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To be more precise, it should be 1000 million World Wide Web accounts.

According to the survey data of Eaglet Portal, the average number of individual users involved in each World Wide Web account at this stage is 1.6.That is to say, as of October 1991, the number of World Wide Web users in the United States has actually reached 10 million, which is close to 1600% of the total population of the United States.

Of course, the number of American families will not be 1.6. This is just a comprehensive statistic.

In the early 90s, personal computers were still high-end electronic products. Even in a family of five, only one or two people could use the computer, not to mention that there were a large number of single white-collar users who connected to the Internet.

However, this also means that with only the existing 1000 million WWW access accounts, there is still a lot of user potential to be tapped.

The 1600 million Internet users have directly caught up with the average user size of the four major American TV networks, and they are all high-end social groups with strong spending power.

Therefore, it took only two days to release the two major products of Ypay and Ystore, in fact, in only 32 hours, Eaglet announced that the transaction volume of the Ypay online payment tool exceeded 1000 million US dollars.

On the fifth day, the Eaglet Portal issued another press release, and the number of activated users of Ypay reached 100 million.

A full week after the release of the two new products, Igret also released a series of other exciting data.

The seven-day transaction volume of the Ystore application store reached 2839 million US dollars.

The seven-day active users of Ypay, Ypay's online payment tool, ended up being 153 million.

Because you can enjoy 3691% to 9% discounts according to different payment amounts, coupled with the convenience of online payment, the amount of AOL network fees paid through the Ypay channel in seven days reached 20 million US dollars, which is only the income of this week. It has exceeded [-]% of AOL's monthly revenue in September.

In seven days, more than 1 users directly bound Ypay account credit cards through Citibank and Bank of America channels.

Compaq's "Internet PC" sold 28371 units in seven days.

According to the configuration, this computer is divided into two grades of 3299 US dollars and 3799 US dollars. According to the average selling price of about 3500 US dollars, in just one week, Compaq’s sales of this computer are close to an astonishing 1 million US dollars.

Because it is an emerging industry, the other few data do not have much to compare with.

Therefore, the seven-day sales data of Compaq's "Internet PC" is the point that attracts the most attention from the industry.

根据业内调查机构统计，10月14日到10月20日这一周，全球个人电脑的出货量大概在45万台左右。

However, only Compaq's single-category computer has sold more than 2 units, which is equivalent to a 8000% market share.

Compaq then also announced that its full range of PC shipments was 6.9 units, with a market share of 15.5%.

Only a month ago, the market share of Compaq's latest statistics barely reached 13.2%.

That is to say, just this time, with Eaglet's network marketing, Compaq Computer's market share has increased by 2.3 percentage points.

From the birth of Apple in the 70s to the present, the competition in the personal computer industry has been very fierce.

So a 2.3 percentage point increase in market share, and it's only been a week, is already a small miracle.

If it is expected in advance that this marketing can increase its market share by 2.3 percentage points, other PC manufacturers will never miss this opportunity.

In fact, most of the brands at this stage, such as IBM, Commodore, Apple, etc., were contacted by Eaglet in advance.

However, because many details could not be negotiated, these relatively established manufacturers eventually gave up this opportunity, and finally only Compaq and Eaglet reached a cooperation agreement.

The sales of a single category of computers approached 1 million U.S. dollars in seven days, and the deposit generated through the Ypay channel was actually only 556 million U.S. dollars. The discount of 556 million U.S. dollars was of course borne by Compaq.

Eaglet received an advertising contract worth $1500 million.

The contract period lasted for one quarter from the beginning of October to the end of the year.

According to the sales data of Compaq Computer after the release of Ypay and Ystore in the first week, the custom advertising contract of US$1500 million has brought returns far exceeding Compaq’s expectations.

Many technology brands have been placing advertisements on Eaglet Portal for more than a year, but the amount in the past was not too large. The reason why this marketing cooperation has not been negotiated is that Eaglet Company is as high as $1500 million offer.

Although, most of the income obtained by Eaglet is invested in the marketing of the company's brand.

However, at the beginning, many manufacturers still believed that by adopting the brand cooperation method, they had already borne the preferential cost, and what Eaglet got was the promotion of the Ypay tool, which killed two birds with one stone.Therefore, it is very unreasonable for Eaglet to ask for huge additional advertising expenses.

Now, no manufacturer thinks that way anymore.

Of course, the plan offered by Eaglet not only simply sells Compaq's "Internet PC" through the Ypay channel, but also a whole set of advertising plan that lasts for a quarter on all platforms.

With the success of this cooperation between Eaglet and Compaq, other technology brands began to contact Eaglet one after another. Damen also called Simon personally to discuss the online marketing of the Windows 3.1 system that will be released next year. matter.

