Global Monopoly of Technology

In the middle and late April of April, Bluestar Technology Group released the first quarter 2013 audited financial report on April 19. Zhang Bowen also held a regular media conference on the performance report to convey to the market and investors the company's performance. This year's outlook, but declined to set specific performance indicators for group companies.

Bluestar Technology has never set exact performance indicators for the next quarter or the next fiscal year. This is the same with Google, which does not want to be a slave of money and a money-making machine.

According to the financial report, the global operating income of Bluestar Technology Group in the first quarter was 23.65 billion US dollars, which not only stopped falling compared with the 21.17 billion US dollars in the previous quarter, but also rose by 11.71%.

The net profit in the first quarter was 3.831 billion US dollars, and the net profit margin was 16.2%, which was the lowest in the history of Bluestar Technology. You must know that the net profit margin during the subversion period once soared to a terrifying level of 37%.

However, for the current Bluestar Technology, the net profit margin is really not the focus, the focus is the growth rate of revenue, which means that the recovery of market share and the development of emerging markets are rewarding.

As long as it has occupied enough market share to form a de facto monopoly, and fatten it up and then kill it, the profits lost today will be included in the pockets in the future.

The audited financial report was in line with Wall Street analysts’ expectations. The Nasdaq stock market responded promptly the next day. Bluestar Technology Group’s stock rose 6% and closed at $459.28 per share in after-hours trading, with a total market value of 8,956. US$100 million, firmly sitting on the throne of the world's largest listed company, more than twice that of the second-ranked Exxon Mobil Oil Company.

In the past year, the stock of Bluestar Technology has experienced multiple rises, falls, and rises, which has tortured retail investors to death. The current era is a trend of technology oligarchs replacing oil financial oligarchs.

As the actual top brand of global technology stocks today, Bluestar Technology will not be mentioned. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are all catching up. The theme of driving economic growth with emerging technologies is the future.

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With the passage of time, in late April, the 2013 annual developer conference of Bluestar Technology Group was held on the 28th of this month.

The developer conference is held in the indoor hall of the new headquarters of Mobius Ring, a large-scale event venue that can accommodate up to four or five thousand people. Developers from all over the world have come to Sioux City two days ago.

This period is also very busy for developers in the world, and they have to travel to the headquarters of the world's major technology giants to participate in the conference.

No,

Immediately entering May is Google's I/O conference, followed by Microsoft's developer conference, Oracle's OOW conference, and so on.

nine in the morning.

The conference site gathered developers from more than 100 countries and regions around the world, with a total of more than 3,000 people. Most of them have an Apple computer and an Azure-3 or ieP tablet.

From time to time, there are media reporters carrying camera equipment on the aisle to shoot, and the best positions have been occupied by the first-come reporters and set up their own equipment.

The overall light in the auditorium was dim, and the audience seemed quite quiet. Most of the developers were staring at the work computers on their laps, or quietly thinking about something, and some people were whispering to each other. whispered privately.

At this time, a voice came from the microphone at the scene: "Ladies and gentlemen! Applause welcomes Mr. Lu Qi, vice president of Bluestar Technology Group and executive president of the cloud computing department, to unveil the developer conference."

All the lights in the auditorium area of ​​the venue were turned off, and the lights were focused on the stage in front. There was also a burst of applause that was not very warm. Everyone applauded in a formulaic manner and silently stared ahead.

I saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses, a white long-sleeved shirt, and a tie walking onto the stage unhurriedly. .

But this person in the industry is a tech giant that no one knows and no one knows about.

Lu Qi, a man in the global IT industry who was heartbroken for his next job after he left Yahoo, was competed by Bluestar Technology and Microsoft at the same time. In the end, Lu Qi chose to join Bluestar Technology and was in charge of the company. Important product Nebula StarCloud so far.

Today, Lu Qi is already one of the directors of Bluestar Technology Group. Luo Sheng nominated him to the board of directors two years ago. Now he is one of the absolute core executives of the group company, and his annual salary has risen to 150 million. More than US dollars, higher than the company's No. 2 Zhang Bowen.

However, compared to the annual salary, the 0.325% option stock reward that Lu Qi has received since joining Bluestar Technology is the big one. According to the current market value of Bluestar Technology, the stock value he holds is as high as 2.9 billion US dollars, which is not counting his holdings. other assets.

However, the wealth has reached the level of Lu Qi and the others, and they can't squander it all in a lifetime. Career ideals and spiritual pursuits are what they long for.

At this moment, Lu Qi on the stage made a simple development greeting and went straight to the topic: "This year marks the 10th anniversary of the birth of Bluestar Technology, starting from this year, we will no longer regard ourselves as an Internet advertising service provider. Since the conference, in a special year belonging to the group company, we announced that we have chosen a comprehensive transformation AI software service provider and are committed to systematically integrating AI into this system."

