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Chapter 628: IE Free

In the week starting from April 4, Westeros System launched three huge claims lawsuits against Hirst Group on Monday. Daenerys Entertainment Group officially submitted an IPO application on Wednesday. The popularity of the two heavyweight news events has not cooled down at all. On April 8, on Friday, Westeros System created another explosive news.

Igrit Company suddenly announced that its most popular Internet basic tool software, IE browser, is officially open to the public for free.

At a press conference on Friday morning, Igret CEO Tim Berners Lee said that the company's move is to further promote the openness of the World Wide Web platform. For users, from now on, IE users around the world will no longer be unable to update and use the latest version of browser software due to charging reasons. For enterprises, the latest technological achievements that continue to emerge in the Internet industry will be able to be promoted to users as soon as possible based on the IE software platform.

During the reporter's Q&A session, facing some media people's harsh questions about whether IE browser is free to deal with the antitrust investigation that Igrit Company may encounter, Tim Berners Lee firmly denied it, and once again listed the various measures that Igrit Company has continuously promoted the openness of the World Wide Web platform in the past few years. Finally, he did not forget to accuse the recent improper lawsuits against many technology companies in the Westeros system of the misconduct of some media and sensational politicians who were maliciously fueling the fire.

Recalling the recent conflict between the Westeros system and the Hurst Group, the target of Tim Berners Lee's accusation is self-evident.

The reporter at the scene immediately realized that the Westeros system should have been under "litigation bombing" during this period, but the strength of the plaintiffs who filed lawsuits against Westeros system technology companies were obviously not good, and the only thing they could get behind the scenes was some public opinion support, far less than the tens of millions of dollars of real money that Simon Westeros directly spent in the three lawsuits on Monday.

Faced with a behemoth like the Westeros system, not to mention that the lawsuits themselves have very little chance of winning. Even if some of them can barely win, they will not cause substantial harm to the Westeros system at all.

At this stage, if we want to balance the rapid expansion of the Westeros system, the only way for the federal government to take action.

However, the White House, which is rumored to have ambiguous relationship with the Westeros system, has no intention of taking action so far. The two houses of Congress have no shortage of relevant appeals, but it is a pity that it is not easy for the Senate and the House of Representatives, which are full of factions, to reach an agreement, not to mention that most of the seats in both houses are controlled by the Democratic Party, and the Westeros system is already well-known as the largest funder of the Democratic Party.

Igrit suddenly gave up earnings of hundreds of millions of dollars a year to promote the announcement of IE free. The specific strategic intention is to promote the opening of the Internet, the interests of the company, and the potential antitrust threat. Perhaps only a few core senior executives of Igrit know.

Of course, there must be a young man.

It is rare for senior executives to communicate directly with the media and end their questions about the free intention of IE browser. The reporters on the scene also mentioned the increasingly popular "Happy Farm".

Although the Igrit portal did not announce the number of players for the next week of "Happy Farm" online, the media with great powers still obtained relevant data.

After quickly accumulating 6.97 million players in the first week, the second week of online launch, the increase in players of "Happy Farm" hit a new high under the hot topic, reaching 8.29 million. In two weeks, the total number of players in this phenomenal online social game has reached 15.26 million.

In terms of revenue, compared with the $2.61 million in the first week, the number of overseas players who have not yet fully expanded their payment channels has increased significantly. Happy Farm's second week earned $4.37 million. The revenue growth of 67% in a single week may be far less than the increase of player up to 118% in the same period, but the revenue of such a scale is still far beyond the initial expectations of the operation team.

In fact, some people within Igret have proposed to postpone the launch of this game in overseas markets so that in the future, online payment tools in overseas markets will be further popularized and more profitable.

The proposal was rejected by Bezos before it even arrived in front of Simon.

After learning about the dispute, Simon also personally sent an email to the management of Igrit, expressing his support for Bezos' decision.

First of all, the development difficulty of "Happy Farm" is very low, just like the Chinese studio launched this game in 2008, and the American colleagues launched an equally successful copycat version the following year.

