Chapter 240
Chapter 240 Fire Stealer
Song Yang and Double-click have a very tough attitude. The Internet industry and the media are aware of this, but they are so tough that they don't talk about any reconciliation conditions at all, which is beyond everyone's imagination.
You know, even if it is as strong as Microsoft, when it encounters this kind of trouble, it basically chooses to avoid disasters by spending money to settle, and then waits for the next round of anti-monopoly lawsuits. Microsoft has no way to completely cut off this kind of thing.
Can double-click, really set a new record, completely rejected the settlement conditions, and chose to die, which is equivalent to cutting off the back road, and there may only be two results in the end, one is double-click to win a big victory, no need to pay Fine, don't need to be split, and won't get into trouble again in the future.
But media opinion believes that before then, the double-click company will face greater risks. All states in America may launch a class action against Double-click, and the Federal Department of Justice and the Trade Commission may issue huge fines to Double-click again.
In fact, it seems that as expected by the media, after Ella Cherry returned to Houston with nothing in Houston, the state court in Tennessee quickly announced that it would sue KBK Law Firm and David Almeda The class action lawsuit has begun!
After being tossed by the bounty hunters of Blackwater a few days ago, David Almeda also brought a lot of bodyguards with him when he traveled, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be caught and taken to the Houston prison.
With the bodyguards and the support from Tennessee, David Almeda seemed to feel a little safer, and began to appear on the TV station, swearing at Double-Click Company in various ways.
"Double-Click Company is a rogue company through and through. Double-Click Company is not worth the current valuation. I have worked with Double-Click Company for 12 months. I understand it. It has no meaning at all for the Internet industry. The so-called digital advertising , it's nothing more than relocating traditional advertisements to computers!"
David Almeida on Tennessee's state TV station is talking nonsense, derogating the double-click company as useless, and even vetoing the significance of the double-click company to the Internet industry.
This is almost the beginning. People who are targeting DoubleClick have started to use various means. Then there are two states that may file a class action lawsuit against DoubleClick.
Ella Cherry, who returned to Washington, officially announced that she would start an antitrust investigation of DoubleClick. Once the antitrust investigation is established, a series of punishments such as splitting up DoubleClick, including huge fines, would not be ruled out. She also announced that , will promote Capitol Hill and initiate a hearing against Song Yang!
Subsequently, the agencies under the Federal Department of Justice of the United States of America were also pushed to continue to implement the fine of 110 million US dollars for the double-click company because of suspected false advertisements!
For a while, there was a feeling that the double-click company was about to come, and many investors who had finally calmed down began to worry again. Even the double-click company had not yet been listed, and some people had begun to sell the double-click before the purchase. Shares issued by the company.
The double-click company has not been idle either. The lawyer team composed of Clifford Chance and Bob Joffe first officially passed the countersuit against David Ameda in Houston, proposing to file a lawsuit against David Ameda. Malicious lawsuits, theft of commercial secrets and other lawsuits, once the lawsuits are successful, David Almeda will pay more than tens of millions of dollars in compensation!
After the case was filed in Houston, the lawyer team led by Clifford Chance and Bob Joffe fought lawsuits in America, a class action lawsuit in Tennessee, and false advertisements with the Department of Justice in New York courts. A huge fine lawsuit, an antitrust lawsuit with the Trade Commission in Washington.
Anyway, for a while, as long as the media reports the news of Double-click Company, it will not report that it is about to go public, but report which lawsuit it has filed again!
As for the hearing on whether Song Yang should go to Capitol Hill, it was also very noisy. As long as he went to this hearing, he would definitely be humiliated. Those old men on Capitol Hill may not understand the Internet at all. It's just stalking people at the hearing, and asking all kinds of embarrassing questions.
Anyway, attending the hearing on Capitol Hill is definitely not good news for a person, just like a criminal being interrogated, and it may be broadcast live in the whole of America. Even if it survives, it will become a lifelong stain. laughing stock!
Ella Cherry wanted to initiate Song Yang to go through the hearing on Capitol Hill, but some people strongly opposed it. A group of congressmen headed by Graham strongly opposed to initiating a hearing on Capitol Hill to Song Yang Yes, Tom Delay and other lawmakers from the Elephant Party in Washington also expressed dissatisfaction.
For a while, an incredible scene happened in response to this matter. The Donkey Party, which originally supported the Internet, wanted to hold a congressional hearing against Song Yang.
