Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

With the introduction of rca products, all the activities in the morning have come to an end. The Heiyun exhibition hall has once again become a gathering place for everyone. Seeing that Heiyun just prepared some buffets and pastries, it can attract so many customers. Many exhibitors have silently kept it in their hearts, and they will definitely do this in their own booths in the future. This is a typical example of spending a small amount of money to do big things. Those who come to participate in the exhibition are multinational companies, and no one cares about this meal.

Heiyun employees have become the busiest people in the exhibition hall. They not only have to arrange meals for customers, but also prepare contracts to ensure that they can sign contracts with customers at any time.

At this moment, Bao Zixuan once again saw Phil Hawkins walking over with two beauties. Now that Louise Rockefeller's due date is quite close, I didn't expect to dare to come out at this time. Sometimes foreigners really can't understand, and their physique is really sturdy.

Phil Hawkins: "Bao, you can always think of ideas that others can't think of. How old companies suppress you, you are still you. There are still so many customers, which is really enviable."

Bao Zixuan: "I said, Phil. Now that Louise is in her state, you dare to bring her out. You really have a big heart."

Phil Hawkins: "I don't want to, but no one can control it. Fortunately, we came here by private jet, otherwise Europe would not allow us to enter."

"By the way, the child will be born in about half a month. As the best man at the wedding, you also have to take on the responsibility of the child's godfather. The gift should not be too shabby."

Bao Zixuan: "Who said the best man is going to be the godfather of the child? I don't have a wife to be the godfather myself!"

Phil Hawkins: "We don't have as many rules as you people from Hong Kong. I say you are you. As the godfather of a child, you, a rich man, can't be stingy."

Bao Zixuan: "No problem, I will give my child a car. The car will be reduced according to the scale, so that he can drive a luxury car since he was a child, and it is purely handcrafted."

When he saw Louise's belly, Bao Zixuan thought that Heiyun's existing models could be scaled down. To build an electric children's car, and to ensure the original production, there is definitely a market, and there is a collection value in the future.

Seeing Bao Zixuan's smirk, Phil Hawkins said, "Don't you think of some good ideas, or some good products."

Bao Zixuan: "There is a product suitable for children. I think there should be a market for it."

Phil Hawkins: "You're always a surprise, but you told me last time that I made a plan. You see what else could be added, and if it's all right, we can start the project. ."

Bao Zixuan took the project plan and said: "I will watch it carefully, even if you don't participate, I will start the project. If your plan can impress me, you can implement it according to your plan. If there is nothing new, then I can It won't necessarily take you to play. It's too late for you to take it back now."

After speaking, he glanced at Diana Rockefeller, who was following behind, and the three of them who knew that they could not escape Bao Zixuan's eyes smiled. Louise Rockefeller said: "Bag, why don't you give me a chance, I believe our plan will satisfy you."

After the three of them finished speaking, they left. After all, even if Louise's body was sturdy, she couldn't stay outside for too long.

Bao Zixuan entered the guide mode again, watching that Bao Zixuan didn't say a word to himself. Diana Rockefeller was very upset, thinking that she must find an opportunity to find the place back.

In the afternoon, there will be two companies to recommend new products at the exhibition. The first one, Bao Zixuan, did not expect it. It was Carl Zeiss, but it was Carl Zeiss Co., Ltd. in West Germany. They actually launched their own digital camera, which surprised many people.

Carl Zeiss Co., Ltd. can say that this time it is bound to win, they know that there are many companies entering the digital camera. But as the world's most powerful optical giant, they just let Kodak agree to cooperate in the development of digital cameras. This is the way to bypass Heiyun's patent barriers, so that Kodak will have to look for Heiyun to purchase authorization when it wants to enter the field of digital cameras in the future.

Carl Zeiss is worthy of being a veteran camera company. It was the first time that it produced an 8-megapixel product in the production of digital products. This is a level that no company in the world can reach, and Bao Zixuan knows it when he sees it. Heiyun has more and more competitors, and more and more powerful.

If you want to develop rapidly in the future, you must continue to launch new products, and you must be more willing to invest in scientific research. Carl Zeiss digital cameras are more expensive than similar products from Black Cloud, but many people will pay for this difference after a hundred years of brand precipitation.

The price of a digital camera from Carl Zeiss Co., Ltd. is set at $3,188, which is an 8-megapixel digital camera. The price/performance ratio can be said to be very high, but Bao Zixuan knows that the opponent's strength has not been fully exerted yet. There is definitely something better in their labs with Carl Zeiss technology, probably because the cost issue just doesn't meet the market.