Most of 1991 has passed.

For the field of new technology, the rapid growth of Eaglet in the past six months is obvious to all.

Not to mention other things, only 1000 million users of World Wide Web access, through the installation fee of IE browser of 10 US dollars per user, brought Eaglet 1 million US dollars in revenue.

Because many operators are promoting free trial activities, even if the user does not become a regular, the operator still has to pay for the installation of the IE browser.

So, as of mid-October, the software actually brought Eaglet $10 million in revenue.

Carol Bartz is in charge of the Eaglet network service that was formally integrated into YWS. In the previous three quarters, due to the rapid growth of the World Wide Web site, it also sold products such as server leasing, tool software, and website solutions, accumulatively for YWS. Gretel brought in $8600 million in revenue, and the business is expected to top $1.1 million in full-year revenue.

Counting Compaq's huge advertising order of US$1500 million, Eaglet Portal's advertising revenue in 1991 also reached US$6100 million.

This part of the revenue seems to be less than half of the revenue brought by an IE browser software. However, with the great success of this marketing cooperation with Compaq, the advertising business of Eaglet Portal will undoubtedly have more Great growth potential.

You know, the sale of IE browser software is basically a one-off.

According to the agreement, Eaglet guarantees free upgrades for 3 years for the IE browser software installed by users.

Simon's plan is to promote the complete free of IE browser in a few years.

This is mainly due to antitrust considerations.

Eaglet Portal is the fixed homepage of Eaglet’s IE browser software. At this stage, Eaglet doesn’t even give users permission to change the homepage.

For a short period of time, no one felt wronged as a guide website to guide users to surf the Internet.

but.

After a long time, someone will definitely react.

I have paid for this software, so I should have the freedom to customize the homepage of my choice.

Even if users don't react, other Internet companies in the industry will understand how much monopoly advantage Eaglet has in this area, so they will definitely jump out and raise objections.

If the IE browser is free, Eaglet will be under much less pressure.

I provide you with free software, so you should enjoy the convenience of default home page and so on.

At most, Igret can make some concessions in the future to allow users to change the homepage of the IE browser.

However, the default homepage of the IE browser software is destined to be only the Igret portal, and will also be the Igret search engine in the future.

If any industry cannot produce sustainable commercial benefits, it will certainly not be able to develop and grow.

Eaglet has already proved the feasibility of its YWS product and portal advertising business before.This time, the success of Ypay tools and Ystore has once again confirmed the broad business prospects of the Internet industry.Various capitals and traditional business giants have begun to further increase investment in the Internet industry.

Then, some problems inevitably arise.

Now the world wide web with the highest penetration rate, the core patented technology is basically in the hands of Eaglet.

Although on the surface, Eaglet Corporation maintains a very open attitude towards licensing, however, as long as you are not a fool, you will understand that Eaglet Corporation will definitely use its patent barriers to limit the development of its competitors.

In fact, Simon himself would not deny it, and Eaglet would certainly do so.

It would be abnormal not to.

Now, Eaglet has taken the lead in many aspects such as server leasing, portal websites, online payment, e-mail, etc. Unless Eagletec takes the initiative to open the licensing of core patented technologies, otherwise, it is impossible for other companies to get involved in these areas. field.

Igret also basically completed all the major Internet business models that later proved to be the most successful in Simon's memory.

Then, in order to completely bypass Eaglet’s patent barriers and compete with this company, other companies can probably only promote another basic network technology.

Of course, there are other types of network protocols in this era.

However, after a round of inspections, other companies have to admit that other existing network technologies simply cannot compete with the already very mature World Wide Web.

Simon Westeros has spared no effort in the research and development of World Wide Web technology since more than two years ago, and this time advantage is beyond the reach of other companies.Moreover, technology, and related technologies such as images, sounds and even JavaScript scripting language.

In the proposed plan, these patents will be placed in a non-profit World Wide Web Consortium Foundation, and Internet companies will no longer need to seek authorization from Eaglet Corporation in the future to use these technologies.

Some things always travel fast.

As soon as the decision was made, the "San Francisco Chronicle" carried out related reports, which caught Eaglet's management by surprise.

After firing a Ygret middle-level manager who leaked the news, whether it was Simon or the Big Three of Ygret, including several other technology companies in the Westeros system, they immediately became the most popular in the industry to inquire about the news. object.

Although a decision has been made, the specific list of patents that need to be opened still needs to be considered repeatedly.

For example, Eaglet's e-mail related technologies are not planned to be opened in the short term, and Eaglet will definitely restrict other manufacturers from using World Wide Web technology to develop browser software similar to IE.

However, in any case, this matter is a rare big deal for the entire industry.

