For BlackBerry, Simon considered handing it over to Nokia as his first choice, and then Scooper, who planned to enter the field of wireless communications, Tinko Bayer was not considered.
Mainly because they just don’t fit in at the moment.
However, after some exchanges in Tinker Bayer's laboratory and the subsequent dinner, this project was still snatched away by Girl C, who planned to use it to enter the mobile phone field in advance. After all, just like PCs, in recent years, with the development of mobile communications With the development of the industry, global mobile phone shipments have also shown explosive growth every year.
In any case, this phone is just an excess after all.
Although the market value of BlackBerry once reached a peak of 80 billion U.S. dollars, it was mostly due to its conceptual operation. This phone lacked the super sticky user base like Apple in the past. When the new era came, it was almost eliminated in an instant.
In short, since Tinker Bayer has to make a mobile phone sooner or later, it would be a good choice to practice using it now.
Success is better, but if you fail, you fail.
Then came the question of the name.
Under Simon's reminder, Tinkerber applied for a large number of trademarks starting with the 'i' series around the world very early, including 'iPhone' naturally.
Since it is a mobile phone that uses network email transmission technology in a ground-breaking way, there seems to be no problem in using the iPhone trademark, but Simon is firmly opposed to it. This phone is so far away from the iPhone in Simon’s memory that it would be a waste to use this trademark in advance.
However, Simon's Blackberry, which was based on a button design similar to the layout of blackberry fruit, was incompatible with the naming rules of Tinker Bayer products.
Now that a decision has been made, of course we cannot treat it differently from the beginning.
What's more, if a product with an unconventional name is suddenly launched in addition to Tinker Bayer's 'i' series, it would be a nightmare for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Simon himself, who also has some obsessive-compulsive disorder, would find it difficult to accept it.
After some discussion, we finally made a slight compromise and decided on the name iBerry. 'Berry' is the collective name for 'berry, berry'. In the future marketing process, we can still promote the inspiration generated by the buttons being like berries, and it is no longer BlackBerry? This time it is no longer limited to black.
Plan finalized? Then came the acquisition of Canadian RIM company.
This company also took advantage of the new technology wave to conduct an IPO last year, but it was very small, with a current market value of less than US$300 million. If it were delayed until the Nasdaq turned around, it might only need half the capital to win. Moreover, even if you don't get this company, it will not be difficult to launch the iBerry mobile phone independently with the huge technology accumulation of the Westeros system.
These are all things that the Tinco Bayer team needs to be responsible for.
The next day is March 7th.
Friday.
Simon came to San Francisco on Wednesday, stayed here for two days, and left for the East Coast as usual in the morning.
Inside the cabin office of a Boeing 767.
After the private plane took off? Simon first paid attention to the Hollywood box office situation in the past week.
In a box office week from February 28 to March 6, "BJ's Diary", which was released in its third week, collected another US$19.46 million with a huge box office drop of 33%. It still easily won the single-week box office championship, and the film's cumulative box office has reached $86.11 million. According to the decline pattern of a movie, last week's deep decline will narrow this week's decline. Therefore, this love movie is likely to reach over 100 million yuan in the next week? Becoming Daenerys Entertainment's first 100 million yuan movie in 1997 Box Office Club Videos.
The second and third places on the list are occupied by two Star Wars re-releases? There is nothing to highlight.
Then there is the fourth-placed "Two Smoking Barrels", which earned another US$5.37 million in its fourth week of release, with a cumulative box office of US$24.96 million.
Nolan's "Following" ranked fifth, also in its fourth week, earning US$4.26 million, with a cumulative box office of US$20.64 million.
These days, two seemingly inconspicuous films, "Two Smoking Barrels" and "The Following", are attracting more and more attention from all parties, mainly because, according to current box office trends, these two films only have a global impact. The theatrical release stage is expected to bring net income of no less than US$30 million to Daenerys Entertainment.
Two movies are 60 million.
This does not include subsequent video and television broadcast revenue.
This kind of profit scale is not necessarily available for most of Hollywood's blockbuster movies at the theatrical stage, so it really makes other studio executives feel like they are going crazy.
With Daenerys Entertainment occupying the top three in the top five on the list, it is worth mentioning that "Good Will Hunting" is also worth mentioning.
