At the Chicago Opera House in early December, another classic musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber 'Cats' has just ended.

"Jimmy, help me deliver Jeffrey."

Men and women in formal attire chatted as they left the booth, and Song Ya accompanied Palm's Jeffrey Hawkins and the other founders of the company with a small stake to pick up their coats and walk to the entrance of the parking lot to say goodbye.

"APLUS, THANK YOU."

Jeffrey Hawkins shook hands with him with a little emotion, "We have been happy to work together and have worked together through the most difficult time for the company. ”

"Why is summer late, how does time pass......"

Song Ya recited two lines from the musical, "But summer always comes, doesn't it?" ”

"yes, summer always comes...... So, goodbye? ”

"Goodbye."

Hawkins smiled and went with his wife to pick up the car accompanied by Jimmy.

Starting from January 1 next year, Palm will become a holding branch of USR (USRobotics, 米国 Robotics Company), Hawkins and other company founders only retain a total of less than 10% of the shares, Song Ya's shares have also been reduced to 5%, and other early-stage investment institutions have chosen to take profits and exit.

USR won out of many competitors with a valuation of 70 million for Palm, so they had to pay about $60 million for about 86 percent of the equity acquisition, Jeffrey Hawkins instantly became a new rich man with assets of tens of millions, and Song Ya's 15 percent stake was exchanged for 10.5 million dollars.

That year, Song Ya spent 1.6 million yuan to buy 20% of Plam's shares, and the investment returned handsomely. Of course, this is not in line with his original intention of wanting Palm to follow DTS's plan to go public. But there is no way, USR is a technology company whose main business is the production of modems, and now the network industry in the United States is developing rapidly, they have a lot of money, and the money is hard enough, and he is unable to compete.

And Jeffrey Hawkins also tends to sell his shares to large companies with hardware manufacturing capabilities, so that he can rest assured that he can pounce on the R&D work he likes, and USR can help him continue his dream of manufacturing PDAs, and can also help defend against patent infringement lawsuits initiated by Xerox, both of which Song Ya can't give.

So, that's all it takes, and Song Ya allows Jimmy to keep five percent of Palm's shares through some resistance, which can be regarded as a thought for the future, although USR will certainly not let small shareholders like him get any benefits.

"In fact, Huaguo's abbreviation for modem is cat."

Yan Hong, a Chinese beauty who covered a red evening dress with a coat, said with a smile.

"Really? Tell you a secret......" Song Ya winked at her, "My feelings for Huaguo are deeper than those of Miguo, hehehe......"

"That's right." One sentence made Yan Honghuazhi tremble, "Then I will also leave?" ”

"Okay, goodbye."

She has already worked in a Dow Jones subsidiary, she will occasionally reply to some Song Ya's technical consultations, because it is inconvenient to charge, so Song Ya can only focus on feelings, free resources, no need to use in vain, and very few of her executives really understand Internet technology. This time she came to Chicago on a business trip, and she happened to bring her to watch a musical together, and by the way, she was familiar with Hawkins and others.

Ninety-four years, plus this 10 million income, the other 9 million principal and 26 million profits from my life project, the first endorsement fee paid by Dow is 5 million, the settlement of Sony Columbia Records is 25 million, and the income from the release of some DTS shares is more than 8 million, plus other miscellaneous income, if you count Dow's 40 million cash, 2 million shares of stock and the cash saved last year, the speed of accumulation is amazing.

However, this year's expenses are not low, and his fiancée has spent tens of millions on parties, engagement ceremonies and other luxury and celebrity life, A+ Film Studio will prepare tens of millions of investments in two projects next year, and it took two million to invest in Netscape, and later because he saw HP's PDA products, he spent 10 million to increase his stock, and millions to deal with all kinds of troubles, plus to prepay for the high taxes in next year's tax season, and remove legal and financial expenses, and now he has about 80 million cash left.

In addition to his hard-to-accurately value companies and holdings, the value of his shares in the stock market has also reached the 100 million mark, not counting the value of real estate, airplanes, luxury goods, etc. In order to help Daniel sit firmly in the position of president, the follow-up settlement of Sony Columbia Records has been delayed until next year, and the income from the original soundtrack of My Life and the records of Fergie, Common and others will be a huge amount of money.

Because Xue Linfen refused the real estate gift, it would take her and Robb's mother and son to pay for the millions in eighteen years, so for the current Song Ya, the burden is almost negligible.

"How's going on with Kenneth?" He took an opportunity to ask Old Mike quietly.

Before preparing to do a big job in '95, the aftermath of the FBI agent's killing was still a little troublesome, and Charles launched a sweep of the Hellbobtail's territory in the last part of his term, but under the tacit understanding with Peter Flock, Kenneth, who returned to the Hellbobtail, selectively took the initiative to hand over some gangs to appease the FBI's anger, and he even changed the name of the gang, and now the Hellbougtail no longer exists, and is directly called Carter (cat).

Among the people involved, the braggart dad is the most unlucky, because the only surviving person is his subordinate, the guy said everything under the FBI interrogation, and the braggart dad was arrested and handed over bail soon, but he will inevitably become a frequent visitor to the police station and the court in the future.

Sugnet's side didn't have time to deal with the investigation of the FBI and the local police, but fortunately, he and the braggart dad were basically victims of Sinaloa's troubles, and he was not involved this time, so the degree of impact was low.

In the eyes of the low-level black community and small and medium-sized DJs, Sinaloa, who committed a series of big crimes and finally died with the FBI detective, has become a legendary figure, and the informant who was led by rumors to betray his brother in order to escape the second-degree murder charge is still in prison and will be put back in a regular cell later...... I can only ask for more blessings.

Daddy braggart reaped a wave of underground prestige, as the three gunmen he sent to Chicago eventually led to the death of Sinaloa, which can be regarded as revenge.

As for Song Ya himself, the DJs basically didn't pull him in, but the trend is bearish, because the hell bobtail is completely wiped out in the eyes of the uninformed, so now they all feel that his gang backstage is gone.

"Kenneth coped with it."

"The F.B.I.'s crime scene investigation team found sniper rifle parts at the scene, but I've eliminated the intermediary that could track me down," Mike Sr. said. ”

Old Mike left for two days halfway, and Song Ya didn't want to ask him what he was doing and what he did.

"Someone went to destroy the scene after the crime scene investigation team arrived, and I don't know who instructed it, but I believe the FBI can't find anything more." Old Michael said again.

"A lie should be fulfilled with more lies, right?" Song Ya smiled helplessly.

"Everyone is very professional, and the destruction is very 'natural', and the yard is where the homeless and the crowd smokers often come and go......," said Old Mike, "and forget about it, and never repeat it." ”

"Okay."

At this time, in the abandoned storage yard, the crime scene investigation team was still continuing its work, and a middle-aged white man with the temperament of a scholar was holding a UV lamp, squatting to study the bloodstains on the ground that had been manifested by the drug.

"Jill, aren't you leaving? It's late. ”

A woman took off her gloves and asked.

"I'll think again, think again......" the man muttered to himself, his name on the badge on his chest, Gilbert Grayson.