giants of the era

Chapter 298 Capital predators are capital predators!

While AOL was still thinking about it, Li Zetian had already launched an acquisition operation to Carl Zeiss in East Germany in the Soviet-occupied zone.

The Soviet Union and the United States are in the Cold War, and the issue of the acquisition of Carl Zeiss is a bit sensitive.

However, after all, East Germany does not belong to the Soviet Union, but the Democratic Germany. In terms of business, the East German Carl Zeiss company suffered serious losses. Since someone wants to buy the company, it can also be considered.

Soon, the people sent by Li Zetian began to contact the people from Carl Zeiss, officially entering the negotiation process.

Not long after, news came out that Li Zetian had initiated an acquisition from the German company Trumpf.

At this time, the German government and German citizens were very surprised.

"Chronos Li's investment is going to shift to Germany?"

Many Germans are delighted.

Germany is a defeated country and needs outside investment.

Li Zetian is the richest man in the world, and his investment trends have always attracted attention.His acquisition of German companies means that he is optimistic about the development of Germany.The German government, of course, supports it.With Li Zetian as an example, why should international capital enter Germany one after another to promote Germany's economic development?

Therefore, during the acquisition process, Li Zetian encountered no obstruction from the German government.Money is not an issue as long as the government does not interfere.

In fact, Germany is the largest economy in Europe, and its industry is very developed. Li Zetian is very optimistic about its development.

Although Li Zetian now has American citizenship, his company is an international enterprise, and the US government interferes with companies in the United States at most.

As the saying goes, "the cunning rabbit has three caves", Li Zetian naturally will not put all his industries in the United States.

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Three days passed quickly. The person who knows the current affairs is Junjie, and Steve Case is a smart man. Finally, he discussed with Jim Kinsey and agreed to Li Zetian's request.

Li Zetian sent Dongfang Yuqin to AOL again and formally signed a contract with them.At the same time, it brought the cooperation contracts of Mango Computer Company, Apple Company and Sprint Company, which allowed America Online to install the online service system on the computer, and Sprint Company provided the network service.

After Dongfang Yuqin left, Steve Case said with emotion: "Chronos Li has too many resources. Once AOL got it, it provided so much help. Why can't the company develop!!"

Jim Kinsey nodded: "That's right! Okay, this is just the beginning, we still need to get more orders, all computer stores and telecommunications companies are our targets!"

"Ok!"

Li Zetian allowed AOL to develop without intervening or even making suggestions.

In fact, because the Internet has not yet emerged, good products are made, but other companies imitate them.In addition, Steve Case and his management team are still very young after all and need to be honed.

His current focus is on Sprint, the telecommunications network that is the key to the Internet.

Now that America Online has been acquired, it is time to speed up the development of Sprint. Li Zetian intends to acquire a telecommunications company and expand rapidly.The target has been found, GTE, the largest independent local telephone company in the United States.

Right now, the U.S. dollar has depreciated sharply, and there are still more than 30 billion U.S. dollars in the account of the umbrella company.When the end of the year comes, the company will pay dividends again, and the money will not be spent. Li Zetian is unhappy and always feels that he is losing money.If there is not enough money, Wells Fargo Bank under the name of Li Zetian can still borrow money.

Therefore, on the third day of the acquisition of AOL, Li Zetian launched an acquisition offer to GTE in the name of Sprint.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately shocked the US telecommunications industry.

The Wall Street Journal couldn't help reporting: "Sprint, with the support of Chronos Li, is incomparably strong and will definitely become the overlord of American telecommunications in the near future!!"

AT&T's internal hearts are floating, and it is impossible to suppress the strong rise of Sprint.

The establishment of a nationwide digital fiber optic network immediately made Sprint a strong competitor in AT&T's long-distance telephone business.In addition, the submarine optical cable construction between the United States and Asia is about to be completed. At that time, Sprint will beat AT&T for international long-distance business in Asia, unless AT&T also builds a submarine optical cable immediately.

In addition, AT&T is also facing competition from MCI, which can be described as besieged on all sides, which is really frustrating.

AOL's Steve Case and Jim Kinsey were ecstatic when they learned that Sprint was buying GTE. If GTE is acquired by Li Zetian, AOL can get the absolute support of GTE, and the company's future development speed will definitely be as fast as a rocket.

"Chronos Li deserves to be the richest man in the world, a billionaire, rich and powerful, and domineering! If we hadn't agreed to Chronos Li's acquisition of AOL, we would definitely have a headache now!" Steve Case laughed.

"Hehe, that's true!" Jim Kinsey laughed. "In my opinion, this is just the beginning. After Chronos Li acquires GTE, he will definitely not be satisfied. The seven small Bell companies may be his next goal!"

"The combination of capital power and unique insight is simply invincible!"

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Li Zetian's big moves are frequent, and the latest news is all about him.

Either the acquisition of a German company, or the acquisition of an American telecommunications company, it seems that the fangs of capitalists have been exposed, and people realize that this is the real capitalist predator! ! !
In the evening, Dongfang Yuqin walked into Li Zetian's study and said, "Mr. Li, M. Davis, the chairman of 20th Century Fox Film Company, just called and kindly invited you to his party."

"You can politely decline it for me. You know, I don't like to go to this kind of party." Li Zetian continued to read the document without raising his head.

Dongfang Yuqin reminded: "Mr. Li, this is not a simple party!"

"Oh?!" Li Zetian raised his head at this moment, looked at her and asked, "Why isn't it simple?"

"News Corporation wanted to acquire the 20th Century Fox Film Company, but there was no agreement on the price. At this critical moment, M. Davis suddenly held a party and invited many people with strong financial resources. This is worth investigating. Mr. Li, if If you're interested in 20th Century Fox, you might want to come to this party!
In the 60s, the 20th Century Fox Film Company produced the film "Cleopatra", the most expensive film in American film history, but it suffered a disastrous failure.From then on, 20th Century Fox, short of cash, began to decline, and by the 70s, the company made very few films. In 1981, the big oilman M. Davis bought the company, but it did not bring him huge profits, so now he wants to change hands. "

Li Zetian was secretly happy when he heard the words. Although he didn't know much about 20th Century Fox Film Company, he also knew that the current situation of the company was not good. The "Star Wars" series that made 20th Century Fox Film Company a huge profit Now it belongs to Disney.

"Then go!" Li Zetian thought about it, and said with a smile, "Hehe, it seems to be very interesting to control two Hollywood film giants! In addition, the "Sun" under the name of News Corporation once satirized me, although the matter has passed It's been a long time, but it left a scar on my fragile heart..."

Speaking of the latter, Li Zetian couldn't help but joked.However, he does have some conflicts with News Corporation. Why not do it if he can add obstacles to News Corporation and at the same time strengthen himself?

(End of this chapter)