Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 1087 Research and Development Expenses
At this time, Tengxun suddenly announced that they were going to go public, and the financial market became even more lively.

Moreover, the listing model adopted by Tengxun is basically the same as Google. They also convened many investment banks to "select a concubine" together, and then conducted a Dutch auction.

But the difference is that the last time Google did this, these investment banks were still a little resistant, but this time Tengxun tried it again, and they were used to it.

Investment banks are investment banks, and their adaptability is indeed very strong.

The key is that these investment banks have seen the situation clearly in a short period of time. They understand that if they maintain their posture as before, they will not even have soup to drink.

Take Google's IPO this time, because they participated less in it, the commission they received was reduced by half, but at least they got the money.

Google's IPO is so large that the commission ratio is smaller, but you can still make a lot of money, and with less participation, you have to do a lot less work.Even if you can't eat a mouthful of meat, you can at least chew some bones and drink some soup.

Look at Merrill Lynch, which chose to withdraw from this project before. It didn’t make a dime, and now it’s being slapped in the face. Many customers have questioned their professionalism, because many customers have made a lot less money this time. money.

Some people say that in the financial market, not losing money means making money.

But in the eyes of most people, it should be the other way around. If you don't make money, it means losing money.

Some investment banks have learned to take the initiative to find companies.

Although Tengxun is not as large and well-known as Google, their situation is actually similar to Google's.

The first is the characteristics of the enterprise. Both companies are in the Internet industry. The second is the financial status of the company. Both companies are not short of money.

After Google went public and disclosed its company's financials, everyone realized that there were still US$[-] million lying on Google's account with no place to use it.

This means that they are not short of money at all, and they are not listed for money.

No one knows how much money Tengxun Company has on its account, but Tengxun will definitely not be short of money, because Tengxun can make a lot of money from just one drift bottle.

Tengxun's approach is very wild. It can be said that it is completely different from other subsidiaries of Deep Space Company.

Other subsidiaries of the Deep Space Company, especially the Deep Space Computer, which has a similar nature. The Deep Space Tribe and Dongdong they developed do not seem to be particularly utilitarian, and there are few places where users are defrauded of money, and the Deep Space Computer The Deep Space Tribe and Dongdong are very strictly controlled, and any information related to pornography will be banned immediately.

Deep Space Computer has been committed to the development of network technology and the maintenance of the network environment.

But Facebook and Drift Bottle are not like this at all. They don’t ignore it, but they turn a blind eye and let it grow wildly.

Because of this, although Facepi.com is a rising star, it is still developing very rapidly.

Some people describe Facebook as being like a virus that spreads very fast and cannot be stopped.

Especially drift bottles, which are now particularly popular among young people, and many young people rely on them to fall in love.

The drifting bottle can throw directional bottles, so many young men and women who want to "fall in love" will throw the bottle in their own city. If they meet someone who suits their taste, they will make an appointment for in-depth communication.

As a result, when many people think of drift bottles now, they think of "falling in love."

In daily life, if anyone says that he threw a drift bottle, 90.00% of others will think in a bad direction.

And there are many functions in the drift bottle that require money. For example, if you want to throw more bottles, you need to sign up for a membership.

If you want to add a good-looking skin to your bottle, you also need to sign up for a membership.

Tengxun itself will also accept some advertisements.

Ordinary users want to use bottles to advertise, but the effect is not particularly good, because each person can throw very few bottles, and it is not easy for one person to register multiple accounts.

But it is easy for Tengxun to publish advertisements themselves. They can send them in bulk in the background, and users cannot tell that these advertisements are officially distributed. They will only think that they are sent by other users.

These practices of Facebook are very controversial, but the key is that they can make money.

Not only did they make a lot of money from a drift bottle, but they also ported many games and made money from the games.

Anyway, Facebook does everything to make money, not fame.

Tencent doesn’t seem to care if there is a loss of users, because they produce a variety of software, and many of them just kill a wave of users and then leave.

