#1496 Wolf Ambition

In the morning of the next day, the signing ceremony of Muye&Baidu and Google is about to begin, and the global media will gather at the national exhibition to report on this commercial merger worth at least 3 billion US dollars.

Just yesterday, several authoritative investigation and evaluation agencies on Wall Street re-calculated the valuation of Google, and gave a reference valuation of 9 billion to 12 billion US dollars. After Google announced that it would acquire Muye& and was confirmed by Makino Technology, Even if Muye Technology has not actually imported any resources to Google, Google's valuation has staged a big rebound.

Several institutions believe that Google's next valuation has a great possibility of breaking out, but this may not depend on Google itself, but on Muye Technology.

If Muye Technology really fully supports Google's development after the completion of today's merger, then Google will usher in an explosive period. If Muye Technology is relatively perfunctory to Google after the merger is completed, then the valuation will not be so impressive, but no matter what Whether Makino Technology fully supports Google, at least one thing is certain. After the acquisition, Makino Technology will not touch any search engine business within five years. The golden development period of natural enemies.

In the Internet industry, multi-billion-dollar large-scale capital operations are rare, not to mention a successful case of Li Mukong's glove white wolf, so it has a high degree of attention around the world.

In addition to the presence of a large number of media reporters, a large number of industry elites also came to join in, so the entire national exhibition was full of people, which was much more lively than when a large-scale exhibition is usually held.

Li Mu was in the backstage lounge prepared for the organizer of the National Exhibition at this time. Although today's signing ceremony was a big scene, the process was very simple. Outside the venue, the entire signing ceremony consisted of three parts. First, Li Mu, Robin, and Larry Page took turns to give short speeches; second, the three-party signing ceremony was held on the spot;

After the final confrontation with the host, Li Mu sat alone in his lounge to rest for a while. When there were more than ten minutes before the opening, Li Ziwei knocked on the door and said to Li Mu, "President Li, President Lin. I sent an email from the United States, and you asked her to investigate the matter, and she already has preliminary findings."

"Oh?" Li Mu regained his energy and sat upright and asked, "How do you say it?"

Li Ziwei took out a palm-sized notepad in her hand, opened the page with the mini ballpoint pen in it, and said, "There are three relatively reliable news, the first one: Microsoft has indeed made a big move recently. The transfer of positions is relatively large. According to her experience, the transfer of internal employees is large, which should represent a relatively large-scale internal reorganization. She analyzed that it should be the establishment of a new business department or project team, but Microsoft’s internal confidentiality level is relatively high. , and they are in Seattle,

Therefore, confidentiality work is easier to carry out. "

Li Mu nodded and said, "If the internal transfer is relatively large, there must be an internal business reorganization. It seems that they have a new development direction."

Li Ziwei added: "Second, Microsoft has been working very hard on content operations recently. They poached some editor-in-chief from many well-known media in the United States, paid them several times their salary, and brought them to Seattle. For which project it is going to be used, there is no definite news for the time being.”

Li Mu smacked his lips and said: "Microsoft is recruiting so many content talents. This is to make efforts on the content side. Now the use of content talents is nothing more than portal websites and vertical products in content, but now the vertical products in content are used. Very few, nothing but blogs…”

The vigorous development of the Internet at the beginning revolved around social networking, games and information. These three categories are really related to content. Information products, to put it bluntly, are all kinds of portal websites. In addition to portals, content products are currently in use. The development is very lacking. Unlike later generations, there are many encyclopedia products, Q&A products, interest social products and knowledge social products. The only mature content-based products at this stage are actually blogs. Others, even the Internet is still in the exploratory stage.

Thinking of this, Li Mu said to himself: "It seems that Microsoft has poached so many media content talents, either because they want to start a new portal or want to start a blog. There is no third possibility."

After that, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei, "Didn't you say there are three points? What is the third one?"

Li Ziwei hurriedly said: "The third point is that Microsoft has recently made several small and medium-sized investment acquisitions in the periphery, and all of them are game development teams."

"Game development?" Li Mu couldn't help frowning and said, "Does it serve the XBOX platform?"

Li Ziwei said: "No, Mr. Lin said that these game development teams are all developing PC-side indos platform games, and one of them is a company that makes online chess and card games."

"Online chess and cards..." Li Mu narrowed his eyes and nodded lightly.

Li Mu is not surprised if Microsoft is buying the XBOX ecosystem and investing in the game team. After all, to support a pure game platform, and to fight with Sony's PS, there are not many exclusive cooperative game teams in hand. No, but Microsoft's acquisition of the PC-side game team is a bit wrong, and online chess and cards are even more outrageous, which is obviously different from Microsoft's tonality.

