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Sun Wanran has already arranged that tomorrow Boss Zhou will have a formal meeting with Samsung Prince Lee Jae-yong to communicate about the Yahoo Korea case.

Xu Baihui seemed to have found out a lot of dirty information about Li Zairong and ran to Zhou Buqi to make irresponsible remarks.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "You don't care whether he is a good person or a bad person, we are talking about business, not morality."

Xu Baihui rolled her eyes and snorted: "The big chaebols are not ordinary bad guys!"

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "It's rare but strange!"

"Ouch?" Xu Baihui's beautiful eyes flashed, she jumped up from the sofa in the study, ran over and leaned against the desk, "Then please ask the big boss to explain to the little girl, what big scenes have you seen?"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "It is written in the book that one general's success can lead to tens of thousands of bones. Does it count? The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and even tens of thousands of bones are common. Bullying a few small stars in the entertainment industry, what does it count?" "

Xu Baihui was startled, "Boss Zhou, do you really think so?"

Zhou Buqi sighed, "It's not what I think. You have to recognize the reality. This is South Korea. These big chaebols in South Korea are doing business and playing politics. Doing business is simple and abiding by the law. They are close to politics. , that means treating human life as nothing. Under the power of power, tens of millions of people died without blinking an eye. If you have this standard, you will feel gentle and elegant when you look at Li Zaiyong."

Xu Baihui is a girl and doesn't like this kind of heavy history and cruel power. "Anyway, I don't think you should fund Samsung."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, "When did I sponsor Samsung?"

Xu Baihui said: "Aren't you going to sell Yahoo Korea to him?"

Zhou Buqi was amused, "What kind of funding is this? This is selling money. Yahoo Korea has been losing money for five or six years in a row. If it dumps such a mess to Samsung, it might be able to sell it for a sky-high price of US$1 billion." You actually think I’m helping them?”

Not to sell Yahoo Korea to Kakao Group, but to Samsung Electronics... The most important reason is that Kakao is our own company and our godson.

Yahoo is my son.

For the sake of his own son, he would only let his godson subsidize his biological son as a last resort. If there is a choice, of course it is to plunder it from outsiders.

Xu Baihui hummed: "Don't think I don't know. Samsung Electronics is relatively lacking in technology in the Internet field. Samsung's smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, etc., Internet services and software services are all purchased from outside."

"Yes, mainly from Yahoo and Ziweixing." Zhou Buqi couldn't help but laugh, and gave another set of data, "This year, the order contract between Samsung Electronics and Yahoo is US$65 million, and the order contract with Ziweixing International is about US$65 million. About US$100 million. The order contract with Ziweixing is about US$15 million. In addition, Baidu may also have several million US dollars.”

This is just an approximate number.

The specific amount of the contract is not exact and depends on the size of the users. The more Samsung products are sold and the more customers it serves, the higher the corresponding contract amount will be.

Xu Baihui was not interested in these numbers and curled her lips and said: "What Samsung lacks now is Internet technology. You sold Yahoo Korea to Samsung. Didn't you help them make up for their weaknesses? Yahoo Korea's technology is very strong. It is the Huangpu of South Korea's Internet industry." Military academy.”

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi looked at Sun Wanran across the table who was engrossed in reading emails, "Wan Wanran, what did you tell her?"

Sun Wanran raised his head and glanced at him, "Isn't this a leak?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "No, let me ask you what you think about it."

"Me?" Sun Wanran hesitated. She had more information than Xu Baihui, but the general idea was the same. "I don't think this is good either."

Zhou Buqi laughed dumbly.

Sun Wanran said: "I know that selling Yahoo Korea to Samsung Electronics may make a lot of money, which will solve the cash flow dilemma of Ziweixing International to a certain extent..."

"Wait a minute." Zhou Buqi interrupted her, "Tell me, why can it be sold for a big sum of money?"

Sun Wanran said matter-of-factly: "Because Samsung needs it, because Samsung doesn't have it! Moreover, in the past, Samsung's main partners were Yahoo and Ziweixing. With the addition of Baidu as a back-up, we can sit back and relax and develop slowly. But that's not possible now. Yahoo and Ziweixing merged. Baidu has no problem in the Asian market, but has no business in the European and American markets. This is a strategic risk. In order to eliminate this strategic risk, they would rather pay a large sum of money."

Zhou Buqi nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Yes, it seems that I understand."

This is just like Asda's mobile phone OEM.

You can’t just choose Foxconn as a foundry.

In this way, it is easy to be kidnapped by Foxconn... Later, many domestic mobile phone manufacturers encountered such a dilemma. During the peak season, when production needs to be accelerated, Foxconn may make trouble, saying that there are too many orders and cannot be accommodated, and it must either wait patiently or ask for more money to rush the work.

A real mobile phone giant will not have such an encounter. It has a richer strategic structure and has eliminated this risk early on.

