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Headquarters of Rotten Brain Baby in Beijing.

The president's office is bright and spacious, with several exquisite oil paintings hanging on the walls. The long glass table is neatly arranged with stationery and documents.

Yanagi Funashi is sitting on the luxurious office chair in the middle, writing non-stop while processing the company's daily documents. Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and a man in a black suit hurriedly walked in.

He looked energetic and moved swiftly. Yanagi Funashi raised his head and frowned slightly.

"Chen Xiang, what's the matter?" Liu Funzhi asked.

"Mr. Liu, I just received a call from Peng Lei, the person in charge of Ali Group's wealth treasure. Ali Group wants to cooperate with us. This cooperation involves the interests of the company, so I think this matter is still up to you. It's better to make a decision." Chen Xiang said after sitting down.

"What's going on?" Liu Funzhi asked in confusion.

Lannaowa is one of the earliest domestic brands to launch smartphones. Their smartphone was launched in January 2010. The popularity of this phone is not much worse than that of Shanxing’s Galaxy S.

This mobile phone is the LePhone Clover mobile phone of Rotten Nao Wa. In addition, Ro Nao Wa also adopts the operator customization model. Ro Nao Wa launches customized mobile phones for China Mobile and China Unicom.

Driven by the two giants China Mobile and China Unicom, LePhone sales reached more than 40 units.

Of course, this number is nothing for foreign mobile phone brands, but it is a very good result compared to domestic brands. You must know that even Meizu M8 only has 50 units in a year.

"Ali wants us to pre-install their software on our smartphones. As long as we sell a smartphone, the Ahri Group will give us a subsidy of 20 softmei coins. Our new phone will be available in another month." It’s about to be launched, and our mobile phone sales will definitely not be bad by then, and Ali’s subsidy is not a small amount for us,” Chen Xiang said.

The mobile phones Chen Xiang is talking about are new smartphones using Snapdragon S2 and S3 chips. With the hot sales of Deep Blue 1SE and Deep Blue 1S, friends and businessmen are very jealous.

Now Qualcomm has even lowered its price and brought the prices of Snapdragon S2 and S to the floor. Friends are cooperating with Qualcomm to purchase chips to produce new mobile phones. Even if the profits of low-priced smartphones are not as high as those of their feature phones, Maintaining market share is the most important thing to them.

If they launch low-priced smartphones one day late, Deep Blue will take away part of their market share. For mobile phone manufacturers, it is a race against time.

"Have you evaluated the impact of pre-installed software on our phones?" Yanagi Funashi asked.

"Pre-installed software has no impact on our mobile phones. If users don't like it, they can delete it themselves. It can be said that the money is free. And I think pre-installed software is a good project to generate income. We can provide manufacturers with Pre-installed software creates more profits," Chen Xiang replied.

Liu Funizhi thought about it and felt that Chen Xiang's proposal was quite good. Low-priced smartphones do not make much money in the first place. If they can generate income in this way, this will undoubtedly add a new profit to Lenovo. channel.

"When you go back, form a team to be responsible for pre-installation. As for the cooperation with Ahri, I agree, but they must pay a part of the payment first, such as a prepayment of 10 units. When our shipment volume reaches , let them pay the next payment." Yanagi Funashi said.

"Okay, Mr. Liu," Chen Xiang said.

Of course, other mobile phone manufacturers besides Lenovo also received Peng Lei’s call, but Peng Lei ranked the order of contacting Lenovo at a later position. After other mobile phone manufacturers heard that Ahri was sending money to their door, they also agreed one after another. Cooperation with Ahri.

Of course, this money can't be earned simply by pre-installing a piece of software. The manufacturer must also ensure that they can only pre-install their own software. Once it is discovered that they have pre-installed other software, Ahri will not pay them a penny. .

April 2010, 10, US time.

Cupertino Fruit Headquarters, California.

Cook held a small press conference in the Fruit Conference Room.

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely tense, and reporters looked at the door of the conference room from time to time, waiting for Cook's arrival.

