Chapter 1020: AOL's Ultimate Expansion
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Because under the strafing of the "machine gun" of the House of Cards, the Republican side of the Republican Party fell the most, so it believes that the House of Cards is a Jedi counteroffensive launched by the Democratic ~ Lords who failed miserably in the 1994 midterm elections - therefore, this account can be considered as a "wronged and debtor". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, it was also the Internet website that broke the news that Draghi only "icing on the cake" ripped out Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern related to US President Bill Clinton, and House of Cards "made the current speaker of the US House of Representatives and the two prospective speakers of the US House of Representatives who were ready to take over the position lose face.
This year is the first midterm election after the success of the "Republican Revolution" in 1994, and by November, the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate, and the governors of 36 of the 50 states in the United States will be re-elected -- so the importance of this can be imagined.
At such a critical juncture, the revelations of the House of Cards are equivalent to smashing the Republican ~ Republican Party and the Democratic ~ Main Party that are pinching each other a little sober. Since everyone is the same ass is not clean, it is better to maintain a tacit understanding not to let the "zipper door" expand - this can be regarded as a quarrel between the two people, but it will never be a divorce to the point of political ~ political spoils.
And the next thing is to let the house of cards be like Draghi, and the revelations will be revealed, but the "degree" must be controlled - as long as the American people can be convinced that we are both professionally supervising each other, it will be fine, and not so earth-shattering!
Unfortunately, the bottom of the house of cards is slippery, and it makes full use of the "invisible avenue" of the Internet - the website service is provided free of charge by AOL, and the bounty bonus is through the channel of Bitcoin.
Of course, this is not to say that the house of cards is absolutely untraceable - as long as you are willing to devote resources and strength to countering terrorism, you will have a great deal of confidence.
But the question is, just for the sake of such an unspeakable trouble, who would dare to really reach out? If, no, for sure, it will be poked out, it will be an even bigger scandal. The nature of the case is similar to that of the current President of the United States, Bill Clinton, the zipper issue is easy to deal with, but it is the lying that obstructs justice is really fatal -- it is serious enough to impede freedom~.
Therefore, in the case of the backstage of the House of Cards, the most effective way to stop it is to ask the service provider, AOL, to temporarily take down the House of Cards website.
After all, the service is free, and there are countless reasonable excuses to be exempt from liability in the license agreements offered by AOL, which can be called zero cost and zero risk.
As a result, the publicist hit a nail, and AOL categorically refused - just kidding, you are afraid of harming your freedom~ reason, aren't we worried about suspicion?
You know, we're a promising company, and we're in talks about a merger with Time Warner Turner, which will create the world's largest media company -- how can we risk being so bored at this juncture and being questioned about credibility by the backbone.
At this stage, how energetic is AOL, or how magnificent is the tide of the Internet?
Just last year, that is, in 1997, the top 10 companies with the highest market capitalization in the United States all crossed the $100 billion threshold, forming an incomparably luxurious "100 billion club" -- and Zheru Software and General Electric, which competed for the first place, reached more than $200 billion.
By this year, it was clear that the scale of the "100 billion club" had expanded -- the market value of Zheru Software, a leader shrouded in antitrust clouds, was approaching $400 billion.
As the most powerful Internet service provider, AOL is certainly not ambiguous, not only entering the "100 billion club" and breaking into the top 10 for the first time with a market value of nearly $160 billion, ranking 10th -- in contrast, the market value of Time Warner Turner, which has already been secretly in the limelight, is only a fraction of the highest level.
This is where AOL dares to say "no" directly, and it also reflects how the discourse power of the Internet is growing!
Since it is public relations, it is inevitable that there will be a push and pull in the game of interests and another way after falling into a predicament -- as a result, Mr. the richest man in AOL's important shareholders has become a key lobbying target.
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Tang Huan, who has gotten rid of such annoying noises as "who has a lot of scandals between the richest man and the president", is at the Motorola headquarters in Schaumburg, a satellite city about 40 kilometers northwest of Chicago, Illinois.
After the success of the IPO, Motorola, like Hewlett-Packard, which was separating its medical, measurement and other businesses from Agilent, planned to spin off the semiconductor component division and set up a semiconductor supplier called onsemi, so that it could be put on the U.S. stock market for capital operation -- this is the influence of Wall Street, and every giant must respond.
