The lawsuit filed by Sony Records, BMG and EDA companies on the grounds that Fireflyer facilitates the spread of pirated music was rejected by the federal court in San Francisco, which indicates that this electronic product has a formal legal market position. With the unstoppable development momentum of Fireflyer players, traditional portable music player manufacturers are almost destined to be subject to a strong or even devastating impact.

Stimulated by this news, the New York Stock Exchange just opened in the morning, and the stock price of traditional portable music player manufacturers led by Sony showed a significant decline. By nine o'clock in the morning of Western Time, the San Francisco Federal Court officially held a press conference to announce the news that Sony's stock price had fallen by 2.7%, and within a few hours, the market value of nearly $1.5 billion was gone. Coincidentally, the industry's authoritative financial newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, had a potential valuation of Firefly Electronics at $1.5 billion.

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

The original commissioned development agreement stipulated that Firefly Electronics enjoyed the exclusive right to the micro hard disk for three years since the company released the first micro hard disk-related product. Correspondingly, Firefly Electronics must also give priority to purchasing micro hard disk products from Seagate Technology.

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

Although the research and development of micro hard drives is not very difficult, it may only take half a year for hard drive manufacturers such as IBM to come up with mature products, but because they have taken the lead in advance and have a priority supply agreement with Firefly Electronics, Seagate Technology is destined to become the main supplier of Fireflyer built-in micro hard drives in the next few years. Almost no one can determine how much Fireflyer's sales capacity will explode. Although the price of micro hard drives is much cheaper than traditional hard drives, with its quantity advantage, Seagate Technology's micro hard drive business will even reach a scale comparable to traditional hard drives.

After a series of press releases on the same day, while the stock prices of traditional portable music equipment manufacturers such as Sony fell across the board, Seagate Technology's stock price made a stunning splash, and soared by 12% in just one morning. Perhaps in order to further stimulate the stock price, the CEO of Seagate Technology held a press conference at noon that day to show the media the 2G capacity micro hard drive sample that Seagate has successfully developed, and said that this product may be used in the next generation of Fireflyer players.

When the market was ups and downs due to news related to Fireflyer, an unexpected episode occurred. A newspaper in New York actually dug out the news that Firefly Electronics first came into contact with IBM and hoped to entrust the other party to develop a micro hard drive. As a result, due to IBM's arrogant and slow reaction, the invitation to cooperate was finally left unresolved.

Although IBM has begun to recover under the leadership of the new CEO Gows, the situation is far from that of the past. Now it is even more likely that Microsoft, which was supported by the original market value. Although hard drive manufacturing is only the marginal business of IBM Group, the information revealed by this news about the rich internal problems of IBM Group has to make this traditional high-tech giant cautious. IBM CEO Gowski later appeared in front of the media to defend this "small matter".

Maryland, Jeffrey's Farm.

Although they are harassed by various news from the outside world from time to time, the small farmhouse that is like a paradise still presents a joyful atmosphere.

The wedding will be held on the large lawn behind the Jeffrey's house. In order to cater to the schedule of most guests, the wedding ceremony was chosen at 11:00 tomorrow morning, rather than a traditional afternoon. The wedding scene on the lawn was surrounded by flowers at this time, and some people were still conducting a final inspection of the scene, with pleasant fragrance of flowers floating in the air.

Eric and Chris welcomed the guests who were still coming one after another. In addition to the guests who would arrive tomorrow, there would still be some distant tourists coming today, such as Carsonberg, Victor McNelly, Bill Olsen, Jeff Bezos, etc.

Although it has already begun, the weather in the farm has no sign of hotness.

He was busy until two o'clock in the afternoon and had a simple meal. Eric took a break from his busy schedule to come to the lawn behind the villa, where a simple rehearsal of the wedding ceremony was being conducted. Of course, it was mainly a rehearsal of the flower boys and children.

Although he has a good relationship with Emily, Joanna and Virginia are not suitable for serving as bridesmaids anymore. However, Joanna's sister Eva Pakula will join in the fun.

For the sake of the two women, Eric refused to play the role of Chris's chief groomsman and gave it to one of Chris' cousins. However, the three little guys will serve as flower boys and ring boys at the wedding.

On the lawn, except for Joanna and Virginia, Jeffrey, Emily's parents, Jack Brighton and Melissa Brighton, were also on the scene. There were other relatives from both sides around, and everyone was smiling and watching the performances of five or six little guys.

Eric greeted Jeffrey and others, walked to Virginia and Joanna, sat down, and looked in the middle aisle, the wedding ceremonial racked his brains to coax a group of restless little guys, and asked Virginia with a smile: "Isn't it better to use a pair of flower girls to quit children? There are so many little guys, there will be no trouble tomorrow, right?"

"Even if there is a little trouble in this kind of thing, everyone will smile and go away," Virginia explained, and whispered: "It's hard to arrange so many relatives and friends, so it's not easy to arrange for so many children."

Eric nodded, and while everyone was paying attention to the little guys, he reached out to hug 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, saying, "I am so envious, what are you going to do?"

"Or why we have a wedding too, and I haven't taken wedding photos of three people yet, you and Joan."

"Bah, you bastard, you're too lazy to mess with you," Virginia spat lowly, leaned against Eric, raised her left hand and shook the rose gold ring inlaid with rubies on her ring finger, and said, "I've discussed it with Qiong. If you treat us badly in the future, we will take Kevin and Xia Xia to Europe and will never see you again."

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

"Yes," Virginia gave Eric a glance and said, "and you still have to pay alimony, one billion dollars a year, not a cent."

"Wow," Eric said in a 'shock' face and a 'shaking tone, "How did you calculate this number?"

Virginia was very confident: "Of course it was calculated casually."

"What if I don't give it?"

