Chapter 540 (1/2)
The financial report of igritte company in 1992 is so eye-catching that even if many people want to keep a low profile, they fail to do so.
The San Francisco Chronicle, a subsidiary of Hurst group, published its annual financial report. If it is a company with only a few million or even tens of millions of dollars in revenue, it is not uncommon for it to grow at an annual rate of 400%.
However, the annual revenue of a company with a revenue volume of 100 million has jumped from 491 million US dollars to 1.937 billion US dollars. It is not through merger, but the natural growth of the company itself, which can be called a miracle in the global business history.
You know, according to the statistics of Fortune magazine, the entry threshold of revenue of the top 500 American enterprises in 1992 is only 528 million US dollars.
The company's revenue of $1.937 billion in 1992, if declared to participate in the Fortune 500 auction, will be enough to reach 219. Even if the entry threshold reached $2.329 billion in 1992, igritte is very close.
It is not so easy for us top 500 enterprises or the world top 500 enterprises to enter.
Take the top 500 companies in the United States as an example. The average age of all these companies on the list in 1992 was 42 years old, while igritte company was founded only four years ago.
Moreover, four years ago, most of the public didn't even have a concept of the Internet industry. In other words, igritte has created a new industry.
This is basically true.
With the release of the front page article of the San Francisco Chronicle, the media from all sides have been amazed, questioned and attacked.
In recent years, through several excellent news events, igritte has obviously made the traditional paper media platform feel the threat.
Although the advertising revenue from the portal accounts for only about 10% of the total revenue in the financial report of igritte, the traditional media is still facing a big enemy. The Boston Globe, which has a great influence on the east coast, openly attacked the financial report of igritte as a publicity and misleading to the capital and the public, so it even asked the federal authorities to correct the report The investigation is based on articles with ”ulterior motives”.
No matter how fierce the doubts and attacks from the outside world, with the release of the article, the capital market quickly made the most direct response to the U.S. technology stock market.
Igrit is not a public company, but Cisco and AOL are.
Moreover, a complete Internet industry chain jointly built by the three companies can be seen by anyone with a clear eye.
As a result, at the beginning of February, the two companies just broke through the market value of US $20 billion. With the release of the financial report with the same substantial growth and the disclosure of the explosive annual financial report of igritte, the market value of the two companies directly went to US $30 billion.
In the confusion, the time entered March 1993.
Moreover, for the Internet industry, this is bound to be an extraordinary March.
On March 2, Bill Clinton, who has been in office for less than two months, officially started his visit to Silicon Valley in a busy schedule. During the one-day trip, Bill Clinton visited the headquarters of five companies, including whitp, Intel, Cisco, AOL and igritte, and made a visit to the silicon valley In the afternoon of the same day, he delivered a speech on the information superhighway project with Stanford University Campus auditorium.
During Bill Clinton's visit to Silicon Valley, three of the five companies on the agenda belong to the westero system. Even if a young man does not appear in the whole process of the visit, this arrangement is enough to show the obvious close connection between the westero system and the new president.
Therefore, on the second day after the visit, the technology stock market rose again, and Cisco's market value officially exceeded the $30 billion mark. At the close of the day, its market value was fixed at $31.2 billion.
This is just the beginning.
Then, in the second week of March, on March 8, the United States Senate officially voted to pass the information highway plan bill, which has been promoting and brewing for a long time since last year.
When the bill was officially announced, the eyes of the whole world were instantly focused on it.
The core content of this 20-year plan is to build a perfect information network composed of communication network, computer, database and daily electronic products to provide a large amount of information for the public.
The specific contents of the bill include ”promoting investment in the information industry”, ”increasing infrastructure construction”, ”ensuring information security and network reliability”, ”relaxing spectrum control” and ”strengthening intellectual property protection”. Generally speaking, it is to promote the development of the information industry with the greatest power that the United States can use.
Once upon a time, the information superhighway project was launched in 1993. At that time, Netscape browser was just born, AOL had not yet risen, and Yahoo was missing. Although the Clinton Administration tried its best to build momentum for the bill, it was still difficult for the public to realize the importance of the bill.This time, with the advance promotion of the westero system, AOL, Cisco and igritte have all risen ahead of time. Both the capital and the public have intuitively realized the impact of the information age on the whole society.
As a result, when the ”information superhighway plan” was officially released, the U.S. technology stock market did not experience the brewing from 1993 to 1995, but directly began to take off.
AOL also broke through the $30 billion mark on March 9, a week after Cisco's market value broke through $30 billion.
At the end of March 9, the market value of Cisco, which almost monopolized the basic network equipment market, reached $35.1 billion, and that of AOL reached $30.9 billion.
Other important technology companies, such as Microsoft, Intel, apple, sun and so on, are also rising rapidly these days.
This is crucial for the Internet industry. Of course, March will not end with the publication of a bill that may take long-term effect.
On March 11, Microsoft held a press conference in Seattle and launched a new windows 3.2 system.
In the past, windows 3.2 system was released in 1994, and compared with windows 3.1 system, the improvement was not big, mainly due to the increase of multilingual support including Chinese.
This time, although the windows 3.2 system was released one year ahead of schedule, it is a brand-new system specially customized by Microsoft for the arrival of the Internet era, greatly enhancing the support for network, image, audio, video and other multimedia services. In addition, the windows 3.2 system also launched the ”start” menu, which is crucial to the Microsoft Windows platform, ahead of time.
Simon has got the trial version of windows 3.2 three months in advance. In his opinion, this operating system equipped with the ”start” menu in advance is very close to the classic windows 95 in memory.
Next, the important breakthrough of Windows 95 is about the upgrade from 16 bit system to 32-bit system.
On March 12, the day after Microsoft's windows 3.2 release, Intel released the first generation of Pentium processor with basic parameters in October last year, and officially launched it to the market.
Pentium era starts.
In the original time and space, it was by relying on Pentium series processors that Intel completely ended the status of PC processor chips competing for power, and the x86 architecture was unified.