This onsemi business is not manufacturing microprocessors, semiconductor memories, etc. - Motorola is a large division, which is another division with Motorola's traditional strengths, such as discrete transistors, standard analog and standard logic devices, and more specifically, a range of solutions for computers, consumer electronics, automotive, communications, LED lighting, medical, military, aerospace and other fields, including power and signal management, logic, discrete and custom devices.
Unlike HP's Agilent, Motorola's Onsemi belongs to a relatively important link in the supply chain of Tang's IT Kingdom, and now to carry out a huge change in the founding of the sect, Tang Huan naturally wants to come over to coordinate.
And his personal visit this time is not only about this work, but also about the Iridium project.
Facts have once again proved that creativity and technology alone may not be successful - Tang Huan felt that this version of the Iridium project was also a bit mysterious based on the experience of the original time and space, as well as the existing intelligence.
First of all, it is true that after the end of the Cold War, the mode of globalization was opened and the United States became the sole superpower, but the whole world is far from being equal to one country, and even if the consultations including the establishment of base stations in various countries and regions are enthusiastic and expectant on the surface, in reality they are still stumbling because of concerns about their own interests.
It can be said that with the addition of Tang IT, the Iridium project, which has greatly accelerated the progress of technology research and development, has been delayed because of this.
Now, the obstacles that stand in the way of actual commercial use have been largely cleared, but the external environment has undergone extremely important changes.
For example, the rapid increase in the number of base stations for mobile communications has greatly improved signal coverage, and even international roaming has become so widespread that cost performance threatens the superiority of satellite communications.
Another example is that communication technology has entered the digital age, making the Iridium project's technology a bit old.
However, although Tang Huan is pessimistic in his heart, he does not regret participating in it, anyway, Motorola is the absolute protagonist, and his own resource investment, in exchange for technical experience, achievement sharing, military cooperation, etc., is worth it!
The starting point of the richest man's current consideration is often an intangible, but very important, "origin" -- just like the friendship he formed with Apple more than a decade ago, if Motorola still declines "repeatedly" in the next decade, it is self-evident who is the first person who is qualified to cut the knife.
Talking about the commercial application of the Iridium project, the publicist who wanted to lobby AOL to close the house of cards arrived.
Hearing the assistant's report, Tang Huan smiled slightly - the mission of the House of Cards has been completed, and if the million-dollar action to collect revelations continues, it will be on fire.
The ass determines the head -- a person's position is determined by his own interests.
For example, a poor student who has to rely on loans to pay for his schooling must hope that social welfare, including education, will be better, but when he climbs to a higher level and his pockets bulge, he often does not want to see the excuse of using these social benefits as an excuse to raise taxes.
The attitude of the richest man towards the Republican ~ Democratic ~ and Democratic Party in the United States is naturally based on his own interests, and he belongs to the "wall-riding" faction in the fields of banking, finance, insurance, national defense, and telecommunications; and large enterprises such as Fangyuan, Zheru, and Zheru Software under his command have also learned from General Electric, Honeywell, and United Technologies in a similar way, and have been "building walls" all year round.
In Tang Huan's view, he likes the "fairness of opportunity" that the Republican Party can provide, so that he can display his strengths without constraints.
But on the other hand, as a minority, Mr. the richest man needs the "social justice" provided by the Democratic ~ Main Party to protect his rights and interests in the long run.
However, at the same time, the concept of "big government~government" vigorously promoted by the Democratic ~ Main Party will inevitably add a "ceiling" to the Tang IT kingdom -- the anti-monopoly lawsuit faced by Zheru Software Company is not only due to the shady forces, but also related to this political ~ political factor.
In contrast, the Republican Party's concept of "small government~government" is not so tightly regulated on large enterprises -- this is why Tang Huan advocated and his subordinates also agreed, Zheru Software Company responded to antitrust lawsuits with delaying tactics, and survived to the turning point of the 2000 election that might produce the rotation of the ruling ~ party.
I have to say that this is the imperfect general trend under mutual checks and balances, and then the richest man must "ride the wall".
