April 28th.

Headquarters of Bluestar Group.

"Mr. Luo, Jack Stopleman reported a message to the parent company, our competitor MySpace in North America is negotiating with Google, and the network is rumored to be a search-based cooperation to make full use of its growing users and influence, the current number of MySpace users has reached 23 million, the North American market share is about 12%, and our BlueSpace market share is more than 85%."

Zhang Bowen, chief operating officer of the group company, came to Luo Sheng's office to report the matter.

At present, the international version of BlueSpace is fully helmed by Jack Stopelman, and the parent company basically does not interfere too much, but Bluestar Technology Group has arranged for people on the board of supervisors of its subsidiary BlueSpace, who are absolutely trustworthy and directly sent by the parent company.

In overseas areas, the power of the board of supervisors in the company is not like that in the mainland, but it really has a lot of power.

The CEOs of Luo Sheng's subsidiaries in overseas business sectors are all foreign executives in order to better fit the local market, but he does not absolutely trust these foreigners.

For example, if something goes wrong with Jack Stopleman, or if necessary, he will be fired immediately, and within 24 hours a CEO will be parachuted from the parent company to take over all of BlueSpace.

Luo Sheng has invested a lot in this area, and the "spare tire" of the management is also stepping up preparations, even if it increases operating costs.

I can't help it.

That's in the realm of the old United States.

Luo Sheng has not forgotten how the Americans used the top management to kill the French company Alstom, and in his previous life he also read the book "The American Trap", a book about how the North American authorities used non-economic means to dismantle the business giants of other countries.

Therefore, once the board of supervisors finds that Jack Stallelman has not carried out the will of the parent company, there is a place to transgress, one reminder, two warnings, a third direct dismissal, and a parachute CEO to take over.

The same goes for executives from other parts of the company.

Luo Sheng does not expect the head of the subsidiary to have much pioneering spirit, especially the CEO of the subsidiary who is in charge of the overseas business sector, and if he really has the ability, he will come to the core level of the parent company.

He wants the head of the subsidiary to be able to perfectly execute the strategic will of the parent company, even if it is the wrong strategy.

It's not that I don't believe in these foreign senior managers...... That's right, I just don't believe it.

Moreover, Luo Sheng is even more unable to trust the North American authorities, and sharing interests with Wall Street is a great guarantee, but it is not absolute, so from an absolute rational point of view, it is impossible for Luo Sheng to have absolute trust in the hired senior managers.

They may not have thought about pit the company, but what if the North American authorities who try to crack down on the company will play tricks on them, the result will be the same.

Therefore, the resource investment here is absolutely indispensable, which is the group company's grand strategy to prevent accidents.

Zhang continued: "Jack proposed to the parent company, should we step in and talk to News Corp about acquiring MySpace to stop the potential threat from Google to BlueSpace? ”

"Acquisition of MySpace?" Luo Sheng immediately rejected Jack Stallman's suggestion without hesitation, and immediately added: "Now the number of users of BlueSpace in North America alone has exceeded 100 million, let alone on a global scale, the user ecological chain has been formed, and this first-mover advantage in the field of social networking sites has been formed. ”

"That being said, it's always unpleasant to let Google run wild in our backyard," Zhang said. ”

Luo Sheng smiled: "Click on it, we definitely can't buy MySpace, this move is worth the loss, once we merge MySpace into its subsidiary, it may create an almost absolute natural monopoly situation, which will bring us huge trouble, and the Europeans and Americans will definitely seize this opportunity to wave the big stick of splitting." Keep it, raise pigs scientifically. ”

Zhang Bowen: "Uh......"

Scientific pig breeding?

Zhang Bowen was quite happy to hear this, but when he thought about it carefully, it was really like this.

MySpace does not pose a huge threat, and the greatest value of its existence is to avoid the trouble of antitrust investigations for Bluestar Technology.

