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In fact, it is an irresistible human nature to seek medical treatment indiscriminately when suffering from acute illness. Even the best people in this world cannot avoid it.

Baidu is like this.

At this time in the previous life, Baidu had discovered that it was lagging behind in the mobile terminal layout, so it was very anxious and tentatively made a bid for UC Group.

However, UC Group was very ambitious and ambitious at the time. It wanted to go public independently and become a new technology giant. Baidu took the next best step and wanted to acquire 49% of the shares, but was rejected by the latter.

With no other choice, Baidu set its sights on 91 Mobile Assistant, and so did Alibaba.

The three parties started a tug of war.

Ali kept carrying the sedan chair.

In the end, Baidu couldn't bear it anymore. It was a waste of time, so it offered a sky-high price of US$1.9 billion and completed the acquisition of 91 Mobile Assistant.

The reason why the number is 1.9 billion US dollars is because one is "19" and the other is "91", which can bring good luck.

The higher the level, the more belief in luck is everywhere.

Microsoft's current troubles are actually bigger than Baidu's, and they need to be more anxious.

A very important reason is the personal power threat from Ballmer.

Over the past few years, Microsoft has done really bad, and Google has seriously challenged Microsoft's position. Apple is even more shocking. Now Apple's market value has reached 600 billion US dollars, while Microsoft is only 280 billion US dollars.

Even for Facebook, which is about to go public, the prospectus has made it very clear that the market value will definitely exceed US$100 billion.

Microsoft has fallen behind.

Ballmer has already felt the pressure from the board of directors, his own power is threatened, and he may step down.

So he was a little panicked.

Once you panic, it's easy to make consecutive wrong decisions.

Last year, in response to emerging social products such as Facebook, Helo, and Ucgram, Microsoft spent $8.5 billion to acquire Skype.

This deal is truly jaw-dropping.

After Microsoft completed this deal, apart from completely wiping out its own MSN due to internal business tilt, it did not show much dazzling performance in the social field.

This time Microsoft wants to acquire Yammer, which actually has similar logic.

Yammer is a product for entrepreneurs. It is similar to Ziweixing’s “Enterprise Intranet”. It can have enterprise user authentication, and enterprise users can communicate on this platform. If enterprise users have some additional needs, they can also pay to activate more services.

The most typical one is the "intranet" service.

The so-called intranet is a website within a company, which is not visible to the outside world and is only open to the company's own employees. Most large companies have their own intranets, but many non-technology companies or small and medium-sized companies can hardly afford a technical team to operate their own intranets.

Go directly to Ziweixing's corporate intranet, rent an intranet space, and you can have your own company's intranet.

In fact, at that time, Zhou Buqi had the idea of ​​​​the "enterprise intranet" project, which also originated from Yammer. He participated in investing in this project in the United States, and when he returned to China, he asked Zhang Yiming to develop this product, and also established an enterprise service for this purpose. Division.

However, Ziweixing later adjusted its organizational structure and this business unit was eventually merged into the cloud business unit.

Microsoft is spending more than a billion dollars to acquire Yammer this time. One of the important reasons is that its enterprise-level office business is under tremendous pressure.

In the past, this market was almost dominated by Microsoft’s Office family.

Things are different now. Google came first and launched a series of competitive products. Now Ziweixing International has also come here, and has created a series of "Weidian" products. The brand in English is "Ever", including EverNote for taking notes, EverBook for online accounting, and cloud disk Products EverDrive, EverZoom with cloud video.

Especially Weishu.

Competitors are coming fiercely, and Microsoft has no choice but to trade space for time and quickly complete the acquisition of Yammer at a substantial premium.

Whether it's Baidu or Microsoft, with this level of business, Zhou Buqi really can't rest.

He has to speak out and preside over this matter.

Especially Microsoft!

You have to seize the opportunity!

While Ballmer is still in office, it is most cost-effective to sell UC Group to him by taking advantage of his urgent need to seek medical treatment.

Zhou Buqi first studied Yammer's case.

The Yammer case must be settled first, and then Ballmer can find time to talk about UC cooperation.

However, after searching for a long time, I couldn't find it.

In the end, I had no choice but to go back to the bedroom and call Ning Lu.

When he returned to the bedroom, he found that Ning Lu, Wu Yu and Sun Wanran had all taken a shower. The three girls all had towels wrapped on their heads and only bath towels on their bodies. They were lying on the bed in a row, each holding an iPad in their hands.

Go over and take a look...

Depend on!

I'm playing a game, "Plants vs. Zombies"!

Needless to say, this must have been done by Wu Yu to instigate them.

Seeing Zhou Buqi coming, Wu Yu felt guilty and wanted to hide the tablet under the quilt, and said with a smile: "Honey, you finished the meeting so soon? Then go take a shower!"

Zhou Buqi said: "I have some materials, but I can't find them."

Sun Wanran asked: "Chinese or English?"

Sun Wanran is in charge of the Chinese one, and Ning Lu is in charge of the English one.

Zhou Buqi said: "English."

"Then let me go."

