Chapter 690: Yahoo China
Motorola's acquisition by Google brought about a knock-on effect that Nokia finally chose Time Android as his main system, and of course Microsoft's mobile operating system was once again added. Rubinstein doesn't have as much decision-making power at Nokia as the husk. Since the beginning of this year, Nokia's decline has been highlighted, and mobile phone sales have declined sharply. It is self-evident what the consequences will be, and Microsoft seems to have accelerated the pace of penetration.
Abu Dhabi's tycoons are once again looking for Zhou Shi, which is a knock-on effect of Chartered Semiconductor's acquisition of IBM's chip manufacturing division. IBM did not directly reject the concession and Lenovo, which means that things can be discussed, and it is not surprising that GLOBALFOUNDRIES knows the news.
"How do they want to cooperate?" Zhou Shi didn't go to see those local tyrants, or those local tyrants didn't come to see him. In this year's Premier League, Liverpool once again achieved overwhelming success, and the Premier League title should be in the bag, but an accident in the Champions League hurt Manchester City, which has invested heavily for several years.
"I don't know, I don't want everyone to bid maliciously!" Zhang Yujing
"Bidding? No, I still think IBM can subsidize us!" Zhou Shi, IBM's chip manufacturing department is scum except for technology accumulation, everything else is scum, and it has maintained losses for a long time, and in its previous life, it was sold to GLOBALFOUNDRIES for more than a billion dollars.
"Perhaps, the Grofoundries side wants us to suspend negotiations with IBM"
"Promise them!" Zhou Shi
"In case they take advantage of the opportunity" Zhang Yujing said cautiously, in business competition, all kinds of means may appear, and it is not a big deal to deceive people.
"It's okay, even if they pry the corner, we don't have much to lose. "Zhou Shi, the advantage of franchising is not only the leading technology, but also the various cooperative affiliated enterprises, which is also one of the keys to the success of Samsung Semiconductor in the previous life. How can a company without a market succeed? The local tyrants in Abu Dhabi think things too simply. Since the beginning of this year, the franchise has finally surpassed UMC and become the second largest in the field of semiconductor foundry, and it is not clear that UMC has the possibility of overtaking. The prospect of the development of licensed semiconductors has been determined, and there will be no loss even without IBM, but the acquisition will delay the development because of the loss. Besides, if you really want to promote the acquisition, there will be many complex review issues in the process, not to mention whether it can be passed, at least it will delay a lot of time. His purpose this time was simple, it was to fail. Before you know it, Spreadtrum Communications and Licensed Semiconductors have become the second in the industry, and everything seems to be logical, but it seems so incredible. If it goes too well, it will make people jealous, and it is harmless to suffer a little loss when necessary, and it can also be used to divert attention. ASML's negotiation of a stake in the company and becoming a strategic partner is only a matter of strength and capital for other companies, and for licensed semiconductors with a Chinese background, there are also political issues.
The acquisition of IBM was an attempt to divert attention from the impression that Spreadtrum's focus was on acquisitions, not shareholdings, and at the same time to show strength. ASML, as a leading company in the field of lithography machines, is rapidly developing its licensing to ensure the supply of its own high-end production equipment, which cannot be overstated.
"Simon, I'm Mansour!" a phone call came, and Zhou Shi was not surprised.
"Hello, I'm Simon, what's the matter?"
"How about watching the Premier League FA Cup final together in May?" said Mansour
"Okay, no problem!" Zhou Shi quickly agreed
This year's FA Cup final was played between two teams, Liverpool and Manchester City.
The better the time and place, Zhou Shi asked people to make plans and arrangements, and the negotiations for Yahoo to transfer Ali's shares and take back the Yahoo Huaxia brand and operation rights have also come to an end.
Yahoo Huaxia has almost zero market share in Huaxia at this time, whether it is a portal or a search engine, and there are many mailbox users at sea, but unfortunately the user activity is very poor, and Huaxia's mailbox market is mainly NetEase's world.
The failure of Yahoo Huaxia is the failure of corporate integration, that is, the failure of Alibaba. It can be seen that Ali is not everything, and their advantages are only in the field of e-commerce. For products with social attributes, such as portals and search, this gene may be lacking. Fortunately, Yahoo's acquisition of YELP and Zhou Shi's acquisition of Yahoo is a different acquisition model, and it is difficult to replicate. Although there are cultural differences between the two companies, who made Zhou Shi a major shareholder? And why did Zhou Shi know that Yahoo was short of money, but still wanted to do cloud computing, isn't it just to use cloud computing and financial services to integrate the two enterprises? After thinking about it, Yelp's operating foundation and financial lifeline are all in Yahoo, and the two companies are inseparable, and with his control, it can be said that the integration of Yahoo and Yelp will hardly fail. As for LinkedIn, the reasons are similar.
Zhou Shi took back Yahoo's brand, portal, search and email services this time, and the rest basically has no value. The specific amount of funds involved in the transaction between the two parties has not been announced, which is a relief for Ali, but it is also an embarrassment.
For this acquisition, he deliberately returned to Huaxia and avoided the limelight of Xiaoza. The US imperialist is still very arrogant, no one said that Xiao Za is the second of Zhou Shi, only that he is one of the youngest technology entrepreneurs and the king of the world's largest social network empire.
Zhou Shi and Chen Shouzong returned to Huaxia together, he was responsible for signing a contract for publicity, Zhou Shi was responsible for recruiting the CEO of Yahoo Huaxia, and his goal was very clear, that is, Wang Xiaochuan, the CTO of Friends.com, who always had big dreams about search.
"You really think about it, won't you regret it?" Although Zhou Shi knew Wang Xiaochuan, this kind of thing was a big deal, and it couldn't be sloppy.
"Unless you don't look down on me, there is a new candidate, I won't regret it!" Wang Xiaochuan
"You should know that this is a very difficult challenge, we don't have much hope of success, and you are likely to suffer a career failure or even be fired from me. "Zhou Shi
They are talking about Yahoo's search, Google's search technology is unique, and the technology gap between other Yahoo, Bing and Baidu is not large. However, technology is not the most important factor for success, especially in the face of a market as large as China, and the complexity of demand makes operation and management much more difficult than in the US market.
In the domestic search market, Baidu is a well-deserved boss, after Google left, Yahoo, Penguin Search, NetEase Youdao was on top, and then Microsoft Bing and 360 search entered the battle, quickly relying on traffic to bundle the upper position and become the second in the market. It can't be said that there is no place for Yahoo, but it's a pity that even Bing has difficulties, let alone 360. Yahoo Search's market share is already below two percent.
"I understand!" Wang Xiaochuan, in his opinion, Zhou Shi has a lot of idealistic complexes!