Chapter 1830 Some Preparations
Others only know that anti-virus software includes Kaspersky, You, Norton, and Little Red Umbrella, but they don't know that there are actually many foreign companies that produce computer anti-virus software.
I dare not say that it is described as too many, but the number of hundreds of companies is used. Otherwise, the security kernel technology of 360 back then would not be so easy to buy.
Xiao Qi will not buy technology from American anti-virus software companies. These companies, like the American military, are not honest people. They like to leave some back doors and so on. Want to cry but have no tears.
Teenagers would not even buy technology from Huaguo's anti-virus software company, because no matter which one they are, they are very weak in real technology, otherwise they would not be beaten by Kaspersky for a year or two. .
So from the very beginning, Xiao Qi set the target of the acquisition in European countries.
Compared with the treachery of Americans, Europeans are still much kinder.
Kaspersky... No, not to mention that its scale is too large and it costs too much. They are not short of money at all, so it is impossible to sell it.
There is also another anti-virus software in Russia, the big spider (dr.web), the technology is also very good, but if you look at its research and development unit - the Russian National Academy of Sciences, you will know that it is impossible to sell technology to Chinese people, Putin This software is used in the uncle’s office, and the core technology is sold to you. Are you allowed to steal Russia’s top secrets?
Little Red Umbrella is from Germany, and Xiao Qi naturally dislikes Germans, so let's put it aside for now.
There are two anti-virus software companies in the Czech Republic, one is called a.vg and the other is called a.vast. Both of them are top ten excellent security protection products in the world, and the two companies are not expensive. One can cost about 400 million US dollars If you buy it, the other one is a little more expensive, and it only costs 500 million US dollars, and the package is less than 1 billion.
The Czech Republic is a small country. There will not be too many obstacles for Fairy Company to buy their core technology and recruit their research and development personnel.
In addition, Xiao Qi has another choice, that is Romania's Bitdefender. This company is very good in the technology of personal computer user security protection. Kaspersky's comprehensive strength will lose to it. In the rankings of several authoritative websites in the past few years, Kaspersky ranked second and third. One is Bitdefender.
And in terms of the proportion of users in Western Europe, Bitdefender is better than Kaspersky.
The key is that Bitdefender did not directly enter China for development. Its focus has always been on the surrounding developed countries in Western Europe, so its reputation is not obvious.
Of course, a person is strong. It doesn't mean he will always be strong.
The same goes for a company.
Bitdefender was stronger than Kaspersky a few years ago, but Kaspersky has improved very quickly through its expansion in the world in the past few years, and invested in technology research and development after making money. It has completely overwhelmed Kaspersky last year. Bitdefender.
But it is undeniable. The group of engineers in Romania also has their own outstanding abilities, but their personalities and company expansion are obviously not good at connecting with the market.
It is also because Bitdefender's development is only in the circle of Western Europe, so its current market value is similar to that of the two Czech software companies, which is 500 million US dollars.
One point that is beneficial to Xiao Qi is that at the end of last year. An investment company has invested in Bitdefender, and the major shareholder of this company is Green Pine Capital, which is Xiao Qi's old friend!
If Xiao Qi wants to buy Bitdefender, it is definitely a good choice to negotiate with Green Pine Capital on the one hand and buy the shares held by Green Pine Capital on the other hand.
by contrast. The two Czech companies a.vg and a.vast are both controlled by several major Czech groups. As a country with an underdeveloped electronics industry, these two antivirus software companies are already the pride of the Czech Republic. The key lies in the establishment of the framework. After getting up. Its investment does not need to be too large, and they are not planning to expand on a large scale at present, so there is no need for financing.
But Xiao Qi will not give up hope. He will find the most professional brokerage company to negotiate with these three antivirus software companies at the same time. In a huge market with over 3 billion users and an overall output value of over 100 billion U.S. dollars, this amount of money is really not worth mentioning.
As for professional brokerage companies?
Of course, super multinational giants such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup!
Only they have great influence all over the world to do this!
Xiao Qi didn't feel guilty at all for the fact that he had cheated them before, and now he had to ask them for help again and again.
That's how business is done!
Do you dare to say that Goldman Sachs stopped earning Xiao Qi's commission because Xiao Qi cheated them several times?
What a joke!
