On the day Lu Fei returned to China, Logic immediately sued Samsung.
In the United States, where Samsung's mobile phones and tablets are most important, the Chinese market took the lead and filed a lawsuit.
In an instant, one stone stirred up thousands of waves.
Originally, this year, except for Apple's iPhone 4S, Nokia's Megoo, and the second-generation Barong baseband chip, the entire mobile phone industry was in stagnant water. Logic's new phone launch conference could be said to be the most anticipated event in the second half of the year.
But I never imagined that there would be a big drama——
The patent war between Logic and Samsung 0 is online again.
There were many reports in the media, but the popularity was not high. The real outbreak will have to wait until the court officially accepts the case and opens a trial.
Lu Fei handed over the lawsuits in China to Sun Hongjun, and the lawsuits in the United States and later Europe were handed over to Guo Xing.
Everything went according to plan and in an orderly manner.
August 29, Yanjing.
Lu Fei put down the company's affairs and sat in the mansion of Dongshan Villa, watching the beauty change clothes one by one in front of him.
"How about this one?"
Gao Yuanyuan is wearing a white suit, looking smart and capable.
"Obviously ordinary clothes, why do they look so good on you?" Lu Fei raised the corner of his mouth.
"You! Then take this one."
Gao Yuanyuan's smiling eyebrows curved into crescent moons.
"Send Huahua to eldest brother's house later."
Lu Fei stood up and stretched out his arms.
"Well, I've already made an agreement with my sister-in-law."
Gao Yuanyuan hooked his arm and said, "When we get Bill Gates and Buffett to the hotel, we will go to her place for lunch, and then go to the charity dinner together in the evening. I have arranged everything. There are special rooms for Ruoruo and Huahua."
, and there are dedicated personnel to take care of it.”
Lu Fei nodded, "Then let's set off!"
After sending Lu Hua to the Rose Garden Villa, the two of them appeared at the Capital International Airport on time. A plane picked up the boarding stairs and saw Bill Gates and Buffett walking down.
"Hey! Bill! Warren!"
Lu Fei raised his hand, full of enthusiasm.
"land!"
Bill Gates and Buffett shook hands with him one by one, and noticed the noble and dignified woman beside him out of the corner of his eye.
"She is my wife."
Lu Fei introduced Gao Yuanyuan to the two of them.
After exchanging pleasantries, we got in the car heading to our hotel.
"Lu, I heard that you are going to take action against Samsung, right?"
Bill Gates and Buffett look at each other.
"We have already taken action, and now we just have to wait for the court to formally accept it. Although we will not be as exaggerated as Nokia suing us all over the world for infringement, in addition to China and the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, these important markets for Samsung will logically file lawsuits."
Lu Fei's face was full of seriousness.
"Doing this will distract the power and energy." Bill Gates said in surprise: "Why don't you wait until we finish dealing with Nokia? Maybe Microsoft is also willing to join forces with Logic to deal with Samsung?"
"To deal with Samsung, we are also dealing with Nokia."
Lu Fei simply explained that Logic launched not just a legal war against Samsung, but an all-out war on land, sea and air.
Samsung and Logic each have their own advantages, but in terms of smartphone technology and branding, Samsung is far behind. If it wants to compete with Logic in the smartphone market, the only card it can play is price war.
How did Qimonda die?
Otherwise, it will die in the price war between Yangtze Memory, Micron and Samsung.
In the current overseas market, Nokia has to endure logic, Apple's dimensionality reduction blow, and Samsung and HTC's price war.
The domestic market has to suffer from Xiaomi, Shenzhou, Tianyu and other "cost-effective" and "Internet mobile phone" combination packages.
In the world, we must resist the challenge of logic to Nokia, the leader of the old era. Nokia is like Xiang Yu who has been ambushed from all sides. It is surrounded on all sides. How can logic lose?
"If Logic's market share can surpass Nokia's this year and reach the top spot, we will be sure to kill Kallasvuo."
Bill Gates showed a sly smile.
“Who are you going to nominate to replace Kallasvuo?”
Lu Fei narrowed his eyes.
"Stephen Elop, the president of our business unit, has led the development of many office projects. Nokia will be satisfied with his resume and ability." Bill Gates smiled.
"Is he ready to replace Kallasvuo this year? We plan to let Shenzhou go overseas to seize Nokia's market." Lu Fei is full of confidence. Shenzhou, equipped with the second-generation Barong baseband chip, will definitely give Nokia and Samsung
Creating trouble.
"Lu, you have to be gentle."
