Originally, he wanted to stay in the country for a few more days, but unfortunately there were still a bunch of things waiting for him in the lighthouse country, such as the acquisition of Times Group, such as the power struggle of Microsoft.

Cheng took over as Microsoft's CEO and defined a mobile-first strategy, maintaining Microsoft's smartphone business and Stephen Elop's position at Microsoft. Of course, he also gave Nadella a heavy responsibility, trying to maintain the balance within Microsoft.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, and Nokia's business, which fully adopts Microsoft's mobile operating system, continues to be sluggish and plummets in a short period of time. There are very few development teams working for Microsoft, including a few major Internet service providers such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Yahoo. The application in the Windows Phone operating system is either not updated for a long time or there are too many bugs and cannot be maintained in time. Coupled with the fact that Microsoft's app store is much lower than Apple and Guoke, it can be said that Microsoft phones do not have any competitive advantage in the market.

So the consequences came, and Stephen Elop finally lost his chance at Microsoft......

This matter has nothing to do with time, Yahoo actually has nothing to do with it, if you insist on saying that there is, it is the follow-up impact, and Microsoft's cloud computing business may have to speed up!

Although the performance and sales of Microsoft Office365 have risen sharply in the past two years, the Microsoft cloud business that Zhou Shi is most concerned about has not improved much. Whether it is because Cheng Shouzong does not understand the cloud computing business, or in order to balance the internal contradictions, he did not vigorously develop the public cloud business, but increased the support for Skype, Yammer and other businesses, acquired Tumblr, and injected more Internet genes into Microsoft.

"It seems that Microsoft's resurgence is unstoppable!" Wei He

"Hmm!" Zhou Shi

Microsoft's strength is very strong, not only technology but also market development capabilities, these decades of monopoly experience, so that Microsoft has become the most obvious symbol of the PC enterprise, and has established an incomparably strong corporate credit in the world. Almost everyone who comes into contact with the PC Internet will believe and know how powerful Microsoft is. This credibility surpasses that of Amazon and Time. Maybe the situation would have changed when Hikari was recognized as a social enterprise all over the world, but now it's hard and difficult.

"In the future, I will have to rely on myself, but fortunately, the popularity of the time is because this donation has become known all over the world. "Wei He

Relinquishing some of the rights and ownership of the wealth, Zhou Shi may get more. Of course, the most important thing is not how attractive Zhou Shi's ideals are, but the fact that donating time, a 100-billion-dollar enterprise, is really a bit of a ridiculous talk, and the whole thing seems too magical.

"How's going on with our acquisition of Times Company?"

"We have negotiated with Warner Group, and it is up to the relevant departments to review it!"

The so-called authorities are the United States, which is responsible for enforcing the Foreign Investment Review Act and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Time is a foreign company!

"Is there a big hope?" Zhou Shi

"We have a lot of lobbying and a high probability of passing. "Wei He

Lobbying, that is, spending money to buy peace, the concept of Zhou Shi or time is still accepted by many people. In any case, Zhou Shi not only gave up the ownership of his wealth, but also the day-to-day management rights, including the control of the future direction. At least on the bright side, the great light of Zhou Shi and Time is making people have nothing to say. Even if a parliamentarian speaks out for this, he will not be criticized much, unless there is a big force to intervene and oppose it, but unfortunately although the era has a long history, it is not a very good company under the impact of the times. To put it bluntly, it was born at the wrong time, uh, it should be said that it is about to be eliminated by the world.

With the advent of the new media era, the right to speak is decentralized, and it relies on algorithms and recommendations, and Internet technology companies obviously occupy a leading role in it. Of course, there are no absolutes in the world, and it will take time to observe how it will evolve.

Although Microsoft's return to the right track may be unstoppable, the most critical years have been delayed, even if the public cloud market is not like the Internet market step by step, but the first-mover advantage still exists, and there will always be a lot of trouble for enterprises to migrate between different public clouds. If time becomes a social enterprise and can be widely recognized, then even Microsoft will not be able to easily shake its market position. At least for now, this possibility is still very high!

Fortunately, Google, Amazon, Apple and the like have been successfully hit by him, Google and Amazon are fiercely competing in the field of UGC video, and then goose, the small video in the mobile Internet era is about to arrive, and the two tigers must be injured when they compete with each other, driven by the traffic of today's headlines, the Yahoo small video website should be able to occupy a place. Netflix has also been challenged by Hulu, which is supported by Hollywood's six major supporters, but it is obviously a big gap with Netflix. The emergence of the husk has encroached on the apple market, although the apple is still brilliant, but it is conceivable that its future market value will definitely be bitten by the husk.

Zhou Shi, who was about to return to Yahoo, received another report!

"Avis' stock price has fallen, and its market value is less than $3 billion!" is a report by Galaxy Capital

Avis is a car rental company, similar to Shenzhou Car Rental, which is invested by Sixiang Fund in China, but there are some differences in the profit model between the two. Shenzhou car rental's path is wilder, and the profit margin seems to be higher.

Zhou Shi has been following Avis for a while, it should be said that it has been a few years, and he had the idea of acquiring Avis when he invested in Uber and Lyft. However, after contact, he decisively chose to give up, Uber did not appear, Avis's business is booming, the stock price and market value are rising, and most of the shareholders are arrogant, and it is difficult to buy at the right price.

"Why do you want to buy Avis?" Hu Zuniu was called over by Zhou Shi and was very surprised.

"We are the boss of Saab and the majority shareholder of Chery Automobile!" Zhou Shi

In addition to individuals, the largest overseas car purchase volume is the car rental company, let's talk about the number, Avis and Hertz, the two giants of the world's car rental industry, have a fleet size of 500,000 cars. Later, CAR also had more than 100,000 vehicles in operation. It is conceivable how much Chery Automobile has benefited from the development of CAR in recent years.

"Then there is no need to buy!" Hu Zuniu, as long as he enters the company's board of directors, he can influence and interfere with the company's operations, but it is just to increase the purchase of Saab and Chery automobiles.

"But I also want to use this to develop autonomous driving and let Mobileye collect more road operation data, do you think there is a more suitable partner than Avis, Hertz Car Rental, etc.?" Zhou Shi

The development of driverless cars requires a large amount of data to support, but Internet companies have no data sources. The reason why Uber can develop driverless cars is not "to protect the safety of users", and the large collection of Uber driver driving data has brought great convenience.

"This ......" Hu Zuniu