Such as Samsung mobile phones and Huawei mobile phones.

The OEM orders are divided into three or four parts, one part is given to Foxconn, part is produced by self-operated foundries, and the rest is given to Foxconn's competitors.

In this way, in order to compete for more orders, Foxconn must provide the best service, the lowest price, the highest efficiency and the highest quality product.

This is the value of market competition.

Now, Samsung Electronics is also encountering such difficulties in the fields of Internet services and software business.

Ziweixing and Yahoo merged.

Baidu is out of control.

Other Internet giants simply do not have the strength to provide high-quality services to the hundreds of millions of users that Samsung Electronics covers around the world. This means that Samsung only has one company to choose from, namely Ziweixing.

Competition is gone!

This strategic risk arises.

Once Ziweixing causes trouble, Samsung Electronics will suffer.

In order to eliminate this risk, Samsung Electronics has only two options.

First, go to the market to find new partners.

This is so difficult.

Samsung Electronics’ product inventory is too large and its user base is too large. Only Internet giants have the strength to operate tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of servers and serve hundreds of millions of users around the world at the same time, not even IBM. The website framework built by IBM for Suning.com has 10 million people online at the same time, and the website is guaranteed to crash.

The second way is to be self-employed.

Self-operation is the first choice for all large companies to eliminate strategic risks.

This is also what Samsung Electronics is best at. They have done almost everything upstream and downstream in the entire mobile phone industry on their own. The urgent acquisition of Yahoo Korea is the first step to promote Samsung Electronics to provide Internet services.

Once an emergency acquisition is made, once it reaches a strategic level, the price will be significantly higher.

Sun Wanran said softly: "I have checked it all. Samsung is strengthening its presence in Silicon Valley. Last year, it invested US$300 million to build a new and modern Samsung Silicon Valley headquarters in Silicon Valley. It is expected to be completed in 2015. When we get there When this Silicon Valley headquarters is launched, they will rely on the talent advantages of Silicon Valley to actively promote the self-operated project of Internet services and software business of Samsung Electronics products."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "The investigation is quite clear, um, almost. Now the Silicon Valley giants are engaged in construction. Facebook, Google, and Apple are all building new headquarters."

Xu Baihui said angrily: "Changing the topic again, you haven't made it clear yet! Samsung's original plan was to wait until 2015 to promote self-operation of its Internet service business. You sold Yahoo Korea to them, not to help them sell their self-operation business in advance." Has it been done well? Isn’t this a case of capitalizing on the enemy?”

Sun Wanran nodded repeatedly, "Well, I'm worried too. I taught the apprentice and starved the master to death. Now Ziweixing can receive 200 million US dollars in services from Samsung every year. If they learn how to do it, won't these orders disappear? "

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "How is that possible? The service fees will only increase year by year. Especially with the increase in artificial intelligence. By 2015, the service fees will definitely exceed 1 billion US dollars."

"They are self-employed, so..."

"Samsung Electronics also has its own foundries, but most of Samsung's mobile phones are also produced by Foxconn. Why don't you think Samsung operates all its own production?"

"this……"

Sun Wanran and Xu Baihui looked at each other and seemed to understand a little bit.

scale!

If the mobile phone order is small, Samsung's own foundry can handle it, and there is no need to contact Foxconn. But once the sales volume becomes too large and there are too many orders, the self-operated factory will not be able to handle so many orders, and it will have to look for help from outside OEMs.

Is the same true true for the Internet and software services?

Zhou Buqi said: "Yahoo Korea's technology is quite strong, but it is only in the Korean market. Compared with the Internet companies in South Korea, they are at best the shortest ones. Not to mention compared with Silicon Valley, there are no domestic companies." Fabi.”

"That's not right..." Xu Baihui was a little confused, "I heard... South Korea's search platform Naver is doing quite well and has defeated Google. They all say that South Korea's Naver is almost the same as China's Baidu. Well, what are the three major search algorithms... They seem to have similar technical levels."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Who said that? Is that the same level?"

Xu Baihui is a layman after all, so she doesn't quite understand, "Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course not. The core point of Internet technology is scale. South Korea's population is only 50 million, and there are 1.3 billion in the country. Naver provides services to 50 million users, and Baidu has at least 500 million users! In terms of scale, There is a 10-fold difference, and the technical complexity is at least 100 times different. Just like Google has 2 billion users, the technical level is the skyline."

"That's it..." Xu Baihui now figured out what was going on, "No wonder Samsung Electronics would rather go to Baidu than Naver. It seems that Naver is still in the Samsung camp..."

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, Naver is an internal entrepreneurial project of Samsung. The level is average, and it is ok for the Korean market, but it is difficult to go abroad. Yahoo Korea's technology is indeed second to none in the Korean market, but it is only 50 million The size of the population.”