Video Game Empire

Compared with the increasingly mature computer industry, the profits that vcd can bring to the Oriental Group in the short term are naturally far inferior. However, the potential of the audio-visual industry should not be underestimated. VCD and subsequent digital players such as super VCD, DVD, and HD DVD will have a golden development period of 15 to 20 years before being replaced by Internet streaming media.

It is difficult for domestic people to appreciate the huge market of the American film and television entertainment industry. Because domestic piracy is rampant, you can buy a pirated disc for ten or even five yuan. However, European and American countries have very strict protection of copyright. For example, after the DVD of the animated film "Frozen" was released, the total sales volume exceeded 18 million sets within a year, and the total sales amounted to 340 million US dollars.

You must know that the two most important topics in American daily social life are neither political and military news nor financial stock news, but sports news and entertainment news.

Even in the future under the impact of the Internet, DVD sales began to decline. But in fact, Americans' consumption of film and television entertainment has not decreased, but it has only become online viewing through the Internet. Therefore, the market value of the later flix company at the peak of its stock price in 2015 even exceeded 500 million US dollars.

Li Xuan's plan for Blockbuster naturally learned lessons from another time and space. With the opening of the Internet era, the rules of the global economic game will face a new round of reshuffle. Those traditional companies that cannot adapt to the new economic era are bound to be eliminated soon.

However, it is still only the embryonic stage of Internet commercialization, and Blockbuster will focus on the next development. It will still focus on the traditional model of physical store expansion. And Li Xuan deliberately flew from Hong Kong to Dallas this time, not because of the acquisition of Blockbuster.

This kind of merger and acquisition of 20 million US dollars is only a small snack for the current Oriental Group. There is no need for Li Xuan to come forward in person. He just happened to be at the meeting, and suddenly he learned that the group had acquired a company that had some impressions of his previous life, so he came up with the idea of ​​interviewing the founder Cook.

The real purpose of Li Xuan's trip to the United States this time is to stand up for the Bush family. The new presidential election is in full swing. Judging from the current situation, Bush Sr.'s advantage is still very obvious.

However, Li Xuan is not an American after all, so it is very taboo to stand directly at the front desk to give Bush the old ticket. foreign billionaires like him. At such a moment, it is necessary to avoid suspicion, so as to avoid bad associations between officials and businessmen in American voters. Therefore, Li Xuan came to the United States specially at the invitation of the Bush family, but he was not prepared to meet with Bush Sr.

"Hi. George, long time no see!" Li Xuan gave a warm hug to Bush Jr. who had just entered the door.

"Lee, you should come to Texas often. Ted keeps complaining like me. You boss doesn't care about your team!" Bush Jr. said with a bright face.

"The best way for me to care about the team is to sign a big enough check! The Rangers are off to a good start this year, and I hope we can go further this year than last year!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

The Texas Rangers unfortunately lost 3-4 to the Oakland A’s in last year’s National League Finals and failed to make it to the final World Series. However, since Li Xuan acquired the team, the Rangers have changed their fish belly image for many years and have reached the playoffs for three consecutive years.

Due to the excellent record of the Rangers in recent years, the market has become more and more popular. Before the start of the new season this year, all 24,000 sets of home season tickets were sold out within half a month. In such a good situation. The team's management began last year lobbying the city of Arlington to support the team's new baseball stadium. After all, the Rangers now use Arlington Stadium. It's actually an American football field.

The city of Arlington finally passed a related motion earlier this year, agreeing to provide land for the new stadium. The total budget of the new stadium is as high as 160 million US dollars. Although most of the funds can be raised through loans, Li Xuan, the owner, still needs to spend nearly one million US dollars in cash.

According to the project construction plan, the new stadium will be officially completed in 1990, before the opening of the next season. When the new stadium is put into use, the profitability of the club is bound to usher in a huge leap. Although Li Xuan's investment is huge, as long as the Rangers can maintain the current hot market, the valuation of the entire team will greatly increase. This is definitely not a loss-making business for Li Xuan.

The two sat in the luxury box specially prepared for the owner of Li Xuan. The TV station responsible for the live broadcast quickly pointed the lens of one of the live cameras at the box. The images of Li Xuan and Bush Jr. appeared immediately. on a huge display on site.

