Back To 1995

  Chapter 1169 Plowing the fields and raising the whip

  World of Warcraft is still sweeping the global game market. After entering the Asian and Yanjing game markets, the global paying users of World of Warcraft directly exceeded the 10 million mark!

  The popularity of World of Warcraft continues to remain high, and even the peripheral game products and game videos of World of Warcraft can get a huge amount of playback.

  Japanese game manufacturers, with Nintendo and Sony as the core of the two major game consoles, plus a group of Japanese, European, and North American game manufacturers, constitute the Japanese game camp.

  The emergence of World of Warcraft has set off a frenzy in the world, which marks the era of PC computer game users, and it has come!

No matter how reluctant Japan Benzene is, the number of computer game players is slowly surpassing that of console game players. It is not obvious yet. In the future, the more game developers switch to the computer game camp, the fewer console game players will be. Japan's Benzene will feel the pain, and when the era of mobile games comes, the position of Japan's Benzene Games in the global game industry will become more obvious!

The arrival of World of Warcraft is just the beginning, but in the face of the impact of computer games, the Japanese game industry is becoming more conservative, neither looking at "shoddy" online games, nor willing to transform, and may occasionally test the waters There is a wave of online games, but if there are no waves, it will die down.

  In the end, Japanese games can only stick to the last camp of global console games, and then, like the Japanese game industry, slowly fell silent, and finally turned into an "e-sports desert"!

  Skype follows in the footsteps of World of Warcraft, and is still advancing rapidly all over the world. The attitudes towards Skype in all parts of the world are waiting for the end of the war between Skype and the telecommunications giants in America.

  If the telecommunications giants in America defeat Skype, then needless to say, other telecommunications operators around the world will follow suit and block Skype directly!

But if Skype wins this war, it will be interesting. For example, Telefónica, which is now fighting Skype, has to apologize for how it treated Skype before. It really thinks that the empire of America is a kind people. .

That is, right now, there is a battle between Skype and the American Telecom Operators Association, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Department of Justice, the Federal Foreign Affairs Council, etc., do not know who will win, and they dare not bet lightly, but what if Skype wins? Well, then Telefónica is going to be sanctioned by America's iron fist. If it doesn't fight, it will spit out the food it ate on Christmas Eve. In the future, America will not care about the younger brother. Anyone dares to ride on America's head and act wildly. The American company is here!

The focus of the battle between Skype and the telecommunications industry is in America, which is the center of the storm. Before that, it bought Lycos, one of the four major portals in America, for US$5.4 billion, and is planning to do a big job in the Internet industry. Telefónica, now only pray that Skype loses quickly, otherwise it will wait for bad luck.

   While Skype and the Starlink project were in full swing, rumors that ICQ, the parent company of Skype, was suspected of monopolizing the Internet social networking industry suddenly spread.

  As soon as it appeared, it was like a raging fire, and it was reported overwhelmingly by the major American media, especially the TV stations, newspapers, radio stations, magazines and other media of the Donkey Party camp.

  ABC TV station, CBS TV station, Washington Post, New York Times and many other media have all started to hype that ICQ has monopolized news about the Internet social networking industry in America.

   "Song, I think ICQ is suspected of monopoly, and someone is fueling the flames!"

In the Houston villa, Jenny is following the trainer in the house, recovering her plump body after giving birth to Alan Bell. American and European women mature very early, but once they give birth, coupled with unrestrained diet, their bodies are very She was going out of shape soon, and Jenny didn't want to become like that. After her body recovered almost, she immediately invited the top trainers to start her recovery.

Song Yang was teasing little Alan Bell, and Irene called on the phone in a hurry. The chair of America's largest company with the largest market value under ICQ's buttocks had not been warmed up yet, and there was news about monopoly. Ruhong, whose stock price has continued to soar, has now fallen a lot.

As for the stock price, Irene, who has experienced a lot of troubles, doesn't care that much, but she can't help but care about the monopoly label attached to ICQ. Any company in the United States that gets involved with this thing will lose its skin if it doesn't die. Microsoft is a lesson from the past. .

Song Yang couldn't help but was a little surprised. Song Yang was not surprised that those telecom giants would use ICQ's anti-monopoly as an issue. Even if they didn't play like this, Song Yang would let his own media make up similar news. Come out, so that ICQ can borrow the donkey downhill in the future and dump Skype to the receiver!

   But now, Irene called in such a hurry, it was obvious that there was a huge battle, which made Song Yang suspicious, wondering if someone was fishing in troubled waters.

  For so many years, Song Yang has had many opponents. If there is a chance to make things difficult for Song Yang, many opponents will probably secretly attack Song Yang.

