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Mountain View, USA.

Andrew? Freeman walked into the secretary's room connected to the chairman's office with a copy of the paper, since Fan Xue went on a business trip to South Korea, Zeng Qian was the only one in the office of more than 20 square meters.

In fact, after Fan Xue went on a business trip, Zaqi, the human resources officer of the American Chenxing Holdings? Luo Yirui once intended to recruit a few secretaries for Song Chen, but they were all rejected by Zeng Qian, plus Song Chen's own curiosity for European and American women is taking possession of Fan Ning? Once Ashley became weak, it didn't matter.

At this time, Zeng Qian was on the phone, raised her head and saw Freeman coming in, she covered the microphone and pointed to the door inside, and said in American English, which was already fluent: "Mr. Freeman, the chairman is waiting for you inside!" ”

Freeman smiled and nodded at Zeng Qian.

After Freeman pushed the door in, Zeng Qian continued into the microphone: "Sister Ruoxi, do you choose Hong Kong Chow Tai Fook?" ”

"Well, it's Chow Tai Fook! You contact the Hong Kong Chow Tai Fook main store and ask them to design a set of gold jewelry for my Song Can to catch the week! On the phone, Zhang Ruoxi smiled very satisfied.

Seeing that Song Can was about to turn one year old in more than a month, in order to make up for the regret that the first birthday banquet was not held in China and his relatives could not be counted, Song Chen decided to meet Zhang Ruoxi's mother and son materially, so he decided to create a golden Zhou Catching Appliance for Song Can.

Although the tyranny is a little bit, gold can maintain its value!

Gold is now just over $30 an ounce, compared to thousands of dollars a decade later, gold is very cheap now! If it weren't for the funds of Chenxing Holdings, which would have been used for investment and acquisition, technology research and asset investment, he really wouldn't mind taking out some of the funds to do gold futures!

"I know, Sister Ruoxi!"

At this time, Song Chen, who was signing at the desk, saw Freeman knocking on the door and coming in, he smiled and said, "I'm waiting for you, is the report out?" ”

Andrew? Freeman nodded: "According to the Boss's request, the finance department has made a special briefing, this is it, please take a look!" ”

After receiving the text handed over by Freeman, Song Chen motioned for the other party to sit down and talk: "Sit!" ”

"Thank you!"

Song Chen asked casually, "Coffee?" ”

"Nope! I'm about to have lunch, and now that drinking coffee affects my appetite, I don't want to go hungry when I work in the afternoon! Freeman stiffened his "blessed" little belly and smiled.

Smiling, Song Chen looked down at the text, most of the content of the article is a list of well-known Internet technology companies in Europe and the United States, involving two key areas of software and hardware, and the list also includes a brief report of the controlling shareholder and the large and small shareholders.

In this list, the British company aRm is impressively listed!

aRm is a well-known company in the microprocessor industry, headquartered in Cambridge, UK. This company once opened its first generation of 32-bit, 6mhz, 3.o micron processor, that is, aRm1, and used it to make a RIsc instruction set computer, that is to say, at that time, it was still following the traditional way, designing chips and selling chips by itself, and the early use of anet chip products included Apple's Newton handheld computer. [Note: You can check Du Niang for details, Apple's iPhone can see a little familiar shadow in Newton's handheld computer more than ten or twenty years ago!] 】

aRm represents xiàn mediocre in the 9o year of the 2o century, and there are no particularly impressive results! What really makes this company a giant comparable to or even more than Intel is related to the rise of digital music players and smartphones, and the later Apple iPhone chip processor A series uses the aRm architecture!

More than ten years later, aRm, which agenerated the production and sales of core fraud, and designed a way to sell licenses through guò, the market share of mobile processors was once as high as more than 9o, and the company that beat Intel lost his temper was this company!

"After losing the burden of production and sales, aRm is not a small company, but it has great potential, and it is profitable in '93! Listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ two years ago, if we want to buy aRm, it is very easy to cause a backlash from aRm's management, and the price is not what we can afford now! ”

Song Chen nodded silently, pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the total share capital of aRm, and what about the closing price yesterday?" ”

Before coming, Freeman had done his homework, so he answered fluently: "About 466 million shares, Nasdaq closed at $41.o3 yesterday, with a total market value of more than 20 billion!" Like all Internet listed companies, aRm's stock price has risen from $8 in August last year to now! ”

Originally, Freeman thought that Song Chen would be disappointed, but after listening to himself, he laughed easily, revealing the upper and lower rows of white teeth: "Really? It's fun! ”

Without paying attention to Freeman's strange eyes, Song Chen continued to look at it.