Li Xuan and Bush respectively smiled and waved to the camera. Many fans at the scene immediately burst into cheers. It was their cooperation that brought the Rangers to a new round of revival. Bush also gained great popularity as the general manager of the Rangers, and then succeeded in the 1986 midterm elections and became the state land commissioner of Texas.

And now Bush has even bigger ambitions, he is ready to attack the throne of Texas governor. To say that Bush Jr. is very lucky, the current Texas governor, senior Republican Bill Clements, was involved in the scandal last year that Southern Methodist University illegally wooed sports students.

Although the National Collegiate Athletic Association (ncaa) is a non-professional league, the value created by the football, basketball and other projects under the ncaa is no less than that of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States. For example, in order to obtain the broadcast rights of ncaa football and basketball games, major TV stations in the United States have to pay huge broadcast fees every year.

If there is an excellent sports team in a university, the revenue from broadcast revenue and ticket sales alone can bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the school every year. So American universities, in order to attract the most athletic high school students to choose themselves, often do everything they can.

In fact, ncaa has formulated strict regulations for this. For example, if special sports students want to be admitted to universities and participate in competitions on behalf of the school, they must meet certain standards in cultural courses.

However, many schools still repeatedly break the bottom line in the face of interests, such as falsifying students' academic performance and granting scholarships in violation of regulations. Southern Methodist University is one of them, but its behavior just happened to be exposed by the media, and it turned into a scandal.

While Bill Clements is governor of Texas, he also serves on the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University. According to relevant investigations, the school board knew about the violations of the sports department in advance, but they did not stop it.

That is to say, Bill Clements was aware of it in advance, but when he was initially questioned by the media, he said that he did not know. So the incident escalated into a question about the personal integrity of the Texas governor.

In the face of such serious moral charges, Clements was forced to announce in advance that he would not seek re-election after the end of his term to quell the attacks of the Democratic Party and public opinion. You must know that Bill Clements performed very well in the previous term and a half, and he was likely to continue to run for a third term as governor on behalf of the Republican Party.

If Clements chooses to remain in the race, it will be difficult for Bush to compete with him in the party. But now the other party announced the launch ahead of schedule because of the scandal, which is undoubtedly a huge positive news for Bush Jr.

Texas was originally the home of the Bush family, and Bush Sr. is likely to win this year's presidential election. Coupled with the lack of a heavyweight challenger in the party, Bush is likely to have overwhelming support within the Republican Party when he announces his candidacy for governor two years later.

The prospect of Bush's gubernatorial election can be said to be very good, but politics is always turbulent, and no one knows whether there will be an accident until the dust settles. So even Bush Jr. still needs to use up some means to continuously improve his prestige among voters in the remaining two years.

The most effective way to win voters is undoubtedly to provide more and better employment opportunities and increase everyone's income level. The most important purpose of Li Xuan's visit to Texas this time is to sign a large-scale investment agreement with the Texas state government and the Austin city government.

The area south of the San Francisco Bay is called Silicon Valley, and there is another place in the United States called Silicon Hills, which is Austin. Compared with the world-famous Silicon Valley, the rise of Silicon Hill is much later. It wasn't until 1983 that the Texas Township Government, the Austin City Government, and the University of Texas at Austin jointly ~www.readwn.com~ and many high-tech companies across the United States jointly established the first large-scale high-tech enterprise in Austin— -company.

After the establishment of the company, each high-tech enterprise participating in the joint venture will regularly send people to work in Austin. Over time, executives of various companies have gradually discovered that Austin is actually a very livable place. So ibm, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and other companies have successively set up branches here. Austin has gradually become another high-tech R&D center in the United States in addition to Silicon Valley.

However, this process of spontaneous industry gathering cannot be accomplished overnight. In fact, it was the late 1990s when Silicon Hills started to become famous. The Austin city government naturally hopes to speed up the process of industrial agglomeration, and this needs to find a company to take the lead as a demonstration.

So under the coordination of George W. Bush, the Oriental Group and the Austin city government got closer and closer, and finally reached a large-scale investment agreement! (To be continued.)

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