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During Simon's trip to Asia, many other things happened at the same time.

On March 29, Ukraine held the first parliamentary election after the 1996 Constitution, with a total of 450 parliamentary seats. All 20 parliamentary members elected by the Ukrainian Progressive Alliance Party supported by the Westeros system in Ukraine were easily elected. Even though the number of 20 people was not much compared to the total number of 450 members, it announced that the Westeros system began to directly participate in Ukrainian politics.

This is just the beginning.

Next, the Westeros system will continue to gain control of the country step by step with a method of boiling frogs in warm water until it is completely controlled.

Another thing, on April 2, suddenly came out that the Hurst family was seeking to sell the San Francisco Chronicle, which was the heaviest newspaper owned by the Hurst Group after suffering a heavy blow in 1994. However, compared with the valuation of up to $700 million a few years ago, with the rapid decline of print media and the well-known Westeros system targeting the Hurst family, the offer that Hurst hoped to get was only about $300 million, less than half of the previous years.

However, even so, after the news was released, no buyer contacted the Hurst family until Simon returned to Los Angeles.

Everyone was waiting and inquire.

In addition to the current investment and acquisition of paper media, the key to whether this transaction can be achieved has fallen on Simon.

To be honest, if Simon didn't nod, no one would dare to buy it.

In recent years, the Westeros system has become increasingly powerful. The Hurst family has been in such an embarrassing situation. All aspects of cooperation with the Hurst Group are cautious, for fear of offending a young super tycoon because of this. As for the sale of the San Francisco Chronicle this time, it is obviously not a whim.

The Hurst family has been trying to sell media assets in recent years, but in addition to the general environment, they still have a certain mentality of putting them in order to avoid the end of getting water from the bamboo basket.

It was not until the news broke that the Hurst family contributed a family girl to Simon Westeros as a lover. As a settlement between the two parties, the Hurst family took the opportunity to sell the San Francisco Chronicle. It is even conceivable that if the San Francisco Chronicle could successfully leave the market this time, the other small and medium-sized newspapers controlled by the Hurst Group will be sold one after another, and the funds will be recovered to establish a trust, which is enough to ensure the long-term and prosperous life of the entire Hurst family.

When some people were still discussing a certain gossip with some weird mentality, when Simon returned to Los Angeles, obviously after some communication, News Group took the lead and began to contact Hearst Group.

The potential connection between News Group and the Westeros system is not a secret. As Murdoch began to take action, this obviously became a clear signal. Other intentional capitals have also made tentative quotes. After all, it is the largest newspaper in the San Francisco area. If the price of about $300 million is still very cost-effective.

Even some weak media capitals realized that they might not be able to get the San Francisco Chronicle, so they directly tried to other newspapers distributed in North America by the Hurst family, and also received quite positive signals.

Simon didn't expect the Hurst family to do this, and he was quite straightforward and neat.

But there was no objection.

In Western society, mastering a large amount of media is not much different from mastering an army.

The Hurst family did this, which was equivalent to actively disarming, saying that they would never pose a threat to the Westeros system again, which was a very smart measure. Otherwise, if they had mastered a large number of media in one day, Simon would not let go of their vigilance against the Hurst family in one day, because everyone else understood this. Even if they mastered a large number of media, they would not dare to make any excessive moves.

By exchanging all media assets for money, the Hurst family will return to a state of nouveau riche that was once most despised by their own old money. They are very rich, but they lose potential power comparable to money, and may even become fat sheep in the eyes of some people.

Simon is happy to see this transformation of the Hurst family, and of course it will not stop it.

When the Hurst family began to deal with their own media assets, Simon returned to North America. Daenerys Entertainment also received good news first. The acquisition of the veteran record giant Polygon was approved by the two governments, and the two sides officially entered the delivery stage. After the combination of Daenerys Entertainment's record assets with Polygon, it will also become the world's largest record company, with music copyright reserves of more than 3 million songs.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment has begun to secretly absorb Blockbuster's shares and will soon officially openly accept Blockbuster's plan.

Subsequently, on April 10, on the other side of the ocean, "Titanic" was officially released in Chinese theaters on the other side of the ocean. In the following three days, the box office in China reached 63 million, and it is expected that it may successfully exceed 100 million in just one week. Not only that, relying on the Oscar halo of "Titanic" and the global box office miracle, this movie has quickly formed a phenomenal movie viewing craze in China. It can be said that it has reached the box office data of 360 million, which is easy.

Simon contacted Chen Qing privately and talked about this matter again.

At the right time, the pirated VCD disc of "Titanic" will be released. At the same time, the film will be released in China for a month, and the total box office will be kept at around 300 million yuan.

Don't be too conspicuous.

Chen Qing did not question the slightest question in her reply, and she also said enthusiastically that the wave of "Titanic" will inevitably further stimulate the sales of VCDs, and she will definitely not lose money.

Simon returned to Los Angeles this time and did not leave again until after Easter on April 12, with the first stop being in San Francisco.

It's still about an acquisition.

Egret Company acquires the Instagram image sharing website created by D Girl and others.

This is actually a plan that Simon had made very early. It was just that before the Internet bubble burst last year, Instagram's stock price was too high, so he did not rush to take action.

The recent recovery of the Internet industry has also allowed Simon to accelerate the layout in many aspects, one of which is very important is Instagram.

Because this is related to Egret's next social network layout.

For Igrit, Simon has divided the corresponding sectors very early on, such as software service business with cloud computing as the core, e-commerce business with Amazon as the core, search business with rapidly growing Google search engine as the core, social network business with Facebook as the core, etc.

Others such as games can only be considered supplements.

Because Simon knew very well how large the projects he had set out would grow to in the future. In other aspects, it might be able to grow bigger, but there is still a considerable gap between the trillion-level.