The online chess and card game platform relies on social connections, and it also takes the social route. If Microsoft's MSN is still there, it will not be surprised if it does online chess and card games, but the point is that MSN has already kneeled, and Microsoft has lost The soil for developing social games, and suddenly making social games at this time is equivalent to building a castle in the air. Microsoft should not do such a stupid thing unless they are going to make the soil again.

Li Mu analyzed several clues that can be sorted out so far. First of all, the points that can be confirmed are: Microsoft has a big move inside, has found a large number of content workers, and is preparing to engage in social games;

Secondly, the points to be determined are: Microsoft may be a portal, it may be a blog, and it may be a social network.

Li Mu thought for a moment, patted his thigh, and said, "Microsoft is going to make a fucking comeback!"

Li Ziwei hurriedly asked: "Mr. Li, do you mean that Microsoft will do social networking again?"

Li Mu nodded and said, "I think he's not just doing social networking, he's doing a whole set of things! At least what Muye Technology is doing now, he wants to do it! And he does it quietly, trying to catch me off guard!"

Li Ziwei looked at Li Mu dumbfounded, not knowing why Li Mu came to such a serious conclusion, at least on paper, the information sent by Lin Qingya was not enough to support Li Mu's judgment. If you want to fully compete with Muye Technology, you may have to pay a huge price and cost, and you have to take a huge risk of failure. It is not that easy to make such a decision.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Ziwei asked tentatively, "Mr. Li, is it really that serious?"

Li Mu nodded without hesitation, and said, "I think the possibility is at least seven or eight out of ten."

Li Ziwei hurriedly said, "Then do you want to call President Lin back and ask her to investigate further?"

Li Mu squeezed his chin, thought for a moment, and said, "The investigation must be investigated, but the starting point must be changed."

After that, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei: "Do you know which dimensions Americans use to judge the progress of North Korea's nuclear weapons?"

Li Ziwei shook her head slightly, and asked tentatively, "Are you filming with a spy satellite?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "This is the most direct way. It's like we try our best to visually investigate the internal situation of Microsoft, but if others deliberately hide intuitive clues, it will be difficult for us to find out the real situation of the other party."

Speaking of this, Li Mu added: "On the contrary, there are many non-intuitive clues that cannot be hidden anyway, such as monitoring the mining of uranium mines in North Korea. If uranium mining increases, it can prove that they are carrying out nuclear-related work. , but this may be used in nuclear power plants, not necessarily the user's research and development of nuclear weapons, then, how to confirm that they are conducting research and development of nuclear weapons, they must also control the changes in their power generation, if the civil and industrial power consumption does not increase significantly, But their power generation has risen a lot, which proves that they may have invested thousands of centrifuges in the preparation of highly enriched uranium, because nuclear power plants only need about 3% concentration of uranium-235, but nuclear weapons need more than 93% concentration , the amount of uranium mining, and the amount of electricity generated, are the non-intuitive clues that they have a hard time hiding."

Li Ziwei pondered for a moment, nodded, and asked earnestly, "Then what do you think Microsoft's non-intuitive clues are?"

Li Mu said, "I said, you need to remember."

"Okay." Li Ziwei immediately took out a pen and notepad.

"First, let Lin Qingya find a way to check Microsoft's personnel records. They have been doing MSN-related business for so many years. The information of all MSN-related employees in the early days should be relatively transparent. Who are the people in Microsoft's MSN business? After finding these people, let's see how many of these people left after Microsoft shut down the MSN business, and how many remained. In addition, among those who left, the most recent How many people go back to Microsoft? If Microsoft wants to do social business, it will not be far away. They will pack up MSN's old team and old products for secondary development, which will save time and effort, and have sufficient experience and efficiency. , these people are like Microsoft's uranium mine, Microsoft will not give up mining, and is even mining at high speed;"

"Second, let Lin Qingya find a way to check if Microsoft has made any big moves in data processing recently. If he wants to do a social ecology, it is impossible to make a product that is weaker than ours. I doubt they will resurrect MSN, but As I said just now, the resurrected MSN must have been reborn and reborn, so the resurrected MSN will definitely have the online and offline file transfer functions, voice and video calling functions that our YY has, and support these functions, It needs strong data processing capabilities. To put it more simply, Microsoft wants to make a product like YY. Either it will build a large number of computer rooms at its own expense, or it will rent a large number of computer rooms. The demand for computer rooms, bandwidth, and data processing capabilities, Just like the preparation of highly enriched uranium must consume a lot of electricity, no matter how they hide it, it is impossible to hide it, as long as these two points are confirmed, Microsoft's wolf ambitions will be revealed!"