself.

After a compromise between Warren Buffett and Tom Murphy, there was no longer any obstacle to the ABC takeover, and the ABC board of directors approved the deal the next day.

In the previous negotiation process, the two parties have reached a detailed agreement on many details, so after the transaction plan was approved, there were no internal problems between ABC and Firefly, and the two parties submitted an application to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) together.

Because of a lot of preparation work in advance, the FCC quickly passed the transaction review of the two parties, but Firefly needed to divest some of the TV business that originally belonged to Disney. (To be continued.) )