American Fortune Life
Chapter 1842: Breakdown Countdown
"Boss, our game sales revenue on Facebook last year was $ 103 million, and most of the revenue came from 2% to 10% of users who would pay $ 1 an hour to play paid games or buy virtual items."
In front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, Andy took a look at Ivana, who was taking pictures in the yard, while listening to the report from the mobile phone mocking bird game company ceo Blair.
"We are now the most popular game application maker for Facebook users, and we can attract about 2.5 million players a day on Facebook."
"Good job!" Andy said with a smile on his lips and encouraged with satisfaction. Although his business has fully blossomed now, the scale of the game company is no longer so dazzling in the business sector he now owns, but Andy has always put Laugh at the bird game company in the most important position in the heart, let alone say that this is his biggest cash nai cattle in the next ten years.
In order to catch the high-speed train on the platform of Jiao, the mocking bird game company developed a multiplayer online game for Facebook and the website. In addition to the launch of "Happy Farm", which was exclusively bought out by Facebook, like "Plant Vs Zombies" Improved versions of "Angry Bird Web Edition", deliberately launched "Star Texas Hold'em", "Movie World Fool Wars" and other games have been sought after by a large number of users, currently mocking the company's games have attracted 7100 Million registered users and 46 million active users per month.
The games and web games on the platform of Modaoshe do not make money!
Andy asked about the construction of the next headquarters building and the progress of various games under development. "Clash of Tribes" and "Marvel Infinite" are the masterpieces of the future company that he has high hopes of, and mocking the bird game company is no longer It is a small company that requires him to "learn" some ideas from previous lives in order to make money. It has grown to the size of its fifty game development teams, and the company's employees have reached 3,000. The Minecraft team alone has expanded to more than a hundred people.
Of course, the most profitable game now, the top few games on the download list of the entire network are still the ones that he Andy Smith has created. This also makes the mocking bird company's profits very dazzling. Gaming company that profited and grew in the global financial crisis.
You know, for example, even in the last financial year of last year, 31 works sold more than one million, and several more than five million, with sales of more than four billion, and a net loss of one billion US dollars. Hematemesis.
Well, after all, ea is the second largest game developer in the world after Activision Blizzard. The publisher has a big career, but the current market value of ea is only 6.2 billion US dollars. I ca n’t really vomit for a long time. Street, no wonder the rumors of being acquired are endless.
"Boss, the industry is rumored recently that Apple is considering the acquisition of ea. Compared to the rumors that Apple has also acquired Twitter, and that Apple, which is moving closer to the gaming industry, seems to be more reasonable in acquiring ea. According to the information I have received, currently Apple's cash stock has nearly reached 30 billion U.S. dollars, and the market value of EA is less than 7 billion U.S. dollars. Apple definitely has this strength and bought ea to strengthen their love crazy and love to shoot game platform. "
Although the previous big boss has been fighting fiercely with Apple because of the Liberty City app application platform, this has not affected the good cooperation between Blair and Apple, which is a mocking bird game company, ceo, after all, one yard at a time, although Both are a boss, but after all, they are two independent companies, each with its own person in charge. Many of the games mocking the bird game company make a lot of money with the hot sales of love crazy and love, and the cooperation is very Pleasant, so Blair and the news of Apple's acquisition of ea are very concerned.
Hearing Blair apparently tempted. In hope of getting some verified reports, Andy shook his head with a chuckle. He naturally knew what Blair was worried about, and laughed: "Oh, I haven't heard of Apple's intention to acquire ea. The news came out, maybe it was just ea wants to raise the stock price by small means, don't worry, after all, even if Apple really buys ea, what about it? Who can steal our first throne in mobile electronic equipment? "
After hearing the counter-question of his boss, Blair was relieved after knowing that the rumors were unreliable. After all, as the developer of the game that comes with Apple ’s mobile electronic equipment factory system, he did n’t want to run into Apple ’s new son ’s rival. Exclusive trading Is the most profitable.
Exclusive is indeed the most profitable.
However, many people are unwilling to see it. Andy who hung up the phone was very upset about Apple's acquisition of Twitter. As a director of Apple, he naturally knew that this was not a rumor but a genuine one. News, and it has been confirmed that Apple is holding "serious" negotiations with Twitter, which is being suppressed by him, and if it goes well, on the day of the opening of the 2009 Apple Developers Conference on June 8, Apple and Twitter will officially announce the acquisition.
Moreover, it is not only the Apple company that looks at Twitter, but also Facebook, which also wants to buy Twitter, and it almost succeeds. If it was n’t for the founder of Lion, the lion might have been annexed by Xiaomazi Already.
The reason why Twitter suddenly became so popular was the emergence of key issues and the rapid popularity of news. In addition, Andy's own two companies spared no effort to suppress Twitter, showing a strong position to occupy the market, making Facebook Xiaomazi feels a potentially huge threat, after all, ins and Facebook have created many overlapping applications.
However, Facebook and Twitter eventually collapsed, and the deal was not reached. As for the reason, Andy wanted to laugh when he thought about it. There was no way. The chicken thief ’s little **** wanted to use a stock that was overvalued by Facebook twice. Annexed Twitter without spending money, and the almost breathless Twitter that was suppressed was the lion's big mouth, one thought for cash, one without money and wanted an empty glove, the white wolf, and the other one who wanted money, wanted the golden cicada to shell, Eventually the talk collapsed.
Now that Apple Corp. is offering 700 million cash to acquire Twitter, it is estimated that Twitter's founders and senior management will be difficult to reject. The main purpose of Apple's acquisition of Twitter is that Apple iphone users can use Twitter to communicate and eventually drive sales of iphone apps.
However, from the perspective of Andy, this is clearly Apple's acquisition of whatsapp, which has become a must-have app for all smartphones. It also sees the advantages and development potential of whatsapp, and wants to get an apple. Unique application software.
You know, Apple has always grown up on its own, and Apple is simply not willing to completely open up network standards to the outside world, either way it tends to be completely open. Because the two software applications are very popular among smartphone users around the world, and they cannot help but reduce the user's service experience, which makes Apple company unhappy.
If the Apple acquisition is successful this time, Andy can imagine that although Apple will not brazenly support it, it will definitely make small moves to limit the operation on the Amad application and mainly push new Twitter.
This situation is foreseeable by Andy. There is no way. It has always liked to eat alone. The incredibly powerful Apple Company is this pissing. As for whether it will care about the face of the board member of Andy, huh, no!
Andy entered Apple's board of directors. From the beginning, Jobs constrained Andy to thrive in the secondary market and toss Apple's stock price in order to compile this large common shark.
This jealousy can't shake Apple's overall interests and strategic planning at all. Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Andy did not consider himself to be an Apple person. He is very clear that there is a huge and difficult to reconcile between himself and Apple Contradiction, sooner or later one day will face up again, tearing his face and becoming an opponent.
There is no way, the strength does not allow Andy to keep a low profile. When a person is in a different position, he will have a different position, which determines that he will have different ideas. In rudeness, pg decides the head.
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