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In the afternoon, Zhou Buqi listened to the reports of the young secretaries on the rental market, basically telling stories, summarizing what he saw and heard during his research, without any depth.

Zhou Buqi didn't give much hope at all.

In the end, they found a reason, saying that Guan Nanqing's report was the best, and that she would accompany her on a business trip to the United States tomorrow, which made her so excited that she immediately jumped up.

It's like winning the lottery.

In fact, Zhou Buqi had already decided on this matter, and Sun Guanran had already submitted the relevant visa materials for filing.

Others stayed in the company and received new tasks as product experience officers.

It is worth mentioning that Sun Wanran also stayed in China.

The next day, Zhou Buqi and his team set off for Silicon Valley.

First go to the headquarters of Ziweixing International.

Negotiate the most important case.

Changyou's acquisition of Ziweixing International's game business department, after many adjustments by all parties, as well as supplementary materials and evidence, the case can finally be finalized.

Changyou will eventually acquire the game division of Ziweixing International at a price of 82.6 billion US dollars!

No cash, it is an all-stock merger.

Now Changyou's market value has shrunk to 132.6 billion US dollars, and it will cost a lot to complete such a large transaction.Changyou had to pay 7.45 billion shares for the bid at the closing price of US$11.1 per share.

Previously, Changyou’s total share capital was 17.8 billion shares, of which Sohu held 7.74 million shares, Ziwei Star held 4.85 million shares, and Zhou Buqi personally held 7000 million shares.

After the completion of this transaction, Changyou's total share capital will increase to 28.9 billion shares.

The largest shareholder will no longer be Changyou. Ziwei Star International has become the largest shareholder with 11.1 billion shares; Sohu is the second largest shareholder with 7.74 million shares, and Ziwei Star is the No. 4.85 shareholder with [-] million shares. Three major shareholders.

In terms of shareholding ratio, Ziweixing International accounted for 38.4%, Sohu accounted for 26.8%, and Ziweixing accounted for 16.8%.

Zhou Buqi's personal shareholding ratio is 2.4%, making him the largest individual shareholder.

The transaction plan is confirmed, and the final review will be carried out internally.

If there is no problem, this year's most important transaction in the game industry will be officially announced on the morning of September 9th.

Once the deal is successfully concluded, it will be the fourth largest transaction in the global technology industry this year, second only to Google's $125 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, HP's $102 billion acquisition of Autonomy and Microsoft's $85 billion acquisition of Skype.

However, this is nothing.

The big game is yet to come.

After Zhou Buqi arrived in the United States, he was in such a hurry that he didn't even have time for jet lag, and he didn't even have time to spend time with his wife and children at home, let alone molesting his little secretary Guan Nanqing to have a little flirtatious flair.

In the morning, he made a decision on the acquisition of Changyou; in the afternoon, he went to Google to meet Larry Page.

The two chatted for 25 minutes.

A super case with a total value of 200 billion US dollars was finalized.

$200 billion, not a penny more, not a penny less.

Google buys Twitter!

This is a consensus result reached by Zhou Buqi and Larry Page sitting in the office.Both of them are big bosses, so there is no need to haggle over some details, it's almost enough.

Next, Zhou Buqi and Larry Page assigned tasks to each other.

Zhou Buqi is responsible for getting the management of Twitter, mainly the current Twitter CEO Dorsey, and persuading him to stay; Google is going to get the main investors of Twitter.

The current market valuation of Twitter is estimated to be about 80 billion US dollars. This price is more sincere.Except for Sequoia's $320 billion super offer from Lions, most other investment institutions will agree.

Once the money is in place, other matters can be negotiated.

Walking out of Larry Page's office, Zhou Buqi was refreshed. On the first day, he finalized two major events one after another, which felt much smoother than expected.

Ning Lu was by her side, smiling sweetly.

Guan Nanqing didn't get the chance to enter the office to observe, so she could only wait in the main office outside, her face flushed.In just ten minutes, more than a dozen foreign guys came to strike up a conversation. These foreigners are really thick-skinned.There was even a white chick who freaked out by sneaking up and asking if she could go on a date.

Larry Page sent his assistant to send Zhou Buqi to the third floor. There is still a team waiting here. It is a team from Japan. The two people leading the team are Kupei Fukuyama and Dong Chen, representing the Japanese branch of Ziwei Star respectively. The company and Jingtao.

Google also has a branch in Japan.

However, this group of people did not connect with Google Japan, but directly came to Google headquarters in the United States. It can be seen that the scope of business to be cooperated is relatively wide and the decision-making level is relatively high.

There is also a relationship with the big boss of Zhou, and it means to come to a quick decision to finalize the cooperation.

