On May 2, in the office of AOL CEO, Steven Case asked his assistant while signing documents, "Edward, how is the progress of Deep Space Company's acquisition of Huawei? Is there any new news?"
Edward shook his head and said, "There is no news yet. It has not been confirmed whether Deep Space is really interested in Huawei. Everything is just a rumor. However, there is one thing that is quite strange. The name of Deep Space Film Company's movie "Source Code"
The premiere was held in Atlanta, which was not the first choice for a premiere, and Deep Space Corporation has never held a premiere in Atlanta before."
"Atlanta..." Steven Case squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then asked, "When is the Telecommunications Equipment Show in Atlanta?"
"Starting on June 19th, sir," Edward replied.
"Where's their movie premiere? Is that also the day?"
Edward nodded and said, "It's not the same day. The premiere of "Source Code" was the day before, June 18th. Now it seems that Deep Space Company is indeed acquiring Huawei."
Steven Keys waved his hand, "That's not necessarily true. Jimmy is a very good at throwing smoke bombs. Maybe they held the premiere of the movie in Atlanta and the time was close to each other. It is possible that they just hope that others will
I believe they are acquiring Huawei."
"Then why did they do this?" Edward asked puzzled.
By this time, Steven Case had finished signing the document. He put down his signature pen, moved his neck again, and then said with a smile, "Let others go west to acquire Huawei. This is good for both them and Huawei.
Wasn't there news before that Motorola also wanted to acquire Huawei? Maybe besides Motorola, there are other companies that are also interested in Huawei. Now there is news that Deep Space Company wants to acquire Huawei, which can help Huawei sell at a higher price.
Make more profits from the transaction. For Deep Space Company, if others believe that they want to acquire Huawei, especially Cisco, they will definitely become anxious."
"Deep Space companies, like most companies, use Cisco network equipment. If Deep Space acquires Huawei, this is not good news for Cisco, which means that Cisco is likely to lose a lot of money.
Order."
"But can Huawei's products be comparable to Cisco's? Deep space companies should have high requirements for network equipment. Even if they acquire Huawei and give some orders to Huawei, they won't give too much.
Otherwise, it may affect their own competitiveness." Edward was still puzzled.
Steven Case leaned back and waved his hand, "Edward, you know too little about Huawei. In fact, Huawei's equipment performance is very good now and it is fully capable of threatening Cisco. Otherwise, why do you think Motorola
Would you be interested in a Chinese company? If I guess correctly, Chambers has already contacted Jimmy at this time, and they may even have reached some kind of agreement."
Edward nodded, "I really don't know much about Huawei."
Steven Case turned his chair and looked outside the floor-to-ceiling window for a while. Because he had been working with his head down for a long time, his vision was still a little blurry when he first looked outside. When his vision gradually became clearer, he said, "That's right.
, we also received an invitation to the Atlanta Telecom Show, right?"
"Yes, the invitation is still in your drawer."
"What happened to me on June 19th?"
Edward shook his head and said, "I haven't made any plans for that day yet."
There is still one month left until June 19th, and Steven Case's schedule has not yet reached that point.
Steven Case thought for a while and said, "In that case, let's put attending the Telecom Show in Atlanta on our schedule for June 19th. If there is nothing else, I will attend then."
Edward wrote this down in his notebook and then said, "Okay, I will book a ticket for you in advance."
Steven Keys nodded, "Thank you... What's the name of the movie where the premiere was held?"
"Source Code is a science fiction film. This is YU's original film. I heard that on the day of the film's premiere, the novel of the same name will be officially released. At that time, YU will also appear at the premiere to sign autographs for the fans.
Selling new books." Edward replied.
Steven Case held his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Let's put the trip on the 18th in Atlanta, and buy an extra ticket for Little Will. He will definitely want an autographed copy of YU.
new book."
"Ok, no problem."
"Is this their latest movie?" asked Steven Keys.
Edward shook his head, "No, their latest movie is "Spider-Man" which will be released tomorrow."
"Spider-Man...book me three movie tickets for tomorrow." Steven Keys said.
"Do I need to book an IMAX theater?" Edward asked.
"Of course." Steven Keys nodded immediately, "This kind of movie must be watched in IMAX. I have to say that Deep Space Company has a really good vision in this regard and invested in IMAX early. Okay,
You get busy first."
After Edward left, Steven Case rubbed his brow and looked tired. When Edward was here just now, he had been holding on because he didn't want to show his fatigue in front of his subordinates.
In the eyes of Steven Case, running a company is like fighting a war. If the marshal shows a lack of confidence, the impact on the morale of the soldiers will be fatal. Who would want to fight with a marshal who has no confidence?
In fact, he was really tired during this time, and the company's affairs made him exhausted.
Although Steven Case is unwilling to admit it, everything in the past two years has proven that their alliance with Time Warner was wrong.
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is a failure.
First of all, the internal reason is that the two companies have never been able to complete the integration.
If one plus one is greater than two, then the two companies must be in the same pace and be tightly twisted into a rope. However, the two companies not only failed to achieve the same pace, but also consumed each other, causing constant conflicts.
One plus one is not greater than two, but one plus one is less than one.
The reason why AOL wants to acquire Time Warner is because AOL needs Time Warner's cable TV business as a new profit growth point, and Time Warner hopes to use AOL's platform advantages to enter the new media market.
