Next, the reaction in the stock market is even more intriguing, after the news came out, the first day of the two companies rose sharply in the morning, just when the retail investors holding the stock were rejoicing, and then fell sharply in the afternoon, the market rumors that the SAL company that was ready to start the acquisition did not have the strength to acquire at all, it was completely a hype.

The next day, the two companies began to diverge, with RIM shares starting to rise and HTC continuing to fall amid rumors that Samsung was interested in acquiring RIM, and HTC was said to be in an even more dismal fourth quarter, with the quarter even posting its first loss in years.

In the following three days, HTC's stock price fell by two percent, with a total market value of about $6.4 billion, while RIM rose by more than three percent, with a total market value of nearly $8 billion.

This unexpected change cast a shadow on Cai Siqiang's travel.

Sure enough, HTC's board of directors rejected Cai Siqiang's request to meet, and simply did not let him in. RIM's board of directors also politely declined, declaring that there are no plans to sell RIM for the time being. All this made Cai Siqiang very frustrated, but he had not encountered this kind of closed-door treatment for a long time.

"Duke, the situation is terrible," Cai Siqiang was full of resentment on the phone, and vented to Duke, who was thousands of miles away. "Apparently both of them thought I was a clown, and they wouldn't even let me in. It's such a bully. ”

"What?! Both families refused? Duke was a little surprised, didn't he say that both families were in trouble? Now this reaction is really a bit unexpected, and in this way, this matter is a bit of a prick.

"Yes, they all say that they have no plans to sell their shares now." Cai Siqiang continued. Zhan Shaofeng's contact with the investment bank was not smooth, and he privately told Lao Zhan that they were very optimistic about the mobile phone industry, and now the profit concentration is too high, basically most of the industry's profits have fallen into the pockets of Apple and Samsung. In this case, it would be difficult for them to invest such a huge amount of money in this almost losing gamble. ”

Bad things are really bad things, and Cai Siqiang and Duke still think things too simply. Now the information is extremely asymmetrical, according to the general situation to reason, anyone will get the conclusion of the investment bank, after all, as long as you are not a fool, anyone can see that the mobile phone industry is basically two sides along, and other manufacturers are just taking on some role to fill the gaps.

Whether the acquisition of HTC and RIM has the means to turn stones into gold is the main consideration of investment bank investment, as for SAL's IPO business, investment bankers almost scoff, please wait until you live until that day. Now whoever asks for it will figure out the situation first. Zhan Shaofeng also returned in vain, and returned to SAL empty-handed.

The two most suitable acquisition targets have already hung up the brand of non-sale, and the attempt to obtain acquisition funds through financing is also in vain. It was a blow to Duke and Cai Siqiang, two young people who have been almost smooth sailing since they started their businesses.

The two finally realized that this world is always a cruel and realistic world, and in the shopping mall, there is no warmth, no friendship, and no recognition of passion. The shopping mall is a field of interests, and everyone is unprofitable.

"Duke, what's next?" Cai Siqiang said with a sad face. At this point, the Doctor really didn't know what to do.

Originally, he didn't want to do anything, but Duke drew this piece of cake, and his ambition grew like grass, so he suffered a lot when he encountered this situation.

"How do I know what to do?" Duke was also dumbfounded, in the face of such an unexpected situation, for a person like him, whose business quotient is lower than his emotional intelligence, it is too difficult for him to rely on him to come up with ideas. Since the shortcut to the acquisition did not work, Duke had to work more on technology.

The Duke laboratory in the United States began to make every effort to "develop" a new type of display material, and most of the $100 million in revenue obtained by Shuya's speculation was smashed into the purchase of new materials research instruments and devices in the Duke laboratory.

It's just that there are not many experts in Duke's materials research, and 5 or 6 PhDs from Harvard and Stanford have been hired from Harvard and Stanford, and these doctors were originally a bit bullish, and they were originally very dissatisfied with Duke's fingers in new materials research. But soon they were convinced.

One day, Duke "demonstrated" that a certain element would manifest itself under certain conditions as a phenomenon that no one knew about, and for Duke, a layman, he actually deduced a new material phenomenon, and these professional doctors of course expressed doubts about Duke's argument, but there was a guy who did not believe in evil and did experiments according to Duke's instructions, and was ready to refute Duke's conclusion with indisputable facts.

The experiment was successful, of course Duke's success, and the guy who did the experiment really discovered the phenomenon that Duke was talking about. There is no doubt that this is a new achievement in materials science research, which is fully qualified for the journal Nature. Duke quickly "demonstrated" some of the unique functions and phenomena of several other elements.

Now no one doubts Duke's intuition and deep skills in materials research. As a result, the Duke laboratory began to frequently "discover" new results, and the research on materials science suddenly became fruitful, and new effects and new properties were discovered one after another.

But when the elements of the Duke argument were combined to create the environment in which the new effects were first discovered, a whole new type of material was created. The new material has excellent luminescence properties, and of course, that's what Duke pulled out of Billem.

These few are simply ecstatic, you must know that those who engage in their line of work may not be able to find a new material in their lifetime, and this material alone, although everyone is not sure what can be used for it, but this is enough for them to be proud of for a lifetime.

The patent right of this new material naturally belongs to the Duke laboratory, but the doctors who "developed" the material enjoy the right of authorship to write a paper on the newly discovered and new results. Therefore, this new invention has undoubtedly shocked the academic community of material development, and several doctors have suddenly become new stars in everyone's attention.

Of course, these PhDs were also very kind to include Duke's name in the list of contributors. In fact, everyone knows that without Duke's "discovery" foundation, there is absolutely no need to develop this new material, if they are draughts, then Duke is digging wells.

Even Duke has become an expert in new materials research.

But that's not all, when a doctor associates the phenomenon of light with a display at a conference on the application of new materials, Duke proposed a "hypothesis" for the development of a new type of display, and the inspired doctors devoted themselves to the process of verifying this hypothesis.

Soon, it was verified that this hypothesis was quite feasible, and the discovery of a new type of display was about to emerge.