Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

When Chambers received a call from Yanagawa, he was not surprised at all.

Chambers understands Yanagawa's current situation very well.Now Lenovo is jointly suppressed by Acer and Deep Space in China, and its life is very difficult. If it cannot survive the recent period, Lenovo may have a very difficult time in the future.

This is a matter of life and death for Lenovo.

If Deep Space and Acer show no mercy this time, and Lenovo doesn't have any good way to deal with it, it's hard to say whether Lenovo will still be a company in a few years.

But Chambers had no interest in Yanagawa's proposal to join forces with Cisco and start a war with Deep Space.

There is no other reason than that Lenovo is not strong enough.

Lenovo, a company, originally only relied on the Chinese market to survive, and its development of foreign markets was very poor. Now they cannot even control the Chinese market.

Why can such a company cooperate with Cisco to fight against Deep Space?
Of course, no matter how powerful Browning is, it is still a gun, so Chambers did not give up Lenovo easily. He still held Lenovo in a trap and let Lenovo use its strength to fight against Deep Space Company.

Chambers told Yanagawa that as long as Lenovo charges quickly from the front, Cisco will definitely help them from behind.

Yanagawa was also an old fox, so he didn't believe what Chambers said.

The scene of the last time we cooperated with AOL is still vivid in my mind.

AOL, which had a close relationship with them back then, has now become a close partner of Deep Space.

Chambers asked them to charge from the front. The best result is that Cisco will push them at the critical moment. The result again is that Cisco will watch the fire from the other side.

There is also a worst-case outcome, that is, Cisco takes advantage of Lenovo to launch a charge, and uses the oriole behind to capture Lenovo alive and then send it to Deep Space Company.

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In fact, Yanagawa called Chambers mainly because he wanted Cisco to help them get some money.

Their main difficulty this time was that they did not receive investment from the three investment companies and had no money to buy IBM's PC business.

As long as they have money, they still hope to start the acquisition of IBM's PC business.

In this way, they still have a chance to regroup and fight back.

But Chambers only verbally agreed to help them, but in fact it was impossible to help them.

This road was not going to work, so Yanagawa was not discouraged. He lobbied everywhere, begged for help, and tried to raise funds from various institutions and units.

They also asked domestic banks.

In the end, after piecing everything together, I finally got the money.

After collecting the money, Lenovo contacted IBM and prepared to restart the merger and acquisition plan of the PC business with them.

But what Lenovo didn't expect was that IBM actually replied to Lenovo that while Lenovo was raising money everywhere, they had reached an agreement with BenQ Group.

BenQ Mobile will acquire IBM's PC business for US$[-] billion, US$[-] million in cash and US$[-] million in stock.

This condition is exactly the same as what Lenovo negotiated with them before, but compared to cooperating with Lenovo, IBM is definitely more willing to cooperate with BenQ Group.

Not to mention that the money given by the Foundation Group is very straightforward, but the stocks given by the Foundation Group have much more potential than Lenovo's stocks.Some of the stocks listed by BenQ Group this time are the stocks of its subsidiary AUO. The stock of AUO has now risen to US$[-] per share, and it looks like the momentum will continue to rise.

AU Optronics' shares have always been a best-seller, and it can be said that you can make money by buying them.

Lenovo didn't expect that even after a short period of time, they would be stolen from BenQ.

Yanagawa was so angry that he called the office of the CEO of IBM China and scolded Zhou Weikun.

And Zhou Weikun was also speechless, because he, the president of Greater China, could not make the decision regarding the merger and acquisition of the PC business, and Yanagawa also knew it.

It's just that Yanagawa couldn't scold the president's office at the headquarters. He could only vent his anger by scolding the president of Greater China, and Yanagawa only dared to scold Zhou Weikun. Even if the president of IBM walked in front of Yanagawa, Yanagawa wouldn't dare to do it. He scolded him the same way he scolded Zhou Weikun.

I’ve scolded and vented my anger, but I still have to live the rest of my life.

The first problem Yanagawa and the others have to face now is how they should spend the money they raised from various places, and whether they should return it to others.

In addition, the most important question is, if there is no way to acquire IBM's PC business, what should they do next?

BenQ's move has drastically reduced Lenovo's performance and made it even more difficult to escape.

The stock price, which had risen slightly just two days ago because of the money raised, suddenly fell again after BenQ announced that they had acquired IBM's PC business.

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While Lenovo was struggling, Yu Dong and Jimmy were in a good mood, because Tencent's listing plan was launched very smoothly. If nothing unexpected happens, Tencent will be successfully listed in a few months.

In fact, Yu Dongdu rarely cares about Lenovo now.

From Lenovo's point of view, Deep Space Company is their opponent.

But from the perspective of Deep Space Company, Lenovo is just a small stumbling block on their development path, the kind that can be kicked away with just a slight lift of the foot.

Lenovo has now been suppressed by Deep Space Company in all aspects, with no chance of turning around.

Now the Deep Space Company’s main focus is actually on Motorola and Samsung.

They put it on Motorola because they wanted to take advantage of Motorola's development problems and seize a large number of patents for their company's mobile business.

After BenQ Mobile launched its smartphones, it still needed these patents from Motorola. These days, without patents, it is still very disadvantageous.

The reason for focusing on Samsung is because the next strong opponent of Deep Space Company is Samsung.

Last year, Samsung began to constantly jump in front of the deep space company, using secret tricks in many corners.

Now that Deep Space Company has finished its early stages, it has freed up its hands and is ready to compete with Samsung Electronics.

Of course, Samsung is not only very large, but they also have the backing of the entire Goryeo country, so there is still some pressure when fighting against them.

However, Deep Space Company is not worried, because Yu Dong and the others do not expect to be able to defeat Samsung in a short time. What they have to do at this stage is to encroach on Samsung Electronics' overseas markets in various industries.

Clean up Samsung Electronics' overseas markets first, and they will naturally not be able to make any trouble in the future.