Chapter 73: Confrontation
As one of the largest toy entertainment centers in the United States, the Toys "R" Us flagship store in Houston is also huge.
The entire shopping mall is basically dominated by toys, comics, clothes, etc. Several toy and game companies, including Toys R Us and Disney, have stores in this mall. You can imagine how many girls like Milia come here to play every weekend.
Song Yang had just passed the iconic clock tower door of Toys R Us with Milia, Gallo and Logan when they received a call from Brady.
"Song, those guys have gone crazy, they don't know what they are doing!"
As soon as the phone was connected, Brady's angry voice came over, making Song Yang's ears numb.
Song Yang naturally knew who Brady was referring to, "Did Netscape really cancel Yahoo's search supply?"
"No, but what's the difference between this and cancellation?" Brady laughed bitterly. "Netscape is going to increase the fees for search providers and provide search providers to users in alphabetical order. What's the difference between this and cancellation?"
Even through the phone, Song Yang could feel Yahoo's frustration. After going public, Netscape introduced three new search providers at once, and had to provide these search providers' services to users in alphabetical order. In this way, there was no need to count, as everyone knew Yahoo was ranked last.
"What about the two chiefs of Yahoo? What are their opinions?" Song Yang asked. Whether Yahoo would openly turn against Netscape depended on the opinions of Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro.
"They are meeting with shareholders and investors. They need to reassure those Wall Street investors and let them know that Netscape's changes will not affect Yahoo!" Brady said helplessly.
This is the helplessness of having someone in charge of you. Any slight disturbance has to be explained to the boss.
"Jim and Anderson are really crazy!" Brady couldn't help but complain.
Song Yang agreed with this. "It's not just Yahoo. It's the same with DoubleClick. Netscape asked DoubleClick to increase its advertising fees . Now DoubleClick's advertising with Netscape is not making any money at all."
Brady believed Song Yang's words. Netscape had been acting aggressively recently, always regarding itself as the leader in the Internet industry. In fact, it was developing a new generation of more powerful browsers in order to increase profits. However, the pressure it brought to Yahoo, DoubleClick and other Internet companies began to increase.
Now Song Yang hopes that Netscape can quickly declare war on Microsoft. Otherwise, when Netscape starts to expand wildly, the digital advertising, portal website and other industries in which DoubleClick and Yahoo are located may be targeted by Netscape, and they will not be able to survive.
"I heard that Netscape is developing a new generation of browsers and promoting a new JAVA language and Internet technology standard with SUN Systems!"
Song Yang seemed to have "inadvertently" revealed on the phone how powerful Netscape was and that it had already begun to develop Internet technology and standards.
This bypasses Microsoft, the giant in the software industry, and opens up a new battlefield on the Internet. If Netscape can accomplish this feat, it will be able to rely on the Internet industry to compete with Microsoft!
On the phone, Song Yang could clearly hear a word starting with F, and then there was silence. Brady also obviously guessed what Song Yang meant.
Netscape was preparing to go to war with Microsoft and wanted to rely on the browser to replace Microsoft's system. This required Netscape to get the support of the entire Internet. Only Netscape's browser could meet all the users' Internet requirements. Only then could users get rid of Microsoft. This was one of the reasons why Netscape continued to put pressure on Yahoo.
After a while, Brady spoke again, "Song, Yahoo will reconsider the Netscape issue. I came to you today because I want to increase the promotion of Yahoo. Yahoo needs to make up for the traffic and users lost from Netscape!"
"No problem. DoubleClick will increase the promotion efforts for Yahoo. I will also call Martin Solo and ask WPP to promote Yahoo through offline TV stations, newspapers, magazines and other media."
Song Yang said directly, which made Brady feel like a spring breeze. Compared with the strictness of Netscape, Song Yang's side can be said to be "full of sincerity".
"Song, I and everyone at Yahoo will never forget everything you have done for Yahoo." Brady vowed to Song Yang.
Song Yang didn't believe a word of this. If Yahoo really reached Netscape's current position, it would probably be even more brutal than Netscape.
"Brady, I am also a Yahoo shareholder and will always stand with Yahoo!"
Song Yang also said, "But Brady, I need to promote a new product in a while, and I hope Yahoo can help promote it."
"New product?" Brady, who had just vowed that he would not forget everything Song Yang had done for Yahoo, was obviously hesitant at this time.
"Don't worry, it's not a portal site and won't compete with Yahoo!"
"Song, you are too cautious. That's not what I meant. Don't worry, Yahoo will provide the best traffic for your new product..."
