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   Chapter 680 The Big Play

  The announcement of ICQ's merger with America Telecom marks the beginning of this great merger that will go down in the history of Wall Street.

  Song Yang nodded. This is a matter of time. After the news is released, ICQ's stock price can be raised. This big merger will take a long time, even if Comcast and General Electric are willing to cooperate.

  If you want to cut through the mess and complete the merger, it will take several months before you can sign the merger intent agreement and complete the nominal merger. As for the internal unified management, it will take a year and a half or even a few years. It is impossible!

  Song Yang didn't expect to spend so much time. After the merger of intentions was completed, after more than a year, everyone patted their butts and left, each went back to his own house, and each found his own mother.

Seeing Song Yang nodding, Irene's expression lifted. She knew that this big show was finally going to set up a stage to sing. The acquisition of American Telecom was to set up a stage. Comcast TV Network and NBC Group were the two who sang the show. main character.

Hu Zhiwei, the general manager of Panda TV, passed Irene when he arrived at Song Yang's villa. Irene nodded to Hu Zhiwei. She knew that Hu Zhiwei was the person in charge of an industry in Song Yang's hands, but... that's all. That's it, Song Yang still has a lot of projects like Panda TV, Forita Antivirus, Siebel Sports Car, and so on, many of them are still losing money.

  Hu Zhiwei hurriedly responded. When he raised his head, Irene had already left quickly. He didn't do anything in America these days. At least the people around Song Yang, Hu Zhiwei knew the root.

  Irene's current status is definitely a big shot for Hu Zhiwei. Thinking back then, when Song Yang traveled to Asia, how much he was worth at that time, and how much was the double-click company worth at that time.

And now, the market value of ICQ alone is more than 40 billion US dollars. In China, it is more than 300 billion yuan in market value. What is the concept? A company has one-tenth of the total market value of A shares. , Hu Zhiwei also knows that these things are fake, but they sound too scary.

   When he saw Song Yang, Hu Zhiwei was full of joy, "Boss Song, 4,000 Panda LCD TVs have been shipped from Christmas to now!"

For Hu Zhiwei, 4,000 LCD TVs were shipped in half a month, which is already a surprise. According to such a shipment speed, about 10,000 LCD TVs are expected to be sold in a single month, 20,000 units are in stock, two It can be emptied in about three months, which is much smoother than Hu Zhiwei expected.

   But hearing this sales volume, Song Yang frowned, "It's too slow!"

The smile on Hu Zhiwei's face was stagnant. He sold 4,000 LCD TVs in half a month, and the money back was 10 million US dollars, nearly 80 million yuan, and it was all foreign exchange. Hu Zhiwei dared to say that he is now back in Jinling, Jinling. I'm afraid I'm not going to welcome him.

However, I remember that the "Half-Life" game that is selling like crazy these days has sold nearly 100 million US dollars in one day, and it has been selling hot for several consecutive days. It's out of stock. This month, Panda TV's sales of 10 to 20 million US dollars are indeed a little "small."

"Panda TV needs to continue advertising and publicity, and it must seize the market as quickly as possible. Jinling Panda needs to increase its production capacity and launch products in North America, Europe, Hong Kong City, Singapore, Bangzi, etc. This year's Panda TV shipments To reach 200,000 units, 500,000 units next year, and within three years, the annual shipment of Panda TVs must exceed 2 million units, accounting for 1% of the total global TV sales.

  Panda TV, to redefine the high-end TV brand! "

  Hu Zhiwei looked at Song Yang dumbfounded. He didn't know if it was too risky. He produced dozens of millions of units a year.

  Song Yang felt that Panda TV was too conservative. Now, the world's annual TV shipments are about 150 million units, and at the peak, it will reach about 300 million units.

And Panda TV is now the only TV brand in the world that has launched "civilian-level" LCD TVs. Do not take this opportunity to grab the LCD TV market and control the LCD TV industry's right to speak, making Panda TV a High-end brands in the LCD TV industry have to wait for Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Philips and other brands to stop them halfway? !

   "Only by selling the LCD TV, Panda TV and panel business can we survive. Panda TV must gain the LCD TV and display market, otherwise not only Panda TV, but Panda Panel will also suffer!"

  Song Yang directly stated the pros and cons. Panel research and development is a very expensive business. Song Yang can support panda panels to burn for one, two or even three years, and spend billions of dollars for panda to develop panels.

After that, the competition for panels will become more and more fierce. It is common to burn dozens of dollars a year. To develop a new generation of panel technology, it often starts with tens of billions of dollars. You can see how many years BOE has lost money. .

Panda TV is Song Yang. It has prepared cash cows for Panda Company. As long as the brand is established, the annual sales of TV can be estimated, and a large amount of cash can be obtained, which is enough for Panda to burn money to develop technologies such as panels and displays. .

