Silicon Valley

Chapter 65 Williams Bank

The survey ships sent by Cisco to collect data take a long time to return messages. At present, the AOL alliance is fragmented, and each has formed a small alliance in twos and threes to carry out mergers and acquisitions of worl companies. Compared with the MCI telecom giant, it is much easier to swallow worl companies!

Worl is the famous WorldCom company in the previous life. After 1990, the company developed rapidly. By annexing other telecommunications companies, it expanded rapidly, and later became the telecommunications giant in the United States after AT\u0026amp;T. Among them, the most well-known acquisition was the acquisition of MCI with a market value of US$37 billion at the time and the US Internet backbone Tier-1-ISP-UUNET!

However, the current UUNET was acquired by Cisco and changed its name to world!

WorldCom was originally very good, but the CEO of the company liked to invest in stocks, and the result was planted. After that, the company's performance fell sharply. In desperation, he began to make false accounts, which eventually led to bankruptcy! ! !

It seems that Henry's arrival has produced a butterfly effect, causing the worl company to hang up many years earlier...

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Cisco has started looking for other banks to cooperate with Citibank and Morgan Bank since it had a bad time, and intends to acquire a small and medium-sized bank in California, and then grow and become the economic mainstay of the Williams consortium in the future. ! Currently, we are looking for a suitable acquisition target!

During this time, the US telecommunications industry is in full swing!

Isearch company launched the Isearch post bar during this time!

As soon as the post came out, it was really invincible!

Not to mention how other search engines are lingering, only to say that the Isearch search engine has greatly increased its popularity, and its popularity is like a 100-meter sprint, catching up with the global online!

Global Online, as the first portal website, has so much traffic that the next nine combined do not have as much!

Global Online can be said to be very coquettish, one of a kind!

But now the Isearch search engine suddenly seems to be on a stimulant, and it keeps accelerating and chasing. Isearch Encyclopedia is enough to attract netizens, and Isearch Post Bar is even more! Countless netizens stayed in Tieba for a long time to post, chat and spank, and have a lot of fun. Isearch posts are divided into many interest groups, so netizens can find like-minded people in the groups they are interested in.

Isearch Tieba has a strong stickiness, so more and more netizens use Isearch, which also makes the advertising fee on Isearch expensive!

As of November 1, 1989, the number of Isearch registered users has exceeded 500,000. Now there are only more than three million netizens, and half a million has already accounted for one-sixth. Such terrifying data can completely crush other search engines!

Compare the data to see how big the difference is!

Isearch search registered users, 500,000.

AOL search registered users, five thousand.

500,000 to 5,000 is a world of difference! ! !

As for Isearch-adsense, it will take some time for it to be officially launched. It is not because this function is difficult to do, but because Isearch is actively contacting websites and advertisers. When it is officially launched, it will have a sensational effect. Months to produce the most stunning results! ! !

Isearch-adsense can also be a hit!

At that time, the value will double, and it will take more money from advertisers to ask for more! ! !

Today, America Online has been beaten completely on the Internet, and two or three other search engines have gone bankrupt! There is a saying, I don't kill Boren, Boren died because of me, so Isearch company is very kind and generous and just dumped one or two million and bought them!

Doing search, the cost of server and broadband is very large, and AOL seems to have seen the weakness of its own search engine. In order to save money, it has begun to gradually withdraw from the market!

Now, the most hope of AOL is to acquire worl company!

Sequoia Capital, Citi, and Morgan have all indicated that they will fully support AOL's acquisition of worl. AOL also formally made an acquisition request to worl company!

At this juncture, Cisco, Nicholas and Global Online acquired a small and medium-sized bank in California for only $500 million, and renamed the bank "Williams Bank"! Williams Bank mainly has more than a dozen branch banks near Silicon Valley. The scale is not large, with less than one million deposit users and less than 4 billion deposits.

But never mind, Rome wasn't built in a day, take your time!

However, the news of the joint acquisition of banks by Cisco and other companies has caused a huge media sensation! Although in the United States, mergers and acquisitions between banks occur from time to time, it is not unusual at all. But this time is different. Who are the buyers of the bank this time?

The first company is Cisco, whose market value is about to exceed 60 billion!

The second company is the Nicholas Group, whose Nicholas shopping network has a market value of 45 billion, and the IMDB website has a market value of 8 billion!

The third company is Global Online. This company is currently the company with the largest Internet traffic and is also the most optimistic company by investors. Senior Wall Street analysts claim that as long as Global Online is listed, its market value will soar to US$60 billion. You must know that Global Online also has a Netscape browser, and Netscape's market value has already exceeded 10 billion US dollars! ! ! More importantly, Global Online is the first company to make a profit among Internet sites, and other sites are still losing money! This alone gives a lot of extra points to Global Online!

The three-headed crocodile company jointly acquired a bank, and the meaning behind it is extraordinary!

If you say that you are just going to make small troubles, who will you ask, no one will believe it?

The major media have sent reporters to the three companies to conduct interviews!

Subsequently, Nicholas Group CEO Geely Hurt and Cisco CEO John Chambers and Global Online CEO Jonathan Jackson (originally Netscape CEO, now promoted) jointly held a press conference to deal with major media.

