More than ten years later, Starbucks and McDonald's have free WiFi in these stores, and this time Tinkobar wants to provide a mini Internet café function in the Starbucks chain, whether the charge and cost are borne by which side is the problem, and the reason why the plan was submitted to Simon, C Girl also hopes that Eagle can participate and share the cost.

If it had been a few years ago, in order to make the Internet accessible to more people, Igrete would have been happy to do so.

Even now, the major new tech giants have actually hoped that more people can connect to the Internet like Facebook, Google and other companies in the past, but this plan is relatively more in line with the interests of Tinkobar, and it does not promote Egrett much, so it is not so enthusiastic.

Simon rushed straight to 66th Street on the Upper West Side to attend a 10 a.m. meeting, entered a conference room in the East Coast headquarters building, and hurriedly wrote down his opinion on a document.

Simon disagrees with this proposal.

If it is only to provide a convenient upload interface for users such as iCam, iRec and iPlayer, Tinkobar does not need to cooperate with Starbucks, but can provide special equipment for Tinkobar products like vending machines or public telephone booths in public places with relatively large traffic flows, and design a special closed system to only provide the application of related products, such as picture upload, video upload or audio download, which can provide the application efficiency of the device to a large extent.

In contrast, setting up a mini Internet café in Starbucks must provide full PC Internet access capabilities, and Starbucks users may not necessarily use it to connect to Tinkobar products. Or, if it's a targeted closed-system device, then there's definitely a licensing fee to Starbucks.

Not necessarily.

The plan was rejected, and the cooperation with the Egrett side was naturally interviewed.

Finally, Simon also suddenly remembered that he reminded Girl C in the remarks that the acquisition of Apple could be initiated, which was Simon's plan to determine a long time ago, and now Apple is already in the lowest state of the company, and take Apple, the Westeros system can obtain a large number of core patents on the operating system, and Tinkobar expands its own hardware product line and global operation team at the same time, it can also take advantage of Apple's system technology to develop a closed system of dedicated network upload equipment in the shortest possible time.

Kill more than one stone.

Write a complete note, give it to the A girl next to her and pass it to Silicon Valley, and the time will come to 10 o'clock.

Robert Iger and other West Coast cores are basically seated, and the meeting focused on ESPN's $9 billion broadcast partnership with the NFL, and the matter has finally come to an end, and the meeting finalizes some details, and the agreement is expected to be officially signed and announced next Monday.

The massive $9 billion contract is also related to the future of ESPN, and Simon certainly can't be absent.

However, the two-hour meeting did not interject too much, and Simon has never been very enthusiastic about sports, so he also avoided laymen to guide insiders as much as possible.

At the end of the morning meeting, I dined with Robert Iger, Steve Bernstein and others at noon, and did not leave afterwards, and in the afternoon I had to participate in the review of the core programs of the major TV stations under the upcoming autumn Daenerys Entertainment TV department, so I was busy from one o'clock in the afternoon to seven o'clock in the afternoon.

The current ABC TV Network, USA Women's Channel, A&E TV Network, Fashion TV and other core platforms of Daenerys's entertainment TV business, "Seinfeld", "Desperate Housewives", "Sex and the City", "Wife Series Reality Show" and other programs are still popular, plus the super ace "American Idol" series launched by ABC last year, and even "Friends" and "ER" that Simon deliberately transferred to other major TV networks and other dramas, which are still in the stage of popularity, so this year's TV business is generally quite stable, and Simon is not in a hurry to launch new main programs.

In the afternoon, I paid more attention to the second season of "American Idol".

The singing talent show that caused a full-name last year brought $860 million in advertising revenue, title sponsorship and rights sales in the first season alone, and a gross profit of $630 million after deducting the original $230 million in production and marketing costs.

After the end of the first season, the subsequent national tour and related record releases, etc., have also earned more than $300 million so far. And that's not even counting the show's indirect boost to the ABC network's overall ratings, the development of Daenerys Records, and even the Westeros system's Tinkobay.

Completely a golden-laying hen.

Because of the original perfect planning, the cost of the second season of "American Idol", which has already started production, will not increase much, but it is expected that the number of episodes will be extended again in the second season, and the project's revenue and profit will reach a new high.

The helicopter ride back to Greenwich was met for dinner with B-girl Betsy Hope and her fiancé Mark Sheenar, who worked at Long-Term Capital Management.

Compared with A, C, and D, Simon and Girl B have met very little in the past two years, but the development speed of Aria Company founded by Girl B has not slowed down at all, taking advantage of the new wave of technology to drive this comprehensive speculation of shareholders and the support of the Westeros system, relying on the low-price strategy, Aria has developed more than 260,000 subscribers worldwide so far.

Even if Alia's software products are only one-tenth of the price of Bloomberg terminals, 260,000 subscribers can now contribute more than $30 million to Alia's monthly revenue, and Aliya's annual revenue is close to $400 million.

Compared with Bloomberg's $1 billion revenue, the gap between Aliya and this direct competitor has been obvious, however, relying on the huge user base that has far surpassed Bloomberg, which has only more than 20,000 users, Aliya has begun its own financial ecological construction, the former Bloomberg system, in fact, is very difficult to use, the reason why Wall Street is inseparable, the key is the ecology, everyone is encircled in this system, all data is in this system, if you want to get relevant information, you can only use Bloomberg terminals.

Alia's rise to prominence at Bloomberg when it was less than a tenth of its peak has already thrown Bloomberg into chaos.

In the past two years, Bloomberg and Alia have been engaged in an all-round hand-to-hand struggle in many aspects, from software technology to legal litigation to talent competition. Even, when Alia quietly raised the price of its own software, Bloomberg had to adopt an appropriate price reduction strategy to respond.

On the other hand, the backstage of Alia's 'goblin' is obviously too hard, and after Bloomberg developed, it deliberately bought back the shares and got rid of its former partners, and it was unjustifiable, and now Bloomberg is already at an obvious disadvantage in this war.

Although there is no plan to go public, the industry estimates that Aria is only expected to have a net profit margin of more than 20% according to a relatively conservative price-earnings ratio of 30 times, and the current valuation has reached about $2.5 billion. If it is really listed, because of Alia's obvious Internet attributes, coupled with its own rapid growth, it will not be a problem to double the real market value again.

Even at $2.5 billion, with Girl B's 15% stake in Alia, the value reaches $375 million.

Another emerging rich man who is close to the threshold of the Forbes 400 richest list in the United States.

However, this dinner did not discuss much about Alia's company, but Girl B and her fiancé Mark Sheinard are about to officially get married in September, and Girl A, who has always had a very close relationship with Girl B, has this dinner, which can be regarded as congratulations and blessings in advance.

As for the next wedding, although the two made an invitation at dinner, Simon still declined.

If you really promise, it will be a smashing of the field.

Speaking of which, A, B, C, and D, Simon and B have never had anything to do with each other, but outsiders obviously don't believe it.

Even Simon himself didn't quite believe it.

Well.

Have you ever been, this, there are too many women, it's really a bit ...... I can't remember.

Scum boss!

This is a little grudge against a certain girl when Simon and A talked about it after sending away Girl B. Then, I finally got a night of solitude, and Girl A made full use of it.

The next morning, Gemma came to have breakfast together, and when she saw someone who had been planted with strawberries in turn, Gemma couldn't help but roll her eyes several times even if she habitually didn't beak her mother's lover too much.