"Join and I will find a new dad for Xia Xia and Kevin together."

Eric immediately raised his hand and surrendered: "Okay, I'll give in."

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

Virginia smiled, reached out to hold Eric, looked at the baby son in the field with a doting look, and said, "I'm just discussing something with you. Kevin and Xia Xia should go to school, and Hampton has no suitable school."

Eric thought for a while and said, "How about you moving to Manhattan, where there are more private schools."

Virginia shook her head and said, "Jone and I are used to living in Hampton, Manhattan is too noisy."

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

Eric's unintentional words hit Virginia's heart, and the woman said, "Why can't it be? Rockefeller specially set up a school for several of his children, which is the Browning Private School in Manhattan. Your current net worth is not much worse than the Rockefeller family back then, right?"

Eric shook his head and said, "Opening a school is not just a matter of money."

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

Eric had to compromise. He knew that Virginia and Joanna were more important than themselves in the education of their children, so there was nothing to worry about, and said, "Okay, I'll pay for it, you can do whatever you want."

I was busy preparing for the whole day, but many people didn't rest that night. The next day, just as the weather lit up, the farm became lively again.

After breakfast time, guests who could only live in downtown Frederick due to limited space in the farm began to come one after another. Although this wedding was not as grand as the so-called "century wedding" that many wealthy people often boasted about, there were two or three hundred guests. The farm was already full of people three hours before the wedding.

Frederick is only more than 60 kilometers away from Washington, D.C. At nine o'clock, the Clintons and his wife took a helicopter to the farm.

Although Chris cannot be regarded as a public figure, his wedding has attracted a lot of media attention due to his reputation in the North American business world in recent years and the large number of heavyweight guests present this time.

Although the entire farm is private territory, it is not too easy to stop the reporters from sneaking in and taking photos. Eric only felt that the biggest advantage of the arrival of the Clintons was that they could no longer have to worry about stopping the media reporters who wanted to spy on the wedding. The Secret Service agents scattered outside the farm took the initiative to help them do this.

Everyone originally wanted to completely private the wedding and did not accept any media interviews, but since the Clintons and his wife arrived, the White House hoped that media reporters would be present.

After a brief discussion, Eric arranged for reporters from ABC TV, the New York Post and the Washington Post to come to the wedding. ABC TV is the industry of Firefly Group, the New York Post is affiliated with News Corp. The Washington Post was introduced by Warren Buffett, and Berkshire Hathaway is the major shareholder of the Washington Post.

At eleven o'clock, all the guests finished sitting. The music sounded, and the best man, bridesmaid and flower girls appeared one after another. Eric sat near the aisle, watching his children walking in front, Kevin held a ring pillow in his hand, looking solemn. This was obviously the result of Virginia's repeated teachings. Hawaii was carrying a small flower basket, and his eyes were still curiously looking around. Emma behind Hawaii was excitedly throwing flowers with her petals. It seemed that she would not reach the end of the red carpet, and the little guy's flower basket was about to be empty.

Then the groom entered the etiquette table, and everyone immediately stood up to welcome the bride's arrival.

In the eyes of everyone, speeches, sworns, exchange rings, hugs and kisses were completed quickly. When all the ceremony was over, Chris and Emily temporarily left to take photos, and the guests also began to leave the wedding scene and rushed to the adjacent open-air banquet venue.

As soon as Eric got up, Emma, ​​wearing a pink flower girl's skirt, rushed over. Compared to her children, Emma seemed to be more attached to herself. Seeing the little guy stretching his arms to hug, Eric smiled and reached out to hug her.

"Dad, I still have petals, it smells so good," the little guy put his hand around Eric's neck, spread out his other hand, and sent the petals in his palm to Eric's nose: "Smell it."

Eric smelled the little girl's palm and nodded, "Well, it smells so good, Emma is also very fragrant."

"Haha," the little girl smiled happily, then covered her belly and said, "Dad, I'm hungry."

"Be good, it's time to have dinner," Eric said, and seeing the Clintons approaching him, he handed Emma to Joanna who was following him, and then met him.

Clinton glanced slightly at the two women and three little guys, then withdrew his gaze, and asked casually with a smile on his face, "Eric, you will definitely stay in Maryland for a few more days, right?"

The helmsmen of more than a dozen companies under the Firefly System, including Firefly Group, Nokia, Cisco, Qualcomm, American Online, Firefly Electronics, and Amazon, gathered in Maryland. Yoma Olila even flew over from Nordic Europe. Making such a big noise, it is natural that everyone could not simply eat and drink and leave.

Eric naturally had a detailed plan. Everyone would stay in the farm for at least three days to discuss the development of various companies in the Firefly System and the issues of collaborative cooperation between each other.

I didn't understand why Clinton asked this, but Eric nodded. Anyway, this was not a secret.

Seeing Eric nodding, Clinton said, "That's right. I'm planning to hold a dinner for entrepreneurs in the high-tech field at the White House recently. I wonder if you are interested?"

Although it is impossible to be re-elected, the Clintons and his wife obviously have not given up their ambitions of justice, which is also proven in Eric's memory. Firefly Investment has almost gathered a group of Internet high-tech companies that are the most popular in recent years. If these companies can be recruited, it will definitely help them continue to display their ambitions of justice in the future.

Eric just complained, if we are not interested in saying this, will you hold or not do this dinner?

However, of course he wouldn't do such boring things that deliberately tease the president. He nodded and smiled quickly, "Of course, Bill, I'll tell them, but we'll probably stay in Maryland for three more days."

"Oh, the time is right," Clinton said with a faint look of joy on his face, and said, "By the way, you will come here, right?"

Eric was not that happy this time. He was really not interested in the Clintons and said ambiguously: "Maybe, I have too much trouble recently, and I may not be able to get some time."
Chapter completed!