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  Chapter 1102 Spring Breeze Passes Yumen Pass Again

  The mountains don’t see me, I see the mountains. San Jose and Silicon Valley are basically in the same spirit. If they don’t want to decline together, they can only start to save themselves. They are going to expand the airport and build two more terminals to increase more flights.

The entire project is expected to be completed in three years. By then, the total number of boarding gates at San Jose Airport will exceed forty. San Jose Airport and the San Jose Council will jointly provide subsidies to the airlines to allow them to open new flights. , To put it bluntly, it is spending money to pull people's heads!

In the past, when the American aviation industry was booming, several major aviation giants simply looked down on San Jose’s subsidy of tens of millions of dollars a year, but after the World Trade Center incident, let alone America Yes, airlines all over the world have suffered heavy losses, and there are not too many suspended flights. It doesn't take two or three years, and it is impossible to completely recover.

But the aviation industry is no different than others. Even if the plane does not fly, it still has to maintain and pay the crew members. Some airlines still buy the plane with a loan from the bank, and have to repay the loan every month. This grounding, They killed them directly, and began to pay attention to the little subsidy given by San Jose. Mosquitoes, no matter how small they are, are still meat, which is better than not being able to eat anything warm!

In addition to increasing the flights from San Jose to the states of America, we also need to increase flights to Canada, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong City, Singapore and other places. If the effect can meet expectations, direct flights to Shanghai, Yanjing, Penghu City, Moscow flights.

Both San Jose and Silicon Valley need new blood. For a city like San Jose that needs talents and hot money from all over the world, if no one comes, it will really stop. Let’s not mention the Internet and high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. San Jose The hotels, restaurants, transportation, tourism and other industries in China have all been severely affected. If San Jose can no longer attract more people, practitioners in these industries are really about to lose their jobs.

Song Yang’s investment in San Jose Airport will definitely not be recouped in a short period of time, but when the Internet in Silicon Valley recovers and San Jose’s departure becomes busy again, it will probably not be a few years. It can be recovered with interest.

Right now, San Jose, San Francisco, Cupertino and other cities in the Silicon Valley area are having a hard time. Song Yang is not relentless. In these cities, a lot of land has been enclosed, whether it is a farm in the suburbs or a land in the city center. In addition, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, water plants, power plants, food processing plants, etc. also took the opportunity to acquire a large number of them. There are not many opportunities for such price reductions!

  After the recovery of the Internet, whether these circled lands are sold to those giant companies as headquarters, or to Oswald Construction Company to build shopping malls, residential areas, apartments, villas, etc., there is no need to worry about selling them.

In later generations, even those who claim to have high salaries and work in giant Internet companies are also worried about housing. As long as their hearts are not so dark, they don’t need to worry about paying back their capital when they build houses and apartments, whether they are rented or sold. Even during the subprime mortgage crisis, real estate in Silicon Valley was in high demand!

The convoy is driving on the streets of San Jose, and there are advertisements for ICQ, Alcatel mobile phones, Fortinet TV set-top boxes, PayPal, Google, Amazon, eBay and other companies everywhere. Other technology giants have no intentions to compete with these companies in San Jose. .

It’s normal to lose, it’s not your own territory after all, so what if you win, it’s not for nothing Cheap double click company!

Entering the city center, on the huge billboard is a blue bird logo, below is a large series of numbers, followed by a question mark, and this series of numbers has exceeded 70 million, implying Twitter In the world, it has swept more than 70 million users!

This is far beyond the expectations of Wall Street institutions. Previous Wall Street analysts predicted that Twitter users may exceed 100 million this year. This goal is already quite exaggerated. Wall Street institutions already regard ICQ as the king of Internet social networking , to predict.

But as a result, the speed of Twitter’s horizontal tweets far exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. Just entering the third quarter, Twitter’s users exceeded 70 million users, and there is still no sign of stalling. It has completely surpassed the previous math. Home built on all growth models!

Previous ICQ, PayPal, including Google Search, which the whole Wall Street is looking forward to, etc., most of them rely on PC channels to spread, but Twitter can be operated on both computers and mobile phones, enjoying a mobile phone in advance. The dividends of the Internet age.

Global mobile phone users now far exceed computer users, and the annual mobile phone shipments are more than hundreds of millions. To be honest, the computer version of Twitter’s user growth is not exaggerated, but the mobile version users, in the Symbian system, Under the promotion of the Symbian software store, Symbian music store, and Firefox browser, Alcatel mobile phones also use rogue methods to load Twitter as factory software!

The right time, place, and people, coupled with these overt and covert methods, have caused the number of Twitter users to skyrocket all the way. Regardless of whether it makes money or not, at least it sounds bluffing. This is enough. Whether it makes money or not, how to make Twitter Making money is a matter of the future. For the current Internet, users are king, and traffic is everything!

A platform with hundreds of millions of user traffic is enough for Wall Street to blow all kinds of stories. Anyway, they themselves don’t believe it, as long as they blow leeks, it’s enough. This is also the reason why the stock price of Twitter’s parent company ICQ has skyrocketed. Now Although the market value of ICQ is far from the market value of more than 300 billion U.S. dollars at its peak, it has recovered half of its strength, and the current market value has been blown back to about 150 billion U.S. dollars.

  When Song Yang came to the ICQ headquarters, it was completely different from the turbulent and precarious scene when Song Yang regained the controlling stake in ICQ from General Electric just after the Nasdaq collapsed.

When entering the ICQ headquarters, the entire ICQ was filled with an atmosphere of excitement. Seeing Song Yangde came, many ICQ staff, especially the staff of the Twitter project, couldn't help being excited. The arrival of Song Yang means that the bonuses, dividends, and option rewards promised to them before will also be obtained. This means that they can get tens of millions of dollars for participating in the Twitter project. Reward, if you are lucky, you may not be able to directly realize the freedom of wealth!

Now it’s not like before, as long as you come up with a good idea, you may get a huge amount of venture capital. The world has already changed, and now the Internet industry is seeking self-protection. Those who can get bonuses, dividends or even equity awards are really rare.

   "Director Bruno!"

When ICQ returned to Song Yang's hands, Colin McMillan, who was recalled to ICQ, got up immediately when he saw Song Yang and said, "These returnees are all die-hard supporters of Song Yang, and there is no Song Yang general." They recalled ICQ, maybe they are already bankrupt by now.

Now Colin McMillan has become a small director of the Twitter project, the kind that may receive equity rewards. For McMillan, the experience of ups and downs in the past two years is really exciting. Jump back and forth between the realization of wealth and freedom!

  (end of this chapter)