Chapter 874 : Eight Hundred and Sixtieth Chapters 1 Cent Can Not Be Less - I’m in Hollywood

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The lawsuit filed by Sony Records, bmg and EMI on the grounds that irelyer facilitates the spread of pirated music was dismissed by the federal court in San Francisco, indicating that this electronic product has a formal market status. W.WW.FAF`AXS·NE.T|FAFA=novel\NET With the unstoppable development momentum of irelyer players, traditional portable music player manufacturers are almost destined to suffer a strong and even devastating impact.

Stimulated by this news, the New York Stock Exchange has just opened in the morning, and traditional portable music player manufacturers led by Sony are estimated to have experienced a significant decline. At 9:00 a.m. Western time, the Federal Court of San Francisco officially held a press conference. Shares in Sony had fallen 2.7% on the announcement, and within hours, nearly $1.5 billion in market value was wiped out. Coincidentally, the industry's authoritative financial newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" has a potential valuation of Firefly Electronics at $1.5 billion.

Although Firefly Electronics is not a listed company, this news is still manifested in the stock market in disguise. That is Seagate Technology, the first company in the industry to develop a 1-inch micro-hard drive.

The original entrusted development agreement stipulated that Firefly Electronics had the exclusive right to the micro-drive for three years after the company released the first product related to the micro-hard disk. Correspondingly, Firefly had to purchase the micro-hard disk products from Seagate Technology Company first.

As the largest mechanical hard disk manufacturer in the original time and space, Seagate's strength at this time is far from being comparable to traditional technology giants such as IBM, Hitachi, and Toshiba. In the whole year of last year, Seagate's mechanical hard drive shipments were only 5 million, less than 10% of the overall market share of mechanical hard drives.

Although the research and development of micro-hard disks is not too difficult, hard disk manufacturers with deep technical background such as IBM may only need half a year to come up with mature products. According to the cargo agreement, Seagate Technology Co., Ltd. is almost destined to become the main supplier of irelyer using micro hard drives in the next few years, and almost no one can determine the extent to which irelyer's sales capacity will explode. Although the price of micro hard disks is much cheaper than that of traditional hard disks, with the advantage of quantity, Seagate Technology's micro hard disk business will even reach a scale comparable to that of traditional hard disks.

After a series of news releases that day, while the stock prices of traditional portable music equipment manufacturers such as Sony fell, Seagate Technology's stock price was a blockbuster, soaring by 12% in just one morning. The technology company eo specially held a press conference at noon that day to show the media a sample of the 2g micro-hard drive that Seagate has successfully developed, and said that this product may be used in the next-generation irelyer player.

When the market was ups and downs with irelyer-related news, there was an unexpected episode. A newspaper in New York dug up the news that Firefly Electronics first contacted IBM and hoped to entrust the other party to develop micro hard drives. Due to ibm's arrogant and sluggish response, the invitation to cooperate was ultimately dismissed.

In recent years, under the leadership of the new eo Gerstner, ibm has begun to recover, but the situation is far from what it was in the past. Now, there is a trend of overtaking Microsoft, which was supported at the beginning, in market value. Although hard disk manufacturing is only a marginal business of ibm group, this news revealed that there are serious problems within ibm group, but it has to make this traditional high-tech giant be cautious, and ibm's eo Gerstner even appeared in person. This 'little thing' was justified in front of the media.

Jeffrey's Farm, Maryland.

Although he is harassed by various news from the outside world from time to time, there is still a cheerful atmosphere in the small farm like a paradise.

The wedding will be held on the large lawn behind Jeffrey's house, and in order to accommodate most of the guests' arrangements, the time is chosen tomorrow at eleven o'clock in the morning, rather than the traditional afternoon. The wedding scene on the lawn was already surrounded by flowers at this time, and some people were still doing the final inspection of the scene, and the air was filled with the pleasant fragrance of flowers.

