Chapter 2673 The Prelude to Selling?
The European Union's investigation order for SKYPE was released in the afternoon of the Eastern Time of the United States, which caused great controversy.
If Fairy Company was a listed company, the stock price would definitely plummet because of this.
But Fairy Company is not listed. Xiao Qi holds 96% of SKYPE's shares, and has enough money to develop. Therefore, the situation of SKYPE is much calmer than people expected.
After all, starting various investigations does not mean that SKYPE will officially cease operations, and Xiannv Company has an extremely large network and the best lawyer team, so the outside world generally believes that this is an exchange of interests and a compromise.
SKYPE will definitely lose something, but it doesn't mean the end is over.
The response from the United States is naturally not so fast.
The U.S. Department of Commerce and related departments will only target SKYPE based on the EU's investigation results, because SKYPE is a company operating in the United States, and most of its employees are Americans, so it is appropriate to be cautious.
Moreover, Xiao Qi has too many investments in the United States, and there are too many stakeholders, so it is destined that the investigation on the American side will not be as aggressive as that in Europe, and the final degree of restrictions will not be comparable to that in Europe.
Therefore, now only some media in Europe are discussing the legality of the government's actions, while many newspapers and magazines in the United States, especially many rich people who have business dealings with Xiao Qi, have begun to criticize the EU violently.
"I never knew that starting an Internet communication company could involve so many problems. Are you jealous?" ——Apple Chairman Joe Gang.
"SKYPE is obviously a company that is beneficial to the poor. The governments of these rich and powerful are not serving the people!" - Ellison, President of Oracle Corporation.
"I just said, why is the emerging technology development in Europe not as good as that in the United States? It's because they are too closed and don't want to develop new technology at all. Instead, they are closed to prevent high technology from entering their country! SKYPE is undoubtedly It has the power to change the world. It's inexplicable that they still say no!" - Jabil, CEO of Citibank.
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America is fine. Huaguo is almost about to explode.
Regardless of whether they know about SKYPE or not, and regardless of whether Huaguo has not allowed SKYPE to enter into operation, the public opinion of the people is targeting the European Union, and they wantonly crusade against them.
"Damn it, Americans are said to be ruthless, and these Europeans are also ruthless. What do you think of our country? Free trade on the surface. Look at what they are doing?"
"So I thought, why do we have to buy German cars? Germans are nothing! Just like the Japanese!"
"Cut, these bastards still expect us to keep buying their stuff and importing their various technical products? Why? Are you only allowed to earn our money?"
"Damn it! That's the old trick they used to deal with the Chinese people. Why should we be wronged?"
"It is recommended that the country investigate all German and French automobiles, British financial products, and Spanish agricultural products...we suspect that these things contain factors that are unfavorable to Chinese people, and apply for a 10-year investigation at the port before re-entering the country!"
"Seconded!"
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country. They also expressed concern about this, and it is said that they invited several ambassadors to come to discuss.
But it doesn't help.
The common people only saw the dependence of Europe and the United States on the Chinese market, but did not think about it the other way around. How dependent Huaguo is on the European and American markets.
In this world, those who have money and are willing to buy things. Only developed countries such as Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, if we lose this market, it will be the heaviest blow to China's modernization drive.
It is precisely because they know that we cannot do without them, so they use various methods to take advantage. For the sake of the overall situation, Huaguo can only swallow their anger-it is easy for you to turn your face, but the Philippines, India, Indonesia and other countries, but Can't wait for you to turn your face. Many of their small commodities, industrial products, etc., can seize the original Huaguo commodity market!
This is the same reason why Xiao Qi did not fall out with the Europeans.
He can be impulsive. Directly announcing that the sale of Fairy Company's products will be stopped in Europe will make European fans dissatisfied with the government's behavior and exert strong pressure.
But in this way, he will take advantage of companies such as Apple, Samsung, SONY, HTC, etc. If the products of these companies take advantage of the withdrawal of Fairy Company's products and occupy the market, Fairy Company wants to return to these companies. The market needs at least ten times more effort!
It is okay to get angry when something happens, but you must not lose your mind, otherwise you will lose more.
