Chapter 577

The surroundings are quiet and peaceful, and the sound of distant waves and wind interweave a distant melody. The birds chirping among the flowers in the courtyard are very harmonious.

The shadows of the new green leaves swayed slightly, and the leaves swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound.

Winter in the Southern Hemisphere is completely different from that in the Northern Hemisphere. Except that it is a little colder, it looks almost the same as summer.

In the room, half of his face was covered by his hair, which was dyed light golden by the early morning sun. He had sharp outlines and was handsome, with a straight bridge of nose and white, smooth but lined skin. No matter from which angle or race he came from. Look, Abel is a first-rate beauty. He slowly opened his eyes. Even though he had only slept for a few hours, there was no trace of fatigue in his eyes.

"call--"

Looking down and seeing Abili's pretty fair and rosy face curled up in his arms, as well as several other people around him, he sighed with satisfaction, this is life.

By the way, he turned around and pressed a button next to him.

There was silence for a few seconds.

Click——

The door was pushed open.

Lydia, wearing OL's exquisite makeup, opened the door and walked in with several real rock security maids.

As soon as she entered the door, Lydia smelled a strange yet familiar scent, which hit her face and was extremely strong.

The daughter of the Hearst family looked at the pieces of clothing scattered everywhere on the ground, as well as the traces of dried liquid. She didn't have to guess where the smell that filled the room came from.

An unpleasant feeling rose from the bottom of her heart, but she quickly suppressed it well.

She knew that she was able to follow Abel more than her cousin Amanda. The most important reason is because I am more tolerant than Amanda.

It was something that Amanda couldn't stand, or would be very unhappy about. She was able to turn a blind eye to the fact that the environment in which she grew up and her mother's experiences made her want something much lower than Amanda and most of the top socialites.

Social status, being valued in the family, enough material comforts - as long as she can satisfy these, Lydia's endurance is stronger than anyone else.

Abel looked up at Lydia who was standing in the bedroom. She had already directed the maids to pack things.

Usually when Abel goes out, most of his life is taken care of by her and the maids who accompany him.

Abel yawned, kissed Abili who was sleeping soundly on the face, then sat up from the octopus-like entanglement, raised his arms, stretched and said: "What time is it? "

"It's eight-thirty in the morning. Boss, take a bath or have breakfast first?" Lydia had a serious look on her face, which was why she was loved by Abel and was often taken with him.

Because even though negative distance contact has occurred, she can still grasp her identity well when working, and her sense of proportion is much stronger than Amanda's.

"Let's eat first, then go for a swim in the indoor pool after dinner."

Abel stood up without any trace of clothing, and with Lydia waiting on him, he put on a large nightgown, "What's going on over there in the United States?"

"The latest briefings have been sent. As for Los Angeles, DuPont, Rockefeller and others have already left Los Angeles one after another."

"Tsk tsk..." Abel sighed softly and said with a playful expression: "It seems that the regular meeting in Los Angeles is really going to be cancelled. The meeting may be moved to Washington."

Lydia nodded slightly. She was very excited that she could join in such a change in the upper echelons of the empire.

Even if it's just a simple message or related paperwork, it's the same.

After all, the Hearst family, even at its peak, was far from where she is now!

"Ignore them. I will return to the United States in a few days, even if I am going to Washington. They have to wait for me...send the briefing to the indoor heated swimming pool. You can read it to me after breakfast and swimming. listen."

Abel chuckled and gently pinched Lydia's beautiful face. The latter smiled like his girlfriend, seeming to enjoy his contact.

After having breakfast with Nicole and the others, Abel went to the heated swimming pool in the villa.

The swimming pool water has a constant temperature of 26-28 degrees, which is the most suitable temperature for the human body. After a full meal in the morning, it is very comfortable to soak in it without strenuous exercise.

What is even more comfortable is that while you are soaking in the swimming pool, two beautiful maids will gently massage your body on your left and right sides.

Then in front, there are two beauties who have given birth to your children, playing in the water wearing Abi Ajiani, like two beautiful mermaids.

And behind you, there is a beautiful female secretary wearing a standard OL skirt suit, holding thick documents and reporting to you the status of hundreds of companies under her.

"... Smith Media yesterday announced its half-year financial report for the first half of 200211-2002305. Because of the promising financial report, its stock price exceeded US$256 and reached US$256.9, and its market value has reached US$256.9 billion. It currently ranks 19th among listed companies in the United States. Bit."

"...After market research, Pacific Energy's gas price in California has been reduced by an average of 0.013 cents per cubic meter. Its Pacific gas stations have been reduced by an average of US$0.1 per gallon of gasoline. Prices in Texas have also been adjusted, but not as much as in California. So big..."

