Chapter 193: The Puzzle

But when Cai Siqiang and his entourage flew to Beijing, things seemed to have taken some subtle changes.

First of all, the Wall Street Journal reported a market rumor, they received a market rumor that Microsoft negotiated to buy Nokia's mobile phone division, judging from the report, this rumor is well-founded, and there are even some details such as the core content such as the offer, and it is said that Microsoft is now offering $9 billion.

Of course, the market rumors of Microsoft's attempt to acquire Nokia's mobile phone business have basically not been broken since 2010, and in 2011, it was close to the stage of substantive operation, first saying that Microsoft offered $30 billion to negotiate the purchase of Nokia's mobile phone business, but then there were rumors that the offer was not $30 billion, but was lowered to $19 billion.

However, despite the rumors of the scandal between Microsoft and Nokia, the market has not seen any substantive action from both sides, but Google took the lead in completing the acquisition of Motorola mobile phones for $12.5 billion.

Microsoft has a lot of cash in hand, and a $19 billion cash acquisition is not a problem, while Microsoft's share of the Windows Phone market has not improved, and Nokia, as an important ally, the market believes that Microsoft cannot afford to lose.

Because in the market of mobile Internet operating systems, Microsoft's WindowsPhone has faced a threat to its survival.

In addition to Nokia, LG, another important ally of Microsoft, has begun to swing on WP and Andriod, controlled by the sluggish sales of WP phones, and is ready to join the growing Andriod camp. For Microsoft, in today's vigorous development of the mobile Internet, if it cannot have a mobile operating system, it means that it is very likely to be absent in the future mobile Internet era.

Because the operating system is the root and soul of Microsoft, although the current desktop Windows system still brings a lot of money to Microsoft, its revenue accounts for almost half of the operating profit. But in the past few quarters, the revenue of the Windows desktop operating system has been declining every quarter, and it is clear that the space in the desktop operating system market has hit the ceiling and is starting to decline.

If the mobile Internet-based Windows phone fails, Microsoft's revenue from the operating system will become an irreversible trend. Therefore, market analysts analyze that Microsoft is bound to find ways to support Windowsphone, Google's acquisition of MOTO mobile has undoubtedly further stimulated Microsoft, and in the face of the gradual shrinking market share of Windowsphone, the possibility of Microsoft taking big moves is increasing.

But these are just speculations and analyses by market participants, and people have never seen an official announcement from the two companies confirming that they are now officially starting to negotiate the acquisition, so that everything is hazy and difficult for people to see the truth.

The matter of entanglement with Microsoft is not over, and then a financial daily reported that Nokia and LG intend to cooperate closely in smart phones, and it is rumored that the two sides intend to work together to form a company based on high-end smart phones, which will concentrate the main resources of the two companies to focus on the mid-to-high-end mobile phone market, and conduct high-end mobile phone confrontation with Apple, Samsung, two strong opponents.

I think that LG Electronics' mobile phone business was also brilliant at the beginning, once as the world's third largest mobile phone manufacturer, and Samsung was known as the South Korean double, but since 2010, LG Electronics' mobile phone business has also begun to continue to lose money on the road of no return, and continue to make major adjustments and layoffs.

Due to strategic mistakes, when the tide of 3G smart phones is coming, LG has not launched a flagship smartphone to resist the market, and the vast majority of products launched are still mainly feature phones, and the price is positioned in the middle and low end, trying to please and face the fashionable and young groups, and win by quantity.

Especially in the standard of mobile phones, LG has been sticking to the main force in the CDMA market, but all this has not brought good gains to LG, on the contrary, in the face of China Telecom's growth of more than 100 million users of the huge market, LG seems to be just reduced to a spectator, standing far away on the edge of the banquet, watching others eat gluttonous meals, but they can't catch a little dish.

LG's emerging 3G mobile phone market in China has basically failed completely. Later, some market analysts analyzed LG's frustration in China, and the most fundamental reason was the rigidity of its market system and the lack of localization in China, which led to a huge deviation in strategy, ignoring the huge opportunity of Android's sudden emergence, resulting in a slow move to 3G smart phones, so that the chess game was frustrated everywhere.

LG's situation is exactly the same as Nokia's stubborn Symbian system for many years, due to the loss of the historic opportunity in Andriod, both have put the hope of smart phones on Microsoft's windowsphone, from this point of view, if two disappointed people in the 3G smart phone market want to huddle together for warmth, it is logically reasonable.

In the evening, Cai Siqiang received even worse news, and Sampus, who had rushed to Beijing in advance to participate in the negotiations together, regretfully informed Cai Siqiang that Vice President Terry would postpone his talks with Cai Siqiang for one day due to flight problems.

This series of bad news came, which made Cai Siqiang a little confused, what is the situation?

If these news do not appear sooner or later, and they do not break out until now, can it be said that this is a smoke bomb released by Nokia's top management before the negotiations?

But did Nokia make such a small trick with no gold content? After all, it is also a large international company for decades. If all this is really instructed by Nokia's top management, then it not only seems that he is a little lacking in confidence, but also seems to be too small.

Cai Siqiang, who received these news for a while, also couldn't see the situation clearly.

But if you don't understand it, you can't understand it, all this didn't disturb Cai Siqiang's train of thought, Cai Siqiang, who already understands the truth about Nokia, is letting you do a thousand tricks, and I won't move.

Thinking that there would be no big things tomorrow, so in the evening, Cai Siqiang simply took the team to the Sanlitun bar street to relax, after all, everyone is very busy on weekdays, and it is rare to have the opportunity to have time to relax, and the combination of work and rest is the king.

Therefore, this night, Cai Siqiang, who has not been in the bar for a long time, has a lot of fun, Dong Feng even seems to have seen the return of a playboy, fortunately, Cai Siqiang with Master Song has played, but now he has his own bottom line, just soaked in alcohol, this group of people After this small relaxation, everyone became scrappy the next day, and faced the upcoming difficult negotiations with a full attitude.

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