Within three days, Softbank announced that the Director, President, and CEO of Wind and Rain Holdings, Masao Kameda, will be a member of Softbank's board of directors. This news caused many of Softbank's listed companies' share prices to soar.
Feng Yu could not help but think that Sun Zhengyi's motive was so simple. Through Masao Kameda, Softbank is related to Feng Yu, and his company's share prices will soar?
But the other party is Sun Zhengyi, the world's top IT investor. Things should not be so simple.
Soon, Feng Yu knew what is going on. Sun Zhengyi, or the rest of Softbank's shareholders, has a deeper motive.
"What did you say? The Asian Tiger, Hua Xia, wants to work with Google to expand the Hua Xia market?"
The Asian Tiger was once the world's top web portal, and it is one of the top web portals in the world. Because Asian Tiger had expanded too fast, it formed a monopoly and was forced to split into many companies.
The Asian Tiger, Hua Xia, is one of them.
The Asian Tiger, Hua Xia, had shared most of the market with Sina, NetEase, Sohu, etc., and the Asian Tiger, Hua Xia, has the biggest market share.
Asian Tiger's market share is one of the top in news, email, forums, and other web portals. But this is not enough. Sun Zhengyi and the rest want Yahoo to become the number one portal in the Chinese market, or more accurately, the number one of all websites.
Softbank is one of the biggest shareholders of Asian Tiger, and Asian Tiger is one of the most successful internet companies Softbank had invested in. The returns of Asian Tiger is over 100 times.
But after the dotcom bubble, Asian Tiger's market value had shrunk a lot, but Softbank still made a lot of money. However, most of the IT-related companies that Softbank had planned to invest in in Hua Xia had been snatched away by Feng Yu, and a portion of them had fallen through.
He had invested in a few companies with great difficulty, but before they could go public, they encountered the dot-com bubble, and the listing was put on hold indefinitely. Some of the companies were acquired, and he was able to recoup some of his capital. Some of the companies went bankrupt, causing Softbank to suffer huge losses.
What pained Sun Zhengyi the most was that Sina, NetEase, Sohu, and other web portals that he had high hopes for were doing well now. Not only did they make money from being listed in the US, but they were also listed in Hong Kong after being delisted. Their share prices were also rising.
If Softbank had invested in these companies, Softbank's market value would have increased by a lot, and his personal assets would have increased by a lot.
More importantly, Hua Xia's web portals will all belong to Softbank. They will be greatly influenced by Softbank, and there will not be any competition between Asian Tiger and these web portals.
Sun Zhengyi, or Softbank, had always wanted to fight with Feng Yu. Feng Yu had invested in those web portals. We will let Asian Tiger, Hua Xia, trample on those web portals.
Yahoo's businesses are the best in the industry. But this is not enough. What Feng Yu wants is Yahoo's businesses to be the best in the industry. That way, he can control the market and get more profits.
Also, most of Hua Xia's traditional marketing resources are in the hands of the government, and it will be hard for them to control the public opinion. But the internet is different. Some of the laws are very vague, and they can manipulate the public opinion to gain economic and even political benefits.
Based on the relationship between Wind and Rain Holdings and Taihua Holdings, they believe Masao Kameda should have this kind of influence. They had also offered many favorable conditions. For example, they can sell some Asian Tiger shares to Masao Kameda, or raise the status of Kameda's family in Japan.
Also, Japanese clothing brands want to enter the Hua Xia market. They want to work with Tai Hua Supermarket Corporation. Tai Hua Supermarket Corporation had rejected their previous requests, and that's why they need Masao Kameda's help.
They also want Masao Kameda's help in PC, software, communications, etc., to open up the Hua Xia market for Japanese products.
Sun Zhengyi and the rest had thought that Masao Kameda is a Japanese and will be on their side. Even if Kameda Masao started to waver, he will still agree to it because of the benefits.
But they did not expect Masao Kameda to be more loyal to Feng Yu. When Masao Kameda had nothing, no one in Japan helped him. It was Feng Yu who helped him. Also, Sun Zhengyi and the rest had underestimated the benefits Feng Yu had given to Masao Kameda. Masao Kameda knew that once his subsidiaries got listed, he will get more benefits.
That's why Masao Kameda had become a traitor to Japan!
He had told Feng Yu all about Softbank's plans and said that he can help the company to get more information about Softbank. Masao Kameda is not in a hurry to raise the status of Kameda's family in Japan. Masao Kameda felt that Sun Zhengyi and the rest will not be able to win against Feng Yu.
Feng Yu realized that Softbank wants to make use of Masao Kameda's relationship to attack Hua Xia's market and maybe the US market.
Feng Yu also wants to make use of Masao Kameda to get information from Softbank and take over Softbank's market.
Feng Yu called Wang Zhixi and the rest to give them some instructions. After that, he called Liu Chuanzhi and the rest to discuss Hua Xia's plans to enter the Japanese market.
It was hard to enter the Japanese market. Even the electronic products from Europe and the US had difficulty entering the Japanese market. In the field of consumer electronics, Japan was one of the best in the world. It could even be said to be the strongest in the world.
In Feng Yu's previous life, when Lenovo became the world's PC leader, their market share in Japan is very low. There was another market that was the same, and that was Korea.
But this time, Feng Yu does not believe that the Japanese already know that Aiwa is a subsidiary of Wind and Rain Holdings. But Aiwa is still the top music and electronics brand in Japan. Their market share is also the biggest.
Since Aiwa can enter the Japanese market, then Lenovo, Wind and Rain, etc. can also enter the Japanese market. At the very least, Feng Yu can also let Aiwa enter the Japanese market. After all, Aiwa is the Chinese name of Aiwa.
Softbank wants to enter the Hua Xia market, and Feng Yu will enter the Japanese market first. After that, he will attack the rest of Softbank's markets. Let's see who will be the final winner.
Sun Zhengyi and the rest are still dreaming of taking over the Hua Xia market and defeating Feng Yu. But they do not know that Softbank's plan is also in progress.
Softbank, one of the world's top investment companies, will suffer a heavy blow because of this incident. Kameda Masao, the Independent Director that they had hired, was the one who had done all these.
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