David Murdoch has lost tens of millions of dollars on Lanai in the last two years, and with his economic recovery plans being resisted by the island's residents, he really doesn't want to play anymore and is secretly looking for a suitable buyer lately. Now Zhang Ran took the initiative to come to the door, which undoubtedly saved Murdoch a lot of trouble.

There were no twists and turns in the negotiation process between the two sides, one really wanted to sell, the other really wanted to buy, and an agreement was quickly reached. In the end, Zhang Ran bought everything on the island for $600 million, including local restaurants, shops, galleries, two Four Seasons Resorts, two golf courses, a community swimming pool, a water company, and a cemetery. In addition to this, he owns one-third of the island's residences.

However, Murdoch only owns 98 percent of Lanai, with the remaining 2 percent in the hands of the state government, as the law requires a maximum of 98 percent ownership by the person who buys the island, and such an acquisition requires the filing of documents for the transfer of property to the Hawaii State Public Utilities Commission. Therefore, after Zhang Ran signed the agreement with Murdoch, he jointly submitted documents for the transfer of property to the Hawaii State Public Utilities Commission.

Hawaii Governor Neil Eberclone immediately issued a statement when he learned of Zhang's acquisition of Lanai: "As far as I know, Mr. Zhang's interest in Lanai has been a long history. I am confident that Mr. Zhang Ran will bring a new perspective to Lanai and its residents. We look forward to the arrival of Mr. Zhang Ran. ”

After seeing Eberclonn's statement, the American media made a big splash, after all, spending $5,600 million to buy a private island sounds like an incredible thing. After this news was transmitted back to China, it caused heated discussions among domestic media and netizens, some said that they would definitely travel to Lanai Island at that time, some were envious and jealous, some said that Zhang Ran showed off his wealth, and some asked why Zhang Ran didn't donate to the Hope Project, and there were all kinds of voices.

However, Zhang Ran ignored these criticisms, and after completing the acquisition of Lanai, he returned to Los Angeles to make final preparations for the blockbuster acquisition that was about to be launched at the peak of the century. The acquisition was planned in '08 and was originally intended to start in the middle of last year, but due to the valuation of Century Summit being suppressed by Goldman Sachs and Wanda, the company experienced a serious debt crisis, and the entire acquisition plan was forced to be postponed until now.

On January 4th, the moment that Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide had been waiting for arrived.

On this day, Motorola was officially spun off into two independently listed companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions, with the former focusing on smartphones and set-top boxes, and the latter focusing on public safety radios and handheld scanners.

During the day's trading, Motorola Mobility shares rose $2.44, or 8.1%, to $32.68, while Motorola Solutions shares fell 7 cents to $37.41. At current market prices, Motorola Mobility has a market capitalization of about $9 billion, and Motorola Solutions has a market capitalization of about $12.8 billion.

In fact, in the past few years, Motorola's mobile phone division has been losing money, almost exhausting the company's research and development expenses for the future. The board of directors wanted to sell the mobile phone business, but it couldn't find a suitable buyer and had to spin it off. Next, the mobile phone business must be closed when it should be closed, and it will be sold when it is time to sell. Although Motorola's mobile phone business is not very attractive, the 17,000 patents in Motorola's hands are something that countless companies covet, and all companies are moving about it.

Meanwhile, in the conference room of Summit Entertainment in Santa Monica, members of the Board of Directors of Summit of the Century gathered to prepare for an interim board meeting.

Due to the good performance of the branches of Century Summit last year, the atmosphere of the whole scene was very relaxed, and several directors knew that Zhang Ran had just bought an island recently, so they made fun of him, and said that they would choose Lanai Island for vacation in the future.

After the joke, Zhang Ran cleared his throat and began to get to the point: "Let's have a meeting and gather everyone together today because we have a very important plan to tell you, which is related to the future of the company." Speaking of this, Zhang Ran glanced at Wu Ruide and said with a smile: "Old Wu, let's talk about it!"

Wu Ruide said directly: "We plan to acquire Motorola Mobility, that is, Motorola's mobile phone business!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they felt surprised and puzzled, the peak of the century and the mobile phone can't be beaten, why did they suddenly remember to acquire Motorola's mobile phone business!

Wu Ruide was surprised to see everyone, and explained with a smile: "A few years ago, Mr. Zhang and I had a plan for the future, called five screens in one, five screens are TV, computer, tablet computer, mobile phone and movie screen, these five are the five most important output ports of the movie, at that time we thought that as long as we master these five output ports, we can become the king of the film world; According to survey data, there are now more than 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide. Although the proportion of smartphones is not particularly high now, it is only a matter of time before smartphones replace feature phones. In other words, in the future, more than 5 billion viewers can watch movies directly on their mobile phones. If we master the port of the mobile phone, then we can bundle Netflix, Weibo, and our video website into the mobile phone, which can bring us a large number of users. ”

Everyone present suddenly realized that some of them understood the significance of the acquisition of Motorola.

