Chapter 073: Super Heavyweight Visitor [Modified]
The storm is really a bit miserable, the problems of the European mainland do not depend on the coastline, there is no way, other people's land snakes, other people's territory is the final say, and the storm can only be regarded as self-reaping.
Although it was not the storm that was punished, the storm was also hit by indirect damage.
Sure enough, the boss of Storm called Ye Hua here, he must have been a little panicked, if Europe suffers hard, maybe North America, another major overseas market, will also follow suit, which will bring a heavy blow to the globalization of Storm Private.
"Mr. Feng, this time I was miserable by you, I received a 2.2 billion fine for some reason, people sit at home, and the fine falls from the sky." Ye Hua complained when he got on the phone, and the other party was also very embarrassed.
In fact, it is Boss Feng who really wants to cry, he is really dumb and has a hard time eating Coptis chinensis, although this Nima is no longer a storm, but this wave of indirect blows is really transferred to the storm, although the coastline has been fined, but at the same time the business has also been expanded, and the loss of the fine can basically be made up, which is not a profit or a loss, this is a typical move to fight cattle across the mountain, and the storm private shadow is the real injured party.
Boss Feng was also embarrassed, after all, this was the pot where his company had a problem: "... It is true that the global expansion of Storm's business is a bit rushed, and this is not exactly the desire to consult with you to avoid this kind of tragedy from happening again. ”
Ye Hua was also very helpless about this matter, the boss of the storm came to the door, and he couldn't ignore it, after all, he signed a strategic cooperation agreement.
The final result of the negotiation was that on the original agreement, a new non-public content was signed as a supplement to the strategic cooperation agreement, that is, to give up the exclusive license, but to ensure the preferential purchase right of Baofeng Private Shadow.
To put it simply, it is a time difference between the card, and the product can be provided for other private theaters, but there is a lot of room for operation when it will arrive.
The coastline can also find a variety of reasons to explain and shirk, such as insufficient production capacity, such as parts shortages or something, postponing time or limiting shipments to other private companies.
In this way, it can give Storm Private Shadow enough time to expand and occupy market share first, after all, it is largely first-come, first-served, and stupid birds fly first.
However, in this way, it is a good thing for fans, at least Baofeng Technology will not be fearless, even if it occupies market share, it cannot be arrogant, and the sense of crisis will force Baofeng to spend more energy to do a good job in service and products, so as to consolidate its established market position and not be robbed by others.
However, Ye Hua still feels resentful about the sky-high fine of 270 million euros, with a revenue of 1.2 billion euros, and many taxes such as tariffs have been cleared, there can be a profit of seven or eight billion euros, and now the fine is paid, which is equivalent to a profit of only 465 million euros, and a net profit of 390 million euros.
The market is so big in Europe, and after tossing for a long time, it only earned a "medium meaning", and a fine fined two-thirds of the "medium meaning", if it weren't for the scary high profit of the product, such a fine would simply force the coastline to shout "I don't wait", like ZTE, which was fined by the United States, and the profits were gone for three years, I really wanted to cry.
But Margaret Westegg, a woman, fully demonstrates the veteran experience of issuing fines, and the fine of 270 million euros makes Coastline Technology want to die, at least this is not the temptation of nearly 400 million euros of net income and the huge European market, especially the latter, for the greater good, the coastline can only obediently pay the fine.
In addition to helplessness and scolding behind her back, after all, even Google, Apple, Amazon, and other supergiants are all in her hands, which is not a very shameful thing.
On the contrary, let the coastline pay attention to this woman, and be vigilant, lest she become bigger and stronger in the future, accidentally leave a handle and be targeted by her, and end up with a fine of billions or tens of billions of euros, so that she wants to die.
The net income of 390 million is not bad.
Coastline Company recently made headlines for sponsoring 1.5 billion women's football team, causing a heated discussion among melon-eating netizens, and the popularity has just declined, and after the news of the 270 million euro fine was transmitted back to China, Coastline successfully made headlines again because of this news.
And it was a front-page headline report at home and abroad.