   Hu Zhiwei's mind was constantly tumbling. Those who were worried were even more excited. If Panda TV really became a mid-to-high-end brand in the LCD TV industry, he couldn't imagine how many LCD TVs Panda TV could sell every year and how much foreign exchange it would earn!

Concentrating his thoughts, Hu Zhiwei said to Song Yang, "After the start of the TGA professional e-sports league, Panda TV has received a lot of orders for computer LCD screens. I am going to let Panda's side, from Dell, Compaq, HP and other computer manufacturers Over there, get some orders!"

  Now, Panda TV mainly sells two major products: LCD TV and LCD computer screen. The biggest partner is Apple, and now it is the screen supplier of Apple Computer.

  Hu Zhiwei wants Panda to supply computer manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard. He knows that it is not easy, but with the current popularity of e-sports leagues in America, he can take as many orders as he can.

On the contrary, after going back, because of the cost problem, plus the domestic computer manufacturers, they are all assembly plants, and the parts are imported from overseas. It is not easy for Panda TV to squeeze in. Hu Zhiwei simply prepared to let Panda TV. First develop overseas, and finally bear the title of "international big brand", and then kill it back!

  Song Yang looked at Hu Zhiwei up and down, feeling that this trip to America had a great influence on Hu Zhiwei, and he was no longer obsessed with the domestic market.

   Now the domestic home appliance industry is clinging to the domestic market. The high-end appliance market is dominated by overseas brands. Domestic appliance brands can only compete in the mid-to-low-end market.

  For domestic brands to go overseas, they have to wait for more than ten years before they go out slowly, and then they pay various tuition fees, but at that time, the international trade market has already undergone drastic changes, and there is no profit at all.

The change of    Panda TV may also be a change for many domestic electrical appliance brands. How can domestic rolls make more money overseas, and they are all foreign exchange...

   "You decide this matter, and I will let the North American Global Investment Fund send consultants to help you!"

Song Yang said to Hu Zhiwei that he also wanted to see how far Panda TV can go, but in the initial stage, he still had to help Hu Zhiwei, including foreign trade consultants, legal affairs, finance, taxation and other issues, all of which had to be supported by Panda TV. At the bottom, otherwise Hu Zhiwei, who would have to step on those pits, cracked.

   Goldman Sachs headquarters, since Pelle Greene hung up the phone and rushed to Paulson's office, Paulson has been frowning, sitting there thinking hard for a long time, still not saying a word.

   "It turned out to be America Telecom..."

Paulson murmured to himself, this news is explosive enough, but Paulson's face is full of doubts. The news he received before that Song Yang was going to make a big move was all from General Electric, but Now it is a merger between ICQ and America Telecom, which makes Paulson a little puzzled.

Looking at Paulson's frowning, an outrageous idea popped into Pellet Greene's mind, "Is it possible that ICQ, after merging with Inter-American Telecom, will acquire and merge NBC Group and Comcast Television Network. ?"

   Since last year, Song Yang has been very close to Comcast Group and General Electric's Immel, which has long been figured out by Goldman Sachs.

Hearing this absurd idea, Paulson couldn't help laughing. He felt that Pellet Greene was joking. If he really wanted to play like this, how big is ICQ playing this time? The giant of the knife comes out?

But just after laughing a few times, Paulson suddenly couldn't laugh. Thinking of Song Yang's previous operations, Paulson's back shivered with chills. He was sure of others, even Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. Old guns like this don't dare to play like this.

   But Song Yang was born in the Internet and played the Internet. After the indulgence of America and Wall Street in the past few years, what is there not to dare to play?

Taking a breath, Paulson turned his head quickly and looked up at Pellet Greeney, "Let the marketing department do all they can to acquire ICQ, General Electric, and Comcast stocks, buy as many as you want, and others. The stock in the hands of the institution is also bought back!"

   Paulson said eagerly. He didn't know how long it was before he could hear this kind of heartbeat, and the blood was boiling hot. Paulson was not afraid of Song Yang's play, but he was afraid that Song Yang would not dare to play!

   "Then there is Snow Mountain Games..."

   Paulson at this time, how can he care about Snow Mountain? He is going to hold a board meeting, and Goldman Sachs will make a lot of money.

   "You send someone to talk to Xue Leshan!"

   After Goldman Sachs became the platform for ICQ, ICQ's stock price began to rise, but it did not receive too many "game concept stocks" dividends, and the stock price did not rise much.

But at the close, without any news, ICQ's stock price was pulled up again, just like on the first day of listing, there is no reason to say it, it was pulled up abruptly, and countless people watched ICQ helplessly. The stock price broke through the sky-high price of $150 and continued to rise.

   And at this time, a gossip that came from nowhere, suddenly came out from the Nasdaq Securities Commission, ICQ is preparing to issue new shares, and the scale is very large!

   (end of this chapter)