Global Monopoly of Technology

April 28.

Bluestar Group Headquarters.

"Mr. Luo, Jack Stoppelman has reported to the parent company that MySpace, our North American competitor, is in talks with Google for a search-based partnership to capitalize on its growing audience and impact. , MySpace currently has 23 million users, and the North American market share is about 12%, while our BlueSpace's market share is over 85%."

Zhang Bowen, chief operating officer of the group company, came to Luo Sheng's office to report the matter.

At present, the international version of BlueSpace is fully in charge of Jack Stoppelman, and the parent company basically does not interfere too much. However, Bluestar Technology Group arranges people on the supervisory board of its subsidiary BlueSpace who it absolutely trusts, and the parent company. Someone sent directly by the company.

In overseas regions, the power of the board of supervisors in the company is not like the display in the mainland, but it really has a lot of power.

The CEOs of Luo Sheng's subsidiaries in the overseas business sector are all foreign executives hired to better suit the local market, but he does not absolutely trust these foreigners.

For example, in the event of a problem with Jack Stoppelman, or when necessary, he will be fired immediately, and within 24 hours a CEO will be parachuted from the parent company to take over BlueSpace's affairs.

Luo Sheng has invested a lot in this aspect, and the management's "spare tire" is also stepping up preparations, even if it increases operating costs.

No idea.

That's in the realm of old beauty.

Luo Sheng has not forgotten how the Americans killed the French Alstom company through the senior management. means to dismantle the writings of the business giants of other countries.

Therefore, once the supervisory board found that Jack Stoppelman did not implement the will of the parent company, there was a place for overstepping, a reminder, a second warning, a third direct dismissal and a CEO took over.

The same goes for executives from other parts of the company.

Luo Sheng does not expect the head of the subsidiary to have much pioneering spirit, especially the CEO of the subsidiary in charge of the overseas business sector. If he really has this ability, he will come to the core layer of the parent company.

The head of the subsidiary he wants can perfectly execute the strategic will of the parent company,

Even the wrong strategy has to be executed.

It's not that I don't believe these foreign senior managers... Yes, I just don't believe it.

Moreover, Luo Sheng is even more unable to trust the North American authorities. Sharing benefits with Wall Street is a great guarantee, but it is not absolute. Therefore, from an absolute rational point of view, Luo Sheng cannot have absolute trust in the senior managers hired by him.

They may not have thought about cheating on the company, but in case the North American authorities trying to crack down on the company will do it, the result is the same.

Therefore, the investment of resources here is absolutely indispensable. This is the grand strategy of the group company to prevent future events.

Zhang Bowen continued: "Jack proposed to the parent company, should we intervene and talk to News Corporation about the acquisition of MySpace, so as to prevent the potential threat to BlueSpace from Google?"

"Acquisition of MySpace?" Luo Sheng immediately rejected Jack Stoppelman's suggestion without hesitation, and immediately added: "Now that BlueSpace's users in North America have exceeded 100 million, let alone On a global scale, the user ecological chain has taken shape, and this first-mover advantage in the field of social networking sites has taken shape.

Zhang Bowen said: "Having said that, it's always uncomfortable to allow Google to set fire to our backyard."

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "Just click, we definitely can't acquire MySpace, this move outweighs the losses. Once we merge MySpace into our banner, it may create an almost absolute natural monopoly, which will bring us huge troubles. Europeans and Americans will definitely seize this opportunity to swing the big stick over. Keep it and raise pigs scientifically.”

Zhang Bowen: "Uh..."

Scientific pig raising?

This remark made Zhang Bowen quite happy to hear it, but when you think about it, it is really the same thing.

MySpace does not pose a huge threat. The greatest value of its existence is to avoid the trouble of anti-monopoly investigation for Bluestar Technology.

In this regard, Intel has done a very good job. It can easily kill AMD, but it always leaves some space for AMD. It can't starve to death, but it can't turn the sky.

According to foreign reports, MySpace has been bought by News Corporation as its social networking site in the early years, and it is seeking a search engine partner to provide it with search services and advertising services.

Apparently, this time Google ran over, and Yahoo had apparently been left out.

Yahoo, this once brilliant company, as for now... It's hard to say.

Google's alliance battle with MySpace this time is a replica of last year's rivalry between Google and Microsoft on AOL, where Google beat Microsoft after agreeing to invest $1 billion in AOL.

As for MySpace, I am afraid that it will get strong support from the North American authorities, trying to catch up with Bluestar Technology. Anyone can buy this company, but Bluestar Technology cannot buy it, and North America does not allow it.

If Americans knew that Luo Sheng could grow to the point where they are today, they would never have approved Bluestar Technology's access to the North American market. Today, of course, Americans want to drive Bluestar Technology out of the North American market, and any means will do. .

But it is not as easy as it used to be, because the water in Bluestar Technology Group has also become very deep, and Wall Street has a big interest in it.

The key is that Luo Sheng was very vigilant early, so that the North American authorities could not find too many excuses, if there were no Wall Street interests in it.

The North American authorities will definitely not reason with you, and they will come straight to it, but it will be different if the interests of Wall Street are involved. Even if you want to achieve your goals, you have to be reasonable, otherwise you will cause trouble for yourself.

Zhang Bowen said: "However, Google is not very smooth. The news I got is that Microsoft is also taking a role at this time, which makes Google very uncomfortable."

Luo Sheng nodded and said with a smile: "It's not too strange, the CEOs of Google and Microsoft have recently talked about the importance of social networking sites to the future of the Internet. Bluestar Technology has grown to the size it is today, even if Even Microsoft dare not say that they despise us.”

Zhang Bowen said immediately: "Looking at the competition between the two sides in AOL last year, it is hard to imagine that the two giants, Google and Microsoft, would easily surrender MySpace to their opponents, so I personally think that MySpace is likely to gain a large share of the search advertising business. Part of the revenue, maybe even getting an upfront payment, or a partner committing to a minimum payment amount.”

Luo Sheng nodded: "It makes sense, Google, Google is the key, I'm afraid Microsoft will lose again this time, and it's not as caring as Google, we have caused huge pressure on Google, but we haven't forged any ties with Microsoft. "

Zhang Bowen pondered for a moment, then looked at Luo Sheng and said, "We can't just sit back and ignore it. MySpace and Google are in trouble, so it must be less than a pot of urine with Yahoo. Oh, doesn't Google want to set fire to our backyard? Then We also communicate with respect, and we also talk to Yahoo about cooperation."

Hearing that, Luo Shengyan said two words succinctly: "Yes."

Come on, hurt each other.

Although Yahoo is getting worse and worse, it is still a king in the Internet world. If you don't talk about Yahoo, you don't understand the Internet.

Even today, Yahoo's market cap is still as high as $60 billion.

This matter is settled like this, the purpose is not to achieve any substantive effect, but to remind Paige, don't ignore your own backyard when you play with fire in other people's backyards, and you must also devote a little energy to turn back Look at your own lair.

Playing with fire is something you do, and so do I.

But then again, Luo Sheng doesn't have much hope for Yahoo. Google's position in the global search engine market is basically unshakable. If you want to start a fire in Page's backyard, it will not fundamentally Shake Google's foundations.

Luo Sheng told Zhang Bowen: "Compared with this, we should pay more attention to Google's actions in the field of cloud computing services. Google's current CEO Eric Schmidt himself has a lot of roots in cloud computing. The network is a computer' Sun has served as the chief technology officer. There is also Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. These North American technology giants are likely to become our main competition in the field of cloud computing services in the future. opponent."

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