Having just concluded its 13th week of screenings, "Good Will Hunting" earned US$3.35 million in a single week, pushing the film's total domestic box office to a high of US$150 million, reaching US$152.51 million. Compared with the two small films "Two Smoking Barrels" and "The Following", "Good Will Hunting" with a production budget of only US$10 million has obviously more crazy profit margins.
This is also something that many people in the Hollywood circle don't understand.
It is clear that the era of blockbusters has arrived, and Daenerys Entertainment has also produced the largest number of blockbusters in this era. However, this company, in addition to a series of super-grossing blockbusters, has always been able to Xiao Bo Da has launched various box office dark horses one after another.
Like cheating.
However, the fact is that someone with the prophetic advantage is indeed a cheater.
On the other hand, a series of blockbuster films have also made the creators behind these projects popular. Recently, Guy Ritchie and Christopher Nolan have become the objects of close contact with Hollywood studios. Simon saw that Amy wrote specifically for this matter An email to myself, but not much response.
New Hollywood filmmakers often have a 'sophomore effect', that is, after a hit, their next film will usually fail, or even be a complete flash in the pan.
Besides, Guy Ritchie and Nolan are both making their first feature films. With the success of "Two Smoking Barrels" and "The Following", it will be difficult for them to get a second film without a budget of 20 to 30 million US dollars. Given that the film studio has a habit of being very accommodating and even indulgent to filmmakers who have just become famous, it's hard to say what their second film will be like.
Simon will not stop cooperating with the two people he likes because of this, but he will never blindly compete for them at any cost.
Of course, it's still because Daenerys Entertainment is so confident and has no shortage of projects, so it doesn't need to make various accommodations like other studios.
Otherwise, it will be like Paramount in the past, which almost sacrificed explosions for the "Transformers" series and filmed them however they wanted. As a result, the "Transformers" series was completely ruined. Then there is Nolan and Warner. They also provided it, make it as they please, play it as they please, and in the end they released "Tenet". Even how to distribute it depends on the attitude of the director. The results can be imagined.
Daenerys Entertainment is as strong as Disney at its peak. Even after filming two "Avengers" films, Joss Whedon will still leave as long as the concepts are not consistent. Then Warner immediately took advantage of the "Taillight" classmate, and made "Justice League" whatever it wanted with a US$300 million investment.
The result was another tragedy.
When I came to New York, in addition to accompanying pregnant women, I had another thing to do this time.
After a period of negotiations, the Carlyle Group successfully acquired the British Perkins Engine Company in its bid with Caterpillar. The final price was US$1.425 billion, mainly because Caterpillar, the largest engineering machinery giant in the United States, Because of Le's participation in the bidding, the transaction price was $100 million higher than the original budget of about $1.3 billion.
On the other hand, Carlyle has also reached an acquisition agreement with China's XCMG Group. Among the three initial targets, XCMG, Sany and Liugong, only the last one is still in the negotiation stage because Simon has finally confirmed it.
Now, with the acquisition of Perkins Engine Company, Westeros System's layout in China's construction machinery field can also be accelerated.
It has been initially determined that Perkins Engine Company will take over XCMG's own diesel engine subsidiary, thereby realizing the transfer of production lines to China in the shortest possible time.
In addition, the Carlyle team’s operations in Ukraine have also been fruitful.
In addition to the port machinery and mining machinery technology and team discovered from Ukraine, Carlyle also obtained a batch of shipbuilding technology. At the same time, it selected a long-awaited shipyard in China, located in Jingjiang, Jiangsu, named Jingjiang Shipbuilding. factory. Just last year, this shipyard achieved its own innovation in developing and building a 10,000-ton cargo ship, a breakthrough for a non-national local shipyard.
The rise of China in the next few decades will inevitably lead to another boom in shipping. Simon has been eyeing South Korea's shipbuilding industry and plans to make vulture investments after the Southeast Asian financial crisis. Since China has a suitable target, of course it will not miss it.
After initial contact, Jingjiang Shipyard also gave a very positive response.
East Hampton, Long Island.
In the busyness, it was already Sunday in a blink of an eye.
This afternoon I quietly brought Grace here for a pregnancy test. By the way, the gender of another little guy was determined.
Still a boy.