"...Qualcomm and AMD (the merger of Texas Instruments and AMD, full name Texas AMD) officially jointly launched a new product of the latest generation of 3G communication chips and information processors. The two companies called it It is SOC, which is the abbreviation of system-level chip, or system-on-chip. Based on this system, mobile phone companies can easily make new mobile phones that can use 3G communications and have stronger information intelligence processing capabilities. However, it is currently only an exhibit. , it will take about half a year before the official start of sales."

"... Smith Capital currently holds a total of 269 company stocks in the US stock market, with a total value of US$103.656 billion as of yesterday. In the global stock market, it holds a total of 136 company stocks, with a total value of US$36.55 billion as of yesterday. International spot $32.5 billion in gold…"

"..."

Lydia reported one company briefing after another to Abel in a clear and articulate manner, while Abel closed his eyes slightly, enjoying the service of the beautiful maids, and at the same time understanding the general development of the company under his name.

When Lydia reported the briefing from Google, Abel heard that CEO Eric Schmidt and the two co-founders Larry and Sergey had agreed to develop the smartphone system, but Sergey Brin believes that Google needs to open up new tracks beyond the search engine.

The mobile phone system is one, and cloud computing is another.

"Cloud computing? Sergey mentioned cloud computing?" Abel, who had his eyes closed, finally couldn't help blinking and said with some surprise.

Lydia lowered her head to read the briefing, and then confirmed again: "Yes, it was raised at an internal high-level meeting at Google."

Abel raised his eyebrows. He remembered that cloud computing was indeed popular in parallel time and space for a while.

At that time, almost all IT companies in the world invested large sums of money in development. However, it seems that nothing has happened since then. The biggest result is that advertising push has become even more annoying.

It cannot be said that there is no output, but almost all companies that invest in cloud computing have a disproportionate investment and output.

But if you look at it from a capital perspective, most of these companies have made money.

At least in the years when the concept of cloud computing was very popular. The stock prices or market values ​​of the top companies with relatively good cloud computing technologies have been speculated very high.

If shareholders had cashed out at that time, they would definitely have made a huge profit.

"Regarding cloud computing, is there any more information in the briefing?" Abel asked.

Lidia shook her head directly this time, "No, do you need me to ask Mr. Baker and others to send relevant information immediately?"

Baker is the surname of Allen, the general manager and chief think tank of Smith Wisdom.

Gathering intelligence for Abel is one of their jobs.

Abel nodded slightly. He personally believed that cloud computing could be a big gimmick for Google in the future and be used as one of Google's capital when it goes public in the future.

Yes, as Google's largest shareholder, Abel, who holds more than 1/3 of the shares, already has the idea of ​​listing Google.

First, the two co-founders, Larry and Sergey, had been bugging him about this. The two co-founders, who had their power taken away, were both thinking about taking advantage of the company's listing, hoping to weaken Abel's influence and control over Google as much as possible.

Abel had been annoyed for a long time and was somewhat bored. And he knows very well that if he really wants to promote the arrival of the smartphone era ahead of schedule, it would be best for Google and Apple to let one go.

Apple is more profitable and has a stronger ecosystem, so Google was chosen to be released by Abel.

He plans to let Google go public after Google confirms the development of Android.

By going public, we can control our own shares to about 10%, a scale that can influence Google but not make others back down.

At the same time, the 20% or so shares can earn him at least 20 to 30 billion US dollars. Compared with the original investment of several billion dollars, it has doubled several times.

Moreover, Google's stock price would not be particularly exaggerated before 2010. When the financial crisis comes, you can also take advantage of dips. At that time, whether it is to increase control again or just invest, it will be a good choice.

And cloud computing, even if it is just a gimmick concept to hype the stock price, can also serve as the backbone of Google's hype before the Android system is accepted by the market.

Who are Internet companies? In many cases, they don't need any real product capabilities. Many times, being able to speculate on a stock can make people believe in its future, which is the biggest support for the stock price.

This is how the Nasdaq Internet bubble came about. Companies that are not even profitable have market capitalizations and stock prices that are often calculated at dozens of times. It would be unreasonable for such bubbles not to burst.

Lydia took a pen and quickly wrote down what Abel told her, mainly about cloud computing.

In fact, the concept of "cloud" in the Internet appeared very early. It originated from the concept of "the network is the computer" first proposed by John Gage, co-founder of SUN Microsystems in 1988.

But when it first emerged as a concept, it was very vague. Together with many Internet concepts at that time, it seemed bizarre and unrealistic in the past.

The exact concept appeared in the 1994 issue of Wired. An outline of the cloud concept is clearly seen in this article. Its description seemed quite science fiction at the time.

However, in 1996, Compaq's designers and software engineers once wanted to realize it, but were limited by the development of technology and technology. The product at that time was relatively unsuccessful and was eliminated before it was even launched on the market.

In parallel time and space, cloud computing was actually proposed in August 2006, and it was also the first proposed by Google.

So it is normal for Google's co-founders to think of cloud computing three years in advance.

