Chapter 958

Crisis and opportunity coexist.

Zhou Buqi prepared funds for Ziweixing in advance, and planned to take advantage of the financial crisis to make a big splash. With the same idea, there is Microsoft.

Microsoft's ambition is bigger, they want to annex Yahoo!

With the rise of Google and Facebook, Yahoo is the most affected. Coupled with the outbreak of the financial crisis, Yahoo's stock price has fallen all the way...

Yahoo's investors are unanimously optimistic about selling the company to Microsoft, and withdrawing quickly after making a fortune. The economic crisis is getting worse and worse. If we delay, we still don't know how much we will lose.

However, the merger did not go well.

Microsoft offered a 50% premium and an asking price of US$44.6 billion, which was rejected by Yahoo's board of directors, who believed that this price tag "seriously underestimated" Yahoo's actual value.

Recently, there has been news that Google wants to buy 20% of Yahoo's shares, and that News Corp. is involved and also wants to buy Yahoo.

Microsoft was unwilling to give up, so it recruited Boss Ma from China and asked him to act as an intermediary to persuade Yahoo.

Yahoo's assets mainly have three major parts, one part is the business of Yahoo headquarters, and the other two parts are the shares of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, both of which are about 30%.

Boss Ma entered the game forcefully, wanting to promote Yahoo's transaction, and even initiate the re-election of Yahoo's board of directors to promote the transaction.

This situation made Zhou Buqi quite emotional.

Although the current scale of Ziweixing is not smaller than that of Ali, there is still a big gap between the two sides in terms of influence. Among the domestic entrepreneurs, the person who can participate in this kind of world-class mergers and acquisitions is Boss Ma. This is the real international influence.

Just as Zhou Buqi was a little envious, he immediately restrained himself.

Shoot the bird!

Old horse, don't be shy!

After thinking for a while, Zhou Buqi still called Lao Ma, "Old Ma, you really participated in the matter of Microsoft and Yahoo?"

Boss Ma said frankly: "Yes, Ali and Microsoft are a cooperative relationship, and Microsoft is providing technical support to Ali. Ali also has an equity relationship with Yahoo and can act as a middleman."

Zhou Buqi said: "What do you think?"

"Huh?" Boss Ma was a little amused, "What do you mean? Do you have an idea?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's not a good thing to join forces. Microsoft is a giant. The only shortcoming is that it can't keep up with the times in the Internet field. If Yahoo is integrated, Microsoft will have no disadvantages. At that time, Microsoft Its business will definitely make a comeback in China, and it will have an impact on domestic Internet companies.”

"This is so unreasonable. Microsoft acquired Yahoo, so Microsoft is the major shareholder of Ali. Backed by Microsoft, Ali's technical problems can be easily solved."

"Your pattern is not so bad, is it?"

"This is business."

Zhou Buqi snorted: "Old Ma, I can tell you responsibly that I can help you solve the technical problems that Ali encounters. Isn't it because the peak transaction volume is too high? Our Feitian distributed database, This problem can be effectively solved, and the hardware cost is extremely low, which is 5% of the IOE."

Boss Ma said angrily, "Why are you always staring at me when you have nothing to do?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I want to help you."

Boss Ma said: "Alipay transactions require a financial-grade database. You have only studied that thing for a few years? Step down!"

Zhou Buqi argued rationally: "What is this called? The gold coin wallet system is also financial-level data processing, okay? Oh, you are a technical layman, and I tell you that you don't understand. Let me explain to you, I This is a distributed database, which backs up three copies of each data at the same time and stores them on three different machines. The principle is that if the probability of a machine failure is one thousandth, the probability of two failures at the same time It may be one in a million, and the probability of three failures at the same time is one in a billion. Do you understand? The probability of error is only one in a billion! Sigh, you don’t understand technology, so it’s useless to tell you .”

Boss Ma was annoyed and funny, "I don't understand technology, but you do? Stop talking about this with me."

Zhou Buqi said: "If you don't believe me, go back and ask your CTO, you can send a team over to investigate."

Boss Ma was silent for a while, and said, "This matter is likely to fail. Yahoo's intention is quite firm. Microsoft's price is too low."

It is indeed very low.

The headquarters of Yahoo is a portal network, which is a bit out of date, and it will be sold when it is time to sell. However, the shares of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba in Yahoo's hands are very valuable and important assets with great potential for appreciation.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yahoo's most important asset is not the headquarters business, but the shares of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba. At that time, if Yahoo divested these two assets and sold the headquarters business to Microsoft, then you Crap."

"It's not that serious." Boss Ma smiled and lowered his voice, "It won't happen. The financial crisis this time is different from that in 2000. The Internet will explode. Although Yahoo's stock price will plummet, profits will soar. The profit in the past two months has tripled compared to last year. Under the economic crisis, Internet advertising is concentrated, and a giant like Yahoo will see a huge increase in revenue.”

