The second week of April is still a busy day for many reporters. The news heat of last Friday has not subsided, but more content has been coming one after another, which has forced many people to work overtime and stay up late to work, but they are always happy.

Volkswagen Electronics is a Seattle-based magazine media. Its market share in the West Coast of the United States was 28%, while in just three years, the figure was 35%. However, the decline in shareholding was not due to poor management, but in just three years, the information technology industry ushered in a new and rapid development, and professional journals and magazines in the same field continued to emerge like mushrooms after a rain.

"Zoe, isn't it okay?"

As soon as I got to work on Thursday morning, the newspaper editor Howard just walked into the office just a minute before he pushed open the door and shouted to a newcomer in a corner: "Didn't I say I'd put the manuscript on the table this morning??"

Outside the transparent office compartment is a place where fifty editors work together. Hearing Howard's loud voice, a beautiful brown-haired girl stood up in panic: "Sorry, Mr. Howard, I'm a little late today, I'll send you the manuscript soon!"

As soon as she spoke, she was rushing to take out her bag. At this moment, she had already taken out a thin stack of manuscript paper and walked into the editorial room quickly: "There are 3,000-word manuscripts in total, you can review them."

Howard said nothing, waved his hand and asked Zoe to sit directly in front of him: "Close the door."

The review process made Zoe nervous because she had just joined the magazine for only three months. In fact, she graduated from the literature department three months ago and was not at an Ivy League school. It can be said that it is already an amazing achievement to get a fresh position in "Volkswagen Electronics".

After a while, Howard had read the full text of three thousand words: "Zoe...Barnes, have you only found five companies?"

As if a bang, Zoe's face turned red: "I'm so sorry, Mr. Howard, it's only less than a whole week since the firewall was launched, and I really don't have more energy..."

"And, you actually..."

First I wanted to say a few words patiently, but Howard's tone undoubtedly became faster and faster: "Although it only took less than a week, its sales on the first day alone reached more than 10,000 points. And Redmond, the city next door, Microsoft and Nintendo, bought a big order, not to mention that Volkswagen Electronics itself is one of Cisco's users. In six days, five survey reports, and there are not the three names I just mentioned... Zoe Barnes, don't you want to continue working here anymore!?"

Finally, with a bang, Howard threw the manuscript on the table with the girl's leather bag and leather.

Zoe subconsciously covered her mouth: "Ah...sorry, Mr. Howard, I'm so sorry, I'll ignore such important information, I'll do it right away, right away..."

"Now, immediately, immediately, while it's still early, hurry up and go to Redmond to interview Microsoft and Nintendo! Two important customers such as Cisco are so close to us, so you can forget about the interview!? Get out! If you can't finish today, don't come back tomorrow! Get out quickly!"

Zoe could say something. He quickly ran out of the editor-in-chief's room with his arms around. He didn't even have the time to say hello to several seniors nearby, so he rushed out of the office.

Time waits for no one, because Volkswagen Electronics now has too many competitors.

Last Friday, the first weekend of April, was the day when Cisco Systems in San Jose released their new products and firewalls. In addition to professional magazines such as Volkswagen Electronics, reporters from Seattle Daily and Los Angeles Daily have already made all preparations, and even the Wall Street Journal had reporters rushed to the scene to get first-hand information on sales.

In fact, this is also quite interesting. If several major communications operators led by at&t are developing network infrastructure, they are the God who created a vast land, then companies like Microsoft and Apple, Cisco and Oracle are like those American Western pioneers who are not afraid of hardships. People from all walks of life are now enjoying the benefits these pioneers bring to themselves bit by bit.

Western Time, Friday at 9:30 am, the exact time for the product to be released. Long before that, tens of thousands of Cisco customers who use routers and switches across the country had already sent pre-order orders to Cisco a few weeks and a few months in advance. When the time came, all of these batches of orders changed to "dealed" status in an instant, with a total of up to thousands!

At just 9:30, Cisco's new product sales reached this number. Although the goods had not been issued yet, the money had begun to be transferred from the bank to the company's corporate account. This new and wonderful business method based on the Internet has made Cisco the first profit as the pioneer, and other companies have difficulty learning.

