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Chapter 1339 Infernal Affairs

"Semel officially resigned from Yahoo. According to sources, Yahoo's board of directors is dissatisfied with Semel's performance since he took office, which made Yahoo miss many trends in the Internet industry including search, social, and games, so that Yahoo continued to lag behind ICQ. market value!"

"Google's market value surpasses Yahoo, and Yahoo President Semel leaves the market sadly!"

"The chief is back, and the founder of Yahoo is back in charge of Yahoo. Can Yahoo regain its glory?!"

Song Yang watched many media reports about Yang Zhiyuan regaining control of Yahoo. Although they all threatened that Yahoo's board of directors was dissatisfied with Semel, in fact, the real reason was that Yahoo's market value was surpassed by Google.

Since its listing last year, Google's stock price has soared all the way. With the support of many Wall Street institutions, coupled with the fanatical atmosphere, Google, which is regarded as the leader of Nasdaq by the outside world, has an unstoppable market value.

And when Google's market value finally surpassed that of Yahoo, Yahoo couldn't bear it any longer. The market value of a shabby company that Yahoo didn't want once delivered to its door unexpectedly surpassed that of Yahoo. I can't stand it anymore, being slapped in the face is too harsh!
Semel may be a little wronged. Since he took over as the president of Yahoo, to be honest, he has done a good job. He helped Yahoo stabilize the stock price, and also formulated the strategy of Yahoo Entertainment, launching Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Games And other businesses, now have a lot of influence, especially Yahoo Sports, which is not much worse than other old sports media, and even has more influence.

But Naihe ran into Google, and when the market value was surpassed by Google, Semel had to take the blame. After all, someone had to take the blame. He didn’t take the blame. His former Yahoo president, Coorg, didn’t take the blame for the Internet bubble. Afterwards, Yahoo’s share price plummeted, and he was swept away. Why should he be an exception? !
As for whether Yang Zhiyuan can change the embarrassing situation of Yahoo after taking over Yahoo, there may be some opportunities, but I am afraid that the chances are not great. The Internet is an industry that pays attention to the Matthew effect. It is too difficult for No.2 to catch up with No.1. up.

Although Yahoo occupies the Internet portals, Yahoo has missed the most important industries of the Internet, such as social networking, search, e-commerce, and games. Portals will gradually decline due to the rise of self-media!

Yang Zhiyuan may be able to change Yahoo's situation a little bit, but it is expected that Yahoo can turn things around completely, or even push it back. Yang Zhiyuan may have that ability, but he... can't do it, not only him, even the top professional managers Even in that position, it can't be done.

Without him, Yahoo is a company controlled by Wall Street institutions. Yang Zhiyuan and other professional managers can tinker with Yahoo and make small repairs, but expect Yahoo to take huge risks and invest huge dollars in research and development. Cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, etc., it is purely overthinking, because Yahoo's Wall Street board of directors will not allow it!

What Wall Street wants is for Yahoo to pay dividends, and then raise the stock price to cut leeks, like those acquisitions, because they can increase Yahoo’s stock price, so Wall Street institutions are willing, but they expect to spend US dollars to research and develop those illusory, or they may not be able to see it back in a few years For business, Wall Street institutions are definitely not willing.

Song Yang only glanced at the news from Yahoo, and didn't pay too much attention to it. Song Yang was quite interested in the news from Nokia. Song Yang wanted to know when Microsoft would launch Project Troy to bring Nokia is screwed.

At that time, Microsoft will have a full meal, and Alcatel mobile phones will also be able to "drink some soup" by the way. Most importantly, once Nokia, the most threatening Alcatel mobile phone, falls, the mobile phone industry will no longer be able to threaten Alcatel. The existence of mobile phones!
The global press conference of Alcatel P7 mobile phone was held as scheduled, but the most excited about this event was the gang of scalpers and second-hand dealers. They were even more excited and happy than Alcatel mobile phone.

After the P6 mobile phone was released last year, those gangs of scalpers and second-hand dealers bought and sold P6 phones. They were almost making money like crazy, so many gangs ignored those side businesses and started reselling P6. During that time, New York , Los Angeles and other news media with good news, according to the statistics, the crime rate in these areas dropped by more than 6% during the time when P[-] was the hottest!

At the same time, the activity of border smugglers and international black market dealers in America, North America, old Europe, Asia and other places has increased several times, and they are all frankly reselling P6 machines from one region to another.

