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  Chapter 676

  As a **** "Song Blowing", the Oakland Tribune questioned the data released by Xue Leshan, not that it was too high, but that it was too low!

"Half-Life's first-day sales were more than 1.6 million units. There are still four hours before 24:00 in the morning, and some sales in Europe, Lao Maozi, and Asia have not been fully counted, according to a survey by Nielsen Data Corporation. , Half-Life's first-day global sales should be between 1.8 million sets and 1.9 million sets, surpassing "StarCraft" and becoming the best-selling game in game history!

Xue Leshan is reshaping the game industry. The first-day revenue of "Half-Life" has exceeded 99% of the box office of Hollywood movies. The game industry is surpassing Hollywood movies. The total output value of the global game industry will exceed 50 billion in the next two years. Beautiful knife…”

The Oakland Tribune believes that the sales volume of Xue Leshan has shrunk seriously. Today's "Half-Life"'s first-day revenue has definitely exceeded 100 million US dollars. Only Microsoft has released a new operating system at this speed of harvesting US dollars. when you can see it.

   Like the Oakland Tribune, there are many Silicon Valley media with the same attitude. They all watch the fun and don’t think it’s a big deal. They want the bigger the news, the better, they don’t care whether ICQ will be pulled out and whipped.

   Of course, among these media, the Oakland Tribune's pure song blowing is simply blowing up the company in Song Yang's hands, while other Silicon Valley media have more or less purpose.

Now Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Lycos and other major technology companies have set up their own game departments, and Half-Life is a big sell. These companies can also take advantage of the popularity of "game concept stocks", regardless of the games they develop. How about it, the popularity of the layer is absolutely good, and with the popularity, the stock price can go up a lot!

   In addition to these, there is also a voice that the "Wall Street Telegraph" newspaper, which has just been established, questioned the existence of unfair transactions between ICQ and Xue Leshan.

"We have reason to suspect that the split of Xue Leshan is a long-planned "big show". At the critical moment of ICQ's listing, Xue Leshan's game department was split off, and ICQ lost the most important profitable department. I think This may be a planned conspiracy, of course, these are my personal guesses and need to be confirmed by the Federal Securities Commission!"

   This report was published by the founder of Wall Street Telecom, and it is rumored that Mundell, who won the next Nobel Prize in Economics, published it on it.

  Whether Mundell was trying to attract attention and promote "Wall Street Telegraph", or he really couldn't stand ICQ's sleazy operation, this large-scale report immediately caused an uproar.

   The doubts about ICQ's original split of Xue Leshan began to suddenly rise. It was really the Williams couple who had a disagreement with Irene, and it came too suddenly.

For a while, "conspiracy theories" began to spread rumors. The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, The New Yorker, Barron's and other media, big and small, all started conspiracy theories around the corner. After all, serious reports, how can there be such conspiracy theories? Reports attract attention.

At this time, the Robinson Law Firm in New York suddenly jumped out and called on ICQ investors to initiate a class action lawsuit against ICQ, threatening ICQ to engage in insider trading, false publicity, defraud investors, etc., and to claim an astonishing $5.4 billion from ICQ. , to claim three times the financing scale when ICQ was listed!

This law firm is a famous vulture law firm in America. It specializes in class action lawsuits. It has been established for less than five years and has already filed more than 400 lawsuits, including Merrill Lynch, Citi, Ericsson, Dell and other companies. They have all been sued by it. Anyway, if there is something wrong, just make a wave. If you win, you will be fine. If you lose, it is okay.

Whenever there is a scandal or incident in a certain company, Robinson Law Firm will take the lead and let investors sue in a class action. Then they represent the lawsuit and win the lawsuit. They will take 30% of the compensation. If they lose, they will also From the litigant, taking three or four million dollars in legal fees is not a loss anyway.

   This time, Robinson Law Firm and several other vulture law firms also want to take advantage of ICQ!

However, in order to engage in ICQ, Robinson and several vulture law firms must obtain the approval of several major institutions of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Deutsche Bank are the main players holding ICQ stocks. ICQ stock.

No one would have thought that while the Xue Leshan game was a big hit, ICQ was lying on the gun, and all kinds of doubts kept coming. In fact, the grapes were sour. Seeing that Xue Leshan's valuation skyrocketed, ICQ couldn't get it. One, not only will the stock price not rise sharply tomorrow, but it may fall, how can investors be satisfied!

   "Jeffrey of Robinson Law Firm is going to join several other vulture law firms in a class action lawsuit against ICQ!"

Pellegrini walked into Paulson's office and reported the news to the boss of Goldman Sachs, with a bit of schadenfreude in his words, not to mention the small investors, after seeing the sales of "Half-Life", Pelle Greene is a bit of a motherfucker.

  If Xue Leshan is still under ICQ, then with the sales of Half-Life, ICQ's stock price is expected to rise a lot. It's not fragrant. Now Xue Leshan has nothing to do with ICQ.

   After seeing the sales of "Half-Life", Paulson couldn't help but take a second glance, earning a small goal a day, Paulson didn't know how many hens Song Yang still had that could lay golden eggs!

And the big sales of games in Xue Leshan are not only related to one game, but maybe the entire industry chain, game concept stocks, game retailers, game consoles, game peripheral products, etc. related to "Half-Life" , may be followed by a surge.

   "President Paulson, do you want Goldman Sachs here..." Pelle Greene was eager to learn and looked at Paulson.

Paulson naturally understood what Pelle Greene meant. When Robinson Vulture was biting ICQ, Goldman Sachs could make a lot of money by following along with the current situation. If ICQ wanted to avoid a class action lawsuit, it had to give Goldman Sachs bites a big piece of meat down, which is a customary segment on Wall Street.

   Paulson shook his head. He also knew that if he started at this time, he could get enough benefits, but Paulson didn't want to eat only this wave, but to put a long line and catch big fish!

   "I mentioned to you that ICQ will have a big move. According to the news we got, ICQ is about to start. At this time, it's more than worth the loss!"

   Hearing Paulson's words, Pelle Greeney felt sorry for a while, "Just let ICQ go like this?!"

   Paulson laughed, shook his head and said, "Of course not!"

   "Let Goldman Sachs analysts release an analysis report that is good for ICQ. ICQ is a chicken that lays golden eggs, but it must also belong to Goldman Sachs. Bruno Song knows how to choose."

Paulson said with a little smugness, Goldman Sachs not only will not attack ICQ at this time, but will speak out for ICQ, and then make a request to Song Yang to invest in Snow Mountain. Paulson believes that Song Yang will make appropriate decisions. choice to come.

   (end of this chapter)