The layout of the conference room is simple and elegant. The entire room is shrouded in soft light. The walls are decorated with a gray stone and several decorative paintings are hung on it. There is a long table placed in the center of the room, which is neatly placed. Holding a microphone, laptop and folder, it looks like it's for a presenter.

Maybe this was just a deliberate suspense, and Cook didn't know why he didn't show up at the scheduled time.

Suddenly, the door rang, and Cook walked in. The neat rows and faces once again stimulated the reporters' nerves.

"Sorry everyone, I just had something to deal with, so I'm a little late." Cook adjusted the direction of the microphone and smiled.

Although reporters have some complaints about Cook being late, with Cook's identity out there, they don't dare to offend him easily. Once Cook complains about them, their jobs will not be saved.

“There have always been many loopholes in the iOS system, which have also become a criticism of iPhone security. After many days of hard work by our engineers, we have finally filled in all the loopholes in iOS, so users no longer need to worry about the security of iPhones.

We will push the OTA upgrade to all users at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Users only need to upgrade the iPhone system to the new version. The user's iPhone will not have any vulnerabilities. By then, users will no longer have to worry about mobile phone data being stolen by hackers. " Cook said.

"Mr. Cook, this is Finis Pohl from the Washington Daily News. I would like to ask how your company ensures that all vulnerabilities are repaired. Is it possible that there are vulnerabilities that your company has not found yet?" Finis Pohl said Cook asked first without announcing the question period.

The reporters present felt angry when they saw Finis Bol taking the lead in asking questions without respecting martial ethics.

If I had known, they would have asked Cook questions first.

"Regarding the security issues of the Ios system, we have asked third-party companies to verify it, including Deep Blue Network Security Company." Cook said.

"Mr. Cook, I am Lynette Coulibaly from the Wall Street Journal. Deep Blue Group is also one of the fruit competitors. Why do fruits come to Deep Blue for identification? Aren't fruits afraid of Deep Blue's fraud?" Lynette Coulibaly Libali asked.

"Linette, there are no eternal enemies in the market. Shanxing is also a fruit OEM chip. Only competition can we grow together." Cook said.

"Mr. Cook, this is Jovan Bailey, a reporter from the Washington Post. Just now, Qualcomm released news that Qualcomm's smartphone chip shipments this month exceeded 800 million, which means that a large number of Android phones will be launched. , Smartphone competition will become more and more intense in the future, I wonder how Fruit will respond to this situation?" Jovan Bailey asked.

"What you call high-volume mobile phones are low-end mobile phones. They have no impact on fruits. No matter whether they are quality, technical content or performance, none of them can be compared with fruits. These mobile phones are like those from the old era. The product is the same," Cook said.

Just when Cook was answering reporters' questions.

Qualcomm's stock price soared by 37 percentage points due to chip sales, and Google, as an indirect beneficiary, rose by 12 percentage points.

Qualcomm Headquarters R&D Center in San Diego, California.

In the president's office. "Good good good." Paul Jacobs shouted three times as he looked at the rising stock price.

"Ling~Ling~Ling"

At this moment, his iPhone 4 on the table rang.

"Father." Paul Jacobs greeted after answering the phone.

"Paul, you have done a very good job. It seems that handing the company over to you is a very wise choice." Owen Jacob said.

"Thank you father for the compliment." Paul Jacob said happily.

"Although you did a good job this time, don't get too carried away. What do you think of Deep Blue? How do you plan to deal with the Deep Blue Group?" Owen Jacob asked.

Although Owen Jacobs is no longer the CEO of Qualcomm, he has not completely given up on Qualcomm. He knows everything about Qualcomm clearly.

"Father, Deep Blue Group has promised not to sell their chips to friends, but they are indeed much stronger than us in R&D capabilities. I have asked Meng to find ways to poach their engineers. To deal with Deep Blue, we can only completely surpass them in technology. ” said Paul Jacobs.

"Don't you have any other options besides technical aspects?" Owen Jacob asked.

"In addition to technology, my father is asking our partners to encircle and suppress Deep Blue. After all, it is impossible for us to compete head-on with Deep Blue in person." Paul Jacobs said.

"It's very good. I'll hang up if I have nothing to do. Remember to come back for dinner at night." Owen Jacob said.