Song Yang pinched little Alan Bell's cheek lightly, and said to Irene, "There is no need to worry about ICQ's suspected monopoly for the time being. Watch the Nasdaq crash again!"

  Nasdaq has finally recovered a little bit of vitality. If it launches an anti-monopoly investigation against ICQ at this time, won't it be afraid that Nasdaq will collapse? !

  As for suspected monopoly, it is not very common in America in later generations. Google, Facebook, Apple, etc., which ones are not sued several times a year, I was afraid at first, but then... it became numb.

  Furthermore, now the big leader is a little cowboy, and Capitol Hill is also dominated by the Elephant Party. It is impossible to kill the big money owner, unless the little cowboy doesn't want to establish a dynasty.

  The anti-monopoly momentum created this time, Song Yang feels, is disgusting ICQ at most, and perhaps some federal states may fine ICQ several dollars, so as not to hurt the bones.

  "Continue to promote the Skype platform. When the Telegraph Group, Sprint, Verizon and other telecom giants are not forced back to the negotiating table, the Skype platform must not stop, no matter how loud the opposition is!

  Apollo Space Exploration Company will cooperate with ICQ! "

  The so-called Starlink project is just a bluff right now, and it won't work in a short time, but it doesn't hinder it. Let's stir up this gimmick and continue to put pressure on those telecom giants.

   Irene was silent for a while, Song Yang didn't plan to keep Skype in the ICQ camp, and didn't hide it from Irene.

For the Skype platform, Irene is a bit regretful. The Skype platform and the Starlink project are really a match. This plan is too tempting. Let alone fooling around, even Irene herself can't bear to give up. What if it happens?

   Then ICQ dominates the two major industries of the Internet and telecommunications, and has really become the largest technology giant in America, even stronger than General Electric at its peak!

After hanging up the phone, Song Yang could hear Irene's reluctance for Skype in her tone, but it just proved that Skype was packaged well enough. Believe it, isn't that true? !

   "Sierra Mountain, the parent company of World of Warcraft, announced that it will hold the Xuele Mountain Carnival, and will make the Xuele Mountain Carnival into a global game carnival!"

   "Skype's global users officially broke through the 10 million mark!"

The news of World of Warcraft and Skype still dominated the hot news. For the Xueleshan Game Carnival, not many people paid attention to it at the beginning, but when the news was released, in addition to the large-scale performances on the day of the carnival, the Xueleshan platform The game, game peripheral products, figures, collectible cards, and even World of Warcraft game point cards can all be discounted by 30%, or even a minimum of 40% off, and the entire game industry has completely caused a sensation.

  World of Warcraft point cards are also very painful for American players, and they can buy point cards at half price, which is definitely a discount for them.

  As soon as the news of the Snow Leshan Carnival came out, the user activity of World of Warcraft increased a lot again, and Skype followed suit.

Apollo Space Exploration Company also jumped out at this time and announced an ambitious rocket launch plan. At the earliest end of the year, it will be able to launch the first communication WeChat of the Starlink project, and then launch more than 300 satellites next year. Afterwards, thousands of communication satellites were launched every year, first to cover the mainland of America, and finally to cover the whole world. The whole plan was simply hyped, but it also "proves" that the Starlink project is really not a joke!

At this time, the federal telecom operators found that public opinion, lawsuits, pressure and other means against Skype were all useless, and even the banner of anti-monopoly against its parent company ICQ failed to stop the spread of Skype On the contrary, the number of Skype users continued to explode, and the number of users continued to soar. This made the telecom giants feel helpless and hopeless for the first time.

This feeling of wanting to strangle the other party, but being unable to kill the other party, really makes the entire telecommunications industry, except for American Telecom, feel aggrieved and hopeless. I knew that the Internet spawned by the telecommunications industry would support Skype. Such a monster came, and finally launched a life-and-death struggle against them. The federal telecommunications giants wished they had **** all the network lines back then.

Seeing that Skype can't be killed, and Skype can't be stopped, Telephone and Telegraph Group and other companies can only hope that the Federal Communications Commission, the General Commander, and Capitol Hill can stand by their side and win the lawsuit with Skype. This is the only chance they see to come back, and if they continue to consume it, they are afraid that they will not be able to consume Skype!

The Skype platform is attacking the city, and Song Yang doesn't pay much attention to it. He waits for Skype to force those telecom giants back to the negotiating table. Quietly left Houston, took Bruno's private jet, and flew to Massachusetts with a group of executives from Fortinet Antivirus.

  (end of this chapter)