Wu Ruide paused and said: "But then we found out that making mobile phones is not the best choice, even if our mobile phones are doing well, but can we beat Apple, Samsung and Nokia? How many mobile phone users can we have? The rise of Android allows us to see a new possibility, that is, the mobile phone system." If we can make a successful mobile phone system, then many mobile phone manufacturers can use it, which is much better than making our own mobile phones. If we can succeed, then we will occupy the highest point of the mobile Internet, truly become a first-class enterprise, and truly have a future!"

The directors were stunned by Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide's plan, Zhang Ran was going to challenge Apple, Google, and Microsoft, this is too crazy! If it weren't for Zhang Ran, if it weren't for Zhang Ran's countless successes with everyone, I'm afraid that the directors would have scolded them a long time ago.

After a few seconds, Pagio Bethel, the head of Prada, asked, "Why did you buy Motorola?"

Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide looked at each other and smiled, and then explained: "Based on two points, first, Motorola has a large number of excellent engineers, and we need excellent engineers. We all know that the future of cinema is not IMAX, not 3D, but VR cinema. Now VR technology is not mature, we need a group of excellent engineers to do VR film research and development, so that in the film, we can maintain the leading position in the future; second, if we make a system, the biggest challenge is not technology, but patents. If you follow the technology news, you should know that there have been a number of patent lawsuits against Android since the beginning of last year, and Microsoft and Apple are encircling Android. Motorola has 17,000 patents, and as long as we have them, we can protect the vendors who use our systems. If Apple dares to sue our people, we can immediately countersue Apple with Motorola's patent. In the words of a gangster movie, if we, the boss, can't even cover up the younger brother, who will mess with us?"

After everyone laughed, Marvel's head Echo Permatt asked, "So have we already started to develop the system, and when will it be launched?"

Zhang Ran didn't answer, and asked rhetorically: "Is Android developed by Google?"

Echo Permatt was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "You mean to buy?"

Zhang Ran nodded slightly and said: "There are many excellent systems on the market now, many of which are not worse than Android, and even stronger in some aspects, we don't need to develop them ourselves." After the acquisition of Motorola is completed, we only need to buy a mature system, build on it for further development, and then roll it out!"

If Zhang Ran remembers correctly, there will be two very good systems that will be abandoned next year, and Century Summit only needs to take over any of them and then promote them. Of course, this Zhang Ran will definitely not say it now.

The directors have a lot of trust in Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide, but the opponents they face this time are Apple, Google, Nokia, and Microsoft, which are world-class supergiants, and they are not one, and they are likely to be surrounded and suppressed like Google, and everyone is a little bottomless.

Echo Permatt asked: "Now that there are so many systems on the market, the competition is very big, and even Microsoft has not bargained, what do we rely on to win? Where are our advantages?"

This is exactly what others want to know, and everyone looks at Zhang Ran and wants to hear his explanation.

Zhang Ran smiled lightly and said: "Speaking of mobile phone systems, Microsoft's P, Blackberry, and HP's EBOS are not much worse than Android, but why do these systems have a very low market share, but Android can stand out? Google's use of Android has enabled software developers to follow suit and develop apps for Android that several other companies don't have. It's not hard to develop a system, but it's really hard to have no app, no ecosystem. Even if an operating system is excellent, but there are no apps, no Weibo, no videos, and no games, then who will use it?

Since its establishment, our company has always emphasized that it is an Internet + movie company, our genes are Internet, we have Weibo, In addition, in recent years, we have been secretly arranged, invested and invested in a number of companies, such as Meituan and Xiami.com last year; As long as we launch the mobile phone system, these companies will launch the corresponding APP at the first time; overseas, we have Netflix in our hands, and I am the major shareholder of FLY, FLY also has its own ecosystem, as long as we join forces with FLY, we are fully capable of establishing a perfect ecosystem for the mobile phone system.

In addition, there is a major positive that Google withdrew from China early last year, which is tantamount to giving up the Chinese market. If we can come up with a good system and provide patent protection for mobile phone manufacturers, then we can fill the gap left by Google. In addition, the government is quite disgusted by Google's move and will definitely support us strongly. With so many reasonable conditions, even if we can't kill Android and Apple, we can still win the domestic market and share the world with Apple and Android!"

Zhang Ran's words were very contagious, and they were not empty words, they were really operable, and the directors present felt their blood boiling at the thought of becoming the world's top company like Google and Apple at the peak of the next century.

However, the directors also know that Zhang Ran's plan is facing the world's top companies such as Apple and Google, and the risk to be taken is also very large, but such an opportunity may only be such once in a lifetime, and if it is missed, there will be no more of it, and this risk is worth taking! Everyone almost said in unison: "Let's do it!"

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