After subduing Zhang Tao and Stallelman, Zhou Shi's group buying company was officially established, but Shirley will not be able to take office until the next year, after all, the development of YouTube is still very important.

Although the Golden State Warriors were acquired, the timing was unfortunate, and there was basically no room for him and Lacob to play, and the mad scientist Nelson still controlled the team, in addition to the team's management visiting him from time to time, Zhou Shi also let himself form a team from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to familiarize himself with everything about the Warriors, including the future application of high technology. He didn't go to the stadium, and he didn't even announce the change of ownership. If Yao Ming can go to the Warriors, he will definitely take charge of the Warriors as soon as possible, regardless of whether he is not ripe.

"Mr. Zhou, the matter over there in the UK is done!" Chen Wen came to Zhou Shi's villa to report

"Oh, tell me!" Zhou Shi

"Liverpool owners Hicks and Gillette have got their debts from the Royal Bank of Scotland by us, plus their debts in the United States have also reached Galaxy Capital, as long as we don't let go, they have no second way. Chen Wen said while flipping through the documents in her hand.

Hicks and Gillette, the two Yankees, don't have much capital, so they will fool. relied on various means to take Liverpool into his arms, but unfortunately this is the era of money football, and no money is the original sin. Not to mention that there are two discordant and greedy bosses. Liverpool's downfall in recent seasons can be imagined. Zhou Shi began to investigate the two men as early as last year when he was interested in Liverpool, and it just so happened that they owed Lehman Brothers a lot of money. The debt was directly acquired by Galaxy Capital, and the Royal Bank of Scotland also established a relationship when Luhe raised funds, and the more than 300 million pounds of debt that Hicks and Gillette acquired Liverpool was likely transferred by the Royal Bank of Scotland in the face of Galaxy Capital.

Another target was taken, and Zhou Shi was a little excited. But then there was a blow very quickly, and the bones of IDCC and ARM were too hard to take down.

"You really can't take it down?" Zhou Shi looked at the two people in front of him, his face was not very good

"I also want to take it down, but unfortunately the resistance is too great, and the COO of ARM also said something, which I think is very reasonable. One of them said

"What did they say?" Zhou Shi asked curiously

He said that ARM's operating model determines that it cannot be too close to the people in the downstream of the industrial chain, otherwise everyone will choose other architectures, which is not conducive to the long-term development of ARM. If it's just an investment, it doesn't have much impact. If someone were to buy ARM, they would most likely lose their current partner. ”

"Hey~~" Zhou Shi sighed

"Several of the IDCC's shareholders were tough and had little weakness to exploit, and then we were secretly warned by certain forces!" said another

"Hey~~" Zhou Shi sighed one after another, he was prepared for ARM, knowing that there was little hope, for IDCC, Galaxy Capital became his major shareholder, he thought that the overall acquisition was a sure thing, but he didn't expect it to work. It seems that there is no way to take shortcuts, and it is too difficult to catch up with Qualcomm in the number of patents in a short period of time. In fact, if you think about it, it is understandable, if it is so easy to acquire, someone would have started it a long time ago. However, in the previous life, IDCC has been living well and has not been acquired by any giants, which is worth pondering. It is impossible that there are no European and American companies that see the value of IDCC? Is it not that the value of IDCC is not high, and that is not right, its core patents are not a lot. Behind this may be Qualcomm, or other companies or institutions, in short, it will not be able to complete the acquisition.

Zhou Shi drove away the two and let himself be quiet, Spreadtrum was still laying a solid foundation, and barely supplied low-end products of nuts and husks. Because the nut generation is not a Qualcomm chip, but a chip from Deyi, it can only be sold in China without patent protection, and the configuration is okay, as for the price, in order to avoid conflicts with the shell, it is set at 2999 yuan, and the price of the second generation of the shell 16G is 4988, and the price of 8G is 3988. All of these products will be released at the same time next month. Hopefully, the nuts won't be cool, and the new system will be an instant hit.

Without IDCC patent support, Spreadtrum and Guoke can only rely on Nortel Networks' patents, and this time there must be no surprises. "Chen Wen!" Zhou Shi shouted

"Mr. Zhou, what's the matter?" Chen Wen soon came to Zhou Shi

"We still have people staring at Nortel's network, there should be our people over there."

"Yes, we have people in there. "Chen Wen

"Find another one, so that the bankruptcy of Nortel network is resolute and decisive, and there must be no one out of the water! Of course, the most important thing is our patents. "Zhou Shi

"Yes! "Chen Wen

"Remember not to end up in person!" Zhou Shi added

"Don't worry!" Chen Wen Shi Ran walked out.

It is difficult for the growth of the enterprise to be bright all the way, and Zhou Shi tries not to fall into it. But for the sake of national fortune, some sacrifices are still necessary.

Zhou Shi's concern about Nortel's patent problems was just a knee-jerk reaction, but it was this reaction that allowed him to avoid a storm. There are always many smart people in this world, although when they acquired Nortel's network patents last year, neither Zhou Shi nor Lu He came forward in person. However, it still made people discover some loopholes and learned that Zhou Shi was the person behind this acquisition. This person wanted to collect more information, and contacted the White Tiger Fund, which was prepared, and Chen Wen also knew about this person. After that, there was not much suspense, after showing his strength, he gave a hush money, assisted Chen Wence to oppose a high-level executive, and contacted the personnel of a high-level laboratory, once it was determined that Nortel would go bankrupt, it would be immediately transferred to Spreadtrum Communications, and then set up a laboratory branch of Spreadtrum in North America, and even the laboratory equipment would be packaged and taken away, even if the funds for various relationships and rebates were added, it did not exceed forty percent of the normal market price. This is because they are Chinese, and they have been discriminated against a lot.

With Chen Wen taking people to take charge of the finishing work of Nortel's network, Zhou Shi was much more relieved. There would have been other acquisitions, such as Singapore-chartered semiconductors in the Asia-Pacific region. With the help of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ATIC, and the assistance of Lehman and White Tiger Funds, negotiations for the takeover are progressing well. If Galaxy Capital (including Four Elephant Fund) finalizes the acquisition, it will work with GLOBALFOUNDRIES (the name of AMD's semiconductor factory after the spin-off) in certain areas. The direction of Singapore's licensed semiconductors is mainly mobile phone chips, but due to the problem of technical strength, Zhou Shi gave Zhang Yujing a move in advance. Zhang Yujing did not appear in public in this acquisition case, but only helped Sixiang Fund deal with various technical issues as an adviser.

"You're so powerful (insidious)!" Zhang Yujing sighed

"Really, is SMIC going to ask for those student spots?" Zhou Shi threatened.

"This can't be done, such a good opportunity and method, I will never miss it" Zhang Yujing immediately coaxed when he heard Zhou Shi's threat!

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