September 2010, 10, China time.

Office of the President of Shenlan Group in Nantian Pioneer Park.

"Brother Chen, please take a look at the contract." Changsun Chuanfu came to Han Chen's office and put the contract on the table and said.

Because it was Deep Blue Venture Capital that invested in TSMC, Han Chen left the signing of the contract to Changsun Chuanfu. Changsun Chuanfu did not return to the capital after signing the contract. He chose to go to Shenzhen City to meet Han Chen.

After negotiations, TSMC will need a total of US$80 billion for this expansion. Deep Blue Capital directly injected US$30 billion into TSMC, and Deep Blue Capital will be responsible for external financing of the remaining 50 billion investment.

Of course, Deep Blue Capital does not help TSMC raise funds for free. Deep Blue Capital will charge 1.5% as a service fee.

With Deep Blue Group leading the investment, Han Chen believed that Lin Guangtao and Changsun Chuanfu would soon be able to raise $50 billion in financing.

"Chuanfu, I have something I need you to do." Han Chen said after reading the contract and putting it down.

"What's going on?" Changsun Chuanfu asked curiously.

"I need you to fly to Shanghai to negotiate with Shanda. I want Shanda Literature to be owned by Deep Blue Literature," Han Chen said.

After Han Chen came back, he asked Du Guangke about the status of other literature websites. After a year of operation, Deep Blue Literature has become the dominant player in the online literature market, and other online literature websites have suffered losses to some extent.

Because Shanda Literature is the largest among many online literature websites, Shanda Literature is also the one with the heaviest losses among many online literature websites. For this reason, Shanda Literature has also laid off employees and cut costs to ensure its survival.

After all, although Deep Blue Literature is already one of the leading online literary websites, its market share will increase as mobile users increase. Even if it survives in the cracks, Shanda Literature can survive.

It would be difficult to wait for Shanda Literature to slow down before acquiring it. Han Chen felt that this was the best time to acquire Shanda Literature.

"Is it just buying part of Shanda's shares or buying all the shares?" Changsun Chuanfu asked.

"To acquire all the shares of Shanda Literature, I estimate the price to be around 8 million." Han Chen said.

"Okay, then I'll go to Fei Modu tomorrow." Changsun Chuanfu said.

"How is work lately?" Han Chen took out a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator and threw it to him.

"Just like that, there are no good projects to invest in recently. I went to see several projects and they were all trying to swindle money. I don't know whether those people are really stupid or pretending to be stupid. I really thought that we venture capital investors don't do investigations. It's easy to fool." Changsun Chuanfu said after unscrewing the bottle cap and taking a sip.

"What's going on with Laiyin Optics? Have their products been developed?" Han Chen asked.

Although Deep Blue Capital had just invested in Laiyin Optics for three months, Han Chen still wanted to ask if their product had been produced. If it was produced, it could be used in the next product.

After all, Deep Blue mobile phones now use Gorilla Glass. Gorilla Glass is not cheap, and the strength of this glass is also very average.

Is there any better glass?
Of course there are.

A better glass is sapphire glass, but sapphire glass is very expensive. One piece of sapphire glass costs three pieces of Gorilla glass. Before the price of sapphire glass comes down, no mobile phone will use sapphire glass.

"I heard that they have successfully experimented. Their product is better than sapphire, about 2.4 times stronger than sapphire, and their glass is lighter and thinner. They named this glass Laiyin glass, and now they are solving the problem of mass production. , it is expected to achieve mass production in February next year." Changsun Chuanfu said.

"You can send me their contact information later, and I will have someone communicate with them to see if it can be used in the next generation of products." Han Chen said.

"No problem." Changsun Chuanfu said.

"Anyway, there's nothing going on at the company. I'll take you to have morning tea." Han Chen looked at the time on his phone and said.

"Okay." Changsun Chuanfu nodded.

Just when the two of them went out, they saw Chang Huazhang standing at the door. At this time, Chang Huazhang had just pressed the doorbell of Han Chen's office.

"Hua Zhang, what's the matter?" Han Chen asked. (End of chapter)