Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 976 Endless Harm (4K)

As soon as the head of Sony left, Yu Hong, the president of Yike America, pushed open the door of the president's office with a newspaper in his pocket.

Speaking of which, this president's office is used for her usual work, but since President Fang arrived, she deservedly took up the office, so she can only work next door.

"Is this the interview you mentioned yesterday?" Yu Hong waved the "Washington Post" in her hand, and asked the boss angrily.

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, which are influential newspapers in the United States and even the world, are the daily subscriptions of the office, and she saw the original interview reports immediately.

Yu Hong only read it once to confirm that this was indeed Boss Fang's tone.

Fang Zhuo took the newspaper over, and after a cursory look, there was almost no change.

He admitted: "Yes, I met the reporter unexpectedly. I felt that Kallasvuo was indeed a bit too much, so I gave him some responses."

Yu Hong sat down and made a small comment: "Is the emotion too strong?"

Fang Zhuo murmured: "It's okay, just treat it as me and Kallasvuo. Anyway, according to what he means, Nokia and Yi Ke must decide who is better."

Nokia is unwilling to leave the field easily, and has its eyes on Yi Ke, what can be done about it.

Yu Hong was quiet for a while, then suddenly asked, "How are you doing with everything that should be prepared?"

"For orderly advancement, Yike needs a higher stock price." Fang Zhuo replied.

Yu Hong frowned: "I have a very strong hunch that your emotional output may stir up a lot of influence."

Fang Zhuo smiled and said, "That would be great."

Seeing that her boss knew what she was thinking, Yu Hong stopped worrying. Kallasvuo of Nokia was right. Judging from the current situation of the patent litigation between the two sides, the legal counsel may indeed come to an end within two months.

That means those friendships really need to be put to the test.

If something goes wrong, I can only go back to China and sit in Liu Qiangdong's position and try to start again.

LG Electronics' iterative response to new models is not without merit. Amazon's network channels and Echo's gradually opened experience stores are relatively stable, but once this happens, Echo will not be able to appear in the ranks of industry leaders. It's the second line.

At least, this is the case in the global market.

Yu Hong felt a slight sense of tension, as if the tip of the knife was already a millimeter away from the skin.

Seeing Xiao Yu's serious face, Fang Zhuo talked about Stringer's visit and the shares he was willing to sell.

"Sony Music..." Yu Hong had heard Mr. Fang talk about this music company a long time ago. That Bertelsmann has always been very divorced. In fact, there is not much room for cooperation between Yike iMusic and Sony Music.

But if Sony Music is used to strengthen the brand recognition of Yike Company, it should not be a loss.

After all, Sony has already discounted it.

Yu Hong had an idea in mind to use the acquisition of Sony Music shares to boost the company's stock price, and then asked: "Is Sony's sensor promising? I see the internal evaluation of the company. If we use CMOS from other first-tier companies, it will be similar." Effect."

"This, it should be good. Sony's technical strength is still very strong. It has a deep accumulation in this area. When it meets our mobile phone, it just speeds up the research and development. Companies like Canon, um, they don't pay much attention to mobile phones. Transformation of equipment." Fang Zhuo said thoughtfully, "I am quite optimistic, from the perspective of an investor, there will be no loss."

One is the technical strength, the other is the continuous purchase of Yike mobile phone products, and the third is to get funds to continue to invest.

With money, technology and market, no matter how you look at it, it is a good business.

If it weren't for Stringer's dependence on a way to use external funds to improve financial reports, he might not be able to buy such shares.

Fang Zhuo thought about this, and smiled: "Sony Ericsson is still going to Microsoft. This time, I can only be a minority shareholder. Next year, I will see if I can become a major shareholder. While Stringer is still in office, I have to spend more time with him." comminicate."

Yu Hong commented: "Stringer is really lucky to meet you."

"He asked for money, and I gave him the money, but I didn't force it to him." Fang Zhuo's smile suddenly became a little strange, and he continued, "There are different voices in Sony this time. Ying' must suppress these voices, he finally chatted with me about Sony's business and executives, and I said this..."

"Wait." Yu Hong interrupted, "He talked to you about Sony's business and executives?"