At this point, Intel has done a very good job, and can easily kill AMD, but always leave some space for AMD.

According to foreign news reports, MySpace has been bought by News Corp. a few years ago to become its social networking site, and it is seeking search engine partners to provide it with search services and advertising services.

Obviously, this time Google ran over and Yahoo had clearly been left out.

Yahoo, a company that was once brilliant, is now ...... It's hard to put into words.

Google's alliance with MySpace is a rehash of last year's battle between Google and Microsoft over AOL, which Google won after agreeing to invest $1 billion in AOL.

As for MySpace, I am afraid that it will be strongly supported by the North American authorities, trying to catch up with and surpass Bluestar Technology, anyone can buy this company, but Bluestar Technology cannot be acquired, and North America is not allowed.

If the Americans knew that Luo Sheng could grow to this point, they would never have approved Bluestar Technology to enter the North American market, and today, of course, Americans want to drive Bluestar Technology out of the North American market, and all kinds of means will do.

But it's not as easy as it used to be, because the water inside Bluestar Technology Group has also become very deep, and Wall Street has a big stake in it.

The point is that Luo Sheng was very vigilant early on, so that the North American authorities could not find much excuse, if there were no interests of Wall Street in it.

The North American authorities will definitely not reason with you, and they will come straight to the hard, but with the interests of Wall Street, it is different, even if you want to achieve your goal, you have to be reasonable, otherwise you will get yourself into trouble.

Zhang Bowen said: "But Google is not very smooth, I got the news that Microsoft is also at this time, which makes Google very unhappy." ”

Luo Sheng nodded and said with a smile: "This is not a strange thing, the CEOs of Google and Microsoft have recently talked about the importance of social networking sites to the future of the Internet, and Bluestar Technology has grown to today's size, even Microsoft does not dare to say that it despises us." ”

"Judging from the competition between the two sides in AOL last year, it is hard to imagine that the two giants of Google and Microsoft will easily give up MySpace to their rivals, so I personally believe that MySpace is likely to receive most of the revenue from the search advertising business, and may even get an upfront payment, or a minimum payment amount promised by the partner," Zhang said. ”

Luo Sheng nodded: "It makes sense, Google, Google is the key, I'm afraid Microsoft will lose again this time, and not as attentive as Google, we have put huge pressure on Google, but we haven't formed any bonds with Microsoft." ”

Zhang Bowen pondered for a moment, then looked at Luo Sheng and said, "We can't sit idly by. MySpace is in cahoots with Google, and it must not be the same as Yahoo. Hehe, isn't Google trying to light the fire in our backyard? Then we will also exchange courtesies, and we will also talk to Yahoo about cooperation. ”

Hearing this, Luo Shengyan said two words concisely: "Yes." ”

Come on, hurt each other.

Although Yahoo is getting worse and worse, it is good to say that it was once a king in the Internet industry, and when it comes to the Internet, if you don't talk about Yahoo, you definitely don't understand the Internet.

Even today, Yahoo has a market capitalization of $60 billion.

This matter was decided in this way, the purpose is not to achieve any substantive results, but to remind Page that when you play with fire in other people's backyards, you should ignore your own backyard, and you should also allocate a little energy to look back at your own nest.

Playing with fire, you will, and so will I.

But then again, Luo Sheng doesn't have much hope for Yahoo, Google's position in the global search engine market is basically unshakable, and wanting to light a fire in Page's backyard or something will not fundamentally shake Google's foundation.

Luo Sheng instructed Zhang Bowen: "Compared with this, we should pay more attention to Google's actions in the field of cloud computing services, Google's current CEO Eric Schmidt himself has a lot of connections with cloud computing, he once served as the chief technology officer of Sun, which first proposed that 'the network is a computer'." There is also Microsoft Corporation, and another is Amazon Inc., IBM should also pay attention to the fact that these North American technology giants are very likely to become our main competitors in the field of cloud computing services in the future. ”

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