Bill Gates couldn't help but joke, at least leave something to Nokia. Otherwise, Microsoft would be a big injustice if it spent so much effort and ended up acquiring the mobile phone department that was about to be finished.
"Bill, you should know better."
Lu Fei reminded that if the mobile phone business is not destroyed and Nokia loses hope, how can it be acquired by Microsoft?
"What you said makes sense."
Bill Gates smiled and said, "Leave these worries to Steve. Fortunately, I have retired."
"Yeah, it's a good thing you're retired."
The two made eye contact and smiled at each other.
Once Microsoft acquires Nokia, it will inevitably compete with Logic and Android in order to promote Microsoft's operating system and revitalize its mobile phone business. If Bill Gates is still at Microsoft, it is likely to affect the personal relationship and even interests between the two.
After all, the three of them were tied too deeply.
"Leave Microsoft matters to Ballmer, let's talk about charity." Lu Fei glanced at Buffett and Gao Yuanyuan.
From now on, the two of them could not find a topic to talk about and remained silent.
As soon as she heard "charity", Gao Yuanyuan immediately became energetic. Her foreign language proficiency was still lacking, so she had to rely on Lu Fei to be her translator.
Looks like I still have to learn!
Have a lot of communication and learning with Mr. Lu in bed!
After a while, after sending Bill Gates and Buffett to the hotel, Lu Fei got back in the car and saw Gao Yuanyuan smiling.
"So happy?"
"Of course, they didn't mean to personally give it to the 400 American billionaires on the Forbes list. Almost 40 people agreed to sign the commitment letter. Adding us here, this is a great start!"
"This charity commitment has no legal effect, it is just a 'moral commitment'." Lu Fei raised his head and said with a smile.
"That's enough. With you three world rich people taking the lead, more and more people will join in." Gao Yuanyuan said happily.
"Don't think too highly of us."
Lu Fei showed a playful smile.
"What do you mean?" Gao Yuanyuan asked curiously.
"You don't really think they are really doing charity, do you?"
"Is not it?"
"There is a saying that the charity of capitalists is called hypocrisy. It may be out of kindness, but it must have other motives."
Lu Fei leaned his head over and whispered.
The United States suspended the inheritance tax for one year starting from January 1, 2010, but this provision is likely to be invalidated next year.
Once the estate tax is re-imposed in 2011, the new tax rate will jump to 55%, and the exemption will be reduced from US$3.5 million per person to only US$1 million per person.
If a wealthy person donates a large amount of his inheritance to social welfare, the donated assets can be exempted from inheritance tax.
"Ah, so that's it!"
Gao Yuanyuan suddenly realized, "Then are you..."
"Shh."
Lu Fei sat down and made a silent gesture.
Because they really have a car!
At this moment, the car radio reported the news of the "Babylu" charity dinner. This dinner was probably the most high-profile meal in China in 2010.
To be precise, as early as half a month after it was made public, it has already exploded on the Internet. The media and the public have paid unprecedented attention to charity.
Portals, Weibo, forums and other platforms have opened special topics.
“It was revealed that some Chinese tycoons such as Lianxiang Liu Chuanzhi, Ali Baba Lu Yun, and Fosun Guo Guangchang ignored the ‘Babilu’ banquet because they were suspected of being afraid of being persuaded to donate, and were criticized by netizens.”
"Lu Fei publicly clarified on Weibo: Guests participating in this event do not need to make any charitable commitments or make donations."
"Imitating the 'Babylu' Charity Dinner, a 'Civilian Charity Dinner' was launched by netizens on Weibo. No invitation is required. Anyone can come. There is no compulsion to donate or not."
"..."
The news frequently made hot searches. That night, the media had been struggling to find the venue of the Babylon Charity Dinner. At the Lafayette Castle Manor in Changping, luxury cars appeared at the door.
Except for a few who came, like Chen Guangbiao, who took the initiative to get a quota, most of them were carefully selected and invited by Gao Yuanyuan.
Mengniu's Niu Gensheng, Wanda's Wang Jianlin, BYD's Wang Chuanfu, Vanke's Wang Shi, Sunac's Sun Hongbin...
Basically, they are all friends in Master Lu's circle.
"Brother Lu!"
"Brother Niu! Welcome, welcome!"
Lu Fei shook hands with him and asked, "How is Mengniu doing lately?"
"Hey, don't mention it, I'm going to hand over power and hand Mengniu over to other people." Niu Gensheng said with a smile.
"Brother Niu wants to retreat?" Lu Fei was surprised.
"Yes, I will retire when I find a successor. I will take care of my Lao Niu Foundation and do charity." Niu Gensheng said, "No, I will learn from you and Bill Gates and Buffett. I have prepared a lot.
