Chapter 193: Mystery Next
But when Cai Siqiang and his team flew to Beijing, things seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.
First, the Wall Street Journal reported a market rumor. They received market rumors about Microsoft's negotiations to acquire Nokia's mobile phone department. Judging from the reports, this rumor is well-founded, and there are even some details such as quotations and other core content. It is said that Microsoft is now offering a price of $9 billion. []
Of course, the market rumors that Microsoft attempted to acquire Nokia's mobile phone business have basically not stopped since 2010. In 2011, it was closer to the stage of substantial operation. First, it was said that Microsoft opened a price of US$30 billion to negotiate the acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, but then there were rumors that the quotation was not US$30 billion, but was lowered to US$19 billion.
However, although rumors of scandals between Microsoft and Nokia are rampant, the market has not seen any substantial actions between the two parties. Instead, Google took the lead in completing the acquisition of Motorola mobile phones for US$12.5 billion. Stimulated by this news, market participants began to claim that Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia would be the best defensive behavior, the reason is that the biggest purpose of the acquisition is to prevent anyone else from acquiring it.
Microsoft has a lot of cash in hand, and the acquisition of $19 billion in cash is not a problem. Microsoft's Windows phone share in the market has not improved. As an important ally, Nokia, the market believes that Microsoft cannot be lost.
Because in the market of mobile Internet operating systems, Microsoft's Windows Phone has faced a threat that concerns its life and death.
In addition to the booming development of Piaotianyi, if you cannot have a mobile operating system, it means that it is highly likely that it will be absent in the future mobile Internet era.
Because the operating system is the root and soul of Microsoft, although the current desktop www.piaotian.comdowww.piaotian.comdowphone failed, Microsoft's revenue maintained by the operating system will become an irreversible trend. Therefore, market participants analyzed that Microsoft will find ways to make Oto mobile undoubtedly further stimulate Microsoft. Faced with the gradual shrinking of the market share of Windows Phone, the possibility of Microsoft taking big moves is increasing.
But these are just speculations and analysis by market participants. People have never seen the two companies have official announcements, confirming that the two companies are now officially negotiating the acquisition, which makes everything vague and difficult for people to see the truth clearly.
The entangled matter with Microsoft is not over yet. Then a financial daily reported that Nokia and LG intend to work closely on smartphones. It is rumored that the two parties intend to work together to form a company mainly based on high-end smartphones, and will concentrate the two main resources to focus on the mid-to-high-end mobile phone market. By joining together with Apple and Samsung, two strong rivals, to fight high-end mobile phones.
I remember that LG Electronics' mobile phone business was once glorious. It was once the world's third largest mobile phone manufacturer and was known as the two Korean champions along with Samsung. However, since 2010, LG Electronics' mobile phone business has also begun to have a path of continuous losses and has been undergoing major adjustments and layoffs.
Due to strategic mistakes, when the tide of 3G smartphones is coming, LG did not launch a flagship smartphone to resist the market. Most of the products it launched are still mainly feature phones, with prices positioned at mid- and low-end, in an attempt to please and target fashion, young people, and win by quantity.
Especially in terms of mobile phone standards, LG has always held its main force in the CDMA market, but all this has not brought good results to LG. On the contrary, facing the huge market of more than 100 million users growing by China Telecom, LG seems to have just become a spectator, standing far away at the edge of the banquet, watching others having a feast, but can't pick up a little bit of food.
LG's 3G mobile phone market, which emerged in China, basically failed completely. Later, some market analysts analyzed that LG's frustration in China was the rigidity of its market system and the shortcomings of China's localization, which led to huge strategic deviations and neglected.
The huge opportunity of oid emergence led to a slow move onto a 3G smartphone, which made people frustrated everywhere after one move.
lg's situation is the same as Nokia, who has been in charge of the Saipan system for many years, and has lost it.
The historic opportunity on IOOD, both companies put their hopes on Microsoft's Windows Phone. From this point of view, it is logically reasonable to say that two frustrated people in the 3G smartphone market want to join forces to keep warm.
By the evening, Cai Siqiang received worse news. Samps, who had arrived in Beijing in advance, was preparing to participate in the negotiations together, regretfully notified Cai Siqiang that Vice President Terry would postpone the talks with Cai Siqiang for one day due to flight issues.
The coming of this series of bad news made Cai Siqiang a little confused. What is the situation?
These news did not appear sooner or later, and they had to wait until now. Is it said that this was a smoke bomb released by Nokia's top leaders before the negotiations?
But is Nokia making such a tactic without gold? After all, it is an international company that has been decades of. If all this is really done by Nokia's senior management, then it not only seems that it is a bit lacking in confidence, but also seems too petty.
Cai Siqiang, who received these news for a while, could not see the situation clearly.
However, no matter how hard I can't see it, all this did not disturb Cai Siqiang's thinking. Cai Siqiang, who already understands the truth of Nokia, lets you let you move thousands of ways, and I remained calm.
Thinking that there is no big deal tomorrow, so at night, Cai Siqiang simply took his team to the Sanlitun Bar street to relax. After all, everyone is very busy on weekdays, and it is rare to have the opportunity and time to relax. The combination of work and rest is the king.
So, that night, Cai Siqiang, who had not been in the bar for a long time, had a lot of fun. Dong Feng even seemed to have seen a playboy return. Fortunately, Cai Siqiang, who had Song Shishi, had a play, but now he had his own bottom line. He just soaked in alcohol. After this little relaxation, the group became full of fighting spirit the next day, facing the upcoming hard negotiations with a full attitude.
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