Isn't this the chicken coming to the weasel?

Fang Zhuo said disapprovingly: "It's not the first time. I'm a foreign director of Sony, and I do this kind of work. Besides, the second best president in the world, can't I have some insight?"

Yu Hong waited to hear the boss's insights.

"Kutaragi Ken, who cooperated with Stringer before, was taken down because of the loss of PS3. The position of SCE president was replaced by executive vice president Hiroshi Yoshioka. This time Yoshioka Hiroshi made a sound about Stringer's loss. "Fang Zhuo maintained a strange expression, "Stringer may have to deal with Yoshioka Hiroshi after dealing with the profit, but he is not sure about the successor."

"One is Ishida Yoshihisa, the other is Suzuki Kuni, they are both in charge of business, and the other is Kazuo Hirai, he is in charge of electronic entertainment."

"I ruled out one candidate for Stringer. Kazuo Hirai would definitely not do it, because he doesn't have an engineer background like the previous two. Sony SCE is very important and must have a technical gene."

Fang Zhuo stopped.

Yu Hong asked: "Then what? Gone?"

Fang Zhuo spread his hands: "It's gone."

Yu Hong was puzzled, she was right, Sony's PS business was extremely important, and people with technical backgrounds were always required to take charge of it, so what kind of insight or femme fatale was this?

There was puzzlement in her expression and eyes.

Fang Zhuo looked at Xiao Yu's puzzlement, and finally couldn't help laughing, this matter is very interesting.

Yu Hong really didn't know why the boss laughed. She only knew that the problem must be with these three candidates. The most likely reason was that Kazuo Hirai was different.

She silently waited for Boss Fang to finish laughing. Seeing that he had no intention of explaining, he didn't ask for the process, but only talked about the conclusion: "Sony hired you as a foreign director, which is really harmful."

Fang Zhuo sighed: "The one who doesn't know me is Mr. Yu."

Well, sir who knows me, he will thank himself.

There is no problem with Yike’s acquisition of Sony Music’s shares. There is indeed money in the account, and he also holds 5% of the shares. He just needs to further increase the value of this expenditure, but Bingxin needs to step up. The third round of financing will be negotiated within a month.

Working overtime is only for the Jazz's friendship, so it is also worthy of the director.

Both Fang Zhuo and Stringer felt that this exchange was very fruitful, while the other side, who saw the "Washington Post" later, the head of Nokia, Kallasvuo Kallasvu, was deeply irritated.

In the past, although the president of Yike was too much, although Nokia was involved in the press conference, he still mainly talked about Nokia.

Now it's too much to directly attack personally!
Just say a very simple truth, did I say you?

In recent interviews, Kallasvuo only talked about Yike Company, never mentioning Fang Zhuo's name. He was questioned for giving money to the media for no reason, and was ridiculed for no reason!
Can the world's 11th worst CEO be bullied like this?

Kallasvuo did not attack immediately. He carefully observed whether there were any changes in the company before considering how to respond to the attack from the head of Yike in the media.

In his view, this is a kind of frustration after Yike failed to solve the patent problem. Yike must lose, but it must not affect the internal changes of Nokia. After all... the decline in market share is real.

And, judging from this time point, Kallasvuo had to admit in his heart that Nokia's response seemed a little slow.

The momentum of the development of these two companies, Apple and Yike, is even more fierce than imagined!
Why are the two new companies performing like this, and why the old mobile phone companies are lagging behind on the track? This is a subject worth studying.

Kallasvuo waited for the internal response, and then made an appointment for media interviews after holding a meeting.

At this time, he was very relieved to see the mockery of President Yi Ke on the Internet.

"Although I like Yike's mobile phone very much, I have to say, what does it mean to leave patents aside? Why leave patents aside? Is it because Yike can't talk about patents?"

"President Yike's response is too unreasonable!"

"I think Yike is obviously at a disadvantage in the patent litigation with Nokia, otherwise, Fang Zhuo will definitely talk about his patents."

"That aside, it's the funniest joke I've heard this year."

"Fang Zhuo cannot ignore reality, just like Yike cannot ignore patent infringement with ITC."

