Chapter 1116 The American consortium makes another move
Li Guangyu was unwilling to let the Li Consortium become a vassal of the American consortium. The United States would naturally not allow him to develop with peace of mind. Originally, the news that Guo Qingya and the others sent back to Lisboa made him feel relatively happy.
They had obtained the construction land at 10 am, and the specific construction issues can be planned slowly. This time, the three major groups obtained 60 hectares of construction land from the Lisboa government, which is enough for their development in Lisboa.
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You know, the 20-hectare limit in Lisboa will officially take effect in a few days. It will be impossible for him to obtain land like this in the future.
Unfortunately, his happy mood did not last long. As soon as he arrived at the office on the 11th, Gan Qin reported to him: "Li Sheng, there is news from the United States that the U.S. government defines our Phoenix operating system as an unsafe product.
, government units are prohibited from using and installing our operating system, and it is recommended that the American people not use our system as much as possible to avoid the leakage of information and privacy."
The United States is now the largest market for computers. The introduction of this policy by the U.S. government will have a great impact on Phoenix Group. It will not only affect the U.S. market, but if ignored, it is likely to affect markets in other regions.
Faced with this rogue approach in the United States, Li Guangyu doesn't have many options. Now he can only try to seize the market in other regions and suppress Microsoft within the US market as much as possible.
Li Guangyu is very clear that in the future, countries will do many such things for their own domestic interests. In the future, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, etc. will all follow suit and suppress some foreign products. The only difference is that they are not as hegemonic as the United States.
Li Guangyu asked: "What is the opinion of Phoenix Group? Do they have any specific response plan?"
"Li Sheng, Miss He is holding a high-level meeting and will hold a press conference to refute the views of relevant US departments. Compared with Microsoft, I believe that many other governments are more willing to use our operating system.
After all, Microsoft is backed by the U.S. government, and since we are located in Hong Kong, other countries will feel more at ease."
Li Guangyu knows very well that the United States does not like to do things according to rules. In the past life, many companies were dismembered by them. If anything threatens their enterprises, the U.S. government and the consortium behind it will find ways to eliminate the danger.
The Phoenix Group has obviously been regarded as a threat by the U.S. government and consortium. The patent lawsuit in January is still not over yet. Phoenix, Microsoft, Apple and Xerox have become several companies that are talked about around the world.
Microsoft is suing Phoenix, Apple is suing Microsoft and Phoenix, and Xerox is suing Microsoft and Apple. The U.S. government seems to be interested in dragging out the lawsuit. It does not want to position Apple and Microsoft as plagiarists. They do not want Microsoft to be sanctioned and increase the negative impact on its company.
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Once Microsoft is determined to have infringed Xerox's graphical interface patent rights, Microsoft will be claimed by Xerox for a large amount of patent fees. You must know that Xerox's Li's consortium is one of the major shareholders, and they do not want to take advantage of the Li's consortium.
Moreover, this will also damage the reputation of Microsoft and Apple, and will put the two companies at a disadvantage in the competition with the Phoenix Group. The U.S. government and the consortium behind them absolutely do not want this to happen.
Now the US Federal Security Administration has jumped out again, saying that the Phoenix operating system threatens their security, and has begun to restrict the Phoenix operating system from seizing the US market.
Li Guangyu understands why this is the case. In the first three months since Phoenix operating system was officially launched on January 1st, due to its relatively low price and its strength comparable to the current Microsoft operating system, Phoenix operating system has occupied the top spot in a short period of time.
It holds 13% of the US operating system market.
Nowadays, many forces in the United States can no longer sit still. If it continues to develop like this, it will take less than two years for the Phoenix operating system to compete with Microsoft in the U.S. market.
The US government's move this time is to suppress the momentum of the Phoenix Group. It does not rule out banning the Phoenix operating system in the United States in the future.
What Li Guangyu didn't know was that the U.S. Department of Commerce planned to conduct an anti-dumping investigation into the Phoenix Group and was preparing to increase tariffs on the Phoenix operating system to prevent the Phoenix Group from competing in the market at low prices.
While Li Guangyu was busy dealing with the suppression by the US government, in Seattle, USA, Microsoft executives were attending a reception hosted by several Microsoft founders.
In the past few months, facing the increasingly powerful Phoenix Group, they have been put under great pressure. Their company is not as powerful as the Phoenix Group, let alone as strong as the Phoenix Group to rely on. They don't even dare to
Enter into a price war with Phoenix Group.
After the release of Phoenix Operating System, their company's market value has been in decline for three consecutive months. Compared with last year, the market value has dropped by nearly 500 million U.S. dollars, which has dealt a huge blow to them.
You must know that since its listing in March last year, Microsoft's market value has rapidly soared from more than 1.25 billion U.S. dollars on the first day of listing to 2.6 billion U.S. dollars at the end of last year. They originally hoped to release last year's company results in January.
, the market value increased again, but the emergence of Phoenix operating system gave them a blow.
As a result, their market value not only did not rise as quickly as they expected, but began to decline slowly. If the company's performance last year had not been good, the company's market value in the stock market would have been even worse.
Today, their company finally got out of the gloom of the past few months. After the FBI issued a press conference this morning, their company's stock price immediately gained a big increase. Although the market value has not returned to the level at the end of last year, this
is a good start.
They believe that as time goes by, Microsoft's market value will definitely soar rapidly. Now that the Internet industry is developing faster and faster, the market value of their industry will soar rapidly. He believes that within two years, his company's market value will exceed one hundred.
100 million.
Not to mention the external market, at least in the US market, they can occupy a dominant position, and the US is the largest market in the world.
What makes them most unhappy is that Phoenix Group, a subsidiary of the Li Group, is in the same boat as them, and its Tianyu Investment Company is one of their major shareholders. They have no good solution for this.
Although they know in their hearts that Jade Bird Fund, which holds 12% of their company's shares, belongs to Tianyu Investment Company, and both Tianyu Investment Company and Phoenix Group belong to Li Guangyu, on the surface, Jade Bird Fund and Tianyu Investment Company have nothing to do with each other, let alone
And the Phoenix Group.
Even if they want to kick the representative of Jade Bird Fund out of the board of directors, there is no way. Just like Apple, they also want to kick out the representative of Tianyu Investment Company, but so far they have not succeeded.
As far as he knows, the Li Group also holds stocks in Oracle, Cisco, Intel and other companies, and is one of the major shareholders of these companies, especially Cisco, which is said to account for more than one-third of its company.
The shares are currently the second largest stock in his company, second only to the founders and his wife of the company.
Even if some consortium investors behind these companies hope to kick the Li Consortium out of Silicon Valley, Tianyu Investment Company has been rooted here for a long time, and it is currently difficult to realize such a plan.