Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 760 Beginning with HTML and the Browser

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The three-party begging for purchase naturally corresponds to three sets of plans.

GM is the most moderate, intending to invest no more than 4 million US dollars to acquire no more than 30% of Jaguar's shares, and at the same time help Jaguar continue to build modern factories and develop new models.

Ford, which is currently very proud of itself, is very aggressive and demands to fully occupy 100% of Jaguar's equity. For this purpose, Ford sent a special letter to Jaguar to express its determination to win.

If it weren't for Tang Huan's involvement, the acquisition of Jaguar would basically not have been delayed until this year. GM and Ford should have decided the winner last year.

Mr. Richest Man, who has already operated several projects with a scale of tens of billions of dollars, has no worse financial resources than the menacing Ford. In order to wait for his arrival, Jaguar, which is in dire straits, endured for a few more months.

Sure enough, Tang Huan did not disappoint the long-awaited British. The plan he proposed was also quite grand, that is, he was going to take 100% of the shares of Jaguar.

But unlike Ford, which covets the high-end auto market, and wants to acquire all the shares of Jaguar to digest it as its own sub-brand in this field, Mr. Richest Man, who can be called a newcomer in the auto industry, controls the holding through an offshore company jaguar.

In other words, among the three suitors, GM, the weakest, has basically become the role of accompanying the prince to study; only the winner between Ford and the richest man is eligible to get Jaguar, and the former has an obvious background in the automotive industry. The latter seems to be able to give Jaguar more independence and autonomy to maintain the British lineage of the brand to the greatest extent.

The general conditions are like this. After clarifying the horses and horses, it is convenient for the two parties to spend real money. Just opened their mouths and raised the price to 40 billion U.S. dollars, which made the UK secretly exclaimed "there is no waiting for nothing".

It has to be said that even if there is a Chelsea club that has won the championship for many years to help build up its reputation, Tang Huan is not favored by the British media when it comes to major events, because many of the people he offended have gathered in the UK to control the public opinion machine Needless to say Murdoch, the traditional Far East business interest groups who have huddled back to their hometown will not let go of any opportunity to disrupt the situation or even counterattack.

The British Far East business interest group, which was originally regarded as a country rich man, has attracted considerable attention from the mainstream British media in the past year in the important territory it occupies - Xiangjiang.

In addition to the turbulent immigration there, company relocation is also a common practice.One of the most important ones is none other than HSBC.After being ruthlessly skinned by Tang Huan, compared with the original time and space, he has much less deception methods. He has upgraded a company in London to a holding company and transferred all the rights and interests of Xiangjiang to Under this name, the most important step of de facto re-registration has been completed.

In stark contrast to this, the Qinhe family remained completely motionless, which aroused a lot of discussion.

In fact, this is a big tree attracting the wind.Take another giant—Swire Group as an example. It also continues to place the most emphasis on commercial interests in Xiangjiang, but only the richest man is observed with a magnifying glass.

After holding on to this point, Jaguar fell into the hands of Tang Huan, and it seemed that it was not as safe as hiding under the wings of Ford.

At the stalemate, Tang Huan simply said, "I do have a sincere heart for entering the auto industry. By the way, I have already bought Aston Martin."

Those who were worried about Jaguar's future were immediately sucked back into the stomach by a slap; Ford, who was struggling to compete with the richest man, spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

You know, Ford is also interested in Aston Martin. After it became the queen's car on the screen of the "1987" movie in 007, it started a private contact, and even used the Queen's first cousin Michael. The prince's relationship, unfortunately, failed to deal with the major shareholder Peter Livanos.

This person is also a Greek ship king, and has a relationship with the ship queen Christina.

When the old ship tycoon Aristotle Onassis was alive, he was married to three women—the wealthy daughter Tina Livanos, the Greek soprano Maria Callas, and the widow of former US President John F. Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy.

Among them, only Tina Liwanos left children for Aristotle Onassis, namely Alexander Onassis who died in the plane crash and super prodigal daughter Christina Onassis.

Although Tina Livanos, the second lady of the earlier generation of Greek ship king Stavros Livanos, divorced Aristotle Onassis a long time ago, and even remarried her own Brother-in-law, and passed away in the second half of the 1970s, but the only heir of the Onassis family, the ship queen Christina, has a relationship with the Livanos family, which is beyond doubt.

In terms of seniority, Peter Livanos, the leader of another branch of the Livanos family, happened to belong to the same generation as the ship queen Christina.

The relationship between wealthy families is sometimes the same thing—for example, the two major French wine estates, Lafite and Mouton, both belong to the famous Rothschild family, but they have different branches, but the latter has been upgraded from the second level to the second level. In the process of reaching the first level, he encountered fierce opposition from the former.

However, the relationship between Peter Livanos and the ship queen Christina should not have reached the point of mercenary indifference.Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to Tang Huan after rejecting Ford.

Because of this, Ford was hit hard - he even lost a city in public relations.

Next, Tang Huan released another trick, that is, once the acquisition of Jaguar is successful, the cost control plan of the other party can be suspended, and at the same time, there will be no layoffs for at least three to five years.

By this time, Ford was obviously afraid to accept the move.After all, it is not as good as Tang Huan, the first generation of founders who control the company. No one dares to challenge its authority, so how can its managers dare to guarantee it.

For a long time, Mrs. Thatcher's government, which was accused of suppressing local manufacturing and causing a large number of long-term unemployment, knelt down. That's right, Jaguar was sold to the richest man.

When signing this contract with a price of more than 43 billion US dollars, Tang Huan smiled freely facing the camera-you think you are reaping the benefits of the fisherman, and I have become a winner, but with you arrogant and European Judging from the trend of the community's relationship, it is very likely that I will have to spit it out in two years.

