Chapter 212: Acquisition of Blizzard

After settling the matter on the American side, Lu Hao did not go to Europe, and there were fewer people dismissed in Europe, so Lu Hao notified Cameron by phone and asked him to take charge of the matter according to the same standards. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although Lu Hao did not go to Europe, he did not return to China, and after meeting with the major shareholders, he announced his decision to sell all Yahoo shares, and at the same time let the shareholders exert influence to buy Blizzard from the issuing company David Son & Associates.

Due to the contract's restrictions on matrix technology, in the first half of 96, it could not log in any international market except Huaxia, which made Yahoo stand out in the market, Yahoo rose steadily after listing, although it did not break through the market value of 600 million US dollars, but the performance was quite decent, Lu Hao sold at a discount of 90% and soon found a receiver.

Lu Hao's 15 percent of the stock cashed out 75 million US dollars, an increase of 50 percent of the profit from the original investment of 50 million US dollars, which seems to be good, but it is a bit far from Lu Hao's expectations.

Yahoo's highest market capitalization in later generations exceeded $100 billion, what should 15 percent be? Hehe, but Lu Hao also understands that all this has changed, and Yahoo is likely to become a short-lived company.

In the past few days in the United States, Lu Hao has experienced Yahoo's products, and Yahoo is only focusing on the search market at this time, but its tree search is too far worse than the search technology of Matrix Technology, Lu Hao is almost certain that as long as the search engine of Matrix Technology logs in to the United States, then Yahoo has almost no power to fight back.

On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, there was good news that David & Associates had agreed to sell Blizzard, but his asking price was an outrageous $30 million, a dozen times more than the price they paid for Blizzard two years ago.

As long as David & Associates sells it, Lu Hao agreed to the acquisition without even a second of hesitation when he received the call.

The acquisition of a game company for $30 million makes many shareholders incomprehensible, although Blizzard's "Warcraft" has been successful, but its funding is only $300,000, and in the perception of shareholders, it is better to invest $3 million to establish a powerful new game company than to spend $30 million to acquire a game company.

Lu Hao has no compromise in this regard, Lianzhong World Game is an important part of Matrix Technology, and its income will even reach more than 50% of Matrix Technology in the future, and there must be no ambiguity in the investment in games.

Although Lu Hao has an absolute controlling stake, he can't be too tough on the shareholders' doubts, especially his decision to spend a lot of money to build the headquarters has made the shareholders a little dissatisfied.

Lu Hao has selfish motives in the construction of the headquarters, and he cannot deny this, the headquarters costing two billion US dollars is absolutely crazy in the nineties, and it will definitely have a great economic drive in Huaxia.

Before the meeting with Davidson &Associates, Lu Hao sent an email to all shareholders and all Matrix Technology employees, detailing the importance and prospect of the game to Matrix Technology, not only the acquisition of Blizzard, but also the next big move in the game, and there will be at least hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the game in 96.

In fact, hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the game is not much for the six billion dollars of capital reserves of Matrix Technology, and what shareholders want is just an attitude, they want Lu Hao to use the funds even more, only when the funds are used, will more benefits be generated, and the opposition will disappear after Lu Hao's email was sent.

The acquisition went smoothly and was a super bargain for the lucrative company of David &Associates, which had invested tenfold in two years, and what could not be satisfied.

After the acquisition was completed, Lu Hao was not in a hurry to meet Blizzard's executives, he was worried about where the headquarters of Lianzhong World would be placed, and now the United States, three European countries and Japan are all striving to put their headquarters in their countries.

Others don't know Lu Hao, but it's clear that the world's largest game consumer in the future is Huaxia, Lu Hao's most important thing is to put the world headquarters of Lianzhong in Huaxia, but as a matrix technology that aspires to become a global Internet company, it is obviously inappropriate to put the headquarters of its companies in Huaxia, and now the headquarters of matrix technology and 360 headquarters are already in Huaxia, if the world headquarters of Lianzhong is also in Huaxia, it will be contrary to the original intention.

The acquisition did not take any effort, but the territory of the headquarters made Lu Hao really embarrassed.

First of all, the United States has a very good reason, the huge acquisition of Blizzard is in the United States, and the next series of acquisitions is still dominated by the United States, and it is most appropriate to place the world headquarters of Lianzhong in the United States.