Eric and Chris welcomed the guests who were still arriving one after another. In addition to the guests who will arrive tomorrow, there will still be some distant guests arriving today, such as Katzenberg, Victor McNally, Bill Olson, Jeff Bezos, and more.

Although it is summer, the weather in the farm does not mean anything hot.

Busy until two o'clock in the afternoon, and simply having something to eat, Eric sneaked to the lawn behind the villa, where a simple rehearsal of the wedding ceremony was being conducted, of course, mainly the rehearsal for the flower girl and ring boy.

Although they have a good relationship with Emily, neither Joanna nor Virginia are suitable to be bridesmaids anymore, but Joanna's sister Eva Pakula will join in the fun.

Eric, considering the two women, also turned down the role of Chris's chief best man, giving it to one of Chris's cousins. However, the three little guys will be the flower girls and ring boys at the wedding.

On the lawn, in addition to Joanna and Virginia, Jeffrey, Emily's parents Jack Brighton and Melissa Brighton were also present, and there were some other relatives of both parties around, Everyone was smiling and watching the performance of five or six little guys.

Eric and Jeffrey said hello, walked to Virginia and Joanna and sat down, looking at the middle aisle, the wedding emcee was racking his brains to coax a group of restless little guys, laughing. Ask Virginia: "Isn't it good to use a pair of flower girls to get rid of the boys, so many little guys, will there be no trouble every day?"

"This kind of thing, even if there is a little trouble, everyone will laugh and pass," Virginia explained, and added in a low voice: "So many relatives and friends, only two children, it is difficult to arrange ."

Eric nodded, and while everyone's attention was on the little guys, he stretched his arms around Virginia's waist and asked with a smile, "Are you envious?"

Virginia turned her head and stared at Eric, with a smile on her lips, and said, "I'm so envious, what are you going to do?"

"Why don't we have a wedding too. I haven't taken a wedding photo of the three of you yet. You and Joan are together."

"Bah, you bastard, I'm too lazy to toss with you," Virginia spat lowly, leaned on Eric again, raised her left hand and shook the ruby-encrusted rose gold ring on her ring finger , said: "I have discussed with Qiong. If you treat us badly in the future, we will take Kevin and Xia Xia to Europe and never see you again."

Eric smiled and said, "You two are still secretly plotting this kind of thing?"

"Yeah," Virginia rolled her eyes at Eric and said, "Also, you still have to pay alimony, a billion dollars a year, not a cent less."

"Wow," Eric said with a "shocked" face and a "shaking" tone: "How did you calculate this number?"

Virginia is very righteous: "Of course it is calculated casually."

"What if I don't give it?"

"Joan and I will find a new father for Xia Xia and Kevin together."

Eric immediately raised his hand and surrendered: "Okay, I admit defeat."

Joanna, who had been listening to the soft conversation between the two, reached out and called, and smiled softly, "Don't talk nonsense."

Virginia smiled, stretched out her hand to hold Eric, looked at the precious son in the field with doting eyes, and said, "I have something to discuss with you, Kevin and Xia Xia should both go to school, There are no suitable schools in the Hamptons."

Eric thought for a while and said, "Why don't you move to Manhattan, where there are more private schools."

Virginia shook her head and said, "Joan and I are used to living in the Hamptons. Manhattan is too noisy."

"Then we can't run a school for two little guys alone, can we?"

Eric's unintentional words just hit Virginia's heart, and the woman said: "Why not, Rockefeller set up a private school for his children, the Browning Private School in Manhattan, you now Their net worth is not much worse than that of the Rockefeller family, right?"

Eric shook his head and said, "It's not just about money to run a school."

Virginia insisted: "Anyway, you can pay, and Joan and I will do the rest."

Eric had to compromise, he knew that Virginia and Joanna paid more attention to the education of their children than him, so he had nothing to worry about, and said, "Okay, I'll pay, you can do whatever you want. Row."

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