The next morning, Muye &Baidu's signing ceremony with Google was about to begin, and the global media gathered at the national exhibition to cover the business merger worth at least $3 billion.

Just yesterday, several authoritative survey and evaluation agencies on Wall Street re-conducted the valuation statistics of Google, giving a reference valuation of 90-12 billion US dollars, from Google announced that it would acquire Muye&, and was confirmed by Makino Technology, even if Makino Technology has not actually imported any resources to Google until now, Google's valuation still staged a Jedi rebound.

Several institutions believe that Google's next valuation has a great possibility of exploding, but this may not depend on Google itself, but on Makino Technology.

If after the completion of today's merger and acquisition, Makino Technology really fully supports the development of Google, then Google will usher in an explosive period, if after the completion of the merger and acquisition, Makino Technology is relatively perfunctory to Google, then the valuation is not so impressive, but whether Makino Technology fully supports Google, at least one thing is certain, after the completion of the merger, Makino Technology will not touch any search engine business within five years, which means that no matter how bad it is, Google will be in a golden period of development without natural enemies in the next five years.

In the Internet industry, multi-billion dollar bulk capital operations are rare, not to mention a successful case of Li Mukong's glove white wolf, so it has a high degree of attention around the world.

In addition to a large number of media reporters, a large number of industry elites also came to cheer, so the whole national exhibition was full of people, and it was much more lively than ordinary large-scale exhibitions.

Li Mu is in the backstage lounge prepared for the organizer of the National Exhibition at this time, although today's signing ceremony is very large, but the process is very simple, in addition to a well-known host from CCTV to help to do the opening host and the middle of the string, the whole signing ceremony is three parts, first, Li Mu, Robin and Larry Page take turns to make a short speech; secondly, the three-party signing ceremony is held on the spot; finally, answer questions from reporters on the spot.

After finally confronting the process with the host, Li Mu sat alone in his lounge for a while, and when there were still more than ten minutes to start, Li Ziwei knocked on the door and came in, and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, Mr. Lin sent an email from the United States, you asked her to investigate and understand the matter, she has preliminary investigation results." ”

"Oh?" Li Mu came to his senses, sat up straight and asked, "What do you say?"

Li Ziwei took out a palm-sized notepad in her hand, turned over the page with a mini ballpoint pen, and said: " There are three more reliable news, the first: Microsoft has indeed made a relatively large move recently, the internal job transfer is relatively large, according to her experience estimates, the internal staff position transfer is large, it should represent a relatively large-scale internal reorganization, her analysis should be the establishment of a new business department, or project team, but Microsoft's internal level of confidentiality is relatively high, and they are in Seattle, so the confidentiality work is relatively easy to carry out. ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "If the internal transfer is relatively large, there must be an internal business reorganization, and it seems that they have a new development direction." ”

Li Ziwei said: "Second, Microsoft has been working very content operations recently, they poached some editors-in-chief from many well-known media in the United States, gave them several times their salaries, and sent them to Seattle, but there is no definite news on which project they are going to use for the time being." ”

Li Mu smacked his lips and said: "Microsoft recruits so many content talents, this is to make efforts on the content side, and now the place where content talents come into play is nothing more than portals and vertical products in terms of content, but now there are still very few vertical products in terms of content, and there is nothing to do except blogs......"

The initial vigorous development of the Internet revolves around social networking, games and information, these three categories are really related to content is information products, to put it bluntly, it is a variety of portals, in addition to portals, the development of content products at this stage is very scarce, unlike later generations, encyclopedia products, Q&A products, interest social and knowledge social products, the only mature content products at this stage, in fact, is the blog, others, even the Internet is still in the exploration stage.

Thinking of this, Li Mu said to himself: "It seems that Microsoft has poached so many media content talents, either because it wants to re-open a portal or start a blog, and there is no third possibility." ”

After that, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei: "Didn't you say that there are three points? What is the third one?"

Li Ziwei hurriedly said: "The third point is that Microsoft has indeed made several small and medium-sized investments and acquisitions in the periphery recently, and all of them are game development teams. ”

"Game development?" Li Mu couldn't help frowning and said, "Is it for the XBOX platform?"

Li Ziwei said: "No, Mr. Lin said that these game development teams are all engaged in the development of PC indos platform games, and one is a company that makes online chess and card games. ”

"Online chess and card ......" Li Mu squinted his eyes and nodded slightly.

If Microsoft is to the XBOX ecological acquisition and investment in the game team, Li Mu is not surprised, after all, to support a pure game platform, but also with Sony's PS, there are few exclusive cooperation game teams in their hands really can't play, but Microsoft's acquisition of the PC game team, this is a bit wrong, online chess and cards are even more outrageous, obviously different from Microsoft's tone.