Speaking of Europe, Europe is one of the most important markets for Matrix Technology in the future, but Matrix Technology obviously does not pay enough attention to Europe, and major shareholders in Europe have raised objections to this, Matrix Technology's 360 headquarters is in China, and Google's headquarters has also been built in the United States, while the European headquarters plan has been delayed without any movement.

Finally, the most lost Japan, SoftBank not only holds 5% of the shares of Matrix Technology, but also established Japan Online and resisted the pressure to refuse all Cisco to use Huawei products, while Matrix Technology has no plan for the Japanese market.

"Haha, Lu Hao doesn't have a headache!" Waleed, who was far away in the Middle East, called Lu Hao.

"It's embarrassing!" Lu Hao sighed.

"Don't think too much, you can decide for yourself, we are fully supporting you, I am your firm support, for this reason I will visit China in the name of the Saudi royal family after your Chinese New Year holiday, and during the visit to China, I will also announce the purchase of your Chinese Red Flag air defense system." Waleed said with some smugness.

It has always been the dream of Huaxia military industry to let the Red Flag air defense system go abroad, and this Waleed gift is really not small, especially in the name of supporting Lu Hao, which is of great benefit to the development of Haohai Investment in China.

"Thank you, Waleed!" Lu Hao said very sincerely.

Lu Hao never thought that cooperating with Waleed would bring so many benefits, not to mention the weapon system, he invested in Shanda Network, Qingyun Mineral Water, introduced huge deposits for Haohai Bank, and invested tens of billions of dollars in interest-free loans for Haohai Construction, although it will prove how powerful his vision is in the future, but now Lu Hao can only comment on him in one sentence, he is definitely enough to be a friend.

After ending the call with Waleed, Lu Hao made the final decision to put Lianzhong World in Japan, on the grounds that Japan has the most developed game industry and a relatively high level of employees.

I really don't like little Japan Lu Hao, but from a businessman's point of view, Lu Hao is right to do this, the real war in the new world is by no means a gun, but an economic war, it is the most tragic and direct.

As long as Lu Hao keeps his shares from being diluted, then no matter where he is headquartered, a large amount of profits earned from all over the world will flow into Huaxia, which is more powerful than any force.

The sixteenth day of the first month is the time of school, Liu Shishi accompanied Lu Hao until the thirteenth day of the first month before reluctantly deciding to leave the United States, this time Lu Hao could not accompany her back, but Lu Yu finally mustered up the courage to leave the United States with Liu Shishi and return to China, choosing to leave the United States at this time because she wanted to give birth to the child in China.

"Lu Hao, when are you going to return to China?" When they all arrived at the security gate, Liu Shishi ran back and hugged Lu Hao's arm, her mouth was pouting, and the silver beans fell with a snap of her two big eyes.

Lu Hao touched her head and comforted her with a smile, "Don't be sad, I'll go back to Huaxia as soon as I'm done, don't forget that I'm going to school like you." ”

"It's different!" Liu Shishi pouted, "You can't stay in school for a few days a year...... I also know that you have spent more time in the United States than in Huaxia in the past few years, otherwise Zhao Ying would not have come to the United States to study. ”

Women are definitely strange animals, Liu Shishi and Zhao Ying are definitely good girlfriends and allies who talk about everything now, and they are highly consistent when they are external, but the two eat each other's vinegar.

"Okay, don't think about it, how can I spend more time in the United States, you can go in quickly, you see my sister is coming over." Lu Hao looked at the old sister who came back again, called out with a smile, "Sister", and then said to Liu Shishi, "Shishi's brother-in-law can't go back, I have to take care of my sister along the way." ”

Liu Shishi nodded, "Hmm", but Lu Yu looked a little uneasy, she touched her big belly and said, "Lu Hao, did you say I should go back?" The family won't force me to kill the child, right? Why don't I think about it again...... Lu Hao, go back with your sister, if you don't go back, I don't have a bottom. ”

Lu Hao smiled a little bitterly, "Sister, you don't think of your uncle and aunt as demons, you have such a big belly, how could they let you do such a thing, don't think about it, they will definitely treat you as a national treasure." ”

Sent Liu Shishi and Lu Yu away, and Lu Hao received a call from Zhao Ying as soon as he drove into the airport expressway.