With the exception of aRm, a chip solutions company, and Microsoft, the world's dazzling software giant, most of the companies on the list are mainly Internet products, including Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay.

In addition to this, there is LinkedIn, which is more famous in later generations, Lycos, a portal and search site that has recently gained fame, ecpLaZa, an e-commerce company, and trave1city, an online travel company...... and dozens of other U.S. listed and unlisted Internet companies.

"In the second half of last year......" Song Chen pondered for a moment and then asked slowly, "I closed the window for foreign investment and mergers and acquisitions of the two major groups of Zhongmei Chenxing Holdings, Freeman, how do you understand this matter?" ”

"I don't know!" Andrew? Freeman spread his hands and said very frankly, "You seem to be waiting for something, but I'm not sure if the conjecture in my mind is a boss concern!" ”

Song Chen smiled and said, "Tell me about it? ”

Freeman pondered for a while, and then slowly threw out the possibility that countless people are speculating: "Judging from the fact that Boss has asked to collect information on various technology companies since November last year, although Boss has closed the investment window, his eyes have never left, and the reason why he has not taken action is because the market value of the acquired party is too high?" ”

Song Chen smiled, noncommittal.

Freeman continued: "Selling shares of listed companies and taking loans from Chinese banks, judging from your series of financing steps, Boss, it seems that you are preparing for an increase in cash flow! Zhongmei Chenxing Holdings and more than a dozen accounts in Hong Kong headquarters have book funds of 2.3 billion US dollars, coupled with the plan to sell the shares of '8848', 'Ctrip' and 'Chenxing Network' at the end of this month, the funds received at that time are optimistically estimated to reach 4o US dollars...... With such a huge cash flow, I can't think of any other reason to need so much money than acquisitions and investments! Even if Chenxing Technology's aggressive investment plan is to build up to a dozen directly-operated retail stores at the same time, it only needs to invest 50 million US dollars at most, and it doesn't take so much! ”

After thinking about it, Freeman asked tentatively: "By the way, there is also googLe's digital center investment plan, which does require an investment scale of hundreds of millions of dollars!" ”

Song Chen smiled: "Although it is not hit, it is not far away!" I do intend to solve it once and for all by means of capital operation...... Problems that need to be carefully avoided ......"

Looking directly at Freeman's confused eyes, Song Chen said with a straight face: "But not now!" Freeman, not now! But in the not-too-distant future, you and others will soon see what I am waiting for! ”

"As for googLe's digital center investment plan, it is undoubtedly the focus and the next investment direction! China and the United States, Baidu and googLe...... The two companies will launch the Digital Jù Center Investment Plan at the same time! ”

Freeman assessed it in his mind and said, "Because googLe's digital center is aimed at the global market, the investment scale is relatively large, and it needs at least $1 to $150 million!" As for China...... I don't know much about China's first-class land policy, but the scale of investment should not be high! ”

Nodding, Song Chen smiled and said, "Eric? Schmidt and Robin Li came up with a project budget of 80 million to 100 million US dollars! But I have my own plan for the business of the center, so $100 million is not enough, at least $150 million is needed! In addition to coping with the daily search volume, this data center also needs a lot of redundant space to prepare for googLe's entry into the cloud computing industry! ”

"Cloud computing?" Freeman is, after all, a financial person rather than an engineer, and the term "cloud computing" seems very foreign to him. Chewing on this unfamiliar term, "What is cloud computing?" ”

"You need to consult a professional!" Song Chen shrugged his shoulders and continued, "Baidu's digital center construction, because the land price is not more expensive than the United States, and the labor cost is low, so the investment is much less than that of American companies, about 100 million yuan!" Compared to the exchange rate of the two countries, the difference is 12 times! ”

After sorting out his thoughts, Song Chen continued: "Whether it is Baidu and googLe, if they use their own funds to invest in the asset of the center, it will undoubtedly drain the existing capital flow of the two subsidiaries, googLe is barely feasible, but Baidu needs to borrow from the bank, so this investment is mainly carried out in the form of shareholder capital injection, you have to notify the two shareholders of SoftBank Group and Yahoo!" ”

Freman's light flashed, and he replied cautiously: "Masayoshi Son has always been concerned about the business and growth of our group subsidiaries, and I believe that there is no problem with SoftBank Group, it is Yahoo ......."

Song Chen's eyes darkened and he sighed deeply.

From the perspective of historical depth, the global advertising industry is in decline, and media advertising is gradually moving closer to digital advertising after the rise of Yahoo in 1994. (To be continued...!)