"The president of Yike attacked the president of another great company without grace. This is extremely surprising. Of course, I also saw that Nokia's mobile phones are really not easy to use."

"Nokia's market share is a very dangerous signal. Leaving Fang Zhuo's impoliteness aside, the president of Nokia mentioned by him is indeed dereliction of duty. No one could have imagined that Nokia had a backwardness in the mobile phone industry a year ago. possibility."

"Fang Zhuo ruthlessly revealed the possibility that Nokia may really need a new leader."

Kallasvuo also saw some unfriendly harsh voices while waiting for the reporter. Fortunately, such voices were not mainstream.

About half an hour later, reporters from Bloomberg were happily invited, and the Washington Post's exclusive interview with the other party stirred up waves of public opinion. This is what everyone likes to see, and it is also the favorite of practitioners like them.

Kallasvuo responded sternly to reporters.

"Nokia will not enter into a patent settlement with Yike. Given that Yike has shown no sincerity, it will insist on applying to the ITC for a ban on the sale of Yike's mobile phone."

"Nokia has already filed similar lawsuits in Europe and will never sit back and watch its own interests be harmed."

"I personally understand Mr. Fang's mood at the moment, but his attack on me will not help solve Yi Ke's current embarrassing situation."

"Instead of worrying about Nokia, Mr. Fang should think about the future of Yike."

"Unlike Mr. Fang, I welcome him to work at Nokia. Perhaps Nokia can accomplish this small goal by acquiring Yike."

Kallasvuo's response was smooth, and he responded with similar taunts.

Compared with Fang Zhuo's emotionality, the president of Nokia not only talked about a more vigorous prosecution, but also reiterated Nokia's attitude towards Yike's extinction, which undoubtedly cheered those who looked down on Yike's situation.

However, on the same night, another company came out to express its position in a timely manner. Apple confirmed that it will not reach a patent cooperation with Nokia for the time being, and will wait patiently for the end of the litigation process before discussing this matter.

This completely uncommunicated news surprised Kampey and cheered up the onlookers.

Following the news, Fang Zhuo disliked the speed of the paper media and directly tweeted.

"Kampek is very interesting. Why is this Nokia CEO so confident?"

"He actually put Nokia's hopes of turning things around on Apple!"

"Isn't Apple a competitor to Nokia?"

"Come on, read it to me, the president of Nokia puts his hope of turning the situation on his competitors."

"This is the level of the 11th worst president in the world!"

"Why won't Apple cooperate with Nokia? I'm afraid it also saw Kallasvuo's stupidity, and Nokia will pay for his stupidity."

"You asked me to talk about patents, right? Nokia has released a capacitive screen mobile phone, and Echo has submitted the latest lawsuit to the ITC, and it will also insist on banning the sale of Nokia products."

"Nokia can't beat Yike in terms of products, and can only use patents to hinder innovation in the market."

"Kamperike, please call Jobs immediately and beg your competitors to forgive you for your short-sightedness."

Unlike the "Washington Post" with too strong a taste, this time Fang Zhuo's fire on Twitter made many people feel excited. There is nothing more interesting than watching Finns and Chinese quarreling on American media platforms !
That's it, more intense, more intense!

The next day, perhaps affected by the news of Apple's refusal to cooperate, Nokia's stock price fell, but Apple's and Yike's stock prices rose by coincidence.

Kallasvuo did not come forward to respond this time.

He flew back directly from Paris to Helsinki, the capital of Finland, hoping to open an opening for Ike in Nokia's homeland first.

Instead of wasting words, it's better to draw out a knife and do it for real.

At the same time, Nokia is also conducting urgent consultations with Apple, trying to restore the other party's sudden change of direction.

If the parties are silent, the fight will not go on.

However, when the public opinion calmed down slightly and Yike's stock price continued to rebound, a Wall Street star stood up and called his name directly in front of the media.

Paulson: I have some interest in Echo stock.

John Paulson, who is famous for shorting, is now known as the "Wall Street Air God" and "Hedge Fund No. 1". He is almost the most haloed financial predator during this period.

With just one sentence, Yike's stock fell, and the situation suddenly became chaotic.

(End of this chapter)