The same situation is likely to happen if the overseas release of "Happy Farm" is delayed.

Moreover, if it is just a game, it is nothing, once the overseas market is taken advantage of, the result is likely to be that other Internet companies rely on this game to take advantage of the situation, which is what Simon most reluctant to see.

From the beginning, Egret's goal of developing Facebook was to create a huge social network connecting the world.

This kind of effort was only achieved through the celebrity effect as much as possible.

Now, the phenomenal "Happy Farm" has truly made thousands of players from different languages, different nationalities and different skin colors gather together in a virtual social game.

After half a month of online launch, Facebook's global total number of users increased from 49 million to 53 million in the first week, and from 53 million to 61 million in the second week. In two weeks, the total number of users soared by 12 million, of which about 5 million were from overseas. Before that, among Facebook's 49 million user base, the total number of overseas users was only 13 million.

Just because "Happy Farm" has strongly stimulated the growth of Facebook user base, even if this game doesn't make a penny, it is completely worth it for Igrit.

The industry can see that there are not many key peers and media, and these people are more concerned about whether Igrit will continue to open up its own platform to other game manufacturers.

After Simon made the decision last Friday, Igret management has been discussing the formulation of relevant terms over the past week.

At this IE free press conference, in the face of media’s questioning, Tim Berners Lee also officially gave a positive return.

Igrit Company will continue to maintain an attitude of external cooperation. Not only will it not close its own platform to external game manufacturers, but it will not even establish a direct game development team in order to focus on its core business. In the future, it will only introduce game content from external manufacturers.

Even if Tim Berners Lee then adds that the Igrit Venture Capital Department will set up a special fund specifically for investing in online game productions with a total scale of about $100 million, such a reply still makes many people overjoyed.

Igret does not directly engage in game production and purchases content completely from the outside, which is equivalent to giving up most of the profits of the huge online game market.

Is this God's appearance, or is it an angel coming to the earth?

IE free has benefited hundreds of millions of ordinary Internet users. The extremely open game cooperation strategy will bring huge practical benefits to many game developers around the world.

The news quickly spread from the headquarters of Igrit Company in San Francisco to the world. On that day, most electronic game manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia held special high-level meetings for this, and some companies couldn't wait to contact Igrit management to discuss the possibility of cooperation between the two parties.

The same day.

In Hollywood, the "Jurassic Park 2" project, which has been rumored for a long time, has been officially announced.

Steven Spielberg's complete withdrawal is expected

It was like a sudden emergence of new director Michael Bay attracted strong attention from the media. After investigation, it was found that the filmmaker was just an MV director before, and his only film work had not been released yet.

For a super bombshell series with a box office of almost $1 billion worldwide, Daenerys Entertainment has launched a newcomer with almost no experience in filmmaking. Even though Simon Westeros has proved his outstanding vision in many big-time movie projects, this bold move still aroused concerns and doubts from many media.

Because Daenerys Entertainment is very nervous about this matter, and if you can't find out the inside story, everyone can only turn their attention to Michael Bay's upcoming film debut "Star Gate" that will be released on May 13.

Relying on the Internet platform, especially the rising self-media people on Facebook, traditional newspapers had no time to report on the news in just a few hours. News about the new director of "Jurassic Park 2" Michael Bay and "Star Gate" became a hot topic on social networks.

Michael Bay's profile was dug up in one day.

The public then discovered that this talented MV director has not only won many top MV-related awards, but is also the director of the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Even if the Victoria's Secret Show held two sessions, the first Victoria's Secret show videotape, which has become a must-have for many men, is enough to be called a classic.

As for "Star Gate", this film is also quite famous.

The script of the film is from Roland Emmerich, the director of the DC Cinema Universe "Superman" series, and the other party personally served as the producer. "Superman" directed by Emmerich not only achieved a box office success, but also stood out from the three core directors of the DC series and was announced to be the director of the important crossover of the DC Cinema Universe "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice".

The filmmaker's script obviously has strong quality assurance.

