Super Tycoon

When eating dinner in the evening, Peng Mingsheng obviously made preparations and got acquainted with the communication products of Zhiduoxing and Lianxiang.

Zhang, we can use some communication technology to take a stake in the subsidiary of your Zhiduoxing that is engaged in the mobile phone business. As far as I know, that company already has another major shareholder, right, Mr. Li from Xiangjiang.

I also met Mr. Li once. We have cooperated in the communication business. I think this cooperation will bring our interests closer together.

Peng Mingsheng is very interested in seeing the rapid growth of smart phones in the past two years. If you can take a stake in such a company that is on the rise, it will definitely bring a lot of returns to IBM.

IBM has made major adjustments to its $10 billion research plan before. They plan to increase research costs to ensure industry leadership.

At the same time, they will vigorously promote patent protection to protect their own interests. Of course, the external statement is to protect the interests of all patent holders, and they are the largest patent holders.

What does IBM want? So what technology will it come up with? Zhang Yang asked with a smile.

Peng Mingsheng said several professional terms in a row, but Zhang Yang never changed his expression. Peng Mingsheng couldn't sit still, the other party was not satisfied with his condition?

Zhang, what exactly do you want?

It's not what I want, it depends on what IBM has. I don't lack money. Any shareholder in IBM can't use as much cash as I do, so it doesn't matter if you pay for a share.

In terms of technology, we have cooperated with several companies, the largest of which is Motorola. At that time, we paid more than 200 million US dollars in cash to help Motorola tide over the difficulties. For this reason, I also let my investment Another fab company has taken over the fab that Motorola is selling.

Do you think we lack technology? Can't we develop technology ourselves? Many of the patents you just mentioned are very good, but it seems that many of them are only applied for in the United States and not elsewhere, because there are similar patents elsewhere. The local application was successful.

Coincidentally, our Zhiduoxing applied for a lot of patents last year, including a lot of communication. If you only have these mainstream but not leading technologies, then we don't need to talk about this issue. Let's change the topic Is it not good?

As a reborn person, how could Zhang Yang not know the importance of technology? If the enterprise is to grow and not lag behind, it must master the top technology and always ensure the leading technology.

In terms of game industry,

Their game consoles already have many advanced technologies, such as somatosensory games, which are leading. Others are some fun game design, leading the trend.

In terms of non-game industry and investment, it is necessary to ensure the development of technology, so the annual investment in technology research and development has never decreased and has been increasing.

In this regard, Zhang Yang is more willing than others, and the recruitment of technical personnel has always been the most. Not only Zhiduoxing, but also Wanyan and other companies also attach great importance to technology research and development, and the speed of patent application is also very fast.

In fact, those companies that claimed to have tens of thousands of patents in the previous life, many patents have long been used by no one, because they are already outdated. But they combine some patents and authorize them to get some benefits.

Even many patent portfolios are no longer wanted, and they will not give up. They can also upgrade on this basis to bring benefits to the company again.

Moreover, many companies have infringed other people's patents, but they didn't find out because they didn't know that there was such a patent. The patents ten years ago may now seem to be very common technologies. You can easily research them and use them, and you will be sued by the other party.

Some patent holding companies never declare how many patents they have, reminding others to bypass and avoid infringing patent ownership. He will wait for the other party to use it, make a profit, and even grow stronger, and ask for more compensation, otherwise your company will go bankrupt.

In this way, they sold the patented technology originally worth 10 million yuan for a licensing fee of 100 million yuan, and made more money.

Of course, there will be many patent infringements that go bankrupt without waiting for you to harvest them, or sell them to other people and leave with the money.

Moreover, IBM has the most patents in the United States. Many patented technologies may be applied for before the research is completed.

In this, some human relations are involved. In the previous life, IBM was caught many times for bribery by executives, and was punished a lot, just for the sake of profit.

Zhang, don't you want to cooperate with us in communication? Peng Mingsheng was a little unhappy. You proposed it on your own initiative. Are you kidding me?

No, I think. It's just that the cooperation partner may not be Zhiduoxing, but another company, a large communication company in Ghana.

Peng Mingsheng suddenly realized: The Ghanaian communication company that was acquired before, is it your handwriting?

I'm just one of the partners, not the leader. Now do you think it's possible for us to cooperate?

certainly.

Peng Mingsheng laughed, he doesn't mind cooperating with another company, as long as it can help the company make money. As a CEO, the better his performance, the higher his salary.

Turning around, Peng Mingsheng asked again: Liu, can the two of us cooperate on the mobile phone project? We can also deepen exchanges, maintain a closer relationship, and develop together.

We can talk about it. I am also thinking about spinning off the mobile phone business and setting up a subsidiary company. IBM is also welcome to take a stake.

Liu Chuanzhi has no objection to cooperating with IBM. Lian Xiang is not as confident as Zhi Duoxing. He has the technology he bought and developed by himself, and the products sell so well. If the logistics and sales costs of the directly-operated stores are amortized, even Lenovo mobile phones will lose money in the domestic market.

How about we each hold 50 percent?

Liu Chuanzhi shook his head: At most thirty percent.

The other party still has a 19% stake in Lianxiang Group. If both parties hold 50% each, wouldn't the other party indirectly control it?

Lianxiang's subsidiaries can only be controlled by Lianxiang Group, and the development direction must be controlled by Lianxiang Group, and will not be handed over to outsiders!

Too little, many of our technologies can be taken out, and a sum of cash can also be given out.

Liu Chuanzhi picked up his wine glass and interrupted the other party. Why don't you use the money we bought your PC business to invest in our mobile phone business?

Less than 30% is negotiable, more than that is impossible, and IBM has never made a mobile phone. Your technology has not been tested by the market.