Those who can make the gang of people who make money from other places stop their business and resell P6 machines, one can imagine how profitable this thing is, and the level of risk they take is not the same.

This year, P7 will be released soon. Last year, the group of people who watched P6 make a lot of money became active early this year, and began to raise a large sum of dollars, preparing to stock up on P7!

It is still a familiar scene, even though P7 has not greatly changed in function compared with P6, but when Ertian introduced the performance of P7 and some newly added functions on stage, it still attracted the attention of the audience. There were bursts of applause.

And when Zhang Cheng stepped onto the stage and introduced the "humanities" function of P850 technology to the audience and at least 7 million viewers around the world who watched the live broadcast in front of the TV, there was even more applause at the scene, and some media reporters told the scene The audience couldn't help but stand up and pay tribute to P7!

"The P6 mobile phone may be recorded in the history of mobile phones and become the most memorable model, but I want to say that the P7 is the real "great". Alcatel mobile phones are moving towards the "temple" of the technology industry. "Going forward!"

Wired magazine Kevin Kelly, who comes to the Alcatel mobile phone conference almost every year, is also sitting in the corner of the conference this year. When he saw the P7’s functions such as blind mode, person detection, and real-time subtitles, he couldn’t help it. Write down this passage in a small notebook that you never leave your body for a moment.

For the technology media or most ordinary people, the so-called top technologies, lithography machines, nuclear fusion or superconducting materials and other human technology crowns, most ordinary people can't feel it, even the technology media, For those things, once the news is over, they won't care too much, after all, the distance is too far away.

On the contrary, you should be more interested in electric cars, mobile phones, VR glasses, robots, etc. that you can come into contact with every day. After all, you can really come into contact with them.

The "humanistic technology" on the P7 mobile phone really scratched the itch of media people, making them feel the humanism of Alcatel mobile phone, which perfectly combines technology and human nature. In Europe, the rule of law is absolutely correct, and no one can complain about it. Not surprisingly, P7 will be blown up by the media!
Sitting at the press conference, Song Yang listened to the continuous applause behind him, and knew that there was no need to worry about the sales of the P7. The key is to see how much the sales of the first release can exceed that of the P6!
After the press conference, Wired magazine and various technology media began to praise the P7 to the sky. All the media praised it vigorously. Even the media that had been demanding on Alcatel mobile phones in the past, this time they were holding it. Nose recognized,

"The first-day sales of P7 mobile phones set a new record, and the global first-day sales exceeded 640 million units!"

"Only 12 hours ago, President Ertian, in a joint interview with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other media, vowed to declare that the production of P7 will never repeat the situation of P6, and that P7 can be sold globally for two hours. At 58 minutes, the P7 of the flagship store of American Telecom Electronics in New York was forced to close the store due to being sold out!
At the same time, Amazon, eBay and other over 7 mainstream e-commerce platforms around the world also sold out all P[-]s.

In addition, 8848, an e-commerce platform from Asia, because it is the exclusive P7 e-commerce agent of Yanjing, its stock price increased by more than 38%, and its market value exceeded US$98 billion, becoming the e-commerce platform with the highest market value in Asia! "

On the financial media, news related to the P7 machine was broadcast, and the program host also showed two photos of Ertian before and after the release of the P7. Ertian vowed that there would be no shortage of P7 this year. Users only need to purchase in normal stores and make online reservations, and they will not be unable to buy P7. In the photo, Elthian is full of smiles, showing full confidence. He also announced the Alcatel Industrial Park in Yanjing, with more than 20 employees The shocking video of three shifts producing and assembling the P7 machine.

In the second photo, Ertian was about to enter the headquarters of the Alcatel Group. He was surrounded by a lot of media for interviews. In the scene of the Alcatel Group's supply, Ertian's face was full of embarrassment and helplessness in the photo.

Although the host on TV was teasing Ertian, when seeing this news, which mobile phone manufacturer would not envy Ertian, who would not want to be ridiculed by the media because of out of stock and insufficient production capacity.

As for how hot P7 is, you only need to look at 8848, an e-commerce platform that just landed on NASDAQ not long ago.

Because it is the exclusive e-commerce platform agent of Alcatel P7 in Yanjing, that is, Yanjing, if you want to buy P7 online, you can only go through 8848, and other platforms such as Taobao, eBay, Joyo, etc. are not allowed. Sell ​​P7 machine.

Just relying on the status of this exclusive online agent, the stock price of 8848 soared by 38% overnight. One can imagine how popular P7 is.

