Chapter 426 Relief
When he first met Fan Bingbing, Barron once asked her to accompany him as a tour guide to Qindao in China.
Fan Bingbing was born in Yantai but grew up in Qingdao.
The thing Barron mentioned at that time was not just a reason, but because he had been living on Qindao in his previous life before going to college, so he really had the idea of going there again.
So before Fan Bingbing joined the group for filming, Barron temporarily left Yanjing and went to Qindao with Fan Bingbing.
"That's May Fourth Square over there. This area is the more prosperous part of Qindao..."
As a "big star", Fan Bingbing must have had to cover up when accompanying Barron here. She was wearing more casual clothes today, wearing a peaked cap and sunglasses...
At this time, wearing a mask would look even weirder. If it was before Barron was reborn, it would have been considered a normal dress.
Therefore, the formation of a person's cognition is closely related to his growth environment.
For example, why were there not many ordinary people buying stocks during the "golden decade" of the American stock market in the 1960s?
It is because in the thirty years after the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, the American stock market has been tepid, and it took a full thirty years to recover to the stock index before the Great Depression.
Therefore, one or two generations of Americans who grew up during this period have been watching the depression of the American stock market for as long as they can remember.
The concept that "the stock market is too risky and you can't make money" is deeply rooted in their minds. How can ordinary people buy stocks and invest in the stock market?
Similarly, people who have experienced that period in the future are no longer surprised by people wearing masks around them.
Unlike now, when you wear a mask and walk on the street, you will get a lot of strange looks.
"Before I went to school in Shanghai, I often came here to play, but then I rarely had the chance to come back..."
Barron listened to what Fan Bingbing said next to him. He looked at the square in front of him, and many memories from his previous life couldn't help but come up.
At that time, his family lived not far from here, and this May Fourth Square was also a place where he often came to play when he was a child...
"Let's take a stroll here."
When Barron said this, Fan Bingbing did not object and just walked beside him.
Today is a weekday afternoon, and there are not many people in May Fourth Square.
And unknowingly, when Barron stopped, he found that he had arrived at the door of a community - this community was the place where he had lived in his previous life...
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Barron's expression, there is something special...
Fan Bingbing asked strangely.
"It's nothing. Let's go back. At night, we can go to the trestle you mentioned..."
In fact, after coming to this world, Barron always couldn't help but wonder at certain moments whether he, his parents, and relatives in his previous life still existed?
This is also one of the reasons why Barron wanted to come to Qindao to have a look.
But when he got here, he gave up the idea of finding out.
No matter what, I can't go back. Now I am a British Duke and no longer Chinese.
Even if those people really still exist, so what?
After so many thoughts passed through his mind, he suddenly felt relieved...
So be it.
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After several rounds of negotiations, Global Industrial Investment Fund reached an agreement with China Electronics to jointly acquire Philips' mobile phone business.
The total funds involved in this acquisition agreement are as high as 6.5 billion US dollars!
Among them, GII Fund will join forces with China Electronics to acquire all of Philips' mobile phone business.
According to the agreement, the acquisition of Philips' mobile phone business will cost US$2.5 billion, of which China Electronics (CEC) will contribute US$2 billion.
They will obtain exclusive authorization from the Philips brand in the next five years to sell Philips brand mobile phones in domestic and foreign markets.
In addition, Philips transferred the marketing system of the country where its mobile phone business mainly operates and its 25% stake in Shenzhen Sangfei Consumer Communications Co., Ltd. to China Electronics.
After Huaxia Electronics took over Philips' global mobile phone business, it handed over the operation of the business to its subsidiary Sangfei Company (they held 100% of the company's shares at this time) - previously, Sangfei was the global representative of Philips mobile phones. working partners.
The GII Fund invested US$500 million and, together with China Electronics, obtained the transfer and licensing of patents related to Philips mobile phones, including the unique patented technology of ultra-long standby.
In addition, Philips’ ultra-long-standby sub-brand Xenium is owned by Huaxia Electronics.
GII Fund and Huaxia Electronics also took over approximately 240 employees of Philips' mobile phone business in the Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe regions, of which 180 employees were taken over by Huaxia Electronics, and the other 60 related technical personnel were taken over by GII Fund.
Honor Electronics, acquired by GII Fund, will establish a mobile phone-related R\u0026D laboratory in Europe, and these 60 technical personnel will enter this laboratory.
Finally, the GII Fund will also acquire 2.514 billion TSMC shares held by Philips for US$4 billion, accounting for 10%.
After Philips transferred this part of its shares, they still had 8.7% of TSMC shares remaining.
In this way, GII Fund became the second largest shareholder of TSMC, second only to the largest shareholder at this time, the Bay Area Development Fund, which held 12.1% of the shares.
Philips, the original largest shareholder of TSMC, has become the third largest shareholder of TSMC after GII Fund.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to being listed in the Gulf Province, TSMC is now listed in the United States.
Each American depositary share they hold in the U.S. stock market is equivalent to 5 TSMC shares.
After reaching an acquisition agreement with Philips, GII Fund injected the mobile phone-related patents and technologies that originally belonged to Philips into Honor Electronics, thus greatly increasing the depth of the company's patent pool.
In addition, Barron also asked Honor Electronics' legal department to start applying for a series of patents around the world, including some appearance patents for future smartphones, as well as patents for operating methods such as sliding unlocking.
Generally speaking, this kind of patent often takes a long time from the beginning to the successful registration.
Just like in the previous life, Apple launched the first-generation IPHone mobile phone in 2007, but it was not until 2012 that some of their appearance patents and operation patents were granted.
In these aspects, Honor Electronics must apply for some relevant patents in advance to avoid being sued by Apple for related patents after its mobile phone is developed.
