Chapter 1394
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Bill Gates left with a gloomy expression on his face. He is a proud man, and this feeling of failure is unbearable.
In Feng Yu's previous life, Microsoft's video game console project was losing more than 1 billion USD annually, and Bill Gates still had to bear with the losses. Microsoft had never failed in any of their projects, and Bill Gates will not allow Microsoft to give up on any of their projects.
When Bill Gates was thinking of how to deal a heavy blow to Lenovo Kingsoft, he found out that Taihua Holdings had used a clause in their agreement to forcefully acquire Microsoft's shares in Aiwa at a 50% premium.
Although the 50% premium seems high, Microsoft will not suffer any losses. But this is equivalent to slapping Microsoft's face. Since when did anyone acquire Microsoft's businesses?
When Bill Gates returned to Microsoft headquarters that day, he was furious. He swore that he will teach Lenovo Kingsoft a lesson!
Feng Yu was discussing with Masao Kameda about entering Japan's video game market when Liu Chuanzhi told Feng Yu that Lenovo Kingsoft is in trouble.
"Old Liu, why are you so anxious? Is there something wrong with Lenovo Kingsoft's software?"
"No. It's Microsoft. Hua Xia branch of Microsoft suddenly announced that they had acquired 5 software companies. These are all software development companies."
Feng Yu frowned. Why did Microsoft suddenly acquire Hua Xia's software companies? Did Microsoft set up a software development lab in Hua Xia?
"So be it. Bill Gates had announced that he will invest 1 billion USD in Hua Xia when he visited Hua Xia. If he does not invest, he will be lying. Bill Gates is a prideful and prideful person. He must accept this. Oh, how much did he spend to acquire these 5 software companies? "Feng Yu asked casually.
"Not more than 50 million USD."
Not more than 50 million USD? Five companies, which meant that they weren't big companies. Could it be that they had developed some good software and attracted Microsoft's attention?
"Why? Do you think there's a problem here?" Feng Yu asked.
"The problem is these five companies are not worth the money. Microsoft is buying them at a premium. Also, Qiu Bojun and the rest had found out that Microsoft Hua Xia had not only contacted these five companies. They had contacted almost all of Hua Xia's software companies! "
What? He contacted all of Hua Xia's software companies!
Could it be that Microsoft wants to dominate the Hua Xia software market? Isn't he afraid of being suspected of monopolizing the market?
Oh, that's right. Lenovo Kingsoft and a few state-owned enterprises.
In this way, as long as they formed a de facto monopoly and did not deliberately monopolize the market, there wouldn't be too much of a problem.
Just like Intel and AMD in Feng Yu's previous life. Intel's market share was already monopolized, but they always left some leeway to prevent AMD from collapsing. This prevented Intel from being forced to split up due to their monopoly.
"We should also make a move and help those companies raise the price or something." Feng Yu said easily.
"General Manager Feng, don't you understand what I am saying? Microsoft wants to merge all of Hua Xia's software companies and form a giant software company to suppress our Lenovo Kingsoft. "Liu Chuanzhi replied anxiously.
"I know. But it doesn't mean that the company is big and has a lot of employees. It wasn't my first time seeing this type of giant company go bankrupt. What is the key to a software company? The engineers! "
Liu Chuanzhi heard what Feng Yu said. "You are saying that we should let them buy those companies at a high price, and we will poach their engineers?"
"That's right. If Microsoft wants to buy those companies, just buy them. The key is to poach their engineers. Even if we cannot poach all of them, there are still those state-owned technology companies. I don't believe they will allow Microsoft to grow in China, and some Hong Kong companies and other foreign companies will not allow Microsoft to grow in China! "
Hua Xia's market is very attractive. It has a population of more than 1 billion. If Hua Xia develops this market like the US and Japan, the profits will be high.
Any software company that wants to develop globally will not give up on Hua Xia's market. Microsoft is the public enemy of all software companies. This is because Microsoft is the number one software company in the world.
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"Mr. Gates, many multinational software companies in Hua Xia's market had started to expand. Some of the companies that we had negotiated with had raised their prices." Microsoft Hua Xia's representative reported.
"I had said that we will invest more than 1 billion USD in Hua Xia's market. If they raise their prices, we will raise our prices. Are there any more questions?"
Bill Gates is very unhappy with the CEO of Hua Xia's branch. Lenovo Kingsoft had such a huge potential, but they did not report this to him. If they had known about this earlier, they would not be in such a passive position now.
Although Ballmer and the rest had advised him to expand like this, Bill Gates firmly believes that they will be able to occupy at least half of Hua Xia's market share. Furthermore, Bill Gates still has the IT talents from Hua Xia's market.
Once Bill Gates made his decision, no one can change his mind. Although Paul Allen also felt that this is not a good idea, he strongly supports this plan to snatch Feng Yu's market share from Feng Yu's company.
Although investments should be rational, it might not be a bad thing to be impulsive. Furthermore, Microsoft's team had analyzed that 1 billion USD is enough for Microsoft to become one of the top software companies in Hua Xia.
Another benefit is to let other investors think Microsoft had occupied the market share of Hua Xia, and Microsoft's share prices will shoot up. With such a large market share, Microsoft's profits will increase, and investors will be willing to buy Microsoft's shares.
So, Hua Xia's software market suddenly changes, and the whole world's software market is shaken.
Suddenly, so many software companies were acquired and merged, and the speed was so fast. Of course, people were surprised. Furthermore, Microsoft and Hua Xia's biggest company, Lenovo Kingsoft, are also involved in this.
This incident even attracted the attention of Hua Xia's leaders. The IT industry is one of Hua Xia's top priorities. Why did such a big incident happen?
Liu Chuanzhi explained to the leaders, and they understood why. Anyway, the leaders know that Hua Xia's companies and individuals will not suffer any losses, and that's enough.
If Hua Xia loses out in his own country, then the whole country will be disgraced.
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"General Manager Feng, we had also used this opportunity to acquire a few companies. They are all capable companies, and their businesses overlap with ours. This will strengthen our business." Liu Chuanzhi said.
"That's good. Anyway, we still have not used up our loans, right? I think it's about time. We can start poaching people now! "
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