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "What are you afraid of? How can I still buy the bottom of Yahoo stock? Anyway, that's what I mean, I ask you to save face, don't be stupid and really rush up. Microsoft and Yahoo are not merging. , which is conducive to fair competition and the domestic Internet industry.”

fail!

Must fail!

As long as the merger fails, there will be chaos inside Yahoo, and people who want to sell and those who don't want to sell will get into a mess, and people will panic. At that point, it's easy to go to Yahoo and poach people.

For example, Zhou Buqi has long been optimistic about Lu Qi, the executive vice president of Yahoo.

As soon as this call was finished, another call came again.

This time it's Penguin's pony.

"Mr. Ma, what instructions do you have?" Zhou Buqi didn't know him very well, and his relationship was cold, so he spoke less casually.

Mr. Ma asked solemnly: "Baidu Hi has a lot of momentum!"

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Really? Good thing! The instant messaging market is too rigid, and the more competitors there are, the more we can promote common progress."

Mr. Xiao Ma almost died of anger, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Zhou, there is no need to do this. The pool is only so big. If you divide it up more, your individual income will be less. Helo is doing a good job, and the gold coin wallet system is also doing a good job. .But, is it really necessary to use Helo and the wallet system to promote Baidu Hi?"

Zhou Buqi sighed: "I want to do business, I want to make money! In order to develop the gold coin system, I spent 10 billion in real money, not a penny! Baidu gave us money to promote, there is no reason Not acceptable."

Pony is always very unhappy.

This kid doesn't like oil and salt, so he's playing stupid here.

In the instant messaging market, the two of us split up, half of the family, isn't it good? Do you have to give up part of it to Baidu? Baidu's search ecology is so powerful, and its technical capabilities are also strong. Once Baidu Hi is really implemented, it will be troublesome!

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Ziweixing has always advocated fair competition and healthy competition. Helo will not play vicious competition with QQ, nor will it use its monopoly position to attack Baidu Hi. At the same time, I also welcome QQ-related Software products join in, use our wallet system’s promotional services.”

Xiao Ma is always very helpless, "You are raising a tiger."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I'm thinking about the overall situation."

Even if Baidu Hi is done, so what?

The ones who grab it can only be QQ users.

Ziweixing, Penguin and Baidu are all domestic Internet giants, which means that the competition between Helo, QQ and Baidu Hi is no longer just a competition among three chat software, but a competition of the ecosystem behind the three products .

Whose ecosystem is more attractive, whose products will stand out.

Baidu's ecology is mainly a search ecology. Penguins do not, but Ziwei Xing does.

In other words, the services that Baidu Hi can provide may not necessarily be provided by QQ, but Helo can provide them. Neither QQ nor Baidu Hi can provide the services that Helo can provide.

Once the three parties fight, the most beneficial can only be Helo.

The main battlefield is Baidu Hi and QQ.

What if a user likes both Baidu Hi and QQ services, but doesn't want to use both?

It's simple, turn to Helo!

Ziwei Star is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, so you can do whatever you like!

It was almost noon, Zhou Buqi stretched his waist, "Yaxian, come here!"

"coming!"

"How are you doing? Are you sick?"

Ning Yaxian's beautiful eyes flashed, she pursed her lips and smiled, and said in a low voice: "A little bit, come to my place at noon?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Why didn't you tell me earlier when you were sick?"

Ning Yaxian said: "I'm afraid you won't be too busy."

Zhou Buqi glared at her, "Even if you don't have time to get an injection, you can just take some medicine. What if the illness is delayed? It doesn't matter whether it's serious or not! Get ready and let's go."

Well organized.

As a result, after lunch, on the way to Ning Yaxian's house, Zhou Buqi received another call from Zhang Yuqi: "Mr. Zhou, my treatment here is over, are you coming to look for me? Or should I look for you?"

"Hmm..." Zhou Buqi glanced at Ning Yaxian, who had a slightly resentful look beside him, and coughed lightly, "I have something to do today, and I'll go see you at noon tomorrow."

Zhang Yuqi was generous, "Oh, do you have a job?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, I'm too busy at work, I need to appease my staff."

"That's fine..." Zhang Yuqi didn't think much about it, "Then I'll tell my manager that I'm free in the afternoon. Jieyu Media asked me to audition for a commercial."

"Commercials?"

"Well, the ad for Yuanwei milk tea. It was the big red envelope you sent me years ago. I didn't want to shoot it, but I didn't get popular, so I took the ad by the way. It's not a TV commercial, it's pasted on a paper cup advertisment."

"Okay, then I'll contact you tomorrow." After hanging up the phone, Zhou Buqi stretched out his arm and put it on Ning Yaxian's shoulder, and couldn't help feeling, "As you said, I'm too busy."