Take the current situation as an example, EU countries are investigating SKYPE, Xiao Qi's Fairy Company can't go out of business, on the contrary, they have to increase investment in the European market, strive to earn more money, so as to save their own loss.
Why did Xiao Qi not buy Facebook and Twitter, but only occupy a part of the shares?
Isn't it because they are afraid that they will be feared by European and American countries, which will cause huge losses?
The current Facebook and Twitter are very good. Xiao Qi can not only have a certain influence on them, but also be able to share the benefits brought by their growth, and he doesn’t have to worry about the same experience as SKYPE.
Under today's circumstances, unless Xiao Qi's influence can be greater than all the telecommunications and communication industries in the European Union combined, SKYPE will definitely be sold.
Obviously, if these communication industries were located in China, Xiao Qi would not be able to intervene in them, let alone one or two of them are local snakes, and they are famous for being conservative and stubborn.
If you sell SKYPE, you have to sell it, but how you sell it and who you sell it to is still particular.
Ballmer is very interested in SKYPE, but it does not mean that he is willing to be slaughtered, and if it is not a very suitable price, Xiao Qi must have sold it badly.
Therefore, child care is necessary.
What Xiao Qi looked for this time was not a few familiar fund companies, but released the news that he wanted to sell SKYPE openly, and then Tong Wencong went to a Wall Street fund company to find some old guys to act as this time. childcare.
There are companies that seriously want to inquire, and there are babysitters, which will make Microsoft even more nervous.
Wall Street is a very realistic place. Here we discussed the unfair treatment of SKYPE in Europe. As soon as they heard that Xiao Qi wanted to sell SKYPE, they immediately threw themselves into consideration and competition.
How good SKYPE is, a year ago, before Xiao Qi bought it, everyone didn't have much feeling.
However, according to Xiao Qi's rectification and new development concept, the rapid development of SKYPE in such a half a year has left everyone dumbfounded.
Several years ago, SKYPE was actually developed in Europe, and SKYPE was originally invented by Europeans, but they have not been established in the European market, so European communication companies do not even pay attention to them, let alone investigate Suppressed.
From the panic suppression of SKYPE by the communication department of the European Union, we can know how fast it is developing.
Not to mention the various performance growth data released by SKYPE every month, that is a real market!
SKYPE is an instant messaging network with a business scope all over the world. At least it can cover mid-to-high-end developed countries with a population of 2 billion. In such a large market, let alone occupying all of it, even if it only occupies one-third, it is two The United States is so big, what a coveted future income expectation is this?
Now that online shopping is finally on par with brick-and-mortar shopping, at least online communication is on par with offline communication, right?
With this in mind, they all started making various inquiries and plans one after another. Skype CEO Lande was naturally overwhelmed by the crowd.
As one of the founders of SKYPE, under the current circumstances, Lund hopes that European and American companies can take over, so that SKYPE can continue to maintain its current development momentum.
It's a pity that Xiao Qi occupies 96% of the absolute holdings, and their management only has a total of 4%, so of course they have no say.
Even now, Xiao Qi apparently handed over the right to negotiate to their management, but he still has no basis for what will happen in the end.
Of course, this does not prevent their management from actively contacting outside investors. They also hope that Xiao Qi can let go of SKYPE on the basis of a suitable price. After all, if Xiao Qi can make money, the chance of selling SKYPE bigger.
As a result, Wall Street has become full of news all over the past few days.
"The Cowell consortium bid 8.8 billion US dollars and wants to acquire SKYPE wholly."
"The British Duke Saatchi offered 10 billion U.S. dollars, intending to bring SKYPE into his pocket, so that SKYPE can really take root in Europe."
"It's shocking that the Saudi National Consortium has generously offered 13 billion U.S. dollars and wants to use SKYPE to enter the network communication market. These Middle Easterners are too rich and have good vision!"
"Prince Dumo of Kuwait arrived in the United States secretly. It is said that he will bring a very sincere offer and wants to impress SKYPE!"
"Mr. Xiao Qi's good friend Jabil, the president of Citibank, is a lobbyist for Carlos, the Mexican telecom giant. Central and South American telecom giants want to go global!"
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