Back To 1995

   Chapter 548

   Now ICQ is the world's largest emoji package copyright owner, and there are special emoji package producers, all of which are made by students such as the Art Institute of Chicago.

   ICQ will launch a large number of new emoji packs every month. Of course, if other forums and portals want to use them, they have to pay Xue Leshan.

On the IGN forum, Cameron has seen forum administrators and complained about ICQ's domineering. Like ICQ's emoticons, users of major platforms and websites are free to use, but users don't pay, forums and websites, All have to pay the copyright fee to ICQ.

Cameron doesn't know how much the copyright fee for emoji packs is, but he knows that almost all of the thousands of websites in America are inseparable from emoji packs. ICQ pays the fee, or waits for ICQ's lawyer's letter.

What makes America's website even more uncomfortable is that ICQ always likes it, and takes the case to Texas to fight Houston. Texas is now applying for a federal justice, and the world's first Internet case is being prepared in Texas. The court, that is, as long as the cases involving the Internet in the future, all go to the Texas court.

It is a thankless thing that the courts in Texas can do this thankless work out of their own pockets. If there is something that is not said behind this, then it is bullshit. Anyway, it is reported that the IAB Advertising Association, the federal government supported by DoubleClick The Internet Society is helping fuel the flames. The two associations donated to the Texas court last year, both of which are close to tens of millions of dollars...

In the Internet industry, there is almost no need to say whose territory Texas is. As long as the lawsuit hits Texas, it doesn’t matter whether Microsoft, IBM, or even Disney, which is known as the strongest legal department on the surface, is in Dirk. If ICQ is encountered in Saskatchewan, it is estimated that it will have to be sullen. Of course, for the same reason, in Microsoft's hometown Seattle, Disney's hometown Florida, ICQ encounters them in a near-death situation!

There are so many websites, large and small, in the entire Ameritrade, and the frequency of using emoticons is also frightening. Even a small website only pays ICQ one or two thousand dollars in copyright fees every month, and Yahoo and other big websites pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. The US knife, added up, is not a small sum.

Not to mention, there are things that Cameron didn't know about, not only emojis, but also font patents, news withdrawal patents, image sharing transfers, screenshots, file transfer patents, etc. Can earn tens of millions of dollars for ICQ.

All of these are still merciful to ICQ, turning a blind eye, not pursuing those small websites, and abusing ICQ's patents. ICQ has gone bankrupt by more than one or two percent...

Cameron and the users on the IGN forum never thought that the emoticons, pictures, and shared pictures they posted on the forum were the result of a secret game between the IGN forum and ICQ. If ICQ wants to deal with it someday IGN, withdrawing these authorizations, then the entire IGN forum cannot post emojis, pictures, sharing, etc...

It is estimated that the fun of flooding the forum will be a lot less. Song Yang has several more disgusting patents, such as the "interactive network" rogue patent. This patent refers to the action of opening a web page, just use it this patent.

This patent is disgusting, not very practical, but extremely insulting. When he had a falling out with Netscape because of the Hotmail mailbox, Song Yang used this patent to apply for a ban on Netscape's use and allow Netscape's website Can't be accessed for a few hours, although it didn't do anything to Netscape, it really disgusted Jim Clark and Mark Anderson.

Cameron poured water on the IGN forum. His family education made him understand that these discussions on the forum, as well as the support and opposition of players, etc., would have no impact on Sega's acquisition at all. At most, Sega, Be a noodle kung fu, threatened to consider the opinions of users and so on.

   But pouring in some water, scolding Fang Qiu to point out the country or something, really makes people feel refreshed.

   Just when Cameron felt that the result was impossible today, a player who was obviously working on Wall Street suddenly threw out a link. He was the first to reveal that Sega was going to be sold.

   "The latest news from the Wall Street Journal, Sega and Sammy have completed a merger agreement, and Sega will be renamed Sammy Sega in the future!"

The sudden news of    made the whole forum noisy again. Cameron didn't expect it to be so fast, and Sega sold himself directly.

   Just by listening to the renamed name, you can see who is buying who this time!

Cameron clicked on the link, and he saw the Wall Street Journal and published the latest report on Yahoo Finance. Now that Yahoo's influence is growing, various traditional media have also started to open columns on Yahoo Finance Channel to publish the latest news. Media, compared to traditional media, is really fast.

"Sami announced the formal completion of the merger with Sega. Sammy has decided to hold the controlling stake in Sega. Sammy will acquire Sega with a 35% stake and US$1.1 billion in cash. This is the largest scale in the Japanese game industry in recent years. an acquisition.

