Chapter 568 (1/2)
As another subsidiary of westero system, Nokia's share price soared on the first day of its IPO, and once again became the hot topic of mainstream media all over the world.
After the weekend, a Nokia led forward-looking article in the latest issue of Forbes in North America became the hottest topic at the end of August.
Forbes magazine said in the article that it will officially release the list of the US 400 richest people in 1993 on September 6, and the list of the world's richest people will also be released in November.
A few years ago, the position of the richest man in the United States and even in the world might still be in suspense. Japanese real estate tycoons and the Walton family are quite strong competitors.
Now the rich list, the top position has almost no suspense.
The only thing you're curious about is how much more money Simon westero has gained this year.
The lawsuit and media uproar caused by the 58list fraud case has not been eased by the listing of Nokia and the upcoming Forbes rich list, but has become more and more rampant.
After the San Francisco Chronicle followed up the fraud, other print media responded one after another, and various kinds of queries were put forward to 58list in various parts of the United States.
A Chicago City Councilor and the local ”Chicago Sun” on August 23 publicly accused igritte of conniving irresponsible citizens to publish the forbidden bitdogs in the Chicago area on the 58list website.
The Houston Chronicle, a Texas newspaper, published a screenshot of evidence claiming that it had found illegal spring sales on 58list.
A young Miami parent wants to sell her three-month-old daughter on 58list.
A user in Washington found his stolen car on the New York City Board.
And so on.
At the same time, other cases similar to the job fraud in San Francisco also appeared in the newspapers.
After the initial silent wait-and-see, taking advantage of the opportunity of this fraud case, the traditional paper media almost suddenly made efforts, obviously planning to put 58list website, which has been open for less than one month, out of the cradle.
Public opinion continued until later, a Republican senator in the U.S. Congress told the Washington Post that he would submit to Congress for a hearing on whether the 58list website of igritte company is suspected of conniving at criminal acts and endangering public safety, so as to decide whether to launch further investigation and litigation.
The rebound of traditional paper media is entirely expected.
According to the user data released by major operators in July and August, as of June 30, 1993, the number of World Wide Web access users in the United States alone had reached 37.69 million, covering more than 60 million Internet users. It is estimated that in 1993, the number of World Wide Web access users in the United States will reach about 46 million, covering nearly 75 million Internet users.
75 million Internet users, nearly 30% of the 260 million people in the United States.
Although there is still a big gap between TV and telephone, which cover more than 90% of household appliances, we still can not ignore the fact that these 30% of users are definitely the most powerful consumers in the United States.
Similarly, these people are also the top quality customers of American paper media industry.
Even though many people are still reluctant to admit it, however, with the rapid popularity of the Internet, the decline trend of the traditional paper media industry is becoming more and more obvious.
Users can enjoy more abundant and timely news, e-mail, social networks, online games and other services at a cost of tens of dollars per month, so they don't need to subscribe to traditional newspapers.
In the original time and space, in June 1993, the New York Times Group bought another large east coast newspaper, the Boston post, with a huge sum of US $1.1 billion.
Perhaps I feel the decline of the paper media industry. Although this transaction has also happened, the transaction volume is only US $800 million, and the price has almost dropped by 30%. This change is obviously affected by the rise of Internet media.
The traditional paper media industry has been waiting for some opportunities.
The opening of 58list and the San Francisco fraud finally gave the traditional print media an excuse to challenge igritte.
After all, only half a month after the opening of 58list, millions of classified advertising information has caused hundreds of millions of dollars of potential losses to the classified advertising business of traditional paper media. If the free classified information website of Internet platform becomes popular from now on, the advertising revenue of 20 billion US dollars of traditional paper media every year will be wiped out.
The huge loss of 20 billion US dollars, if not scattered among thousands of newspapers in the United States, involves such a huge industrial income, let alone killing and setting fire, even launching a war is enough.
It is not that the paper media groups in the United States have not incited war.
Simon attached great importance to the public opinion crisis and personally participated in the formation of a crisis management team for this incident. However, he didn't feel like a big enemy in his heart.Such a historical trend at the level of industrial revolution can not be resisted by one or two public opinion attacks.
Even if the 58list website was shut down in the end, igritte did not lose much.
The fire has been ignited. Even if 58list is shut down, there will surely be more classified information websites.
Without the strong support of igritte company, those classified information websites with mixed advantages and disadvantages can only bring more potential threats to users, let alone use the private investigation team to protect the rights and interests of users.
It took Martin dinam's team only three days to identify the suspect, but there was a problem in the search phase.
Maybe it's a big deal. When the team finds some suspects' houses, the targets have already fled ahead of time. Fortunately, through more follow-up clues, the investigation team further confirmed the identity of the suspected target.
Originally, we only need to let the victim confirm and issue the wanted order through the official channel. However, these days, it is obvious that some people do not want this fraud case to be solved. San Francisco police, who should have done well after the case has been widely concerned by the media, are obviously slack.
Even the two victims who had agreed to cooperate with the igritte team in the investigation suddenly stopped contact with igritte, leaving only the official language of the lawyer each time.
It can be imagined that once a wanted order is issued, the suspect will only flee to a more hidden place. With the attitude of San Francisco police, it is more difficult to catch people.
Simon made up his mind to fight through the incident, warning potential criminals who want to commit crimes on the igritte platform.
Aware of the official slack, Simon directly mobilized half of his intelligence team to gather in San Francisco. Meanwhile, in the western states and even the underground world of Mexico's border with the United States, he quietly released a reward of $100000 for each of the three identified suspects.
For gangs all over North America who are far more informed than the official, 100000 dollars per head is definitely not a small amount.
It doesn't have to cost that much to hire a professional killer.
As a result, the reward order spread for less than a week, and the news soon came that Martin dinam, who was in charge of the matter, was asked to bring cash to meet people in Tijuana, Mexico, which borders on Southern California.
Sure enough, he escaped to Mexico.
If the authorities issue a wanted warrant, it would be wishful thinking to arrest people unless they return to the United States.
What's more, it's not three people who offer a reward, but five in all.
The local gangs in Tijuana are very generous. Of course, they don't know why these people were offered a reward. However, since only three people were offered a reward, they only received US $300000. The other two people were given nothing. They earnestly expressed the hope that they would have a chance to ”cooperate” next time.
After all, many people flee from the United States to Mexico every year for various reasons,
if they are all so valuable, it will be a big business.
The gang leader in contact with Martin dinam also said that they can directly dispose of people in Mexico, which is much less risky than taking them back to North America. Only a little more money can make a few people disappear completely. At that time, a few unlucky men who were tied up like goods were put on the side. On the spot, some people were scared to pee their pants.