Carl Zeiss' digital camera will definitely steal some of Heiyun's customers, but it will not affect the overall situation. However, everyone has to pay attention to the next company to appear.

No company in the world can occupy their market share in the industry. If it weren't for the anti-monopoly investigation in the United States, it is estimated that they would be able to fly now.

Bao Zixuan was also watching the situation on stage immediately, he wanted to get first-hand information. This opponent is too strong, and he has made himself into a situation where he has no friends.

IBM's history can be traced back decades before the development of electronic computers. Before the development of electronic computers, it operated punched card data processing equipment. IBM was registered as a CTR Corporation on June 15, 1911, in Endicott, New York, a few miles west of Binghamton. Three separate companies merged to create CTR: The List Machine Company (founded in Washington, DC, 1896), the Calculating Table Company (founded in Dayton, Ohio, 1901), and International Times Records (founded in Enn, New York, 1900). Dicot). At that time the president and founder of the List Machine Company was Herman Hollerith. The key man behind the merger was the financier Charles Flint, who rallied the founders of the three companies to propose a merger and served in CTR until his retirement in 1930.

Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, served as general manager of CTR in 1914 and president in 1915. In 1917, CTR entered the Canadian market as International Business Machines Corporation, which was renamed International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) on February 14, 1924.

The company merged into CTR to manufacture various products, including staff timing systems, scales, automatic meat slicers, and most importantly, the development of computers, punch card equipment. For a while, CTR concentrated on punch cards and no longer participated in other activities.

In 1932, IBM invested a huge sum of $1 million to build the first enterprise laboratory. The research and development of this laboratory throughout the 1930s gave IBM a lead in technology products. Throughout the Great Recession, IBM had been investing in R&D and new products that were better, faster, and more reliable than all other companies, and it won the exclusive contract to represent Roosevelt's New Deal accounting program. In 1935, IBM's card counting machine products had occupied 85.7% of the US market. IBM had accumulated strong financial resources and strong sales and service capabilities due to the large-scale sales of card machines, laying an important foundation for becoming the master of the computer field in the future. .

IBM and China have a long history. As early as 1934, IBM installed the first commercial processor for Peking Union Medical College Hospital. In 1936, IBM's first office in the Far East was established in Shanghai, laying the foundation for its development in China and even the entire East Asia region. In 1937, China's first overseas telephone call was made from IBM's Shanghai office, opening up a new way for China to connect with the world.

In the 1960s IBM was the largest of the eight computer companies (UNIVAC, Urban Life, Scientific Data Systems, Control Data, General Electric, Radio of America, Honeywell). People talk about this and say "IBM and the Seven Stars" because other companies or their computer divisions are smaller. Only Urban Life, UNIVAC, NCR, Honeywell produced mainframes, and then someone said "IBM and BUNCH" Today most of IBM's competitors have long since ceased to exist, except for Univac, which is due to many mergers including UNIVAC and Urban Life. NCR and Honeywell gave up general mainframes, small divisions and focused on profitable product markets, NCR did cash registers (hence the name National Cash Register), and Honeywell became the dominant player in the thermostatic market. General Electric is still the largest company in the world, but no longer operates in the computer market. The IBM family of computers won their place in the market at the time and are still growing today. Originally called ~www.readwn.com~ in a more modern 64-bit form, it is now called an IBM-resident system (often called "IBM mainframe").

With the emergence of semiconductor integrated circuits, IBM actively invested in the production of third-generation integrated circuit computers. In 1964, IBM launched the epoch-making System/360 mainframe computer, which announced the advent of the mainframe era. The advent of System/360 means that computers in the world have a common language, and they all share an operating system code-named OS/360 (rather than each product using a tailor-made OS). Since then, almost all computer research and development in the world is based on the IBM360 series system, which has become an important trend worldwide.

IBM's success in the mid-1960s led the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate IBM for antitrust violations, January 17, 1969. The case filed against IBM in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit alleges that IBM violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act's monopoly or attempted to monopolize the market for general-purpose digital electronic computer systems, especially commercially designed computers. The lawsuit, which continued into 1983, had a major impact on the company's practices.

In 1975, IBM produced four times more computers than all other computer manufacturers in the world combined, becoming a joint enterprise integrating scientific research, production, sales, technical services, and education and training.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the rapid development of the computer business promoted by IBM played a key role in promoting the development of all aspects of the whole society, such as assisting NASA in establishing the Apollo 11 database and completing the astronauts landing plan on the moon; Establish a bank inter-bank transaction system; establish the largest online ticketing system in the aviation industry, etc.

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