Anyway, Tengxun must have a lot of money in his hands now that he has not spent.

Many ordinary netizens are also paying attention to this matter. They are more concerned about whether Tengxun's listing will have an impact on them.

[Tengxun is going to be listed, will the control of drift bottles be stricter? 】

[It would be better if it were stricter. Now I often receive advertising drift bottles and some messy things. 】

[Haha, you don’t want to see the messy stuff, can you give it to me?I'll bear it for you. 】

[It’s strange, why didn’t I receive it? 】

[People who receive this kind of drift bottle should think about whether there is something wrong with them. 】

[What’s the problem? I haven’t done anything and I just pick up some garbage bottles every day. 】

[I think the drift bottle is very good. My husband and I met through the drift bottle. We have been married for seven years now. 】

[Do you know how long it took for the drift bottle to come out? It’s still seven years. 】

[It’s true that my boyfriend and I met through a bottle six months ago and are now ready to get engaged. 】

[Isn’t that too fast? 】

【Love is here, nothing can stop it. 】

[Why are you all so nice, but I met a scumbag. 】

[Why is Tengxun going public?Can anyone tell me about it? 】

[Nonsense, of course you want to make money. After the listing, there will be a bunch of billionaires. 】

[The people who most want Tengxun to go public are the employees of Tengxun. 】

[After Tengxun goes public, how much money can Deep Space Group make? 】

[This depends on the listing situation. If it is like Google, the valuation of Deep Space Group is estimated to be increased by more than one billion US dollars. 】

[It’s more than a billion dollars. Now Google’s stock price is still slowly rising. It may rise to 170 US dollars this year. In this way, Google’s market value will reach more than 50 billion US dollars. 】

[Who knows how much money Deep Space will get after Google goes public? 】

[They still hold close to 15.00% of the shares. If calculated based on a market value of US$50 billion, the shares held by Deep Space Company are worth US$[-] million. 】

[How much did they spend for these shares? 】

[It is said that it is only tens of millions of US dollars, but it is definitely less than [-] million US dollars anyway. 】【Damn, deep space companies can really make money. 】

[Is this the first time you know that deep space companies can make money? 】

[If you open a consulting company in deep space, you will definitely make a fortune. 】

[Why does Deep Space Company want to open a consulting company? Don’t they have a company to make money themselves? 】

[Yeah, they have money and people, so why do they do consulting? 】

……

In fact, many people have discovered that the stocks purchased by Deep Space Company in recent years have slowly begun to appreciate in value.

Not to mention Amazon's sudden explosion, everyone can't understand the recent rise in its stock price, but for companies like Apple, its stock price is also rising steadily.

Someone has calculated for Deep Sky Company that if Deep Sky Company cashes out all their stocks now, because they used leverage before, they can now achieve a profit of several hundred percent.

Even in this case, Deep Sky Company did not consider selling some of its stocks, and was even buying stocks of some Internet companies and other high-tech companies.

However, some people have discovered that Deep Space has now greatly slowed down the pace of buying stocks, and there has even been no movement in the stock market for a long time.

For a long time before, you could hear how many shares of which company Deep Space Company had purchased almost every one or two weeks.

Deep Space Company suddenly stopped on the stock market, which actually made financial practitioners nervous.

Deep Space Company stopped buying stocks. Is it because the stock market is going to have problems?

Could it be that Deep Space Company is about to withdraw?

Even because of this incident, many stocks experienced a small decline, but this decline will soon rise back.

……

In fact, there is nothing wrong with the stock market, it's just that deep space companies are now short of money.

The Deep Space Company is short of money. If this is told, no one will believe it.

Putting aside all the other businesses of Deep Space Company, just talking about books and movies, the money Deep Space Company makes is terrifying.

In the past two years, Deep Space Company has basically dominated the movie box office list, which is a box office of billions of dollars a year.