In addition, as soon as February entered, the Soviet Union announced the abandonment of the one-party system, which meant that the collapse of the building was inevitable, and the ensuing gluttonous feast of dividing up assets, I needed to build another team to participate in this It's a game of not eating for nothing.

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Such a high-profile cross-sector investment by the richest man is undoubtedly a sensational event in the automobile industry and has attracted continued attention from observers.Everyone is curious, how can you, a guy who sells computers, play with cars?
Tang Huan's initial move can be described as mature and prudent, that is, while dispatching the financial team to Jaguar and Aston Martin, he started blood transfusion.Naturally, the effect was immediate. Jaguar was like a maid bought by a landlord's family, with a sallow and emaciated face from malnutrition, and a ruddy complexion that was well-clothed and well-fed.

In addition, the Olympus Group owned by the female shipping queen Christina, who previously bought Lamborghini from the Italian government for US$2750 million and was taken over due to bankruptcy, was also acquired by Tang Huan.

The outside world is quite speechless about this—look at this pair of male and female, they really cooperate well enough.Seeing that the ban on British football clubs has finally been lifted and they can compete in the European arena, I don't know if Chelsea and AC Milan, the new one and the old two big giants, can still be like this after they meet.Of course, this requires UEFA's skill in the draw.

After this series of dazzling and natural operations, Mr. Richest Man’s next actions finally let the observers who were waiting to see what they wished to see what it means to pursue innovation in a technological dream and burn a lot of money with courage.

After returning from the North Pole, Tang Huan paid more and more attention to environmental protection.It is said that investing in the automotive industry has this aspect in mind - after praising its own lithium battery technology for its unpredictable performance in the low temperature environment of the Arctic region, it began to emphasize the application of new energy in traditional vehicles such as automobiles.

As a master of technology, Tang Huan has always been down-to-earth in promoting applications, rather than irresponsible gimmicks.

For example, the first action on the new energy application technology of automobiles this time is the popular regenerative_brake-regenerative braking.

Compared with the most common braking method that directly converts the kinetic energy of the car into heat energy in the form of friction, "regenerative braking" is another approach to the principle, but relatively simple Dynamic_Braking - an upgraded version of resistance braking, that is, the motor Converted into a generator, the kinetic energy of the vehicle is converted into electrical energy, and stored for use, while resistance braking usually only converts the generated electricity through resistance into useless heat and releases it.

Of course, vehicles using regenerative braking will still retain traditional friction braking to provide fast, powerful braking.Regenerative braking generally only regenerates about 30.00% of the kinetic energy, and the rest of the kinetic energy is still converted into heat.The specific efficiency will vary according to different usage environments.

Obviously, after the car has the power provided by the regenerative braking, it further consolidates the foundation of the new platform for computer technology application that Tang Huan said.

In fact, the application of new energy in automobiles is a very old topic, and quite a few other manufacturers have not stopped their research.For example, last year, Audi derived a test car version of AudiDuo from the successful Audi100, but Tang Huan entered the automotive field with the halo of a high-tech spokesperson, which was particularly eye-catching.

Tang Huan's second innovative action is the driverless car that flew into the homes of ordinary people in last year's blockbuster "Back to the Future Sequel".Or more accurately, from the current practical point of view, car-assisted driving technologies such as lane departure warning systems and collision avoidance warning systems.

Of course, Tang Huan is not the first in this field. The first truly automated car was demonstrated in the 1980s. What’s more, Carnegie Mellon University promoted the Navlab project and the ALV project in 1984; Mercedes-Benz and the Federal Defense University in Munich jointly launched the Eureka Prometheus project in 1987, which shows how seriously it has been taken.

However, Tang Huan, who has killed the traditional powerful IBM in the competition in the computer industry, took the initiative to promote computer applications to the automotive field, and even bought related companies. Rolling up his sleeves, the giants have expressed, "" I really feel a lot of pressure"; of course, they did not forget to add in a graceful manner, "The new atmosphere brought by Tang Huan is undoubtedly a great thing for the development of the entire automobile industry."

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Tang's richest man, who had not been seen in public for almost a year, returned to the mainstream view of the world with such a gorgeous posture, and suppressed those ulterior motives with countless marvels at his financial resources.

Tang Huan, whose European layout is far beyond the acquisition of Jaguar and Aston Martin, did not fly back to San Francisco on the west coast until March 1990 from London, England, via New York, USA.

All the American media simultaneously sent out a short message: "After leaving for a year, Tang Huan returned to Silicon Valley."

When Silicon Valley One landed at San Francisco International Airport, the incomparably spectacular welcoming crowd prompted the entire San Francisco Bay Area to dispatch police forces to maintain order.

Some reporters have tacitly thought of an eye-catching headline for this: "In Greater San Francisco, Don is more important than anyone, not even the governor and the president."

After receiving the bouquet of flowers thanking him for his selfless assistance to the San Francisco earthquake, Tang Huan made a short impromptu speech at the airport, and finally mentioned, "California high-speed rail will be officially opened to traffic, which will definitely help the disaster-stricken San Francisco Bay The region is recovering quickly. This year’s Spring Philosophy and Confucianism Developers Conference will be slightly advanced, and it is expected to attract at least 6500 participants, hoping to revive the hard-hit tourism industry.”

Although the time has been adjusted, this Spring Philosophy and Confucianism Developer Conference has set a record high in the number of participants.The 6500 people mentioned by Tang Huan was based on the perspective of the technical personnel participating in the meeting, and the most conservative estimate made was actually more than [-] people without any doubt.

The reason for such a high degree of attention is not unrelated to the return of Tang Huan, the master of the computer industry, and the phrase "starting with HTML and browsers" printed on the invitation letter made people who pay attention to IT development aware of it. We believe that the application of Internet technology will usher in an unprecedented opportunity.

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