Chapter 201 [Public Difficulty]
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On January 18, Bluestar Technology Headquarters.
Zhang Bowen entered Luo Sheng's office and reported to him: "Mr. Luo, the news in North America, there are also relevant reports from foreign calls, and the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, suddenly attacked us. ”
Hearing this, Luo Sheng was also stunned for a while, looked at Zhang Bowen and said suspiciously: "Amazon? ”
Zhang Bowen nodded and said: "On the morning of January 17, North American time, according to the report of "The New Yorker", Jeff Bezos publicly questioned the data collection behavior of Bluestar Technology Group in the media, and doubted whether it should cooperate with the content censorship rules of our Chinese side to restrict the content watched by North American users, etc., and he also publicly expressed his hope that the North American intelligence department would investigate whether the overseas related application products of Bluestar Technology Group constitute the so-called 'national security risk'. ”
In addition, Jeff Bezos also commented that Bluestar Technology Group's international version of the bluespace social networking site has more than 133 million users in North America, accounting for 66.5% of the entire American Internet users, which is a potential counterintelligence threat that cannot be ignored, and based on these concerns, it is hoped that the intelligence agency will assess the national security risk posed by bluespace and other content platforms operated by Bluestar Technology in North America and inform Congress of the results.
So straightforward?
What Luo Sheng hates the most is this, although he had long expected that this kind of thing would be faced by Bluestar Technology Group, sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, let alone that the first one to jump out was Amazon.
"What surprised me was that it would be the bald Bezos who jumped out, and I thought it would be Google."
Zhang Bowen saw that Luo Sheng was quite relieved to hear the news, but he attached great importance to this issue and said worriedly: "Mr. Luo, once this kind of problem is put on the table, it is very troublesome. ”
In the eyes of the company's No. 2 person, Bluestar Technology Group is now facing any competitor who can calmly respond and have the confidence to defeat the opponent, but if it is facing the North American authorities to suppress it, it is different, you must know that so far 80% of the company's revenue has come from the global market except Greater China, and the North American market is the largest source of revenue, followed by Europe.
Luo Sheng nodded, and said in a deep voice: "You are right, this matter must be responded to in a timely manner, one is to respond as soon as possible, and the other is that the board of supervisors of the group company should be further tightened, and the senior management of those subsidiaries in charge of overseas business should be closely watched, external pressure is secondary, and the real focus of prevention is that the internal executives should cooperate with the outside or be fished and enforced by the law. ”
The board of supervisors has the right to convene an extraordinary shareholders' meeting without convening a shareholders' meeting, and in Europe and the United States, the power of the board of supervisors is greater in a company than in the mainland.
On the one hand, the United States is not like anti-globalization later, and now Americans are enjoying the huge dividend period brought by globalization, which is 100% supported, and secondly, such a large company as Bluestar Technology Group, moving this company means moving the vested interests of many capital predators on Wall Street.
Although the relationship between Luo Sheng and those friends on Wall Street is not "iron" to the point of being called brothers, it is just tied together because of interests, but then again, sometimes the binding of interests is even more iron than that of brothers.
After a few words, Zhang Bowen left the office to deal with the matter.
As for Bezos, who suddenly jumped out to make a move, it seems that Bluestar Technology and Amazon have no grievances in the past and no enmity in the near future, but Luo Sheng quickly understood after a little thought.
The reason lies in cloud computing services!
Obviously, Amazon is in a hurry, Luo Sheng budgeted $5.6 billion in the field of cloud computing services in one go, although Amazon is the first company to take the lead in launching elastic computing cloud services, but Bluestar Technology only followed up immediately after just a few months.
Not only that, but the scale of investment is even fifteen times that of Amazon.
You must know that the current market value of Bluestar Technology has gone to $150 billion, while Amazon's current market value is only $15.7 billion, which is nearly ten times that of Amazon in terms of market capitalization.
Luo Sheng has invested $5.6 billion into the field of cloud computing services, and the company's current cash flow is still $12.8 billion, and Amazon simply can't fight it.