However, after the two parties merged, the integration of business resources failed. Due to technical limitations such as network lending and transmission, AOL was unable to digest Time Warner's huge content resources, and Time Warner was unable to use AOL's services to sell its content.
, it is impossible to establish a successful profit point.
Moreover, their corporate culture integration has also failed. AOL is a new era company, and its corporate culture is relatively free and dynamic. In the view of Time Warner, this kind of freedom and vitality means unorganized and undisciplined. Time Warner is a company
Traditional large enterprises have a deep and serious corporate culture.
After the merger, the management of both parties have been arguing endlessly, and estrangement and conflict have become the main theme of both parties.
In addition to internal factors, there are naturally also external factors. With the emergence of a new generation of Internet media models represented by web 2.0, content production is no longer limited to organized forms, and content sources are no longer dependent on traditional media.
At this point, Deep Space Company has done particularly well. Their Deep Space Tribe directly allows ordinary people to become content exporters at any time. Many traditional media are not even as influential as a tribe leader on the Internet.
Moreover, when they first wanted to join forces, it happened to be the time when the Internet technology stock bubble burst. Coupled with the impact of broadband Internet on the dial-up Internet business, AOL's advertising revenue in the past two years has not been particularly satisfactory, and Time Warner originally
The hope of leveraging AOL's network advantages to develop existing businesses naturally came to nothing.
Steven Case's previous strategy at that time was actually to develop the Internet into traditional media content as an important means of driving traffic. He originally hoped to use the cross-media advertising business as a new economic growth point, and planned to turn magazines into
, books, limited services, animation and other traditional media businesses are well integrated with the new economic operating model of network services.
But now it seems that the pattern and development model of new media should be as shown by Deep Space Tribe and Google. Interactive services and value-added services have gradually become the mainstream model of Internet profit.
What Steven Case is hesitant about now is that he knows that broadband services have great advantages over dial-up Internet access. If they want to realize the high-speed Internet blueprint, they need to enter the broadband market.
The dial-up service fee is 24 US dollars per month, and the Internet speed is only 56kb per second, while the broadband service charges 45 US dollars per month, and the speed can reach 1.5 megabits per second. The cost is less than double, but
The speed is twenty-five times faster. The advantages of broadband are unmatched by dial-up.
But the problem is that their company's roots in dial-up are too deep, and it is not easy to pull them out. As the leader in the dial-up market, if they directly enter the broadband market at this time, the impact on the dial-up market will be fatal.
, if the performance of the broadband market is not good enough by then, their revenue may shrink very seriously.
However, if we do not enter the broadband market, as the growth rate of network users slows down, new and old customers may be attracted by competitors of broadband networks or other dial-up services, which will have a huge impact on their most basic business.
If you want to enter the broadband market, you need a very good opportunity, but where is the best opportunity? Steven Case can't see clearly.
Steven Case has been paying close attention to the development of Deep Space Company over the years. He slowly discovered that Deep Space Company had actually accomplished what he wanted to do before.
At the beginning, Deep Space Company relied on content, and later entered the Internet industry, and then relied on websites such as Deep Space Tribe to continuously output their company's content.
Recently, Deep Space Company is developing a video website. After the video website is also launched, Deep Space Company will enter a fast lane mode in terms of content output.
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The next day, Steven Keys and his family of three went to a nearby movie theater. Fortunately, the movie theater near their home had an IMAX theater.
Edward spent a lot of effort to get these three tickets. Today is the first day of the release of "Spider-Man". It is very difficult to buy tickets, especially the tickets for the IMAX theater. Let alone today, it will be a long time later.
Tickets are no longer available.
Steven Keys rarely goes to the cinema to watch movies. On the one hand, he has no time, and on the other hand, he also dislikes the noise. He prefers to watch movies in a private theater at home, where he can hold a glass of red wine and no one else will disturb him.
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But his son is more willing to go to movie theaters, especially after the release of imax, his son will not even go to ordinary movie theaters to watch movies anymore.
Steven Case can understand his son's behavior. After watching IMAX, he also felt that his four-person theater was no longer good.
No matter how good the audio-visual equipment at home is, the space is limited. The huge screen in the IMAX theater has an unparalleled impact on the audience.
However, the ticket prices for IMAX are really too expensive. A movie ticket for an ordinary movie only costs about six dollars. Some movie tickets are more expensive, only eight or nine dollars, not more than ten dollars.
However, the ticket price for an IMAX movie is basically more than 20 US dollars, which is three to four times the price of an ordinary movie ticket.
Take "Spider-Man" as an example. The price in an ordinary theater is only six to eight dollars, but the ticket price in an IMAX theater is basically twenty-three or four dollars.
This is just the face value of the ticket. It is very difficult for ordinary people to get tickets to watch IMAX movies. Edward said that these three tickets cost more than two hundred dollars.
Sitting in the waiting area, Steven Case looked around the cinema hall. There were still many people queuing up at the ticket office to buy IMAX movie tickets.
In fact, more than 60% of IMAX movie tickets are placed on the ticket office website. Audiences can buy them through the ticket office website without having to queue up at the venue.
Because some people do not have the conditions to buy movie tickets online, Deep Space Company does not put all tickets online.
Sometimes it is the details that determine success or failure. Thinking of the operation of Ticket House.com, Steven Case believes that if Ticket House.
There is a high probability that all movie tickets will be posted online.
However, as a result, many people may not be able to buy tickets at the cinema.
After a while, the movie ticket check started, and Steven Keys walked into the hall with his family.
Chapter completed!