In this case, Tang Huan did not want the house of cards with fierce artillery fire to be worthy of destroying the balance of power between the Republican ~ Peace and the Democratic ~ Main Party in the United States -- the "wall-riding" faction likes to be evenly matched, rather than being dominant, so that there is room for manoeuvre.
Therefore, when he learned that the public relations staff took the initiative to come to the door, the richest man immediately understood that the opportunity to get off the donkey down the slope had arrived.
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Walking into the reception room, when he saw someone coming, Tang Huan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly - the circle is really getting smaller and smaller!
"Don, it's such an honor to take this opportunity to meet you!" he introduced himself, "My name is Ba Bama, and I am a lawyer by profession, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, and a state senator from Illinois representing the 13th District of Chicago. β
"Baker, it's a pleasure to meet you. The richest man smiled gently. Like an old friend, a hand was reached.
Ba's handshake has a very "modest" characteristic, and it seems that it was not deliberately practiced after becoming president.
To be honest, Tang Huan, who has a layout and friendship with the Bushi family and the Clinton family, doesn't care much about Ba Rak Oba. During the period when Guy was the president of the United States, he was "packaged" too much, and then his own political ~ political strength is very debatable - when the time comes, it will be too late to make friends now!
One of the most impressive aspects of the presentation of the celebrity president may be the brilliant and dashing scenes of his speech broadcast on television - looking around at the audience, he is eloquent, and he does not need a speech from beginning to end, thus giving people the public image of a genius orator with quick thinking, amazing memory, blurted out and great talent for on-the-spot language.
But this is not the case, and Ba Bama still needs a speech, but from traditional paper to a high-tech speech teleprompter.
Whenever a speech is held, a teleprompter will be placed on the left and right of the venue, which is a kind of square brown or colorless panel. The audience-facing side, without any text, is transparent, but the speaker-facing side is clear about the content of the speech.
What Barack O'Bama does is similar to what a TV newscaster doesβhe looks around the audience left and right when he speaks, as if he interacts with the audience through his eyes, but in fact he reads the speech from the teleprompter on the left and right twice, and is not an off-script speech at all.
This way of speaking relies heavily on teleprompters, even more than any president in American history, and the outside world ridicules Baima as "the president of teleprompters".
The richest man who has given countless speeches for more than a decade has never been so playful, and there is reason to look down on the strength of Barack O'Bayard - his real capital, which is the star halo that comes with knowing that black identity.
Of course, now that everyone has met, Tang Huan will only send each other the warmth of spring.
It's just that in the process of greeting the richest man, Mr. the richest man couldn't help but muttered a little - it's difficult, Ba Bama will now enter the ranks of cultivators.
As the ruler of the Tang Clan's IT Kingdom, one of the first major powers he has is the appointment and dismissal of personnel, especially the metabolic succession of the CEOs of various companies - so Tang Huan instinctively thinks so from himself and others.
"Since I became a senator from Illinois, I've been pretty good at coordinating Democrat~Democrat and Republican~ and bipartisan cooperation -- so when Don came here, I was commissioned to be a lobbyist nearby. "The well-known Barack O'8 yard began to get to the point.
The richest man said with a sad face: "Although I am a shareholder of AOL, it is not good to interfere with the decisions that the company has made." β
As soon as he heard this, Bazak Ohama, who originally wanted to make a contribution, couldn't help but hang his head.
"Still young!" Tang Huan, who saw this scene, laughed secretly in his heart, thought about it, and muttered: "Otherwise, the authorization of the novel "House of Cards" in the United States is in the hands of MGM, so it is better to let it request AOL to close the website of the same name on the grounds of infringement." β
Ba Ba Ma, whose heart had just sunk, was so amused that he immediately slapped his thigh and praised him in the tone of a legal professional: "This solution is really perfect." β
The richest man laughed, "The emperor is not a hungry soldier - I also want to find a convenient door for AOL, but I don't know, can you ......"
Ba Ba Ma, who was eager to make a difference, answered in a panic: "Don just said, I will convey it as soon as possible." β
Tang Huan bowed slightly, "AOL is talking about the merger with Time Warner Turner, and one of the hurdles to pass is the industry monopoly assessment made by a review agency such as the Federal Trade Commission. β
It dawned on Ba Bar that "I understand......"