Ning Lu pursed her lips, then got up and got out of bed, and followed the big boss to the study.

As expected, he is very skilled in business. After a few search commands, he found the relevant information about Yammer. Because the materials were all in English, Ning Lu was at a higher level and could read them all at a glance.

"Ah!" Ning Lu quickly found the key point and pointed at the computer screen, "Look here, this company just completed its Series B financing last month."

"Last month..."

Zhou Buqi followed her instructions and looked over.

It really is!

Just last month, Yammer just completed Series B financing, with a financing amount of US$85 million and a company valuation of US$600 million.

For an enterprise-level Internet company that has been in business for less than 4 years, this is a very impressive result.

Then he turned to the next email.

Because Yammer was an entrepreneurial project that Zhou Buqi had personally paid attention to, and Ziweixing International was Yammer's most important investor, he was the most important decision-maker when it came to the acquisition invitation this time.

The influence is not even worse than that of the founder.

Without the approval of Boss Zhou, even if Yammer's entrepreneurial team wanted to sell the company to Microsoft at a high price, it would be difficult to achieve their goal.

The company has already sent an email.

It was sent 5 days ago.

Zhou Buqi didn't pay attention at all.

Yammer is the enterprise version of Twitter.

After Twitter was successfully acquired by Google, Ballmer became anxious and couldn't miss the enterprise version of Twitter, so he hurriedly launched the acquisition plan.

Offered US$1.2 billion to acquire 100% of Yammer!

Last month’s financing valued Yammer at just $600 million.

It has only been more than half a month, and Microsoft is about to launch an acquisition at double the premium.

This is so sincere!

Yammer's entrepreneurial team is also very interested, and they almost have a unified opinion. They all want to sell the company to Microsoft, including those investment institutions, and they are also happy to see it happen.

For investors, this is a rare exit opportunity.

The final decision-making power rests with Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised and turned to look at Ning Lu, "This matter is very important, why didn't you tell me?"

Ning Lu said aggrievedly: "I said it!"

"When did you say that?"

Zhou Buqi had no impression at all.

Ning Lu said: "That night, Guan Nanqing came over from the capital with her little secretary Zhuo Wensi. You took us together to give Zhuo Wensi that...I told you after you held her adult ceremony."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, "In bed?"

Ning Lu nodded lightly and said "Hmm", "You said at the time that seeing red and being happy might bring good luck to Yammer's case."

Hearing this, Zhou Buqi actually had some impressions in a trance, and then he opened his eyes and hummed: "Don't talk about such important things in bed in the future. There is no such thing as a beautiful woman bringing disaster to her." Understand."

If it were Sun Wanran, he would have rolled his eyes at him long ago.

Ning Lu's character became much more docile. She chuckled and said, "Well, I was wrong. I'll learn my lesson and I won't do it again in the future."

Zhou Buqi saw that she had a good attitude in admitting her mistake, so he stopped criticizing her and said to himself, "It seems I have to make a trip to see Ballmer."

"Want America?"

"Um."

"when?"

"Anyway, not now, wait until Baoshan gives birth!" Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "You can answer the email for me, just tell them not to worry, I will go to Silicon Valley to handle this matter personally."

Ning Lu sat down and replied to the email while saying, "By the way, it is said here that Kurian has some different opinions. I suggest you communicate with Kurian more when you have time."

Zhou Buqi sent Kurian a message through WeChat: "Yammer, do you have any ideas?"

Kurian responded quickly, "Are you free? Video connection?"

Zhou Buqi gave up the video call when he saw that Ning Lu was only wrapped in a large white bath towel, with her neck, shoulders, chest, arms and other large areas of fair and tender skin exposed. Plan to have a voice connection with him.

After the connection, Kurian did not waste any time: "I think Ziweiyun should acquire Yammer, which will be a very beneficial supplement to our large membership system."

It's impossible for Zhou Buqi to agree, "How could it be? Don't we have a corporate intranet?"

The domestic version is called the corporate intranet, and the foreign version is called Eversite.

They are all products under the Cloud Computing Division.

Kurian said: "Yes, but the gap is huge. Yammer now has more than 5 million certified enterprise users, and our Eversite only has 600,000."

Zhou Buqi said simply: "I don't think acquiring Yammer is a good idea. I will talk to Ballmer and sell it to him. Enterprise-level products and services, and more importantly, the relevance of the product. I think Eversite is better." It is in line with our own product system, whether it is name, brand or product concept.”

Kurian said: "Decided?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, I will go to the United States to talk to Ballmer about this matter in a while."

Kurian had nothing to argue and could only settle for the next best thing, "Then I only have one request. If Yammer is sold to Microsoft, Ziweiyun will cut off all ties with Yammer. In the past few years, Yammer's rapid growth is largely due to Ziweiyun's customers. We have placed Yammer and Eversite as equally weighted products for development, and have introduced many Ziweiyun customers to the Yammer platform. "

Of course there is no problem with this, Zhou Buqi said: "That's right. From now on, Zi Weiyun will only serve his own Eversite!"