Although the media and the public still have widespread doubts about Michael Bay's directed "Jurassic Park 2", in just one day, "Star Gate", scheduled for May 13, has almost achieved publicity results that may not necessarily be achieved if it spends tens of millions of dollars.

Even many Hollywood colleagues have to admire Daenerys Entertainment's exciting marketing operations.

Of course, there are many people waiting to watch the fun.

If the quality of the film "Star Gate" does not meet the audience's expectations, or even a box office defeat, it can be imagined that it will definitely impact fans' expectations for "Jurassic Park 2". At that time, Daenerys Entertainment will have to replace the director if he wants to make up for it.

However, according to the official launch schedule of "Jurassic Park 2", it is not easy to replace the director in a short period of time, unless Simon Westeros, who has not picked up the guide again in recent years, comes out in person.

It's still this day.

In the second week of the Easter schedule, Daenerys Entertainment quietly released another new film, the comedy "Detective's Aircraft Head" starring Jim Carrey.

Compared with the total investment of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" last week, the production budget of "Detective Aircraft Head" is only $15 million. Although the promotion and offensive is not small, it has only invested 10 million US dollars. The opening scale of the film's 1,837 screen is also far less than the opening number of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" in 2,763 screens.

Moreover, compared with the 6.3-point comprehensive media rating of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3", the critic, who has always had no good impression of spoof comedy, only gave Jim Carrey a rating of 5.1 points.

The production scale of medium and low cost, unsatisfactory reputation, and the schedule of Easter tail, all these elements seem to mean that "Detective's Aircraft Head" will be a lukewarm box office dud.

Since Simon found an opportunity to confess something to Janet after Easter, he has been facing a very serious domestic violence situation recently.

Simon actually understood that Janet did not resist or anger at a certain fact, but instead showed a strange sense of excitement, probably a special emotion of "you will never be able to get out of relationship with me again". However, on the surface, of course, he had to constantly condemn Simon as a bastard, hooligan, pervert, liar, big liar, and even when he was in love, he suddenly accused Simon of being a "CF".

This is too much.

So I was dealt with miserably.

Simon is even more miserable.

Just like Janet, who suddenly entered the teeth grinding period, left tooth marks on his shoulders, chest, arms, neck and even cheeks almost every day, so that even the female assistant suffered. Fortunately, the woman did not mean to speak to the children, otherwise Simon would have to use the family law.

Facing Janet who was in a small manic state, Veronica even hid in Europe in the name of a business trip.

After a few days of this, Simon finally decided to protest with "running away from home" and flew to New York on Friday, April 8.

All right.

In fact, it's mainly business.

As the TV promotion season approaches May, many matters of Daenerys TV department on the East Coast need Simon to be involved in.

After getting the "Friends" project from ICM, Daenerys TV recently negotiated a TV series project with Michael Clayton, the original novel author of "Jurassic Park", called "The Story of the Emergency Room".

Medical dramas are a major category in the field of American TV dramas, but "The Story of the Emergency Room" can be said to be a peak in American medical dramas. So much so that after the new century, many popular medical dramas such as "Grey's Anatomy" clearly have the shadow of "The Story of the Emergency Room". Not only that, because of the role of Dr. Chen played by Wen Mingna in the series, this American drama also unexpectedly made the image of Asian doctors deeply rooted in the hearts of the United States. Many Asians even chose the medical major after this American drama.

Daenerys TV has launched a popular combination of comedy and dramas, "Seinfeld" and "Desperate Housewives" in addition to popular reality shows. Now, as long as "Friends" and "The Story of the Emergency Room" can achieve the same success as in the original time and space, Daenerys will have two more aces in the TV series field.

The American TV industry produces hundreds of TV series every year, no less than Hollywood movies.

Therefore, phenomenally popular TV series are definitely hard to come by. These four aces mastered by Daenerys Entertainment not only mean a billion-dollar potential benefit, but can further increase the bargaining chips for Daenerys Entertainment to continue to expand into the TV field.
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