The Elephant Party, which has always been indifferent to the Internet, opposed this hearing and even demanded to stop a series of investigations on Double-click.
This is probably something that no one has thought of, but in this controversy, Double-Click Company issued a "Notice to Investors", publicly stating that Double-Click Company will not stop listing, but will be listed on schedule!
In this announcement, the double-click company uses the role of "victim" to express that the double-click company has suffered a lot of injustice and targeting, and it has endured all this for the entire "Internet industry". Carrying the burden on them...
At first, it was said that Double-Click Company was disrespected by the company, but when the topic changed in the announcement, Double-Click Company began to become "awe-inspiring", claiming as the leader of "America's Internet advertising industry", that Double-Click Company's struggle is For the entire Internet industry.
Double-Click Company is Internaxonel of the Internet industry, Prometheus, the Fire Stealer of the Internet Industry, and fights against powerful opponents for the light of the Internet. If there is no Double-Click Company, the entire Internet industry will be destroyed by Ella. Cherie is such a bitch, so the Internet must support double-clicking, and it's only a matter of saying that if you don't support double-clicking, you're not an American...
This announcement is not so much an announcement, but a proof of Double-Click's "hard work", and it is also for those on Wall Street to tell them how important Double-Click is, and if Double-Click is gone, the entire Aramco Lijia Internet will be gone, and the money they invested will be in vain!
No matter how many disputes and lawsuits there are, when the double-click company was about to go public, Song Yang, Whitman and other double-click company teams flew to New York to prepare to participate in the double-click listing ceremony.
Even though the stock price is sluggish and the market value is not going to recover after the listing, the publicity and promotion of the double-click listing are still in full swing.
Double-click advertisements appeared on the big screens in Times Square, interviews on TV stations, and New York newspapers and magazines. The billboards on both sides of the road leading to Nasdaq were also full of double-click advertisements. , the situation is no smaller than when Yahoo went public. Although he knew that these might lose money, Song Yang still let people do all of them.
As the Bruno family, the first listed company, the entire Bruno family, including the old Bruno and his wife, took a chartered plane to New York to witness this scene.
In the Internet and technology industry, double-clicking is also a widely distributed invitation post, and many well-known Internet companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Netscape, Altavista, Artisdirect, Lycos, Infoseek, etc. have been sent invitations.
Even in order to break the lie of Double-Click's monopoly on Internet advertising, Double-Click specially invited L90 and VCLK, several rivals in the Internet advertising industry, to witness Double-Click's listing.
Double-click the company's listing this time, the companies and personnel invited even exceeded the scale of Netscape and the listing, but it is really hard to say how many people will come.
A hotel in New York has been booked by Double-Click Company, and it is specially used to receive guests and hold banquets.
On the eve of Double-Click's listing, the North Shore Manor on Long Island, New York was brightly lit, and a small banquet was being held here, attended by the Bruno family and the investors of Double-Click.
When Song Yang and Jenny in evening gown came out, there was a burst of cheers from the banquet, and the man dressed like a dog, holding Hailey's Gallo on his arm, stepped forward to give Song Yang a glass of wine.
Song Yang raised his wine glass and said to the crowd at the banquet, "Double click!"
There was a lot of cheers at the scene. The people present today are basically "our own people", so the atmosphere is quite good.
Holding a wine glass, Hai Li, who looks like a socialite, looks at the crowd at the banquet. She doesn't know if today is a celebrity banquet, but she just heard that there will be an even grander banquet after the double-click listing tomorrow. , At that time, there will be more celebrities and dignitaries from New York and Wall Street who will be invited. I even heard that the richest man Bill Gates has sent people, and some people from Washington have also come to congratulate.
If someone told Haili before last year that she could attend a banquet with Wall Street investment bankers, New York ladies, and Washington congressmen, Haili would never believe it, but now Haili is already I was able to participate!
Song Yang greeted all the people, especially the few people present today, ICQ, America Telecom, and Feita Company, all of them were present today. These are Song Yang's real "own people". I'm here to cheer on Double Click.
In addition to Guo, there are two other special people who are also present today. Martin Solo of WPP Group and Jotus, President of Wang An Group, also arrived early today!
When Song Yang passed by, Martin Solo and Jotus seemed to be having a "happy conversation". There was no grievance that had arisen when the company double-clicked on the investment before. At that time, Martin Solo intercepted Jotus's phone. Hu.
"President Martin, President Jotus!" Song Yang, holding a wine glass, said to the two.
(end of this chapter)