Chapter 842: India (1)
Time passed, and soon in May 2014, Zhou Shi came to India again. Gujarat's Chief Minister Modi was unsurprisingly elected as India's new Prime Minister. He was invited to attend Modi's inauguration, but when he heard that a certain head of the funeral would also appear, he refused without hesitation.
In the past few months, there have been a lot of changes, Dell has completed its privatization and delisting, Microsoft has successfully acquired Nokia, Chen Shouzong has really become the CEO of Microsoft, Pichai has joined Yahoo and become the new CEO of Yahoo, and Lu Qi has quit F&F and joined Time and became the CEO of Time. The husks are still entangled in apples, and the nuts form a combination of Huang Huainan and Hua Liu Jiangfeng. These are still expected, although the market reaction is strong, but it is still relatively calm. The changes in Meibang Securities made him a little uneasy.
Morgan Stanley privately wants to buy Meibang Securities as a whole at a price of $12 billion, and Lu He obviously will not agree. He was then reported for misappropriating client funds...... Well, although I don't know whether the matter is true or not, and what the final investigation will be, anyway, the trouble of Meibang is getting bigger and bigger. The company's market capitalization has finally stabilized below $10 billion. It's a pity that Zhou Shi can't do anything about it, so Guo Guangchang and others helped Meibang Securities stabilize the stock price and snipe the short-selling forces. Seeing that the strength is not good, the stock price of Meibang Securities continues to fall, and it is about to hit the market value of 6 billion US dollars, the eldest son of Li Bancheng's family suddenly entered the market, and the funds dismantled by financial institutions such as Ping An to Fuxing have finally arrived, and finally pulled the price to around 10 billion US dollars.
The forces that shorted Meibang Securities were repulsed, but Morgan Stanley's coveting of Meibang Securities would not give up easily, and it was difficult for them to test Zhou Shi's pressure, but they could force Lu He. Before Zhou Shi arrived in Mumbai, it was said that Lu He was ready to compromise and sell Morgan Stanley's previous business and part of Citigroup's business back to the recovered Da Mo.
Fortunately, it's not all these troubles, the development of Time Yahoo Fruit Shell is very smooth, especially Time Finance/Payment and Yahoo Pay services, and the convenient QR code collection/payment code plus scanning function has amazed the East and West at the same time. It's just that a new thing emerges that takes a lot of time to be accepted by the public, and there are too many QR code scams nowadays, and the security features of smartphones are not so reassuring, so the development is slow. Relatively speaking, Yahoo did not focus on financial payment because of the new media incubation plan, and the domestic time has increased significantly because of Time Android, and the revenue of Time Games has increased significantly, and it has sufficient financial support. As a result, the pace of development in the two places is not the same. Alibaba has also joined the fray, and Alipay has competed with years of professionalism and time, well, not so much competition, but rather a joint development of this market.
Another big event happened last year, that is, Alibaba finally went public, with a market capitalization of about $120 billion. After cashing out some of the money from the IPO, Yahoo's stake in Alibaba dropped to 25 percent. And Yahoo's market capitalization has also stabilized at $70 billion.
When I came to India, the first stop was Mumbai, where Yahoo's development in India was not satisfactory, and Pichai came with him to India to adjust the person in charge here. At the same time, he was preparing for his trip to New Delhi, but another accident happened.
"So Tata is ready to give up our cooperation?" Zhou Shi asked quietly, the headquarters of Tata Group is in Mumbai, and when he comes here, he will naturally visit this large Indian company that has various cooperation with Galaxy Capital.
"Tata is now in charge of Mistry, who audited Miramax's collaboration and believes that there is a problem with the deal between us......" said Ladan Tata
"Is it hard to judge if there is a problem? Is my reputation so worthless?" Zhou Shi hated that Miramax began to explode in 2013, ranking third in the national box office receipt, behind Warner, Sony, and slightly higher than Disney. Such achievements cannot be said to be failures, and Tata's investments are profitable.
"I'm so sorry, I don't want to ...... like that," Ladan Tata
"Forget it, it's not a big deal anyway, but if it goes on like this, I'm very worried about the future of Tata, a great enterprise is often ruined by infighting, you are not afraid of ......" Zhou Shi
"Tata's fate is determined by itself, and I can only be myself" Ladan Tata
A little speechless, Zhou Shizhen doubted whether bin Laden Tata wanted to destroy this century-old enterprise, otherwise it is difficult to say the motives for some of his actions, even if Tata is operating with high debt, and ceding control of the enterprise to a small shareholder, is this a good way to solve the contradictions within the family? It is better to hire professional managers, and there are more senior management talents in India than in China in a sense. This can be seen in the number of Indian-origin executives at Silicon Valley and European high-tech companies. Hey, forget it, that's a good family business. Besides, what does Tata's problem have to do with him.
After experiencing some traditional Indian service, Zhou Shi was happy to leave for New Delhi, this time he wanted to experience India up close, so he did not do a plane, but chose a train, but unfortunately missed the time, did not experience India's most expensive luxury train King. Of course, he wouldn't sit even if he had time, and this time he was going to make some stops in various parts of India. Feel the difference between economically developed and backward regions.
"This is for me?" Zhou Shi
"They are the elite of our Tata Group, and you can tell them to do whatever you need on the road, and these are some of the thoughts of Ladan Tata. A man who resembles a butler said.
"I have my own team and don't need this. "Zhou Shi
"Your team is naturally excellent, but they are more familiar with everything in India and will be of greater help to you on the rest of your journey. "Housekeeper
"I'm still not used to it, I will have the opportunity to accept Ladan Tata's kindness again in the future!" Zhou Shi politely refused.
"If you dislike too many people, let's keep one, and with Tata's reputation, there will be absolutely no problems......" the butler
"Well, well......" Zhou Shi hesitated, pointed to one of the girls who seemed beautiful to him, and asked her to stay. The remaining elite of men and women all left.
"Chen Wen, you are responsible for arranging her!" Zhou Shi did not turn around, and said to Chen Wen with a little weakness.
"Got it, Mr. Zhou, do you need to tell Miss Wang about them?" Chen Wen
"Do your own thing, and don't meddle if it's okay. Zhou Shi was a little annoyed and angry, some things were tacit, and it hurt to say it.
"Mr. Zhou, there is another invitation, should we go before we leave?" Chen Wen did not talk back to Zhou Shi, and talked about another thing.
"Go ahead......" Zhou Shi sighed