Let’s talk about social networking business, only one Facebook is definitely not enough.

With the development to this point, the brand new Facebook is actually a comprehensive social platform, and it involves some aspects. However, if it is limited to this, future growth will inevitably reach a bottleneck.

Therefore, we need to find another way.

Instagram is one of them.

Facebook once acquired Instagram and spent $1 billion. In the early days, many people thought the price was very high and believed that a simple image sharing website would not bring too much profit to Facebook, which was only the icing on the cake. In fact, the subsequent development of Instagram surprised many people. Advertising revenue exceeded $20 billion just 7 years after Facebook won Instagram.

This time, Instagram, created by D Girl and other girls under the guidance of Simon, has not shined for the time being because the mobile Internet era has not yet arrived, but has developed very rapidly in the past few years. In 1997, even though the Internet bubble burst, Instagram's annual revenue still grew steadily, reaching US$460 million for the whole year and net profit of 130 million.

As for the reason, because the business model is simple enough, and the increasing maturity of Igret cloud computing services, the operating cost of Instagram, which only needs to be hosted, is quite low. Moreover, compared with other Internet companies, the intuitive visual experience of image sharing makes the effect of advertising to this website very considerable, so the main advertising business has grown quite rapidly.

The final result is that, like Igrit, Instagram's stock price is also quite strong, and has been around US$16 billion recently, equivalent to a price-to-earnings ratio of 120 times.

Simon's long-term layout of Igrit has not changed. At the right time, Igrit will definitely be split. However, before this, integration must be carried out first. After the new technology bubble burst in March last year, until now, Igrit has been constantly eating up various small companies that were spotted here in advance. This acquisition of Instagram is the biggest move.

But it's quite simple.

Simon arrived in San Francisco and personally participated in a high-level meeting between both sides, and the plan was immediately finalized.

Igrit will still acquire Instagram in a stock and cash model for US$20 billion. It wants to offer a premium of around 20%, of which 70% will be paid in stock and 30% will be given cash.

A 20% premium is definitely not to be considered before the new technology bubble burst last year. Even now, with the news being announced, some small shareholders will inevitably raise criticism. Fortunately, the absolute control of Instagram is in the hands of the Westeros system, and criticism can only be criticized.

Even if you file a lawsuit, you will have a little front-line institutions that have the strength to compete with the Westeros system, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan, you will not be so stupid as to have an unpleasant relationship with the Westeros system for this matter. Small-scale investors will be boring to sue.

The western suburbs of San Francisco.

On the manor in the Woodside Mountains, it is Wednesday, April 15.

After a busy day, in the evening, Simon once again took a group of Yingyingyan here, with Girl C, Girl D, Alice, Little Jenny, and even the waist and leg meshes who were determined to be in San Francisco.

Simon is now very happy to see the women around him leave and return to the normal state of life in the eyes of the world.

There are too many, and I am not a bad guy.

However, it can be considered as a self-inflicted person, just like the waist and legs sperm pinched together by him. Women are paired with each other, even if Simon is not there, they have formed their own stable social state without realizing it.

Speaking of which, this is still an economic issue.

A group of women in Silicon Valley, whose net worth exceeds 100 million can only be considered a threshold, and only 1 billion can be considered a hint of greeting people.

With money, neither men nor women will like the regular lifestyle too much.

After all, with Simon's match, I found that two women lived together, which was actually quite good. Occasionally, a man came over and was considered a adjustment, and life would be very comfortable. Why do you have to find a man who is worse than you?

A living room in the main villa.

When we returned in the evening, we went to take a hot bath and had a lively dinner together, so we gathered here to watch TV together.

Little Jenny fell into Simon's arms as she was petite enough.

The left and right are waist and leg essence.

On the single sofa next to me, there were two girls C and D sitting opposite each other, and a former butler with a cold personality seemed to be sitting on a round pier next to D.

No one cares what they say on TV.

The topic of discussion is what girls D do next after selling Instagram.

Simon held the little Jenny, who was frivolous and restless, and said to the D girl: "Actually, for several years, I have been thinking about this issue intermittently. In the eyes of many people, the development of the Westeros system has reached an extreme. What else do I have to do next."

Girl D subconsciously asked, "Boss, do you have the answer?"

Simon felt the pseudo-loli in his arms and slapped her little buttocks: "Jenny, what do you think?"

"The 3G plan," Jennifer Brie blurted out, straightened his waist and hugged the man's neck, and then said, "Actually, I'm more interested in research on life sciences. Boss, I'm looking forward to you to make us live to hundreds of years old."

The C girl next to her said, "Actually, I think it may be boring to live to hundreds of years old, just like a group of vampires. Haha, in various stories, vampires who have lived for a long time, actually have no happy ones. Death is the most pleasant ending that makes them feel in an instant."

Girl C said this, and everyone looked at Simon again, and even Alice, who seemed absent-minded, looked at her, and was very curious about Simon's possible answer.

Simon said: "I don't think so. There are really vampires. In my opinion, they are just living for life, but we can make ourselves live a little more exciting and constantly set various goals for ourselves. Moreover, these goals are definitely not the kind of life ideals that are common in the secular world."

"Boss, what about?"

"Explore the mysteries of the universe and go to the distant places of the starry sky."

Yasmin Gary said softly next to her: "It sounds so big."

Legs Naga Allman followed and agreed: "It sounds so tired."

Little Jenny smiled with some gloating smile.

"The goal is big enough to carry unlimited time, and I'm just an example." Simon said, seeing that the two fairies around him still didn't agree with each other, he didn't mind, and smiled and said, "So, you women."

"Simon, you're discriminating."

“Sexism.”

"Okay, I'm guilty."
Chapter completed!