Moreover, the box office is not the bulk of Deep Space Entertainment's profits. The subsequent various copyright fees, CD sales, and peripheral sales have annual sales of more than 100 billion US dollars.

With such a terrifying ability to attract money, do you dare to say that Deep Space Company is short of money?

But in fact, Deep Space Corporation is indeed short of money right now.

They earn a lot and spend a lot. In the past two years, they have acquired many companies one after another, spent a lot of money, and saw that the cash bank was almost exhausted.

The key is that the amount of money they will invest in technology research and development will increase to a very exaggerated level.

R&D expenditures of at least a billion dollars a year are invisible.

Projects that the Deep Space Company is cooperating with several universities have recently started.

There is another thing that will cost Deep Space Company a lot of money, and they are ready to take action against Motorola.

When Jimmy told Yu Dong that he was going to attack Motorola, Yu Dong was very surprised.

From Yu Dong's point of view, although Motorola is in decline now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, so it doesn't mean that they can be attacked casually.

But Jimmy is very confident, and Deep Space Company only wants to take over Motorola's mobile communications business.

The reason why they want to get Motorola's mobile communications business is because Motorola holds a large number of mobile communications patents, which is exactly what BenQ Mobile lacks.

When Android-based mobile phones are launched in the future, BenQ Mobile will definitely suffer if there is no patent in hand.

Therefore, Jimmy must plan in advance to build a solid patent barrier for BenQ Mobile so that they can seize the high ground in future competition.

In fact, Motorola seems to be doing okay now, but it is already walking on a tightrope.

Chris Galvin announced his resignation last month, and the company's new CEO has not yet taken office.

Motorola hired a vice president in charge of Java development from Sun Microsystems some time ago and asked him to take charge of the development of the universal operating system for Motorola mobile phones.

Although Motorola is part of the Symbian family, they still hope to develop a smartphone system to help them win the market.

But unfortunately, Java has an inherent shortcoming, that is, it is too slow. Motorola will most likely not be able to solve this problem.

Even if it can be solved, I'm afraid it will take many years. If the day lily is cold in many years, not to mention Deep Space Company's Android system will be released by then, I am afraid other manufacturers will not be vegetarians.

Once Motorola discovered that this mobile operating platform was simply unachievable and that they had no further development in the mobile phone market, the situation quickly deteriorated.

At that time, Motorola has only two options. One is to package and sell their mobile communications business, and the other is to support it with difficulty, and then let the mobile communications business bring down all other aspects of their business.

Jimmy believes that Motorola will definitely choose the former.

Now Deep Space Company is also saving money, waiting for Motorola to have problems, and they will take decisive action.

Even if there is no opportunity in the past two years, this opportunity will appear after the Android system comes out.

……

On October [-], in Yu Dong's office, after Jimmy told Yu Dong about Motorola's situation, he smiled and said, "There are more and more places to spend money."

"Well, there are more and more. Is the new energy laboratory we cooperate with Columbia University burning money recently?"

"They are okay, mainly because there is no big progress. The robotics laboratory has the least money, with an average of at least 200 million US dollars per month."

"That's not bad, it's only 400 million US dollars a year."

"At least...it is estimated that it will cost 5000 million US dollars this year."

"$5000 million is not bad."

Jimmy raised his finger, "You are really wealthy. You spend 5000 million US dollars a year on R&D, which is fine here. Don't look at the R&D costs of hundreds of millions of dollars every year for technology companies. Our situation is different. We are just a laboratory, so when calculating R&D expenses, it is relatively simple.”

But Yu Dong does think that the R&D expenses of 5000 million US dollars a year are not bad, and the robotics laboratory is not making no money now. They can still sell some money to supplement their family income.

The main reason now is that the research and development expenses of Blue Starry Sky are very high. Each of the several small companies they have in their hands spends tens of millions of dollars in research and development expenses a year.

(End of this chapter)