Chapter 1468 When the Layout Is in Progress

Xiao Qi is in Japan, and now there are two more acquisitions and exchanges that are in progress.

The first is the stock of SoftBank Group.

Under the repeated pressure from Citibank, the share value of Softbank Group has dropped to 29 billion US dollars. Citibank also used more than 870 accounts for acquisitions. In the end, it was integrated and unified. Through 338 accounts, it holds 23% of the shares of Softbank Group. .

Although it was much slower than the 8% collected in the previous week, the most important thing is to be solid and cautious, not to let others know in advance, especially not to arouse Sun Zhenyi's vigilance.

However, the value of Xiao Qi's purchase of the 23% shares cannot be calculated based on the total price of 29 billion US dollars. In fact, Xiao Qi spent a total of 8 billion US dollars in order to obtain the 23% shares.

The complex operations of Citibank, the various funds used to suppress the hard and soft, the transfer and integration of accounts, etc., all require large sums of expenditure, that is, the partnership between Bao Lijie and Xiao Qi of Citibank, and Citigroup of Asia's investment in Xiao Qi's favor is only a discounted preferential price, otherwise, if another person comes, at least another 500 million US dollars will have to be added.

23% of the shares is less than half of the 51% absolute holding that Xiao Qi needs. However, as the Nikkei 225 Index continues to plummet along with the U.S. stocks, Bao Lijie believes that in the next three months, taking advantage of the panic In fact, it is not impossible to complete 51% of the tasks.

For Xiao Qi, it is enough to control the SoftBank Group before the outbreak of Taobao.com at the end of 2008, and then negotiate. Of course, it is better to be able to advance.

No matter how smart Sun Zhenyi is, he would never have imagined that there would be people eyeing his company now, let alone that Xiao Qi's purpose of acquiring SoftBank Group was to acquire shares in Alibaba.

Although the stock market in each country has very strict regulations on acquisitions, according to the established banks like Citigroup, they are born to oppose the rules set by various national financial institutions. With their means, when the acquisition is completed, they will not Let the people know - no more than a certain share of a single account to buy stocks. You don't even need to declare. Where else do you need to expose the owner?

It seems very simple, but you must have enough money and patience to wait, you must have an excellent executor to do it, and you must have the strength and mentality to bear all the consequences. That is definitely not something ordinary people can do.

to be honest. In the 21st century. It is the century of capital operation.

As long as you have money and enough creativity, you can get the most development.

Citibank does actual business. In the end, it can only be reduced to the helper of a super-rich consortium like Xiao Qi, and it is no longer possible to have the unrivaled power of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Compared with the acquisition of SoftBank Group, Sony has a lot more difficulty with Ericsson's mobile phone and wireless patents.

Don't look at Ericsson losing their mobile phone business so quickly and so simply, but they value their mobile phone frame patents, wireless equipment patents, etc. more than anything else.

One is the burden of losing creativity, and the other is the foundation of the company. The treatment is naturally completely different!

The cooperation between Sony and Ericsson in terms of mobile phones is not so smooth, otherwise, the sales volume in the world will not be high. Even in Huaguo, the traditional big market of Japanese brands, it will have to be ranked behind Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. .

But in general, it is better to have friendship than no friendship.

Relying on the convenience of the cooperative relationship, Takakawa Teruki directly sent a high-level delegation to Stockholm, Sweden, and started difficult negotiations with Ericsson.

For the Gaochuan family and the Morita family, no matter what price they pay, they must be qualified to enter the app store, because this represents an opportunity to gain a voice in the infinitely broad world of smart electronics in the future.

Sony is very strong now, but they have never stopped working hard, thinking about becoming stronger all the time.

The powerful vitality of the app store has fascinated Sony executives, so it is positioned as one of the important indicators for Sony to lead others again.

What's more, Samsung has already entered, and there is no reason why Sony, which is more powerful than it, cannot enter. How much damage will this do to its reputation? Doesn't it mean that Japan is inferior to South Korea?

Rao is that Sony has made great efforts and is ready to pay a huge price, but Ericsson still does not let go, and looks unwilling to negotiate.

But both Gao Chuanhuishu and Xiao Qi knew that Ericsson's people were just putting on airs.

In the Western world, there is no business that cannot be negotiated, not to mention that when Xiao Qi bought the patents, he left the European base camp to Ericsson, and only wanted the patents in Asia and the Americas, so they had no reason not to talk.

What needs to be seen now is the skill and patience of negotiation. It just so happens that after the Japanese have been fooled a lot over the years, their patience and skills have been greatly improved, but the time may not be so fast.

The financial crisis is a great test for any company.

Nortel Networks, which was originally compared with Ericsson in the wireless field, is much stronger than Ericsson.

However, after several consecutive financial crises and dot-com bubble crises, everyone can see what Nortel Networks is like now.

Ericsson is also facing such difficulties. Because of the economic downturn, people's consumption desires will decline, and the decline of consumption desires will directly affect the enthusiasm of businessmen for production and investment, thereby further reducing businessmen's demand. The demand for various equipment - Nortel Networks suffered a lot of ruined orders back then, and a large number of servers could not be sold, and finally collapsed.

What happened to Ericsson today is not as miserable and urgent as that of Nortel Networks, but it is also true that Ericsson’s life was not very easy before the arrival of the smartphone era in 2010. < pads are popular all over the world, but compared to the share of traditional computers and mobile phones, they are still not excellent. Ericsson does not know how brilliant their future will be, so when faced with the temptation of Sony's huge profits, most of them can't control it Most of the people who live here will give in.

Xiao Qi hopes that Sony's negotiations can be carried out as soon as possible. After all, at the latest in February next year, Fairy Company's Dream Stars will be released. It is only 4 months away from now. If Dream Stars is also sweeping the world like the iPhone, I'm afraid the price to pay will be even greater. (to be continued..)