Chapter 995 For sale?

Two years later, in 2016, the United States will usher in another general election.

This also means that this year, they will hold mid-term elections.

Midterm elections in the United States refer to regular elections held in November of the second year of a presidential term, once every four years.

This election mainly involves the reelection of seats in both houses of Congress, including all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and about one-third of the seats in the Senate.

In addition, midterm elections may also involve elections for governors and local executive and legislative bodies in some states.

Midterm elections are an important event in American political life, and their results may have a significant impact on the president's remaining term in office and future presidential elections.

For example, in this year's midterm elections, the Elephant Party won the victory and occupied a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. This also resulted in the policies implemented by Ao Guanhai after that being met with many obstacles, even the policies he valued most. The Affordable Care Act has also been rejected many times, and the version that finally passed has been changed beyond recognition...

The "Fair Vision" super action committee funded by IC Capital will also provide funds to the politicians they work with in this midterm election to help them obtain better positions.

When Ivanta was facing charges from the FBI, the congressmen funded by this super action committee made timely statements in support of Ivanta to the public, which also put considerable pressure on the FBI.

You know, even the director of the FBI must be careful when facing certain powerful lawmakers, lest these people find the FBI's omissions and launch a massive attack.

It is worth mentioning that the politicians of the "Fair Vision" super action committee are not the only ones who make "donations". Even members of the Donkey Party can become "partners" as long as they can cooperate.

If you only turn to one side, it is easy to narrow the road.

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"As I told you last time, China's Lenovo Group also hopes to buy Motorola Mobility from us..."

Ivanta suddenly thought of this and said to Barron.

"What do you think?"

"Although Motorola's mobile phone business has improved a lot now, the sales of several main models launched in recent years are somewhat sluggish. Compared with those Japanese mobile phone brands, they are much better, but even in Among Android phones, they are far inferior to Honor Electronics and Samsung..."

In fact, the most critical point is that IC Capital wholly owns Android Company, but they also own Motorola Mobility. This will make other mobile phone manufacturers in the "Android Alliance" more or less worried about whether Android Company's The operating system will provide Motorola Mobility with more resources...

After all, Barron already has Honor Electronics, which is more comprehensive and more successful. If you choose between Android system and Motorola Mobility, there is no doubt that Android system is more important...

Ivanta naturally understood his thoughts.

And it is true that in these years, although Motorola Mobility has successfully rescued Motorola Mobility, which was originally on the verge of bankruptcy, now although the company's mobile phone business is no longer the most glorious time in 2005, competing with Nokia for global mobile phone supremacy. glory... But at least it can be regarded as the second rank in the mobile phone industry. Unlike Japanese mobile phone manufacturers, its global market share can only be classified as "other".

But this process was indeed very time-consuming - when Ivanta was pregnant, she had to deal with the reorganization of Motorola Mobility.

And in terms of revenue, the current mobile phone business of Motorola Mobility is not ranked first in the IC Capital industry.

Therefore, although she was a little reluctant to give up, she still said to Barron:

"If they can give a good price, then selling Motorola Mobility's mobile phone business is also an option..."

In fact, as early as 2010, after Motorola was split into two, Yang Yuanqing, then chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, came to the United States and went to Motorola's headquarters to try to negotiate an acquisition...

However, because Yang Yuanqing met the wrong person in charge—it was Brown, the CEO of Motorola Systems who was the co-CEO of Motorola, and not the person in charge of the mobile phone business that Yang Yuanqing met at that time, the negotiation could not continue.

Next, it was reported that IC Capital and GII Fund acquired Motorola Mobility for US$10.5 billion...

After that, Yang Yuanqing still didn't give up. After IC Capital completed the acquisition, they contacted Ivanta through Goldman Sachs Group and expressed their hope to purchase Motorola Mobility's mobile phone business from IC Capital.

However, Ivanta was already preparing to revive Motorola Mobility at that time, so he declined the other party's proposal.

After that, by adjusting Motorola Mobility's mobile phone business, cutting some R\u0026D centers, and focusing on the research and development of mobile phones for the Android system, Motorola Mobility began to turn losses into profits and survive.

However, Lenovo Group has not given up on its pursuit of Motorola. Not long ago, it contacted Ivanta and once again proposed the idea of ​​acquiring Motorola's mobile phone business...

"What's their price this time?"

"They only want to acquire the mobile phone business, along with its key patents, and the price is $2.8 billion..."

Well……

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Barron remembered that Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility at a price of 2.91 billion US dollars in his previous life...

But at that time, Motorola Mobility was already half dead in Google's hands, and Google could naturally accept the price of 2.91 billion US dollars.

But the current Motorola Mobility is different from the original time and space. At least its mobile phone business has improved significantly and successfully turned losses into profits...

"Too low, even if the mobile phone business is sold, it needs to get a good price. I think it's not worth considering if it's less than 3.5 billion US dollars."

Hearing Barron's words, Ivanta nodded:

"I think so too, you can reply to them like this first."

It seems that IC Capital acquired Motorola Mobility at a price of 10.5 billion US dollars, and now it is only sold at a price of 3.5 billion US dollars, which is a huge loss...

In fact, this is not the case. After all, after they acquired Motorola Mobility, the company still had 2.5 billion US dollars in cash in its account, which means that the actual cost of IC Capital's acquisition this time was 8 billion US dollars.

In addition, the most valuable thing about Motorola Mobility is the mobile phone patents they own. At that time, Motorola Mobility had about 17,000 authorized patents and 7,500 patents in application.

These patents cover the core technologies in the field of mobile terminals, which are of great significance to Android's construction of a patent protection umbrella for the "Android Alliance".

But now they will only sell the mobile phone business of Motorola Mobility's mobile phone and set-top box businesses to Lenovo Group, and they will authorize the other party's core patents. Those patents will still remain in IC Capital - specifically, these patents will be injected into Android.

This is why the original Google spent more than $12 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility, and was willing to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for only $2.91 billion...