"Lu Hao, I'm at the airport!"

"What time is the plane? What time does it take to arrive in the United States? I'll pick you up at the airport early! Recently, Zhao Ying was a little angry on the phone, Lu Hao's gentle tone was a little angry, the women made sacrifices, Lu Hao, who took advantage of the big profit, was not ashamed at all, and it was the ability to coax his own women with colorful flags fluttering outside.

"When I arrived, I saw you hugging Liu Shishi with a reluctant look just now."

"Uh......." Lu Hao smashed his mouth a few times.

"I just met Liu Shishi, and the pear blossoms and rain that the chick cried really pitied."

"We won't see each other for a few months after this separation, and she must be reluctant to let you go." Lu Hao smiled and said.

"Wrong! She is in a hurry, she used to show me what happened to me in the United States and you, but in the future, I will show off with her, can you not be in a hurry? ”

"......." The woman's mind couldn't be guessed, Lu Hao sloppily said, "Wait a minute, I'll turn a corner, I'll be at the airport in five minutes, and we'll talk for a while." ”

When I arrived at the airport, I found that Zhao Ying and Lin Shan came with more than a dozen company personnel, as well as Wang Shuai, Liu Ming, Wang Fang, and Ge Ting among the Eight King Kong and Seven Fairies.

There were other people who behaved very well in Zhao Ying, and greeted Lu Hao very affectionately, and then asked him to meet with the company's personnel.

"Mr. Lin, you are here, I will be relaxed when you come, I am really looking forward to the stars and the moon." Lu Hao hugged her, and then held her hand and said.

"It's not that I'm not coming, you know our stock market plan, I'm here as soon as I'm deployed." Lin Shan smiled and quietly withdrew her hand, Lu Hao's lustful reputation was already outside, there were only two of them publicly, and there were a few semi-public ones, she didn't want to get into any trouble with him.

"Hey, boss, just talk, don't hug it." Wang Fangge Ting said in unison.

"Ahem..... Lu Hao's face turned red, gritted his teeth and glared, "The American imperialists welcome you, get ready to be called by me!" ”

"I'm deflated!" Zhao Ying walked over, rolled her eyes, gritted her teeth and said, "Do you know that several women came to look for you during the Spring Festival, what Lin Yun'er, what former flight attendant Li Bingbing, and the beautiful executive Yun Xuan, it seems that you are a little confused with the American girl, the head of the advertising department." ”

"Why, you also believe in these things that come out of nothing?" Lu Hao said with a straight face, "Don't believe in your man's character?" ”

Lu Hao's voice was a little loud, Zhao Ying's face turned red, she rolled her eyes, and was silent and didn't speak.

"You know everything about me, don't think about it, look at my performance, I will spoil you." Lu Hao said with a smile.

Zhao Ying also smiled and said, "Okay, don't be unable to do it then, my requirements are not low." ”

"Guarantee your satisfaction, no matter what the requirements are!" Lu Hao squeezed his eyes and hinted.

"Phew!" Zhao Ying snorted quietly and said, "Hurry home quickly, you're almost tired and fall apart." ”

"Let's go, the company's car is also here, let's go directly to the American branch of Matrix Technology, rest for five hours, let's hurry up and talk in the evening, I'll go to Blizzard tomorrow, and I've urged it a few times." Lin Shan pointed to a few Buick commercial vehicles parked on the side of the road and said.

"Alright then, I'll pick you up in the evening, and we'll talk while we eat." Lu Hao said.

"Boss, are you going to entertain us at your Beverly Hills home?" Ge Ting said excitedly, "Beverly Hills! ”

"I was going to entertain you somewhere, but seeing that your attitude is not enthusiastic, I changed my mind temporarily and found a small restaurant to solve the problem......"

"Hug! Ask for a hug! Before Lu Hao finished speaking, Ge Ting and Wang Fang ran over with open arms.

Depend on! It's really undisciplined!

"Boss, I'll hug too!" Wang Shuai, a big man, also ran over with open arms.

Lu Hao hurriedly hugged Zhao Ying and shouted, "Ok, Beverly Hills, guarantee a big meal!" (To be continued.) )