If Yahoo's acquisition of eBay is only due to rumors, Dell's acquisition of EC is underway.

As the most famous technology entrepreneur before Zhou Shi and Zuckerberg, Dell's popularity in the United States may be even greater than Zhou Shi. Dell is also one of the world's three major C manufacturers, and also has a very good market share and reputation in the Chinese market.

"The price of this acquisition will probably be in the range of 100 million US dollars, and the size of Dell's possible debt will exceed 40 billion US dollars...... "Hu Zuniu

"What's wrong with this, what does it have to do with us when Dell owes money?" Zhou Shi, the sales of hardware manufacturers have declined, and the industry has fallen into a development dilemma. Sales fell by 10 percent in one year, which can be described as a huge loss.

"Silver Lake and Time Finance decided to help Dell with financing, not only creditor's rights, but also other assets, for example, in order to pay off the arrears as soon as possible, Dell will inevitably dispose of Time's original assets at a discount, and this is the time for us to eat meat. "Hu Zuniu

Dell went private at a price of 100 million dollars, owed a lot of debt, and now less than two years ago, it wants to buy a company that is far larger than Dell, and the ambition can be seen. However, because of the scale gap between the two sides, whether Dell is an equity acquisition or a cash acquisition, it is also a big burden for him.

It's good to have a burden, which shows that Dell can't do without the help of financial companies, and the first choice must be Silver Lake, followed by Galaxy Capital. Taking the risk of lending money to Dell to acquire EC is naturally to gain something, so waiting for Dell to sell high-quality assets and raise funds to alleviate debt risk is one of the best options.

In fact, in the previous life, Dell sold its IT services division and software division for $5 billion, and a few years ago, Dell was about to spend tens of billions of dollars when it acquired these assets...... At the very least, they can make a profit in disguised form by acquiring Dell assets at a low price and transfer revenue......

"Can we acquire Wei Rui company, a subsidiary of EMC EC?" Zhou Shi said, this Wei Rui company is a global leader in desktop to data center virtualization solutions, simply put, it can run X system in S system, he is not only a virtual machine, but also an optimized management of x86 servers, ensuring that the virtual machine is not down and the overall system is absolutely stable and reliable. Although the company has not yet embraced cloud computing, its technical prowess is destined to be of great help to cloud computing. If this company can be acquired, whether it is Yahoo or Time's cloud computing technology capabilities, it can be greatly improved.

Although his performance and revenue scale have declined recently, Weirui has an important position in Dell's future plans, and there is basically no such possibility. "Hu Zuniu

EMC seems to hold more than 80 percent of Weirui's shares, just like the proportion of shares that Yahoo will hold after YEL goes public. Without the consent of the majority shareholder, it is impossible for the outside world to acquire such a company.

"It's a pity!" Zhou Shi

"We can't buy all the best companies in the world!" said Hu Zuniu

"Well, don't worry, I won't be demanding. "Zhou Shi

"There are really a lot of big acquisitions this year, tens of billions of dollars, I hope Time Holdings can get fair treatment in the United States in the future!" Hu Zuniu, he probably meant that Zhou Shi should not be entangled in the present, and it will be more exciting in the future.

"What are the big acquisitions?" I thought I was very rich, but listening to Hu Zuniu's meaning, it seems that there are still many things that cannot be done now. Hundreds of billions of dollars in large-scale acquisitions are exciting to think about. In order to acquire AIA, a $30 billion company, it took more than two years to go back and forth. I don't know how long it will take to prepare for this kind of 100-billion-level acquisition, and the key is that the lighthouse country will not let you buy it.

"There are several, such as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's $160 billion acquisition of Irish drugmaker Aljian, AB InBev's $120 billion acquisition of South Africa's Miller, Shell's $81 billion acquisition of British Natural Gas, and the $100 million acquisition of Time Warner Cable ......" Hu Zuniu

"Wait, Time Warner is going to be acquired by this charter communications?" Zhou Shi was a little incredulous, did that famous Time Warner change hands like this?

Time Warner Cable Inc., a 2009 spin-off subsidiary of Time Warner Group, is the second largest cable company in the Lighthouse State, with 15.2 million residential and commercial subscribers, about 7.5 million broadband subscribers, and telephone subscribers in 29 states. It has nothing to do with HBO, Warner Bros., or Warner Bros. "Hu Zuniu

"I see, it scares me!" Zhou Shi

"But since Time Warner rejected the 21st Century Fox takeover last year, their board of directors seems to be considering a sale!"

"Are you sure?" Zhou Shi was interested

"It can only be said that the possibility is very high!" Hu Zuniu

"Then I understand!" Zhou Shi

Back in the office, he asked Chen Wen to prepare some information about the Big Six Hollywood Majors, mainly their recent movements.

"Made, what's going on in this world!" Zhou Shi shouted in wonder, Time Warner Group in Times Inc. was actually listed as independently as YEL, and it had to be sold several times. Time is a great company, with a 、、、 of the world's most well-known magazines such as Weekly, Weekly, and Weekly.

In fact, this is also to blame for his own lack of knowledge, without him Time Warner still let Times Company go public independently, which has little to do with him. However, there were many other things that shocked him, such as

"DreamWorks Animation announced that it would lay off 500 employees by the end of the year, which ......" Zhou Shi found that if the company is not excellent, it will definitely be able to live well. DreamWorks Animation's work includes several series, and it is an excellent animation company that can compete with Pixar in the United States.

"Miramax is negotiating with them, hoping to get the rights to distribute their animated films for the next three years!" Chen Wen added after reading the information.

"Why didn't Miramax buy DreamWorks Animation, there is no money?"

"They don't seem to have that idea at the moment!" said Chen

"Help me call Mira's CEO!"

"Okay, I'll arrange it!" Chen Wen

How can Miramax, who has the ability to distribute globally, be rich and secure, Zhou Shi is very dissatisfied with this. Live-action films, animated films are indispensable. Besides, isn't it a joke if you build a film and television theme park and don't have enough i?

The title of Hollywood's seventh largest is not given for nothing, although there is no Lionsgate TV network, but if one day Miramax officially buys MGM, his film and television rights will be greatly improved. If you acquire DreamWorks again, it is really no worse than any of the Hollywood Big Six in film and television. This is a great opportunity!