Even the big case of 200 billion US dollars has been negotiated. This trivial matter is very simple. Zhou Buqi has a lot of face. Larry Page sent an assistant to send a message to the vice president in charge of international business, saying yes It is recommended to strengthen cooperation.

This is also considered to be prepared in advance.

Zhou Buqi stayed here for half an hour, then pulled Chen Dong away.

He is in charge of Jingtao, and the business cooperation with Google is relatively simple. He just wants to use Google Japan's traffic distribution advantages to bring more traffic to Jingtao.

"How about that Fukuyama Kappei?"

Zhou Buqi has no taboos in front of Chen Dong, and the new secretary next to him is as beautiful as a flower, and he is not afraid of provoking him.

Chen Dong said with a smile: "I don't have much contact with them, so I think it's okay. The successor chosen by Tang Binchen will not be too bad after all. He proposed the cooperation idea this time, and I think it's a good idea."

Zhou Buqi said: "Promote YikYak to cooperate with Google?"

Chen Dongdao: "Yes, it's also to prevent problems before they happen. He used to be an employee of Google... He has worked at Google's headquarters. He may be very afraid of Google's strength."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Don't worry too much, even if you sell Twitter to Google, they won't be able to make waves!"

The current Twitter has not yet entered the Chinese, Japanese and Korean markets.

Domestic policy does not allow it.

Japan and South Korea are constrained by the board of directors headed by Zhou Buqi. The management tried to expand Twitter's business to Japan and South Korea several times, but was blocked.

Therefore, the similar product in Japan and South Korea is YikYak under Ziweixing International.

Fukuyama Kappei's worries are justified.

After selling Twitter to Google, Zhou Buqi's power in Twitter's board of directors will be gone, and he will be unable to stop the subsequent globalization of Twitter.

At that time, Twitter will definitely extend towards the Japanese and Korean markets.

This is a risk for YikYak.

If possible, it should reach a cooperation with Google as soon as possible.

Chen Dongdao: "Fukuyama Kappei found the right entry point. The core business of Google is search. Now, Google Japan's search business is still far behind Yahoo Japan. It mainly uses the content and data of YikYak, Reached a certain cooperation with Google.”

Zhou Buqi asked, "What cooperation?"

Chen Dongdao: "As long as you don't let Google treat YikYak differently in the Japanese market after taking down Twitter. Well... that's right, I don't know if you have seen the interface of Google Japan. It is different from other interfaces. Localization is very strong.”

Zhou Buqi invited him to sit down in a nearby coffee shop, "The localized website is not the same."

Chen Dong said with a smile: "The websites with a lot of traffic in Japan are generally of the nature of portals. Japanese Internet users prefer websites with text and picture links. It is also from this year...that is Larry After Page took office as CEO, some changes have taken place, which has pushed Google to further localize its operations, and it is no longer the main version that is accepted internationally.”

Zhou Buqi really doesn’t know what business-level changes Larry Page has made to Google, “so a lot of text and pictures have been added to the homepage of Google Japan? Is it changing in the direction of the portal? Like Like Yahoo Japan?"

Chen Dong nodded, "Yes, but it is not a pure portal network, they are more restrained, mainly adding links to the video website YouTube, email Gmail and other services on the homepage, mainly their own internal products. Maybe it will be platformized in the future, and it will really develop towards Yahoo Japan. The senior management of Google Japan has also changed, and now the Japanese are leading the way, and they are vigorously promoting localization.”

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Larry Page can do this."

Chen Dongdao: "Google entered the Japanese market as early as 2001, and the localization has been relatively poor, similar to that in China. However, the Internet advertising market in Japan is huge. In the past year, the global Internet advertising total The scale is 450 billion U.S. dollars, of which the Japanese market is as high as 60 billion U.S. dollars."

Zhou Buqi also knew this, and said with a smile: "Well, I have read the financial report. In the first half of this year, YikYak's advertising revenue in Japan reached 5.7 million US dollars."

Chen Dongdao: "Yes, Japan is currently the country with the highest Internet penetration rate, reaching 75%, while the United States is only 70%, so Internet advertising is a major trend to replace traditional advertising. Larry Page attaches great importance to the Japanese market. It is conceivable that You know, after he buys Twitter, he will definitely focus on the Japanese market.”

"That's to be expected."

Zhou Buqi agrees.

However, he didn't care too much.There are too many experiences in past and present lives. Google has produced hundreds of products in the social field, and none of them have succeeded.

Handing over Twitter to Google is probably not a strong alliance, but nothing.

After this wave of operations, Boss Zhou has made a lot of money, and it is likely to greatly weaken the power of Twitter, thereby promoting the rise of YikYak, especially Helo's next "Moments".

However, according to Fukuyama Kappei's plan, it is not a bad thing to make some preparations in advance.