The developers off the field all listened and watched silently, and the international friends and business peers also silently paid attention.

Lu Qi's remarks undoubtedly indicate that Bluestar Technology will bet on Allin in the field of artificial intelligence this time. Many people still clearly remember that the last time Luo Sheng announced Allin's cloud computing service in 2006, taking all the 5.6 billion US dollars of the IPO at that time. Smashing it in, no one was optimistic at that time, and the stock price of Bluestar Technology fell for a time.

The result of Allin at that time is that today's Bluestar Technology has become the world's largest cloud service company, invincible in the industry.

This time, the industry will not be like the last time. The world's major technology giants have successively made efforts in the field of artificial intelligence. The upsurge not only did not fade, but also rose further.

Lu Qi's methodical voice resounded throughout the audience: "Under the background of today's era of flooding of cloud services, Bluestar Technology will use artificial intelligence to create a differentiated advantage in the industry. Bluestar Technology, which was born with social networks, has made a large-scale deployment in recent years. The cloud market, including subsea data centers, etc., has chosen to materialize artificial intelligence technology into cloud services."

Lu Qi said loudly: "We will propose a new concept and integrate it into a strategy for the coordinated development of two parallel businesses. Namely: Harmony."

Luo Sheng or Bluestar Technology likes to propose new concepts every day, such as cloud computing, big data, self-media, etc. Everyone is used to it.

In fact, this is also a side effect of Bluestar Technology's strong innovation vitality.

"In traditional cloud computing, users' data needs to be transmitted to large server arrays through layers of networks for processing, but most IoT devices don't actually need particularly powerful computing power for support. Caused unnecessary waste of network resources."

When the industry hears it, especially some enterprise-level customer groups, they must be happy to hear this. This is actually to show the industry that Bluestar Technology is developing new technologies to further reduce costs, which in turn is to enhance products and solutions. International Competitiveness.

International friends and businessmen listened to it, but they were quite dignified. Reducing costs means improving international competitiveness. Compared with Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, the solutions of Bluestar Technology are really high quality and low price. The international competitiveness it brings is the envy of its peers.

Some companies in North America have begun to complain, calling the authorities to lay off employees if the company is not allowed to cooperate with Bluestar Technology, or the authorities to subsidize the company.

No way, the high cost will inevitably lead to the lack of competitiveness. The most typical example is the competition between the local e-commerce company PrestoMall in Malaysia and the outsider Amazon.

Amazon is ambitious to enter the Southeast Asian market, thinking that it will soon be able to fix this market, and the bald Bezos will be able to occupy this market in half a year.

As a result, my face was swollen and embarrassing. Now the local company PrestoMall has started to take off. The growth rate of nearly 200% in two fiscal years has left Amazon far behind, and now it has connected to Bluestar Technology. solutions, the competitiveness will undoubtedly be further improved.

In fact, many people already know Luo Sheng's strategic intention. One of the main lines of Bluestar Technology's strategy to develop emerging market economic regions is to help local enterprises improve their international competitiveness, and then compete with enterprises in developed countries, thereby forcing developed countries Businesses from the region have returned to put pressure on the authorities.

At the same time, this move can also be fully supported by the authorities of emerging market economies. Under this "altruistic" strategy of mutual benefit, it is unsurprising and reasonable to obtain local support.

Therefore, Bluestar Technology is very popular in emerging markets of the third world.

"Edge computing is actually to provide computing power support for IoT devices nearby by deploying servers in a local or small network environment, thereby further reducing the access cost of AI cloud computing."

"In terms of intelligent cloud computing, Bluestar Technology will launch two new 'cloud programming tools' for developers all over the world this year. improve code quality and increase productivity.”

When the code farmer heard it, his eyes lit up, a good thing.

"And another software called LiveShare allows multiple developers to collaborate in real-time programming and debugging of code in the programming environment of Bluestar Technology Group."

"In terms of intelligent edge computing services, Bluestar Technology has chosen its open source cloud platform and launched supporting hardware facilities, so that third-party IoT device developers can more easily apply their technology to their own products. ."

Speaking of which, Lu Qi showed off with a calm expression but solemnly: "Among them, the two major projects, PKB and PBB, which we are going to launch this year, are the ones that Bluestar Technology is proud of in Star-IoT-Edge technology. Killer."

"Among them, PKB is a small deep learning sensor kit, embedded with a variety of sensors including a new generation of depth sensors of Bluestar Technology, combined with Bluestar Technology's edge computing architecture services, can be used to process computer visual tasks."

"The PBB is a dedicated processing platform for artificial intelligence, in which the core computing device is a dedicated chip for machine learning. Thanks to the physical characteristics of such chips, developers can program and customize the function of this chip by themselves."

Bluestar Technology has also begun to deeply deploy the underlying structure, which makes the Silicon Valley tech giants feel extremely uncomfortable.

Or is the pressure not strong enough?

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