The characteristics of cloud computing services are destined to be large-scale projects, and the current Amazon is not the Amazon with a market value of more than one trillion dollars in the previous life, and the current Amazon company is a real brother in front of Bluestar Technology.
Jeff Bezos wanted to stop Luo Sheng's crazy expansion, but he couldn't fight for his positive strength, so he began to play the right card in a hurry.
Luo Sheng had long expected that this situation would definitely occur, so he was not surprised at all, let alone nervous, every money the company made in North America was clean, and he was waiting for the FBI to come at any time.
But then again, everything has two sides, and it is not necessarily a bad thing from another point of view, to some extent, this is a good publicity opportunity for Bluestar Technology Group.
In the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Bowen hosted an impromptu media conference to respond to and make a statement on Jeff Bezos's remarks.
[Huaguo Zhengfu has never asked its major platforms to delete any content, not in the past, not now, and not in the future]
[About data and information security.] All North American users' data is stored in North America, and backup systems are established for databases in Singapore and Switzerland, and data centers are located entirely outside the jurisdiction of China, and such data is not subject to Chinese law. 】
This matter has caused heated discussions in the media at home and abroad, and the statement of Bluestar Technology Group has also been quoted and reported by the media, especially in the mainland, and the hot discussion on this topic is even hotter.
Luo Sheng rarely speaks out in public, but that doesn't mean he won't speak out, this time he also commented on his personal media account, and specially posted a few blog posts on the international version of microblog.
[Some of Jeff's remarks are obviously baseless and irresponsible slander, and his description of Bluestar Technology's entry into the North American market obviously has no truth, on the contrary, we have prepared a large budget to build a large data center in North America to provide better network services and data security. In fact, we're delivering a much higher rate of value for advertisers than Google, as there are no such products on the market yet. Obviously, Jeff wanted to kill Bluestar Technology, but he wouldn't succeed. 】
After this blog post edited by Luo Sheng was sent out, the attention was even higher, and the media reprinted the report one after another, and even some media exaggerated the embellishment of Bluestar Technology and Amazon, the two technology giants openly tore each other apart, and Luo Sheng and Jeff Bezos formed a bond and so on.
Interestingly, though, an interesting thing happened.
Luo Sheng sent this tweet at night, and he logged on to the microblog app on his blue phone to edit the blog post, clicked send, and then left the phone behind and went to sleep.
In North America, in broad daylight, about six hours after the blog post was posted, a Silicon Valley tech giant left a comment under his blog post, which only had three question marks.
???
This big guy is one of the co-founders of Google, Larry Page, he also has a social media account, has also registered a microblog for a while, and has passed the celebrity certification, but there are not many fans, and Luo Sheng has fewer than him.
A blog post by Luo Sheng blew up Larry Page, and things became more and more interesting, and melon-eating netizens who paid attention to the technology industry were also masters who didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, and they left messages in a low voice.
"It's another famous scene in the tech world where big names love to fight each other, but this time it's not Steve Jobs and Gates."
"So what exactly do these three question marks of Page mean?"
"Paige: What do you have to do with me?"
"Suggest that Bluestar Technology simply buy Amazon, and then fire Jeff, or send him to a bookstore to sell books, be an administrator or something, as one of the world's largest Internet technology companies, there should be no problem in acquiring Amazon, although I admit it's a bit rough"
The messages slowly increased, and Luo Sheng also gained a lot of fans, and most melon-eating netizens expressed their distress for Google who was lying on the gun inexplicably.
The industry is also quite concerned, and some people in the technology community in Silicon Valley also jumped out to support Amazon, and said:
[If we don't get more Amazon in action, we're all going to have a brutal future where one person, one company, one platform, will be the only option, and that's too bad.] ]
Originally, the media still attracted a lot of attention from the media, and netizens who ate melons also liked to see it, and they looked forward to the two sides being able to fight more fiercely, maybe they would come up with fierce news.
Back then, the two big celebrities, Jobs and Gates, tore each other apart, and the scene and the smell of gunpowder were still excessive.
However, Luo Sheng did not continue to pay attention to this matter, because at this moment, Wall Street has almost entered the quiet before the storm.