Problem, I will ask my brother for help later."
"Of course, no problem." Lu Fei agreed.
"Brother Lu, are there really no donations for today's charity dinner?" Niu Gensheng asked in a low voice.
"Need not."
Lu Fei swore that whether to donate or not is a completely voluntary decision made by these rich people and their families. They will never ask each other to do anything, let alone the guests present.
I don't know how many times I said this throughout the night.
On the other hand, it was Wang Chuanfu's turn. The few words he said had nothing to do with charity, and all he talked about was the BYD OEM factory in southern Henan.
"Let's go, let's meet Bill Gates and Buffett."
Lu Fei smiled and said, "You must have met Buffett, right?"
"I met him once during the signing ceremony for strategic investment in BYD." Wang Chuanfu followed him, weaving in and out of the crowd.
"king!"
Buffett's eyes lit up. After their introduction, Bill Gates said with great interest: "Is this the combination of Edison and Jack Welch that Lu and Warren often mentioned?"
Wang Chuanfu slowly merged into the conversation, and while changing glasses, he quietly revealed the good news about BYD New Energy——
In addition to the sales of new energy vehicles that have exceeded last year's record, the first pure electric bus K9 has been successfully developed.
"The electrification of taxis and buses and the new energy vehicle strategy can be said to have taken the first step. With the 'one', the 'two' is not far away. In the future, the new energy field will develop faster and faster."
Lu Fei told BYD's plan with reservations.
Bill Gates and Buffett are very interested and have been asking about new energy vehicles, technology, platforms, and especially investment.
"Investment in new energy is not only in the automotive industry chain, but there are also new opportunities in semiconductors and even the Internet field."
Lu Fei showed a mysterious smile.
"internet?"
Buffett and Bill Gates are addictively driven.
"Warren, do you remember that I invested in a taxi-hailing app called Uber in the name of a joint office?" Lu Fei asked.
Buffett smacked his lips and said, "If I remember correctly, the current valuation of Uber by 18 funds and institutions is only over 5 million US dollars, right?"
"5.4 million, to be precise."
Lu Fei said seriously that Uber was born at the wrong time. It had not yet caught up with the explosion of mobile Internet, smartphones and new energy vehicles, and its potential had not yet been activated.
Then he revealed to the three people: "I plan to launch a taxi-hailing software similar to Uber in the country in the next two years."
"Why does it take several years?"
Wang Chuanfu felt itchy in his heart.
"With the current communication conditions, at least it needs to iterate from 3G to 4G, and the map navigation of the supporting software must also keep up with the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the taxi-hailing software. This will take time."
Lu Fei Tuqiong said, "Moreover, Microsoft's assistance may be needed."
"Oh?" Bill Gates became more and more interested as he listened.
"In the area of map navigation, I have fallen in love with Nokia's Navteq. I would like to invite Microsoft, Logic, and BYD to form a consortium for a joint acquisition." Lu Fei smiled.
Nokia spent US$8.1 billion to acquire Navteq for its mobile phone business. If the mobile phone business declines or is even sold, map navigation will naturally become useless.
No doubt it will be sold too.
With Microsoft involved, the acquisition has a higher chance of success.
“Why not just use Google Maps?”
Bill Gates was half serious and half joking.
"There is a saying in China that it is better to have your father and your mother than to have it yourself." Lu Fei said directly that in the future, whether it is a Microsoft or Android operating system, map navigation will definitely be indispensable.
Bill Gates nodded, "When you return to the United States, I will help you. Let's exchange opinions with Ballmer first."
"Cheers!" Lu Fei raised his glass.
"cheers!"
Buffett, Bill Gates, and Wang Chuanfu clinked glasses together.
After the group discussion in twos and threes, Li Hong took the stage as the moderator on the temporary stage set up.
Bill Gates, Buffett, Lu Fei and Gao Yuanyuan, as the sponsors, also came on stage and sat in a row facing the crowd.
"How did you come up with the idea of hosting this charity dinner?"
"My wife and I had intended to donate our property, and recently established a fund specifically to support rural teachers." Lu Fei glanced at Gao Yuanyuan, "It happened that Warren called me and said, 'Donate
Half of my net worth's charitable donation pledge, I thought, why not!"
Buffett added, "At Lu's suggestion, we decided to make this plan public. The donation can be completed during the participants' lifetime, or it can be implemented after their death."
"In other words, you plan to donate half of your property?" After hearing Li Hong's question, Bill Gates and Buffett turned their attention to Lu Fei, suggesting that he should answer this question.
The wealthy people in the audience all turned their attention to him.