This once again added some pressure to Simon.
If the six little guys are all brats, I wonder if they will break their heads fighting for family property in the future.
When talking about this issue in a manor near the sea in the north of East Hampton, Grace, who had just returned from a pregnancy test and was sitting on the sofa in the living room with Simon, was very decisive: "That's why I want you, as a father, to be tougher. , otherwise of course they would fight.”
"I remember there is a theory," Simon said, putting his arm around the woman next to him: "If the father is too strong, the children will become weak, and I don't want this to happen."
"Ha, it's all your business anyway."
"You are also responsible."
"Well, I will do whatever responsibility you ask me to take."
Bryce Levison came in with a fruit plate and happened to hear Grace's words. She rolled her eyes and said, "I feel like you don't just treat him like a king, you treat him like a master."
Grace smiled and said nothing.
Seeing the woman put the fruit plate on the coffee table, Simon deliberately raised his eyebrows and said, "Bring it here, how can I eat it if you put it there?"
Bryce curled her lips, but obediently picked up the fruit plate and brought it to Simon: "Master, please use it."
Simon twisted a piece of apple and gave it to Grace next to him, while saying: "It would be better if you put on a maid outfit and your tone is more submissive."
Bryce snorted, put the fruit plate directly into Simon's hand, sat down on the other side of the man, and said, "Then you'd better let Gray do this, she's willing to do anything."
Simon held the fruit plate and looked at the woman sitting next to him: "Aren't you going to leave? Staying here all the time will affect people's emotions."
"I'm not leaving. I have to watch here to prevent you from bullying Gray."
"Gray can't bully you now. I'll have to bully you later."
"I'll shout."
"Uh, okay, if you go on to say it, it's just a scene from some movies."
When Bryce saw someone voluntarily admitting defeat, she hummed, took the fruit from the man's hand and started eating.
Grace listened quietly to the two arguing for a while, and then said: "The new Elite Model Competition is about to begin in April. Simon, do you have any ideas?"
"What can he have in mind? Of course he would choose a bunch of beautiful girls...ah, it hurts."
Simon gently pinched the woman next to him, and then said: "There happens to be one. I almost forgot to mention that the finals of this model competition are best held in Atlantic City."
Bryce Levison interjected again: "Atlantic City, what are you doing there?"
Simon turned his head again and saw the woman shrinking her neck subconsciously, and then said: "Don't you care about your own property at all?"
"All I care about is how I spend my money."
Grace on the other side helped explain: "Leveson Group currently has several casinos in Atlantic City, and I seem to have heard that their performance is not very good."
Simon nodded: "The casino industry in Atlantic City has never been very good, but now that I have it, I have to try it. Making a movie about Atlantic City is one. There are already projects to do it, and there is also the introduction of some entertainment events in Atlantic City. Hosting it will increase visibility.”
"In this case, I will communicate with the Levison Group as soon as possible. Not only the finals, but also other processes can be carried out in Atlantic City."
Bryce saw Grace looking at herself again as she spoke, shaking her head and saying, "I don't care about this, you and Frank go talk."
Grace nodded and looked at Simon again: "It's Milan Fashion Week recently. Don't you plan to go to Europe?"
The four major spring fashion weeks of 1997 started in mid-February. The first New York Fashion Week and the subsequent London Fashion Week have ended. Now it is the turn of Milan and finally Paris Fashion Week.
Simon just shook his head.
I really don’t have this interest recently.
Bryce was not so sensitive to capture Simon's emotions, and said teasingly again: "This guy must feel that New York is very empty recently. Those goblins have all gone to Europe, tsk, otherwise they might not think of us."
Simon slowly put the fruit plate back on the coffee table, turned around and caught Bryce who finally felt bad and wanted to run away: "I don't know if New York is empty or not, but I think you are a bit empty, otherwise your mouth wouldn't be so poisonous, huh?" , take you for treatment."
With that said, Simon directly picked up the woman and left the living room while Bryce struggled and screamed half-heartedly.
Grace smiled as she watched the man carry Bryce away, then took the fruit plate and ate the fruit. However, although she soon stopped hearing any sound, Grace felt her breathing getting faster and faster. After a while, After all, I couldn't hold it back, put down the fruit plate again, got up and followed him out.