When there is a business entrustment, they will crawl over!
Leaving the anti-virus software company behind, Xiao Qi thought about another plunder in Europe.
Starting next year, Greece, a lazy country, will be punished, and then it will directly detonate the sovereign debt crisis of Spain, Portugal, Italy...etc.
However, several of them are the main forces in the entire euro zone, and thus implicated the two giants, France and Germany, and have suffered losses to a considerable extent.
Poor France and Germany, in the subprime mortgage crisis and the financial turmoil, they were beaten to the point of being unable to get up, a little recovery, and blood transfusions to these countries. No wonder the Germans almost overthrew Merkel and stepped down later. .
Were it not for Merkel's tearful cry in the House of Representatives: "It took us a lot of effort to unite as a whole. If our partners are allowed to collapse, then our dream of a Europe will be shattered!" Let Germany continue to push the EU forward.
Of course, how these European countries are doing has nothing to do with Xiao Qi, and he can't wait to be like Britain, thinking about how to destroy Europe as a whole all day long! ——Don’t doubt, during the financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis, the UK’s jumping up and down is definitely a negative image, and it doesn’t help its “companions” at all, because a whole Europe is not in the interests of the UK!
In the next few years in Europe, the economy will definitely be in a slump. For example, the youth unemployment rate in Spain has reached 50%. You can imagine how miserable they are.
As for Greece?
Hehe, the unemployed population in their country exceeds 50%, nothing is worse than them.
So in the next few years, Greece will sell almost everything.
Ports, airports, municipal buildings, land, islands... If you are interested, military bases can be discussed!
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Greece has already collapsed. In order to get rid of national debts, they almost want to privatize all state-owned assets, so that they can get rid of debts.
Although it is shameless and bottomless, Xiao Qi has to say that this method is indeed useful and can help Greece get rid of the debt crisis to a certain extent—if someone is really willing to take over these things.
In the future, Xiao Qi might be interested in some things sold in Greece, but now, what he cares about is not these infrastructures, but some excellent electronic companies in Europe.
What I want to explain is that European electronics companies are not large in scale, unlike Silicon Valley in the United States, where there are tens of thousands of engineers at every turn. Sometimes a few of them can form a company, and 80% of the electronics The number of engineers in the company shall not exceed 100.
Because of their small size, they are not as good as Silicon Valley companies in terms of development potential.
But don't forget that the small scale does not mean that their technology is not good. In fact, the technology of European engineers is not inferior to that of the United States. If the United States has not absorbed talents from all over the world, they will definitely lose to Europe. Engineer's.
Xiao Qi also likes this kind of small-scale company, because it is convenient for him to buy these companies and directly send them to Huaguo to work.
Even if they don't want to come to Rongcheng, Xiao Qi is willing to arrange a good working and living environment for them in big cities like Dongfang and Guangdong where there are many foreigners.
If it really doesn't work, Xiao Qi can still sign a five-year work contract with them. After five years, they can leave Huaguo and do what they want with a generous salary. Anyway, five years Time, enough for the engineers of Fairy Lab to absorb their academic knowledge and experience.
As for the European companies that Xiao Qi covets, there are actually many more.
The first is the arm company, which is responsible for the CPU chip plan. Although dream pad and dream stars are trying their best to use their own technology and weaken the technology of arm, they still cannot be completely independent in a short time.
For example, the British Imagination Technology Company, which is the company that made the GPU image processor for Xiao Qi.
NXP Semiconductors of the Netherlands, which provided Xiao Qi with fingerprint identification technology, is also very good.
There is also Italy's STMicroelectronics, which ranks among the top three semiconductor companies in the world, and also provides electronic components such as accelerators for iPads and iPads.
In addition, the British CSR company has world-leading technologies in wifi chips, gps chips and bluetooth chips. Xiao Qi said that he also likes it very much.
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I think so, but basically none of the companies mentioned above is easy to win.
Because the West has considerable technical barriers to Chinese companies.
Xiao Qi bought their mature technology before, and it was a technical solution that was disclosed to the public, so there is no problem, but if these technologies and talents are brought together in one pot, the institutions in their country may not agree.
If you want to truly master these advanced technologies, I'm afraid you have to take advantage of the debt crisis and make a lot of mediation efforts!