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Relying on Apple's assistance, Eden's stock oscillated slightly, rebounded, and returned to its high point.Adam actually thought about contacting several other computer companies, but unfortunately, not to mention IBM, its relationship with Microsoft cannot be shaken by Adam for the time being. The computer company Dell is cautious. After all, it is impossible for him to react before Microsoft's new generation operating system is tested by the market.

Although Eden is relying on Apple to raise his breath, Microsoft is higher than Eden in terms of market value after all. As long as Microsoft can continue or even dominate the subsequent operating system market, it is not impossible to deal with Eden with its size. one thing.

But Adam’s side did not go so smoothly. Although the listing plans of Unicorn and Inspur have been favored by a large number of people after the advertising alliance, there is still a big gap in stock price and market value, especially in After Microsoft's counterattack, Wall Street also tended to wait, not as urgent as before, which made Adam quite troubled.

Adam saw that since he could not realize his idea in a short period of time, he changed his mind directly and no longer forced to merge Unicorn and Inspur to go public. He first spent [-] million US dollars to acquire Unicorn, and then launched a countermeasure against Inspur acquisition.

I have to say that Adam's idea is extremely bold, especially after Eden went public, he turned around and bought his own Internet products. However, before the acquisition, Adam made an evaluation. The reason why he bought the unicorn first, and Putting Inspur behind, the main reason is that the acquisition intentions and prices of unicorns are relatively fixed and not too controversial. On the contrary, there is a gap between Inspur Adam's own valuation and the valuation given by professional valuation companies. Of course, this is not to say that the evaluation company is against Adam, but one is looking forward at a point in time more than ten years later, while the other is based on the time. The two have different visions, so naturally there is a huge deviation in judgment, but Because more than 80.00% of Eden's shares are under the control of Adam, he is basically regarded as the left and right hand, so it doesn't matter which side suffers a little loss.

The reason why Adam didn’t buy at the same time was mainly because he wanted to use unicorns to try the stock market and see the direction of the wind. After all, after several surges and shocks, the market value of Eden has exceeded tens of billions today, and it is not a small company.

Because it was originally from Nirvana, even the accounts of Eden and Unicorn are interoperable, not to mention that the Unicorn Forum now has more than 150 million registered users, and more than one million daily login users. It is definitely not a small coffee. After the advertising alliance, Unicorn’s monthly advertising fee (not counting other internal promotion revenues) is by no means a small number. It can be said that it directly makes up for the disadvantages of Eden’s profitability. Therefore, after eating unicorns, the stock price of Eden It has been rising rapidly all the way, especially after Adam revealed that he may continue to acquire waves in the second half of the year to make up for its content defects. After reaching this position, the front and back shocks are very violent. It is conceivable that if Inspur is acquired, the stock price will usher in a wave of upward trend.

Eden's huge benefits this time once again stimulated Wall Street, which has cooled down slightly due to the outbreak of conflicts with Microsoft. Although the original Unicorn and Inspur belonged to Nirvana, or Adam's banner, when the three parties really combined, Eden It can be said that it has temporarily put on the diamond armor. Even if Microsoft uses bundling tactics at that time, Eden uses unicorns and Inspur to realize the dependence of a large part of Internet users on the browser Eden, which greatly strengthens users' stickiness to the product. Hedu, it is difficult to give up easily and change to another unfamiliar browser, and install Eden again for the sake of Inspur and Unicorn.

In addition to this big move, Adam's long-awaited ICQ was developed before the arrival of summer.In fact, ICQ is not too difficult technically. It mainly supports functions such as chatting, sending messages and files on I.

In the previous life, ICQ had created brilliance, but in the end it quickly fell, and was even acquired by his less advanced oicq, that is, Penguin. It has to be said that this is a rather helpless thing.

On the way of its development, he had the opportunity more than once to grow into a world-class super Internet company, but it is a pity that all his luck and IQ were used to invent this software, and every subsequent step was almost a fork in the road. Ultimately regretted withdrawing from the market.

Many people say that ICQ cannot develop because email is too popular in Europe and the United States, and the functions of the two overlap, and ICQ is defeated by email. Mail, but Adam still strongly wants to develop ICQ, because these are two completely different architectures, and their positioning is also different.