The difference is that when Eric Schmidt proposed the concept of cloud computing, Google had already been studying it for a long time, and it didn't take long for related products to be launched. The gimmick was full of attraction.

Now, if Abel comes up with this gimmick, Google estimates that it will take a year or two to develop it before it can be officially launched, and it will probably not be until 2005.

It's only a year or two earlier than parallel time and space.

In the morning, I finished the briefing in the villa. At noon, Abel finally officially appeared in front of the Australian media.

The occasion when he appeared was at the signing ceremony of the agreement of intent to acquire Australia's second largest ranch, Cudderston Ranch.

Negotiations between the two parties have been going on for a long time, because one is willing to pay a high price and the other is willing to sell.

So it was finalized in a few days. After signing the agreement of intent, the transaction was reported to the Australian Foreign Investment Regulatory Commission and awaited approval.

After signing the intention agreement, the transaction can be regarded as having legal restrictions on both parties. No matter who wants to regret and tear up the contract, they will face liquidated damages for the transaction amount.

Once the approval is passed, Australia's second largest ranch, which actually has the largest area of ​​use, will smoothly become an industry under Abel's name.

However, at the media meeting, many Australian media or reporters from foreign media in Australia were completely uninterested in the transaction itself, the seller and the representatives sent by the Queensland and South Australian state parliaments responsible for supervision.

Their interest was obviously in Abe Smith, who came to Australia quietly and directly bought the Cuddeston Ranch.

After getting permission to interview, the number of reporters, which was obviously much larger than that of a normal business signing ceremony, started asking questions crazily and enthusiastically, hoping to get the opportunity to ask questions.

"...Mr. Smith, did you come to Australia just for ranching? Or do you have other purposes?"

"...Mr. Smith, it is said that you have a close relationship with Ms. Nicole Kidman, Ms. Cate Blanchett, etc. What do you think of them?"

"...Mr. Smith, I am the Australian correspondent of "The American Sun". I..."

"...Mr Smith..."

"..."

But Abel doesn't care about their dissatisfaction, because Abel knows very well that Australia's local media is basically monopolized by Murdoch.

There is no media controlled by Murdoch, which is also deeply influenced by him.

That's why Abel didn't bother to pay attention to the local media. Anyway, there were so many American media and international media present.

The reporter from the "Wall Street Journal" was very excited and took the lead in asking: "Mr. Smith! Actually, I have many questions to ask, but since I can only ask one, then I want to ask about your real direct descendant company, the second one to go public. Which company will it be? We all know that Smith Media's market value has exceeded US$260 billion at the opening of the market today, making it the media company with the highest market value in history! So which company under your name will you let go public after Smith Media?"

As worthy of being the number one mouthpiece of Wall Street, their reporters are very professional in this regard.

After thinking about it, Abel said softly: "Maybe it will be Pacific Energy, or it may be Smith Financial Group. If I have to choose one, it will be one of these two companies."

This answer made the reporter from the Wall Street Journal very satisfied, and many reporters at the scene suddenly burst into laughter.

This news content is obviously very exciting.

Pacific Energy and Smith Financial, they may go public in the near future, at least within a few years. Isn't this news exciting enough?

Especially Smith Financial Group, a financial giant that is no less than JPMorgan Chase and far above investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

If it really goes public, it will definitely become a hot topic in the US stock market for a long time.

In the past, Smith Media's exaggerated performance was even better, so good that it was almost like Smith Financial Group was bragging about its listing. There will definitely be even more exaggerated and outrageous performances.

The listing of Smith Media has created more than a dozen billionaires, dozens of multi-millionaires, and hundreds of millionaires.

If it were Smith Financial Group, these figures would not only have increased tenfold, but five or six times should be normal, right?

That is to create dozens of billionaires, hundreds of multi-millionaires, maybe thousands or even thousands of millionaires at once...

Such a wealth-making myth can attract attention wherever it is placed. It can increase the sales and ratings of TV stations and newspapers by at least 50% steadily. Even if it only lasts for a few days, it is already very impressive.

The media naturally love to report on newspapers like this and like this kind of news.

So this group of people subconsciously forgot that in Abel's answer, in addition to Smith Financial, there is another option of Pacific Energy...

But Abel didn't care about this. He had already asked David to flag the reporter from the "New York Observer" to ask questions.

"New York Observer" has changed from a weekly magazine to a bi-weekly magazine, becoming more professional and more sophisticated. However, internationally, its name has also been changed to "The International Observer".

Among them, the "New York Observer" version mainly contains content related to the United States.

The "International Observer" version has a broader perspective and focuses more on foreign countries.

Therefore, the content of the questions asked by the International Observer reporter has nothing to do with the United States.

And because he was one of his own, it was impossible to ask Abel too explosive questions. The questions he asked were related to Australia. After all, Abel was in Australia now.

Abel's answer was also very official. There was nothing wrong with it, but it wasn't very brilliant either