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   Chapter 240 Fire Thief

  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 such troubles, it basically chooses to break the bank and avoid disasters, spend money to settle, and then wait for the next round of anti-monopoly lawsuits, and it starts again and again, even if it knows that someone is targeting, Microsoft has no way to completely cut off this kind of thing.

But the double-click really set a new record. It completely refused to accept the reconciliation conditions, and chose to die just to go. Fines, don't need to be split, and won't get into trouble again in the future.

   However, media public opinion believes that before that, the double-click company faces greater risks. All states in America may initiate a class action against the double-click company, and the federal Department of Justice, the Trade Commission, etc., may once again issue a huge fine to the double-click company.

In fact, it seems that as the media expected, after Ella Cherry returned to Houston with nothing in Houston and a completely torn face, the state court in Tennessee quickly announced that it would launch a lawsuit against KBK Law Firm and David Ameda. The class action lawsuit begins!

   After being tossed by the bounty hunters of Blackwater a few days ago, David Ameda also brought a lot of bodyguards when he went out, for fear that he would be caught in the Houston prison if he was not careful.

  With the bodyguards and the support from Tennessee, David Ameda seemed to feel a little safer, and began to appear on the TV station, yelling at the Double-click company.

"Double-click is a complete rogue and scam company. Double-click is not worth its current valuation. I have worked with Double-click for 12 months, and I understand it. It has no meaning at all for the Internet industry. The so-called digital advertising , it's just moving traditional advertising to the computer!"

   David Ameda on the Tennessee state TV station is a big talker, and he will double-click the company, belittle it to nothing, and even reject the significance of the double-click company to the Internet industry.

   This is almost the beginning. People who are targeting Double-click have started to use various means, and then there are two states. It is rumored that a class action may be filed against Double-click.

Ella Cherry, who returned to Washington, officially announced that Double-click will start an anti-monopoly investigation. Once the anti-monopoly investigation is established, it is not ruled out that a series of punishments, including splitting of Double-click, including huge fines, will be taken, and announced that , will push Capitol Hill and initiate a hearing against Song Yang!

   Subsequently, the agency under the Federal Department of Justice of America was also promoted and will continue to execute the fine of 110 million US dollars for Double-click Company for suspected false advertising!

For a while, there was a feeling that the storm was about to come and the building was full of wind and wind. Many investors who had finally been appeased began to worry again. Even before the company was listed, some people had already started to sell the previously purchased Double-click in advance. The company issues shares.

The double-click company is not idle. The lawyers team composed of Clifford Chance and Bob Joffe, first in Houston, officially passed the counter-suit against David Ameda and filed a lawsuit against David Ameda. A number of lawsuits including malicious lawsuits and theft of trade secrets, once the lawsuit is successful, will make David Ameda compensate more than ten million dollars!

After the Houston case was filed, a team of lawyers led by Clifford Chance and Bob Joffe filed lawsuits in America, a class action lawsuit in Tennessee, and false advertising with the Department of Justice in a New York court. Huge fine lawsuit, and 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 is not to report that it is about to go public, but to report which lawsuit it has filed!

The hearing on whether Song Yang should go to Capitol Hill was also very noisy. As long as you go to this hearing, you will definitely be humiliated. Those Capitol Hill gentlemen may not understand the Internet at all. It's just 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, it is like a criminal being interrogated, and it may also be broadcast live in America, even if it survives, it will become a lifetime stain with laughing stock!

Ella Cherry wanted to initiate Song Yang's hearing on Capitol Hill, but some people strongly opposed it. A group of congressmen headed by Grimm strongly opposed to Song Yang's hearing on Capitol Hill. Yes, Tom DeLay and other members of the Elephant Party in Washington also expressed dissatisfaction.

   In response to this incident, an unbelievable scene happened. The donkey party that originally supported the Internet wanted to have a congressional hearing against Song Yang.

   The Elephant Party, who has always been indifferent to the Internet, opposed the hearing and even demanded that a series of investigations against DoubleClick be stopped.