"As the EU's chief investigator, Ms. Vesteg has done what she has done to protect the EU's vision of a fair market, and what Ms. Vesteg has done is to make these big companies understand: although you have a lot of money, you can't look at no one, and there are still people who are not afraid of you and dare to fight with you......
The Guardian reported: "1% of the big companies are rich, but 99% of the small companies are starving, this is a trample on fairness, these big companies, make a lot of money, when the money is made by them, other companies have nothing to earn, affecting the lives of more people......
As Deutsche Presse reported, "Even technological innovation companies that have revolutionized humanity must be subject to the same legal constraints......
The Economist magazine reported: "When the market is everything, you find that some companies have been cheating users, and users have no control over themselves; When a big company controls everything, there is no way to talk about respect for users, and even if you are not satisfied, you have no other choice......
The media in Europe and the United States have reported the news, and they are full of schadenfreude, especially the European media have unanimously praised a wave of Margaret Westeger and the investigation.
Domestic media have reprinted foreign reports, among which People's Daily Online also made a concise comment, just six words: eat a trench, grow a wisdom.
Some time ago, the news of investing in women's football also made the coastline company accumulate a wave of character, and many melon-eating netizens ran to Ye Hua's Weibo to leave messages, expressing distress about the coastline company's tragic EU sanctions.
However, Ye Hua did not update the news on Weibo, and netizens who ate melons left a message on a recent message, most of them felt that most of them were still depressed if they did not update Weibo, and the new year was unfavorable, with a sky-high fine of 2.1 billion, two-thirds of the middle meaning, the pain must be a little, after all, the coastline company is now planning the construction of a new headquarters, which requires a lot of money.
It is not new for domestic high-tech companies to be sanctioned abroad, basically the multinational technology companies that have gone out in China have been sanctioned in various forms, such as the ZTE technology company that was sanctioned by the United States, and has also been fined at a sky-high price, and has worked for three years for Lao Meibai.
However, there is still a difference with coastline technology, the latter has mastered the core technology, and it was pitted by pig teammates, and melon-eating netizens naturally put Ye Hua and the coastline company on the innocent side.
And Storm's official blog was also swiped by many netizens to leave messages, and was marked with various labels and emojis such as "pig teammates", "can't move", "pit teammates", etc., and melon-eating netizens even directly in the message area of various fighting pictures.
In fact, Storm is bitter in his heart, and he wants to say that the most loss is me, but he can't say that he is suffering.
It is worth mentioning that this time the news that the coastline was fined 270 million euros by the European Union came back, and the woman Margaret Westeger also made a small fire in the country.
It's good that the people who eat melons don't understand, this understanding is shocked, I didn't expect this "record" called Margaret Westerg to be so strong, almost all the number one technology giants in the United States have been sanctioned by her, it seems that it is not only for the coastline, but for all the big companies "in the ball".
If you want to talk about a miserable meeting, the coastline can really only serve as a background board, and the worst is Google, which was fined 9.5 billion euros at the beginning of last year, equivalent to 110 US dollars or 75.1 billion soft sister coins, and even Google's Android business in Europe is also in danger of being divested.
In an interview with the media at the time, Margaret Westeger talked about the EU's punishment of Google, saying: "Despite the sky-high fines against Google, Google is still a "really good" company, very, very innovative, and the innovation they bring to us has changed our lives."
It's really choking people to death.
It is estimated that Google's senior management saw her interview and vomited three liters of blood in anger.
Vesteger, known as Silicon Valley's worst enemy and tech giant, was a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, and just after she fined Shoreline, she revealed to the media that she was going to target the next target - Apple.
The last time Apple was hit hard, it fought for a while, and finally obediently paid the sky-high amount of 13 billion euros, and it didn't take long to slow down, which was named by her again, Tim Cook is now mostly trembling on three legs.
The coastline company was fined by the European Union, Ye Hua has not updated his Weibo news recently, and melon-eating netizens think that he is still worried about the fine and is depressed.
But in fact, Ye Hua has long forgotten about the EU fine, and the focus is not here at all, and he is not much concerned. Just because there is a more important thing to catch up with at this time, compared to this matter, the EU fine is not worth mentioning at all.
Shoreline welcomed an uninvited visitor today, a real, super-heavyweight presence – the military.
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