After all, the workload of handling so many orders at the same time is enough to paralyze the computers and LANs of most companies. In other words, Cisco is a big shot in the Internet hardware industry. The company's network bandwidth is extremely wide, and customers are users of its products. With each other's cooperation, in one minute, ordinary companies need to dial out countless phone calls and receive countless faxes to achieve results.

In the first minute of the release, the transaction volume reached tens of millions of dollars. It was directly titled as a title and made the headlines of countless newspapers, and that was just the early morning of Saturday!

Of course, news about banking system downtime was also published in the Wall Street Journal at the same time.

"Hello, a ticket to Redmond!"

I was rushing to feel the destination. As soon as I rushed into the passenger station, the young magazine reporter Zoe Barnes took out a hundred dollar bills and said to the middle-aged black woman in front of me: "You need the nearest flight!"

The ticket seller slowly checked the computer: "Recently...it was 10:10, young people."

"That's the class, thank you!"

Of course, the ticket seller had nothing to worry about, and no one was queuing behind Zoe at this moment. She was operating the computer in a hurry and glanced at Zoe with anxiety on her face: "Hey, I said little girl, what did you hurry like that?"

Zoe stroked her long hair awkwardly: "This... because of work needs, I must hurry to that city..."

Her eyes were attracted by the Seattle Daily, which was cut off by the ticket seller.

"Hello, can you lend me a newspaper to see?"

The ticket seller issued a note and handed it to her: "Of course it's okay, my dear, just take it and see it."

I couldn't wait to get the ticket and the newspaper, Zoe sat on the chair beside her and looked over.

Home news links an old giant with a new leading company.

"Boeing Buys Cisco Firewall in Large Bulk? Hard Working Truck Drivers!"

The picture shows Boeing's headquarters building in Seattle, where seven or eight FedEx vans were parked there, and couriers were pouring out goods. Although the distance was a little far, the photographer cleverly and clearly caught the pattern on the carton. The long and short lines looked like artistic radio waves. Isn't it Cisco's logo?

"Even Boeing has purchased firewalls in large quantities? Yes, companies like them need this kind of product the most. After all, they are big aircraft manufacturers. Maybe I can write it into the report?"

Zoe thought about it, because many days have passed since the release date of the firewall, and statistics have long been old news, so the editor-in-chief assigned her the task of writing a product evaluation report. After all, the hardware products used to maintain network security are as fresh as routers three years ago, and too many people want to know what it looks like.

"Ah... Yes, yes, yes, yes, a big mistake, why did I forget this relationship?"

Just as I thought of Boeing, Zoe, as a newcomer, suddenly discovered another mistake of her. Whether it was the firewall or other Cisco products, they were all invented by Alice Wang, and she is also a shareholder of Microsoft. Why didn’t she see such an obvious relationship? Howard gave a whole week, and she spent so much effort to write five reports, but she still left behind Microsoft!?

So, under the surprised gaze of ticket seller Sanders, Zoe screamed in extreme annoyance and pulled his hair crazy!

A similar scene is happening in many cities across the country, all because of Cisco's launch of their new products. Just as Zoe pulled his hair in annoyed manner, Wall Street journalists were also wandering around the Citibank building, which has been going on for a long time.

The reason is that as early as 9:30 in the morning of last Friday, when the stock market started, their entire bank servers crashed!

"Haha, it's so interesting~"

At this time, the sun was shining vertically at noon. Just as seven or eight reporters gathered in front of the bank building to see if they could catch a few suitable people to ask questions, a handsome young man stood in front of the newsstand on the street opposite. While reading the Wall Street Journal of that day, he responded with gloating to the senior bank executives who were still busy apologizing to the public.

"Well, it's a pity that I couldn't foresee this. If I took advantage of Citi's mistakes and started a short-selling business, maybe I'm already a millionaire!"

After saying this, Jordan Belford, who had just found a job at Rothschild Bank, walked towards Starbucks on the other side of the street with a light pace.
Chapter completed!