   This is probably something that no one has thought of, but in this kind of 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, Double-click Company uses the role of "victim" to indicate that Double-click Company has suffered a lot of injustice and targeting, and it has endured all this for the entire "Internet industry". How can the Internet have a quiet time, it is Double-click Company Carrying the weight for them...

First of all, it was said that Double-click Company was rejected by the company, but as soon as the announcement was made, Double-click Company began to become "righteous and awe-inspiring", claiming as the leader of the "America Internet Advertising Industry" that Double-click Company's resistance was for the entire Internet industry.

Double-click company is the Internet industry's Intel Schoner, Prometheus, the fire thief in the Internet industry, fighting 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 a jerk, so the Internet must support double-click, just say that, if you don't support double-click, you're not American...

This announcement is not so much an announcement book as it is a proof of double-click "hard work and hard work", and it is also for the people on Wall Street to see how important Double-click is, and if Double-click is gone, the entire Aramco Lijia Internet will be gone, and the money they invest will be lost!

   No matter how many controversies and lawsuits, when it was approaching the listing of Double-click Company, Song Yang flew to New York with Whitman and other Double-click Company teams to participate in Double-click's listing ceremony.

   Even after the listing, the stock price will slump and the market value will plummet, but the publicity and promotion of DoubleClick's listing is still in full swing.

On the big screen in Times Square, interviews with TV stations, and newspapers and magazines in New York, there are advertisements of Double-Click Company, and the billboards on both sides of the road leading to Nasdaq are also full of Double-Click Company advertisements. , the battle is no smaller than when Yahoo went public. Although he knew that these might lose money, Song Yang still asked people to do everything.

  As the Bruno family, the first listed company, the entire Bruno family, including the old Bruno couple, took a charter flight to New York to witness this scene.

   In the Internet and technology industries, double-click is also widely issued invitations, Microsoft, Yahoo, Netscape, Altavista, Artisdirect, Lycos, Infoseek and many other well-known Internet companies have been sent out invitations.

   Even in order to break the lie of Double-click Company's monopoly on Internet advertising, Double-click Company specially invited L90 and VCLK several competitors in the Internet advertising industry to witness Double-click's listing.

  Double-click company is listed this time, and the companies and people invited are even more than Netscape and the size of the listing, but it is really hard to say how many people will come.

   A hotel in New York has been contracted by Double Click Company, which is specially used to receive guests and hold banquets.

  Double-click the eve of the company's listing, the North Shore manor on Long Island, New York was brightly lit. A small banquet was being held here. Basically, the Bruno family and the investors of the double-click company came to attend.

   When Song Yang and Jenny, who was wearing an evening dress, came out, there was a burst of cheers at the banquet. The man dressed like a dog held Hailey's Gallo and brought Song Yang a glass of wine.

  Song Yang raised his glass and said to the crowd at the banquet, "Double-tap!"

   There was a lot of cheers at the scene, and the people present today were basically "my own people", so the atmosphere was quite good.

Holding a wine glass, Hai Li, who has a reserved image of a celebrity, looked at the crowd at the banquet. She didn't know whether it was a celebrity banquet today, but she heard that there will be a more grand banquet after the double-click listing tomorrow. , At that time, there will be more celebrities and dignitaries from New York and Wall Street to be invited, and even I heard that the richest man Bill Gates has sent someone, and there are people from Washington who came to congratulate him.

To say that before last year, someone told Hailey that she could attend a banquet with investment bank bosses on Wall Street, celebrities in New York, and congressmen in Washington. Hailey would never believe it, but now Hailey is already a able to participate!

Song Yang greeted a group of people, especially a few people who were present today, ICQ, American Telecom, and Fortinet, all of them were present today. These are the real "own people" on Song Yang's side. It's here to cheer on Double Click.

   In addition to the past, there are two other special characters who are also present today. Martin Solo of WPP Group and Joetus, President of Wang An Group, are also here today!

When Song Yang passed by, Martin Soro and Chotus seemed to be "talking very happily", and there was no grudge against him when they invested in DoubleClick, when Martin Soro intercepted Chotus. Hu.

   "President Martin, President Chotus!" Song Yang, who was holding a wine glass, said to the two of them.

   There is one more chapter, it will be later

   (end of this chapter)