If Microsoft's MSN is still there, then it will not be surprised to make online chess and card games, but the key is that MSN has knelt down, Microsoft has lost the soil for the development of social games, and at this time suddenly want to do social games, which is equivalent to building in the air, Microsoft should not do such a stupid thing, unless they are ready to make the soil again.

Li Mu analyzed several clues that can be sorted out so far, first of all, a few points that can be determined are: Microsoft has made big moves internally, found a large number of content workers, and is ready to engage in social games;

Secondly, there are a few points to be determined: Microsoft may be a portal, a blog, and a social network.

Li Mu thought for a moment, slapped his thigh, and said, "Microsoft is making a comeback!"

Li Ziwei hurriedly asked: "Mr. Li, do you mean that Microsoft is going to do social again?"

Li Mu nodded and said, "I think he doesn't just want to socialize, he wants to do a full set! At least what Makino Technology is doing now, he wants to do! And it's doing it quietly, wanting to catch me off guard!"

Li Ziwei looked at Li Mu dumbfounded, I don't know why Li Mu would come to such a serious conclusion, at least on paper, the news sent back by Lin Qingya is not enough to support Li Mu's judgment, after all, any company, if it wants to compete with Muye Technology in an all-round way, I am afraid that it will have to pay a huge price and cost, and it will have to bear a huge risk of failure, and it is not so easy to make such a decision.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Ziwei asked tentatively, "Mr. Li, is the matter really so serious?"

Li Mu nodded without hesitation and said, "I think it's at least seven or eight out of ten." ”

Li Ziwei hurriedly said: "Then do you want to call Mr. Lin back and let her investigate in depth?"

Li Mu pinched his chin, thought for a moment, and said, "The investigation must be investigated, but it must be a different starting point. ”

After that, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei: "Do you know what dimensions the Americans use to judge the progress of North Korea's nuclear weapons?"

Li Ziwei shook her head lightly and asked tentatively, "Do you use spy satellites to shoot?"

Li Mu smiled: "This is the most direct way, as if we try our best to intuitively investigate the situation inside Microsoft, but if others deliberately hide intuitive clues, then it will be difficult for us to find out the real situation of the other party." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu said again: " On the contrary, there are many non-intuitive clues that cannot be hidden in any way, such as monitoring the mining of uranium mines in North Korea, if the uranium mining increases, it can prove that they are carrying out nuclear-related work, but this may be used for nuclear power plants, not necessarily for users to develop nuclear weapons, so how to confirm that they are developing nuclear weapons, it is necessary to control the changes in their power generation at the same time, if the power consumption of civil and industrial vehicles has not increased significantly, but their power generation has increased a lot, which proves that they may have invested thousands of centrifuges in the preparation of highly enriched uranium, because nuclear power plants only need 3Uranium-235 concentrations are about % in concentrations, but nuclear weapons require concentrations of more than 93%, uranium mining, and power generation are non-intuitive clues that are difficult for them to hide. ”

Li Ziwei pondered for a moment, nodded, and asked seriously: "Then what do you think Microsoft's non-intuitive clues are?"

Li Mu said: "I said, you remember." ”

"Okay. Li Ziwei immediately took out a pen and notepad.

"First, let Lin Qingya find a way to check Microsoft's personnel records, they have been doing MSN-related business for so many years, all the employees related to MSN in the early days, the information should be relatively transparent, it is easy to find out who are the people who have been doing MSN business in Microsoft, after finding these people, take a look at how many of these people left after Microsoft shut down the MSN business, how many left, how many left, in addition, among the group of people who left, how many have recently returned to Microsoft, Microsoft wants to do social business, and will not be reluctant to go far, they will pack up the old team of MSN, and the old products are packed out for secondary development, which is more trouble-free, more experienced, more efficient, these people are like Microsoft's uranium mine, Microsoft will not give up mining, and is even mining at a high speed;"

"Second, let Lin Qingya find a way to check whether Microsoft has made any big moves in data processing recently, he wants to do a social ecology, then it is impossible to make a weaker product than us, I doubt that they will resurrect MSN, but as I just said, the resurrected MSN must be reborn and reborn, so the resurrected MSN will definitely have the online and offline file transfer functions that we YY have. Voice and video call functions, and to support these functions, it requires powerful data processing capabilities, to put it more colloquially, Microsoft wants to make a product like YY, either at its own expense to build a large number of computer rooms, or to rent a large number of computer rooms, the demand for computer rooms, bandwidth, data processing capacity, just like the preparation of highly enriched uranium must consume a lot of electricity, no matter how they hide, it is impossible to hide, as long as these two points are confirmed, Microsoft's wolf ambitions will be revealed!