Reporter: "Excuse me, why did your three companies jointly acquire a bank? There are rumors that the three companies are all behind the same boss. Are the rumors true?!!"

John Chambers smiled and said calmly: "Rumours will only follow the wind, and of course they are worthless. As for why we should jointly acquire a bank, this is actually very simple, because the three of us are Internet companies, and each other A very important strategic partner! So there is no fuss about a joint acquisition of a bank!"

"Excuse me, since your three companies are big companies with a market value of tens of billions, what will you do next after you acquire the bank?"

Geely Hurt said with a smile: "In the first stage, we will increase our efforts to build more branches to attract more customers. Of course, what we are most enthusiastic about is to directly acquire other banks!!!"

"Capital crocodiles are extraordinary, they say mergers and acquisitions!!!" the reporter sighed in his heart.

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The press conference is still going on, and the three CEOs handle media reporters with ease. Henry doesn't need to take care of it at all. Let him go, he may not be able to do it! He's the one behind the scenes and likes the feeling of being in control of everything! Maybe one day he will come to the front desk, but right now, he doesn't want to. Henry is not yet 15 years old. If he walks to the front desk, he will not shock the world and frighten others? At least wait until you are older, then take over Apple, get the iPhone out, hold a product launch, and pretend to be a B like Steve Jobs!

As a result, the world calls itself the father of smartphones and changed the world... The picture is so beautiful that I can't imagine it! ! !

Henry drove to the cinema at this time to watch a movie, "The Ghosts Are Over"!

Today is the premiere of "The Ghostly Love", and Henry arrived here in a gray casual suit. The premiere was quite lively. On the stage, Nicole Kidman wore a long white dress and black high heels, and responded to the reporters' questions with a smile. She didn't look cowardly at all!

When she swept under the stage and noticed Henry, Henry gestured with eyes and gestures that he was waiting for her backstage.

Nicole Kidman nodded indistinctly at him.

Henry crossed the crowd, walked to the backstage, sat in a chair, picked up a newspaper and read it. After waiting for more than ten minutes, Nicole Kidman came backstage with the staff of Galaxy Films.

"Mr. Williams, I'm so glad you're here for the premiere of Ghosts!" Nicole Kidman laughed.

"Haha, don't forget, I'm the screenwriter of "The Ghost Story"!" Henry said, "How about this, what are your plans after filming? Do you want to continue filming, or take a break?"

"I'm going to go back to Australia after a break."

"It's good to go home!" Henry nodded, "By the way, I heard that Australian private individuals can buy permanent land, is it true?"

"Yes, that's right!" Nicole Kidman's family is a big landlord, and he knows this very well.

"Then after you go back, help me pay attention to it. What are the good places? I want to buy a farm, winery or something. It seems interesting to go there for vacation when I have free time!"

"Oh, okay, no problem." Nicole Kidman nodded.

Henry looked at his watch and said, "The movie is about to start, let's go to the cinema!"

"Um."

Henry went to the cinema with Nicole Kidman. Before long, the movie started showing. Henry looked at it, and it was not far from the movie in his previous life. The most touching part was the pottery-making part. The picture was so touching, coupled with the classic music of "Unrestrained Melody", it was really ecstasy. Henry looked at Nicole Kidman beside him. Nicole Kidman also seemed to notice that Henry was looking at her, and his face turned slightly red!

"It's a good performance, I'm jealous!" Henry whispered.

"I'm not your girlfriend, why are you jealous?"

"Not now, but in the future! Do you still fall in love with someone after seeing a handsome and handsome man like me? I think you must have liked me now!"

"Stop being narcissistic, who likes you? A little pervert!" Nicole Kidman scolded softly.

"Haha..." Henry smiled noncommittally.

After the movie was shown, many women in the movie theater were in tears. Henry knew that the movie "Ghosts is Over" was a success!

"Nicole, after today, you are a Hollywood movie star!!!"

"I also have to thank you. The key is that the script you wrote is so good! I think, as long as it is played by another person, it must be very exciting and touching!"

"Okay, someday you'll invite me to dinner. I want the one for dinner alone!"

"..."

Out of the movie theater, Nicole Kidman drove back. Henry came here not only to watch a movie, but also to discuss with Bobby Robin, the CEO of Galaxy Films. Bobby Robin had already received a call from Henry and was waiting outside the cinema after watching the movie. When Henry arrived, he greeted him, and then came to a nearby coffee shop.

"Bobby Robin, this is my new script, "The Rest of the Desert Island"!" Henry handed him a stack of manuscripts.

Bobby Robin took it over and browsed it quickly, "Chairman, this script is very good and interesting!"

Henry nodded, and then said: "The rest of the desert island is best directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks! And I deliberately set the identity of the actor played by Tom Hanks as a courier The purpose of the company's employees is to promote Nicholas Express Company, so in the movie, we must show the excellence of Nicholas Express Company! In other words, this is an image promotion film of Nicholas Express Company!!! "

Bobby Robin was stunned for a moment. He made a movie just to promote a courier company. It's so fucking awesome! ! ! (Book Friends Group: 424930141, everyone is welcome to join! In addition, ask for a ticket, thank you for your support!)

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