Although the Internet business controlled by Su Yehao is valuable, its shortcomings are obvious.
Whether it is the Kaomoji Group that has been listed, or Google, TAT, etc. that have not yet been listed, they currently lack a stable profit model and cannot convert a huge user group into corresponding profits.
The lack of profits, in turn, limits their development.
After Google's Larry Page resigned, Eric Boyle, the new CEO, met Su Yehao two days ago and made suggestions afterward, asking him to consider acquiring several outstanding online game companies to facilitate Google's drainage.
Increase company revenue.
This reminded him of the Blizzard game that he was cooperating with Valve Games.
Recalling that more than two months ago, on New Year's Eve, Su Yehao received an email from Valve saying that Blizzard wanted to obtain the authorization to use the Valve game engine. At that time, he only let the partners figure it out and threw it away afterwards.
At the back of the head.
Although he has never played Blizzard's games, he knows that this company is particularly famous in the gaming circle. He has also been to a movie theater and watched the movie "Warcraft" adapted from the game background, and he still has some impressions.
That's why we took this trip to Los Angeles to help Jiang Yu and Nangong Tian find projects for Tianyu Entertainment, which was a coincidence.
After checking into the hotel, we went to the suite to sit down and rest.
Linda Yun helped Su Yehao open the computer, checked his emails as usual, and told him in a surprised tone:
"Huh? The news about Microsoft's MSN acquisition of America Online business has been announced. It was just announced twenty minutes ago that the deal was concluded at a price of US$4 billion!"
"...Is it really a deal?"
Su Yehao came over to look at the content on the laptop screen, smacked his lips and said with emotion: "It's great to have money. Sure enough, Microsoft is so rich that it is willing to take advantage of it."
Linda Yun had been a secretary for so long and had learned something, so she asked:
"Aren't you worried? It is a company owned by Microsoft. Even if they don't intentionally target us, there will still be a lot of friction. The Kaomoji Group is more powerful than it, and it will inevitably become a roadblock now."
"Why don't you target it deliberately? If you don't have ambition, how can you spend so much money at a time like this? Search the stock price of Kaomoji and see how far it has dropped?"
After Su Yehao finished speaking, something suddenly occurred to him. He gasped and said in pain: "Don't fall too much. If the market value really falls below 8 billion US dollars, shouldn't I keep my promise and completely take the Yanwen Group privately?"
To avoid being thought that you talk like farts?"
After Linda Yun searched, she found that the stock price of Yanwen Group had dropped by about 4.7%.
The MSN Messenger instant messaging software owned by Microsoft has swallowed up the related businesses of the AOL Group, which means that it is about to create a strong enemy that can barely compete with the Kaomoji Group.
Today, Monday, happened to be during the trading period. Such bad news suddenly appeared. It would be strange that the stock price did not fall.
Jiang Yu came over to read it, patted Su Yehao on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "You have to hold on, a big plane just disappeared, and you were bullied like this. I can't bear it even if you can bear it. Don't you want to think of a way to beat me back?"
"
Hearing these words, Su Yehao was particularly speechless. He pinched Jiang Yu's cheek and explained:
"He is a giant with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars and a cash reserve of tens of billions of dollars. The gap between the two sides is here, how can I fight?"
"Besides, for normal business transactions, the market is there, and whoever has the strength will seize it. The number of AOL users is already low, and many of their netizens mainly use TVT and ICQ."
"But then again, there are so many directions we can try, but they are targeting my kaomoji group. I will take note of this grudge first, and sooner or later I will get the situation back..."
Su Yehao logged into his News Microblog Weibo account, first checked the relevant hot search content, then thought about it, pushed the computer to Linda Yun, and said to her:
"You help me translate and write that MSN's acquisition of America Online business further proves that Microsoft has abused its market dominance. I will consider hiring a lawyer to initiate a lawsuit. Girl, I originally thought that no fool would actually take over the deal, but I didn't expect it.
If something really comes out and costs four billion U.S. dollars, what’s wrong with investing it in it? It has to go down the drain.”
"...Do you need to translate the next sentence?" Linda Yun asked, turning her head.
Looking at her like a fool, Su Yehao was speechless and sighed helplessly:
"Of course not. Since my company's stock price has fallen, Microsoft can't even think about it. But I guess it's useless. The emoji group dominates the market. It doesn't seem to be applicable to antitrust. But Microsoft's approach is enough to cause problems in the industry.
resist."
Jiang Yu nodded and said, "That's right. Today, we acquire America Online's business and develop into the instant messaging industry. Tomorrow we may acquire eBay and compete with Amazon, which is engaged in online shopping. Ah Hao, are you sure this transaction is completed?"
Will it have a major impact on the emoji group?"
"...There is a high probability that no, neither ICQ nor TVT is just a pure chat software, the social function is the focus, otherwise the market share would have been taken away by others. MSN Messenger wants to copy our successful model,
It’s almost impossible.”
Su Yehao was nervous for a while, then relaxed again and said with a smile:
"It seems that the development progress is really going to be accelerated. I will make serious plans in the near future to launch several new features and increase investment in the international market to avoid being seized by MSN."
After Linda Yun edited the content, Su Yehao took a brief look at it and found that there was nothing wrong with it, so he called John Zhou, the chief operating officer of Yaozi, to inform him in advance.
After thinking about it, I felt that it would be too formal to do it myself.
Simply copy and paste and send it to the CEO of the Kaomoji Group, asking him to respond online first to prevent the company's stock price from falling further.
Since the initial announcement that the company would be privatized and delisted if the market value fell below 8 billion U.S. dollars, the company's stock price has been very stable, and even the group of short-sellers have disappeared. Today it has fallen to the present, and the market value is still over 10 billion U.S. dollars.
Still safe.
Chatted a few words with John Zhou.
After hanging up the phone and thinking about it carefully, Su Yehao found that there was indeed no need to make a fuss.
That part of the market share is already in the hands of MSN Messenger and AOL. The basics of Kaomoji Group are not affected at all. As long as Microsoft's momentum is suppressed, the third child will just spend a lot of money and become the second child.
, the market share is only half of the emoji group.
Waiting for a few more years, mobile terminal equipment will be popularized on a large scale, and the gap will be further widened by then.
Su Yehao thought about how to get revenge, but after thinking about it, he could only think of Apple's operating system.
After checking Apple's stock price... my dear, it has dropped from more than 10 billion US dollars at its peak last year to more than 4 billion US dollars left. It can't stop the car and keeps plummeting.
Even if the stock price was still artificially high, it probably wouldn't be much higher. He immediately contacted Goldman Sachs and asked them to help contact Apple's major shareholders one by one to ask who was willing to sell it as a whole.
If that doesn't work, you can just provide Apple with a financing...