After hanging up the phone, Song Yang and Brady on the other end of the phone curled their lips at the same time, raising the other party's defense level even more.
After hanging up the phone, Song Yang heard Xiaomia calling him. In just a short while, she already had a lot of things in her arms and a small cake in her hand.
"this!"
Standing on a shelf taller than her, Milia excitedly pointed to Song Yang a scaled-down replica of the piano keyboard in the Hollywood movie "Flashgate", which cost US$128.
A toy for $128, two days' salary for an American adult, it's almost robbery.
Gallo said to Milia with a threatening look on his face, "If Dana knew that you bought these, do you know what would happen?"
Upon hearing this, Millia immediately pouted her lips. Seeing that a thunderstorm was about to come, Song Yang took down the small piano keyboard and stuffed it into Millia's arms, and the rain immediately stopped.
The entire Toy R Us has almost all kinds of toys and props from various animations and movies. In addition to the piano keyboard, Little Milia also set her eyes on a baby doll. For US$75, one can "adopt" a baby doll, and there are staff members pretending to be nurses to teach Little Milia and others how to take care of the doll.
When Milia saw the doll, she suddenly felt that the piano keyboard was not so popular. She stuffed the keyboard into Logan's arms and rushed into the doll shop.
The entire mall also has magic shows, indoor swings, carousels and other toy installations. No matter who comes in, no matter how wealthy they are, they will definitely not leave empty-handed. There are small toys for $10, and there are also Mercedes-Benz toy cars inlaid with 40,000 Swarovski crystals, priced at $30,000, which is enough to buy a real car in America...
Gallo, who was acting as a human shopping cart, looked at Milia who was having fun and complained to Song Yang, " Who the hell designed this? It's so wicked. But there are so many toys. Why didn't we have these back then?"
"Even if there are, do you think you can get these things from Greg and Daana?!"
Song Yang attacked mercilessly, and Gallo felt that it made sense. If he dared to mention these things to Greg at that time, he would have to be thrown on old Bruno's farm to herd cattle for a few days.
Looking at Milia who was having fun, Song Yang and his friends sat down in a restaurant nearby.
Song Yang looked at Logan, who was still depressed along the way, and asked him, "How is the new school?"
After moving to the new villa, Song Yang and Greg paid a sponsorship fee to send Logan and Milia to a private school in the community where the villa was located. It is also the best school in Houston and provides personnel to major Ivy League universities all year round.
"It's OK," Logan said to Song Yang, "but the study intensity is much greater than that of the previous school!"
Although the American media has been advocating college dropouts for years, families that actually have some money are trying their best to send their children to top universities, so that after graduation they can work as lawyers, doctors, engineers and other professions, and slowly climb up to the upper class of society.
As for those who have no money and cannot go to Ivy League universities or even community colleges, they basically have to accept their fate and contribute to American factories, fast food restaurants, service industries, etc., and of course, provide talent for gangs.
"I believe Logan will definitely be able to enter an Ivy League university and become an elite in America. What do you think, Song?" Gallo said to Song Yang with a wink.
Song Yang glanced at Logan and nodded. With Song Yang, Greg, Gallo and others around, as long as Logan didn't do anything stupid or act eccentric, it would not be difficult for him to enter a prestigious university, get a job he was interested in after graduation, and marry a girl from a celebrity family, or even a starlet or a model. This situation was much better than when Song Yang first came to America and had to contribute to McDonald's.
"Song, old Bruno asked us to go to the farm together in a few days, but I don't think it's a good thing!" Gallo swallowed a plate of small egg tarts in one gulp and said vaguely to Song Yang.
Old Bruno and his wife had mentioned several times that they wanted Song Yang, Greg, Gallo and others to go to the small farm together. Greg decided to go and see old Bruno and his wife in a few days.
Song Yang had a good impression of the old man Bruno. In his memory, Bruno and his wife took good care of Song Yang, his original self. In the first few years after his parents got into trouble, it was Bruno and his wife who took care of Song Yang. Later, after he went to school, he followed Greg and Daana.
Shaking his head, Song Yang could guess what Gallo meant. It was nothing more than those relatives who were rich and had distant relatives in the mountains. "The Bruno Foundation has been established. Let them join the Bruno Foundation!"
Gallo chuckled. He knew that the Bruno family had several difficult relatives. Song Yang was obviously putting the blame on Dana and Greg who were in charge of the foundation. This must have been enough of a headache for Greg.