  The merged Sammy Sega will become the second largest group in the Japanese game industry, second only to Nippon Sony, with an annual revenue of more than 442.48 billion yen. "

More than 440 billion yen, that is, according to the data on paper, the merged Samsega looks like a giant in the game industry, with an annual revenue of more than 3.5 billion US dollars. Of course, these are all paper data. Whether it's true or not, then... it's hard to say.

"Osamu Satomi will serve as the president and president of Saga Sega, and Hisao Oguchi will serve as the vice president. In the future, Hisao Oguchi will be mainly responsible for the development of arcade and console games. In the future, Sega Sega may continue to be in the Japanese marble industry. Further development!"

Cameron didn't know much about the twists and turns here, but from this report, he could see some clues. Obviously, Sega was completely acquired by Sami, and people like Hisao Koguchi will also give up power in the future. , The entire Sega, in fact, is the final say of Satomi.

   Cameron was a little puzzled about the last sentence. The players were all staring at Sega's host, but the Wall Street Journal could see that Sega was heading for the Japanese marbles room.

After Sega was acquired by Sammy, it immediately announced the establishment of the Sammy Sega board of directors. The new board of directors, of course, is dominated by Sammy, but he still invited Oguchi Hisao, Nakayama Hayao, Peter Moore and others to join the board of directors, but these people changed No, Sega has become the status quo of Xue Leshan's younger brother.

For the game industry, this is like a blockbuster, especially for players in the console industry. After Sega was acquired by the sponsor, it would either be resurrected with blood. The original console industry, the situation of Sony and Nintendo, which was about to form, was break in.

  Or, Sega is completely finished, and from then on, it quits the mainframe and the arcade is in the arena, and the Sega mainframe has also become a swan song!

The acquisition of Sega marked a change in the Japanese game industry, and it also allowed Wall Street to see the current situation after the Japanese benzene was taken by Soros's gang. been impacted.

   After Sega was acquired, many major institutions on Wall Street rushed to Nippon immediately, ready to pick up leaks.

   After the acquisition was completed, Satomi Haru immediately took Oguchi Hisao to San Jose. For such a large acquisition, he needed to report to Song Yang and get the support of the parent company.

At the same time, it is also necessary to lend money to the gold owners of Sammy. The acquisition of Sega is only the first step for Sammy. If you want to occupy the Japanese marble room, you must have the gold owners of America. Just support.

   Not only Sega and Sega rushed to San Jose, but Microsoft also sent people to rush over as soon as they got the news, and the other is the people from Sega in America.

  America Sega President Peter Moore was shocked when he heard the news of Sega's acquisition, and then he couldn't help but feel ecstatic when he heard who the gold owner who bought Sega was, and he immediately bought a plane ticket to San Jose.

   As for Nippon Sega, they didn't even notify him of such a big deal as the sale of Sega. Peter Moore was full of anger. Obviously, Nippon Sega didn't care about him at all.

   But after knowing that it was Snow Mountain who bought Sega, Peter Moore understood that it was time for him to turn over.

Now, Sega of Japan and Sega of America are both on the same starting line, and they are all begging for food under the banner of Xue Leshan, and the relationship between Sega of America and Xue Leshan is probably closer than that of Sega of Japan. After all, in the same place as America.

In the bedroom of a villa near the ICQ headquarters, there were a lot of clothes scattered on the floor. Irene, known as the No. 1 Strong Woman in Silicon Valley and the No. 1 Female Professional Manager on Wall Street, after tossing with Song Yang on the bed for a while, finally. Crawled out of the quilt.

   Pillowed lazily in front of Song Yang. At this time, Irene had an air of laziness on her body. She no longer had the stern look she wore in front of the media with black-rimmed glasses.

  Song Yang grinned, and touched the scratches on his arm that Irene scratched. Irene's style on the bed has always been a little wild cat.

  Irene saw the scratches on Song Yang's arm, her face couldn't help turning red, she picked up the topic and asked, "Next week, Jenny will be back?"

  Song Yang nodded, Jenny is now returning to her heart like an arrow, if it weren't for the fact that the crew had been making up scenes, she would have flown back.

   Looking at the tired Irene in her arms, she put on makeup, but couldn't hide her heavy eye circles. Obviously, she was very busy during this time. Song Yang rubbed Irene's blonde hair, "Worried about the listing of ICQ?"

   (end of this chapter)