Chapter 201: Breakthrough

Professor Andrew happily assigned the manpower to implement Duke's results. For him, it is enough to have such an achievement, coupled with the performance improvement of the operating system made by Duke, the performance of the entire system has been increased by a quarter, which was unimaginable before, it should be very satisfying, and you can't be too greedy.

Seeing that Professor Andrew was very satisfied, Duke could finally breathe a sigh of relief and explain the matter, this time in order to get this nuclear reaction simulation program, but it took a lot of scheming and physical strength, just facing the computer monitor for more than a month, working not less than ten hours a day, so that Shu Ya couldn't help but feel a little resentful that this is not a good thing, it is really unreasonable to work so hard.

Of course, Duke couldn't explain to his wife that I was working hard to steal other people's source code, so he laughed at Shu Ya's complaints, and only said that Professor Andrew meant, this time I can go home and rest, and I think I can calm down the resentment of the beauty.

However, in the space of more than a month, too much has happened outside.

First of all, after Nokia's mobile phone report in the first quarter of 2014, the market share of the mobile phone business fell again, and there was no suspense to maintain continued losses, and it seems that the company's cash flow loss has accelerated the expansion trend, Cai Siqiang and Nokia finally entered in-depth negotiations, Nokia's senior management has realized that if no decision is made, the mobile phone business will even drag down the system equipment business that now looks very good.

Once the cash flow dries up, the whole company will be in a catastrophic situation, you know, due to the poor performance of the company's financial situation, now the company's financing costs have begun to rise sharply, and the coupon of the three-year corporate bond has soared from the previous 5.5%, 6.75%, to 9.8%.

If Nokia is regarded as the Titanic, then the world-beating scenery when setting sail has gradually faded, and now it is time to see the iceberg.

Nokia's top management now knows that the divestment of the mobile phone business has almost become the only option for the company to survive, and the current impasse in negotiations with SAL lies in the difference in the price of the deal between the two sides.

SAL made a bid of $5 billion, which was a cash takeover, but Nokia offered to pay at least $6.5 billion if it was a full takeover. Thinking that Motorola's mobile phone business was sold for $12.5 billion, at that time, Motorcycle's mobile phone business was still far from Nokia's gap, and now it is willing to sell for $6.5 billion, and Nokia's senior management has felt very aggrieved.

However, when the motorcycle was sold, there were billions of dollars in profits every year, and in terms of patents, the core patents were as good as Nokia's mobile phones, and Google was in a hurry at that time, so it was acquired at a high premium.

It's just that after the acquisition, the performance of Moto is not as soaring as Google imagined, but continues to be under the watchful eyes of powerful competitors such as Samsung, Apple, and HTC, and life is not easy. Speaking of which, in addition to the Andriod system, Google does not have any magic bullet in terms of mobile phones, which can give wings to motorized mobile phones, so the performance of motorcycles after the acquisition is lackluster.

For software companies like Microsoft, which have been trying to Nokia mobile phones but have not taken action, the Google acquisition case is also a major reference, with this experience, even if the cash flow is extremely abundant, if there is no effective solution that can solve the current Nokia mobile phone problem, it is impossible to rashly take over a huge burden.

However, Cai Siqiang, who is already well aware of the situation of Nokia's mobile phone, although he is also a little anxious, it is impossible to make concessions in this good situation.

Or that sentence, time is now on his side, compared to more than a month ago, Nokia mobile phone is in a more difficult situation, continuous losses, the market has been tired, this month or so, originally because of the performance of network equipment and the acquisition of rumors of the stock price has improved, now not only fell back, but also fell five percent from before.

For Nokia's management, the stock price is as important an indicator of the company's ability as the company's financial performance, and the current situation is under tremendous pressure. Because in the face of Nokia's poor performance, there have been many calls for a change of coach in the market.

In this way, the two sides talked about stopping, and several rounds of negotiations have been held for more than a month, but there is still no final result, but judging from the performance of the other party, Cai Siqiang has a strong sense that the final moment is coming.

The rumors of the negotiations between the two sides have leaked, so Cai Siqiang has officially put forward the corresponding financing requirements to the city.

Receiving the earth-shattering news of SAL, the first reaction of the main bosses in the city was to disbelief. Whether it is Secretary Wang of the Municipal Party Committee or Mayor Huang of the Municipal Government, the first time is to let Zhao Heng and Zhang Zhanguo, two capable men, go to SAL to find out the real news.

This news is too sudden for them, you must know that Nokia is an out-and-out Fortune 500 company, and it is already a big achievement for such a company to be able to attract investment in the city, and it will suddenly say that it will be acquired. Well, although Cai Siqiang emphasized that it is only Nokia's mobile phone business, it is also a big business that acquires an important business unit of Nokia, with annual sales revenue of tens of billions of dollars.

After SAL confirmed the specific progress of the acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, and got more accurate news, Secretary Zhao and District Mayor Zhang, after transmitting the news back to the system, suddenly made Rongcheng reach the level of the big man boiling, although SAL and Nokia negotiations are still ongoing, and it has not yet reached the time when the dust has settled, but it does not hinder the imagination of officialdom on this matter.

If Nokia's mobile phone business is counted in Rongcheng, it will be a big performance. Not to mention anything else, just to pull the relevant supporting industrial chain, which may be tens of billions, is certainly a bright spot in GDP growth, and more importantly, Chengdu may become an important town in the national IT industry, and in the communications industry, it can even be compared with Shenzhen, which has domestic leading enterprises such as Huawei and ZTE.

This is an out-and-out support for a new industry, and even Mayor Huang, whose political prospects have been a little bleak, can't calm down in the face of this huge temptation of political achievements at the moment, because if SAL really completes the acquisition of Nokia mobile phones and settles its headquarters in Rongcheng, this huge political achievement is enough to support him to take another step forward, of course, the premise is to find someone who has the ability to help him.

(Sorry.,I'm out today.,The update is a little over.,There's a change at night)