Moreover, ICQ developed very smoothly at the beginning, and became the instant messaging software with the largest number of users in the world in a very short period of time. Unfortunately, the ICQ number cannot be stored first. It is difficult for users to accumulate loyalty if they can re-apply for a brand new account. The other is that they cannot send messages when the other party is offline, which means that only two users who are online at the same time can communicate. Extremely unfriendly, but what he did to death in the end was that after he was acquired by America Online, he kept adding too many useless functions to ICQ, and forgot his core functions, and was finally completely defeated by the rising MSN. As it should be.

Adam, who had foreseen these problems a long time ago, naturally could not let ICQ repeat the same mistakes. At the beginning of the research and development, he directly indicated that these functions must be available in the requirements, and he naturally received the first special number 0 of ICQ, as for 1 This number was given to Carol, and then all single-digit numbers were sealed up, and all application numbers started from 000.

It has to be said that although it is still a bit crude, compared to the emails of the 90s, ICQ after Adam's revision does meet his idea of ​​a most basic instant messaging software. After fixing a few bugs, this This ICQ has officially become an important Internet product under Nirvana.

Compared with Internet products such as Garden of Eden, Adam used the ripening tactics for ICQ, and asked Hollywood's top TV advertising company to invite Hollywood's most popular stars to shoot several TV commercials. The major stations broadcasted and bombed continuously for a month, and the cost of this aspect alone exceeded 5000 million US dollars.

With a huge amount of money, the most top-notch TV commercial director and popular star shooting, naturally aroused huge repercussions immediately after the advertisement was launched. In addition, Adam's publicity tool "California Times" and unicorns are also on the scene. The most conspicuous places were advertised.

Looking at Adam's ambitious appearance, the market is not optimistic. After all, some functions of e-mail overlap with this so-called ICQ software room at this time. Impossible, and Adam's behavior of spending money on publicity is destined to end in failure.

However, Adam didn't care about the cynicism from the outside. In order to expand the number of users as much as possible, he directly expended energy and asked the technicians to open the Eden account and ICQ account. As long as the user wants to, he can directly use the original Eden account to apply ICQ number.

Because the Eden account is associated with unicorns, it attracts many unicorn forum users, especially people who met in the same forum in discussions and disputes. They invite each other, from the original unicorn forum for everyone, It becomes a private conversation between acquaintances.

And this gave birth to a large number of interesting and loving love stories. Naturally, Adam could not let go of this publicity opportunity. He put these things that he had, did not get, and processed, in the most popular "California Times" novel section today. Serialization, of course, the author is provided by Adam, who has now expanded to seven or eight novel script writing groups. Those romantic and touching stories have attracted the attention of a large number of readers, and even caused many men and women (mainly young women) who have never surfed the Internet to become A member of surfing the web, joined the Internet army.

For the first time, with the addition of many factors, ICQ, the latest Internet product of Nirvana, which everyone calls Adam's real son, was introduced to over one million users by advertisements in just one week, and the number of users expanded rapidly in the following month. The unicorn referral turned into a recommended introduction among users. After a month, the number of people swelled to a terrifying 500 million, and it began to spread globally.

In order to cope with global users, ICQ began to add more than a dozen languages ​​such as French, Japanese, German, and Spanish in the following year in addition to the English language it initially provided, occupying the entire Internet market in a rapid manner.

Faced with the rapid rise of ICQ software in a short period of time, especially after people use it and find that it is indeed a very convenient and easy-to-use software for people to communicate with each other, Wall Street has to lament that Adam will succeed the Garden of Eden and the Unicorn And after Inspur, a new Internet giant-level product has been launched.

When Adam spent tens of millions of dollars on publicity and promotion at the beginning, the cynical media changed their positions one after another and began to tout it vigorously, as if they had forgotten what they had done before.

But Adam's expansion is not just on the Internet. The "California Times", which has been ready to move for a long time, has been prepared for a long time under Adam's instruction.

The author has something to say: the work is not going well recently, and I feel very bad. There is still half a month of training next month. I don’t know if I can spare time.