Chapter 448 Halloween Schedule (Revised)

In late October, before you know it, the end of the year is approaching again.

This year's Halloween, it's not just about Daenerys Entertainment's upcoming "Scream 3," the final installment of the "Scream" series.

After merging MCA, the two Universal Studios in Los Angeles and Orlando will also hold a more grand Halloween themed event.

Through the coordination of the theme park management team, this time, films such as "Scream", "Death Comes", "Butterfly Effect" and "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" that Simon has participated in since his debut will appear in the two major Universal Studios. City's Halloween themed event.

Friday, January 10th.

"Scream 3" officially opened in North America with a scale of 2672 screens.

At the same time, from October 10th to November 25rd, the ten-day Universal Studios Halloween theme event also kicked off.

Simon has been personally following up the final preparations for the Halloween-themed event at Universal Studios Burbank in recent days, and was not able to return to Daenerys Studios in Malibu until Friday afternoon to deal with some other things in hand.

"Judging from the results of recent negotiations, we want to take over EA in its entirety, and the final offer should be around US$12 billion. Because we already hold 35% of the company's shares, the additional cash that needs to be paid is about US$8 million. "

"8 million US dollars, the company's debt reduction this year is also 8 million US dollars, this time it is equivalent to raising the debt ratio to the level when it just acquired MCA at the beginning of the year."

Nancy smiled and said: "But it's worth it, and if we continue to hesitate, the next price will only be higher. Recently, concept stocks related to the Internet are all rising, and EA just released an online real-time strategy game "Dune: Evil Castle", so, you know."

Inside the office LOFT on the second floor of the cinema.

Nancy Brill is discussing with Simon the progress of negotiations to buy EA outright.

Ystore got off to a very good start though.

However, Simon also knows that traditional game publishers cannot be replaced by online publishers like Ystore for a long time to come.

EA has accumulated ten years and has been focusing on PC games since its establishment. Over the years, it has accumulated a large number of classic PC game copyrights, among which sports games are beyond the reach of other game manufacturers.

Moreover, EA also has a complete PC game distribution team and the PC game production and distribution experience accumulated over the years, which are the foundation of this company.

Because it is attached to the vibrant Westeros system and is developing very rapidly, EA's stock price is no longer the same as when Daenerys Entertainment bought shares two years ago.

When it first invested in EA, Daenerys Entertainment acquired a 35% stake in the company with only a mere US$5000 million. At that time, EA's market value was only US$1.7 million.

In two years, due to factors such as its successful entry into the console game market, the rise of online game concepts, the success of the "Dune" series of real-time strategy games, and the continuous and rapid expansion of the company itself, EA's market value has doubled by a full five times.

Recently, the market value of EA is 9.1 million US dollars. If you want to acquire this company in its entirety, 12 billion US dollars is also a necessary premium.Moreover, only the US$12 billion is mainly because EA has maintained a relatively high price-earnings ratio and there is a certain bubble in the stock price.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to win this company if the premium is less than 50%.

Although the acquisition cost has skyrocketed, considering that EA's future market value potential is expected to reach 500 billion US dollars, Simon has no regrets.

8 million US dollars is not too much of a burden for the current Daenerys Entertainment.

Taking EA in its entirety, Daenerys Entertainment can also integrate it with its own Blizzard studio.

In the past two years, while continuing to develop the main series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Blizzard Studio has also produced some other very good blockbuster console games. Coupled with Nintendo's special quota, this studio has become the leading console in North America. game company.

The integration of EA, which focuses on PC games, and Blizzard, which focuses on console games, can also complement each other to a certain extent.

Nancy continued to discuss other details about the acquisition of EA with Simon, and the little executive finally closed his memo and asked another thing: "So, Simon, what about Blockbuster, what are you going to do?" manage?"

Simon shook his head slightly, and said, "Blockbuster's current market value is so large that we probably can't afford it."

Compared with EA, which is only at the level of 10 billion, Blockbuster's recent market value has reached 53 billion US dollars.

Moreover, Simon can clearly feel that under the careful management of the small executives, the current Blockbuster is very different from the Blockbuster that he remembers blindly pursuing expansion.

Now, it is no exaggeration to say that Blockbuster is the 'Wal-Mart' of the video chain industry.

The reason why the Walton family was able to occupy five positions in the top ten rich list this year is mainly because Wal-Mart still maintains strong growth despite the economic downturn in the United States.

How fierce the competition in the retail industry is, it can only be seen from the various types of large and small supermarkets that can be seen everywhere.

Wal-Mart's ability to stand out in such a red ocean market is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people.

same.

The threshold for video chains is even lower than that of supermarkets.

Now Blockbuster has also become the one that stands out in this industry.