Chapter 188: Crazy Money Grab Mode is about to begin
Founded in 1899, Rongbu Temple is the highest temple in the world, just 20 kilometers from the northern face of Mount Everest. Looking south from here, you can see that Mount Everest resembles a huge pyramid, standing majestically between the peaks, which is daunting.
In the morning light, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen unmanned helicopter research team started a new busy day in the open space outside the Rongbu Temple. In the crowd, a young man in a green jacket stopped to look at the north slope of Mount Everest, the rising sun dotted the top of the world, printing everything red, this young man is Wang Tao.
Ten days ago, the desperate Wang Tao went to the magic capital alone, and after an interview with Ding Le, he got a huge amount of investment. Although he ceded a significant stake, it did not jeopardize his control of the company.
After signing the investment agreement with Galaxy Investment, he hurriedly went south and went to the snowy plateau with the team of Harbin Institute of Technology Pengcheng Graduate School to conduct a scientific expedition, because the scientific research team still has members from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, so everyone gave the scientific research team a very fashionable name, Hong Kong and Shenzhen Unmanned Helicopter Research Group.
From June, precipitation began to increase in the Himalayas, and the Everest region entered the rainy season. The sunny weather is getting less and less, and in order to seize the rare time window, everyone is busy early in the morning, regardless of the altitude sickness of the body.
Wang Tao and his companions gasped for breath as they assembled their company's latest product, a set of rotor systems, on a black fuselage about 1.6 meters long.
After the installation, watching the drone slowly deploy its rotors, nearly two meters long, Wang Tao thought: "Success or failure is in this move!"
Everything was ready before take-off, and everyone retreated beyond the safety line. Everyone gasped and waited.
"Take off!"
With Wang Tao's order, I saw the pilot slowly pushing the take-off rudder, and the drone started slowly.
The loud noise of the rotors tearing through the air was not diminished by the thin air of the plateau, and the small pieces of sand and gravel on the ground fled one after another under the action of the air current.
The unmanned helicopter, named "Everest", is equipped with Dajiang's XP3.1 automatic control system, which can carry out semi-automatic remote control flight with a control radius of about 1 km, and can also carry out fully autonomous flight with a control range of 10 km.
As the black unmanned helicopter gradually lifted off from the ground, the crowd resounded with cheers in a blend of Chinese and Tibetan. With a take-off altitude of 5,000 meters, this is the first time in human history that aerial robots have been used to conduct flight tests and aerial photography experiments in the Everest region.
“Yes!Yes!”
Looking at the black drone hanging in the air, Wang Tao waved his fists excitedly and screamed uncontrollably, at this moment he was like an electric shock, his whole body was numb with excitement, and he completely forgot about his altitude sickness.
At this time, the companions also flocked to him, and everyone was very emotional, and their mouths kept repeating the same sentence.
"Success!
Since its establishment, Dajiang has never had a mature product, and the company has been in a state of loss, so Wang Tao has been under tremendous pressure. Now XP3.1 has been successfully tested in the field, and the product performance has been tested. This not only gave him, but also the employees of the company a new hope.
After the venture capital funds of Galaxy Investment are in place, the risk of the company's capital chain breaking will no longer exist, and many factors will be superimposed, so that Wang Tao has new ambitions for the future......
When Wang Tao stood outside the Rongbu Temple, looking at the top of Mount Everest, and began to be proud, Ding Le was sitting in the office of the magic capital, looking at the Huangpu River, his face was full of sadness, he was in trouble!
Not long ago, when Ding Le inspected Weibo, he learned from Zhang that Google intended to withdraw from the Chinese market, which gave him a crazy idea, that is, Weibo would come forward to buy all of Google's assets and businesses in China.
After returning to the magic capital, he did a lot of homework for this.
Judging from the current competition pattern of domestic search engine operators, Baidu, Google China and China Yahoo firmly occupy the top three in the market, accounting for 95.8% of the market share, which is obviously in the oligopoly competition stage.
Among them, Baidu is Google's strongest competitor in China.
In terms of market share, Baidu's market share has increased from 59.3% in 2007 to 62.2% in 2008, and Google's market share in China has increased from 23.4% in 2007 to 27.8% in 2008.
In terms of revenue, Baidu's revenue in the four quarters of last year was 557 million yuan, 790 million yuan, 928 million yuan, and 928 million yuan respectively, with a total of 3.203 billion yuan. The revenue scale of Google China in the four quarters of last year was 246 million yuan, 320 million yuan, 407 million yuan, and 459 million yuan respectively, with a total of 1.432 billion yuan.
From the perspective of industry competition, the sum of the revenue share of Baidu and Google China in the first quarter reached 95.3%, an increase of nearly 1.5 percentage points compared with the fourth quarter of 2008.
According to iResearch's analysis report, the size of China's search engine market reached 1.311 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2009, a year-on-year increase of 41.2%. And this is just the current data, in a few years, the domestic search market scale output value will exceed 10 billion yuan, and the entire industry will usher in dozens or even hundreds of times growth.
After reading the information in his hand, Ding Le sighed lightly and squeezed his temples with one hand.
After some in-depth research, he realized how "local tyrant" he was when he agreed to Zhang Yiyi's acquisition of Google China.
Google's total revenue in 2008 was nearly 22 billion US dollars, even if the revenue scale of the Chinese market accounts for only a small proportion of its global revenue, but Google's market share in the Chinese market is there, and if you want to eat the whole Google China, you will definitely not be able to do it without billions of dollars!
The acquisition of such a company, if it finally closes the deal, will be the largest M&A deal in the history of China's Internet industry, which is enough to go down in history.
In the history of the previous life, Google finally withdrew from the Chinese market, and Baidu seized the golden opportunity to dominate the domestic search engine market and become the industry hegemon. Now, Weibo's proposed acquisition of Google will affect the pattern of the entire industry.
The words he said were like water spilled out, and in his past and present lives, he was a man who would do what he said and did what he did.
After reading the information at hand, Ding Le began to calculate the funds he could call.
Black Panther made a lot of money from shorting Wall Street last year, but now that these funds are being used by themselves, the funds lying in Galaxy Investment's bank account are not enough to support the merger.
If these funds are to be activated, it will inevitably affect the business strategy of the entire system of Galaxy Investment. Several projects invested in the early stage of the primary market will be withdrawn, and the stocks held in the secondary market will be sold, and even the development of Jumei.com and Qiandai.com will be affected.
On top of the funds currently available, he had to raise an additional amount of money to solve the problem. Ding Le looked out the window, his brows furrowed, how to start a wave of crazy money-grabbing mode?
At this time, a QQ message popped up on the computer desktop, which attracted his attention! Suddenly, he had an idea that was even crazier than the Black Panther's shorting of Wall Street......