As for the rest of Alcatel's mobile phone concept stocks and component suppliers, at this time, the stock price has doubled, and how many companies are proud of receiving orders for the Alcatel P7, and even whether they can supply components for the P7 , has become one of the signs to judge whether a company is a leader in the industry, and many companies have directly obtained the qualification for listing because of Alcatel's mobile phone supplier status. You can imagine how crazy and crazy the P7 mobile phone is!
Apple, Jobs was also watching the P7 news on the news. He knew that Alcatel's smartphone business was already a trend, but for Apple, it was imperative to enter the smartphone industry.

Jobs could see clearly that smart phones will be one of the most important markets in the electronics industry in the future, and Apple must enter, even if it cannot become the number one!

"Get ready for a product launch!"

Jobs looked at a group of Apple executives in front of him, and said to them, preparing to hold a press conference for Apple's first-generation smartphone.

"Apple officially entered the smart phone industry and announced that it will hold an Apple smart phone launch event. Can Apple continue its legend in the computer and MP3 industries?!"

"HTC, Samsung, BlackBerry and many other mobile phone manufacturers have announced the release of new smartphones, and the smartphone war will officially break out!"

"The roar of the empire, Nokia announced the release of the first mobile phone Lunmia630 equipped with Microsoft's WP smart operating system. Can this new mobile phone help Nokia return to the pinnacle of the mobile phone empire?!"

Within a few months after the release of P7, the global mobile phone industry began to fry like boiling oil and water. Various mobile phone manufacturers released their own smartphones one after another. There are new entrants like Apple and old brands like Nokia. Manufacturers will fight again.

The most eye-catching ones are Apple and Nokia. After all, these two names are there. Jobs' reputation in the technology industry is not weaker than Song Yang. The two have never fought against each other before. This time, Apple Entering the smart phone market, the outside world is naturally looking forward to what kind of sparks Apple and Alcatel can make with their phones.

Not to mention Nokia, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although the throne of the mobile phone industry has been replaced by Alcatel in the past two years, no one dares to underestimate this giant.

"Apple will be one of Alcatel's competitors in the future!"

In the San Jose manor, Ertian rushed over and handed over a document to Song Yang, which showed the sales of smartphones of major mobile phone manufacturers.

Among them, Nokia, Samsung, and HTC performed best. The first-day sales of Apple’s first-generation smartphones were around 38 units, and the subsequent daily sales basically remained at the level of 15 units. This is still subject to Apple’s production capacity. , It can be seen that Apple and Jobs are die-hard fans, and their spending power is indeed high.

And the first sale of Nokia Lunmia 630 also directly broke one million units, which shows the influence of the Nokia brand, even if it is ridiculed by the media, the sales of the phone are still soaring.

What alarmed Ertian the most was Apple's smartphones, because mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia and Samsung launched mid-range smartphones, while Apple's smartphones were priced as high-end phones, although they were not as good as P7 The price is high, but it has reached the point of 499 US dollars!
Now Apple's sales volume is far inferior to that of Alcatel mobile phones, but it has already made Ertian vigilant. Apple is now the only brand that dares to challenge Alcatel in high-end phones. How can it not make Ertian worry.

Song Yang glanced at Ertian, and did not stop him from considering Apple as an opponent. Alcatel mobile phones have already taken advantage. Whether it is brand recognition or technology, Apple now needs to pay patent fees for Alcatel mobile phones, including smartphones. Mobile phone technology, 3G technology, baseband chip patents, etc., the more expensive Apple sells, the higher the patent fee paid to Alcatel mobile phones!
Now the Alcatel mobile phone has the advantage of the right time, place and people. If it can't suppress Apple, then Song Yang really has nothing to say.

"Is there any news from Microsoft?!"

Looking at those mobile phone brands, apart from the sales volume, what Song Yang is most concerned about is the operating systems of these mobile phone brands, which are basically divided into four companies. The Symbian system and the Apple system of Alcatel mobile phones are exclusive to each other. , most of the rest of the mobile phone brands use Android and Microsoft WP systems, and the WP system now also has a large market share.

Ertian was a little strange. He didn't know why Song Yang suddenly cared about Microsoft. Just as he was about to speak, the phone rang suddenly. After answering the phone, Ertian showed surprise, surprise, joy and no Qing Dao unknown strange look.

"Microsoft WP system, refuse to upgrade the latest system for Nokia Lunmia630?!"

(End of this chapter)