Rebirth of England.

Of course, there is another way, which is to merge Netflix with DailyVedio. In this way, there will be no competition between the two parties, and the global market can be unified, which can be said to have many benefits.

But there will also be a problem, that is, the interests of media groups including SEM Group and Sky Group will be diluted.

You can say that after the merger, the scale of the new company has expanded, which is equivalent to making the pie bigger.

But why did companies including Disney and 20th Century Fox create their own Hulu platform in the original time and space, and why did BBC and Sky TV each have their own streaming platforms instead of cooperating with Netflix?

This involves the issue of allocation of internal resources within a company. When the shareholding ratio of these media groups becomes smaller, Netflix, for the sake of the overall interests, will inevitably infringe upon or even damage the interests of media groups such as SEM Group and Sky Group in some decisions.

Of course, you can say that these media groups themselves are also controlled by Barron, but this does not change anything. As the saying goes, "There are no factions within the party, but all kinds of weird things." The larger the size of a group, the more it will gradually split into its own interest factions.

After all, for the CEOs of these companies, the revenue of their own company is the most fundamental criterion for measuring their work performance. Not to mention that even if the two parties merge, with Hastings' desire for control, he will not allow Netflix's management rights to fall into the hands of others, and conflicts will inevitably arise at that time.

Therefore, Barron did not push for a merger between the two companies, but allowed them to compete with each other - but wanted to limit this competition to a benign range so as not to generate too much internal friction.

Not only in the streaming platform industry, there is also competition between Woaw in the social field and companies such as Twitter and Snapchat invested by IC Capital. These are all based on such considerations.

Otherwise, he could have directly pushed Woaw to acquire these companies, thereby creating a social giant that occupies the vast majority of the global market share. However, that would not only make it easy to face antitrust scrutiny from various countries, it would also easily attract criticism.

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By early May, IC Capital finally reached an agreement with Lenovo Group, under which Lenovo Group would invest US$5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility's mobile phone business.

Lenovo Group's acquisition includes Motorola Mobility's brand, trademark portfolio, 2000 patents and partnerships with more than 50 operators around the world.

In addition, Lenovo also took over Motorola Mobility's product planning, including Motorola Mobility's mobile phone business design centers in China and the United States.

Because Lenovo has a production base in Jiangcheng Optics Valley in China, in order to reduce the bid, they did not take over Motorola Mobility's mobile phone production base in Tianjin. In the original time and space, this production base was sold by Google to Flextronics in 2012, and then continued to manufacture Motorola mobile phones. Now it has been sold to Honor Electronics for US$1 million and will serve as the production base for their Dopod brand.

Motorola Mobility's set-top box business was also spun off from Motorola Mobility and renamed Motorola Electronics, while still using the Motorola brand.

这一次联想集团35亿美元的收购款项，包括10.5亿美元现金、7.5亿美元价值的联想集团普通股（占联想集团总股本的5%左右），以及17亿美元的三年期本票。

This acquisition is another large-scale overseas merger and acquisition by Lenovo Group after it acquired IBM's personal computer division for US$2004 billion in 12.5 and IBM's low-end server business for US$23 billion earlier this year.

Lenovo Group CEO Liu Yuanqing later declared that this acquisition was an important part of Lenovo Group's global expansion strategy. Through this acquisition, they were able to absorb Motorola's advanced technology accumulated over the years and use it to enter the mature markets of Europe and the United States. Motorola's brand influence and operator relationships provided Lenovo with a convenient way to enter these markets...

IC Capital and GII Fund, which acquired Motorola Mobility for US$105 billion, are also very satisfied with this transaction.

After all, when it acquired Motorola Mobility, it had $25 billion in cash on its books, which means they acquired the company for $80 billion.

Now its mobile phone business has been sold for a total of 36 billion US dollars (plus the Tianjin production base sold for 1 million US dollars), and the remaining Motorola Electronics (set-top box business) is worth about 30 billion US dollars. In addition, from the acquisition of Motorola Mobility to now, because of Motorola Mobility's net operating losses in the United States and overseas businesses, IC Capital can also obtain nearly 40 billion US dollars in tax breaks...

All in all, the price IC Capital paid for Motorola's more than 20000 communications patents was negligible, and these patents could bring Android a market value bonus of more than $ billion.

No matter how you calculate it, it's a very cost-effective deal...

At this time, Barron had returned to London.

The European Parliament election is about to take place, but in Britain, this atmosphere is not felt too much.

After all, there are differences within Britain in its attitude towards the EU, and in the past two years, especially due to the refugee issue, Britain's Euroscepticism has intensified.

And relatively speaking, British voters are more concerned about domestic issues such as the economy, health, education, etc., rather than the European Parliament elections - in this case, the European Parliament elections are considered secondary.

"After reaching a new investment agreement, the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant has started again. This time it is relatively smooth and is expected to be completed before 2018."

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As Talulah Riley said in the latest information obtained from United Energy Group on British Energy Group's Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project in England, under pressure, Electricité de France finally reached a final agreement with United Energy Group and China General Nuclear Power Group on China General Nuclear Power Group's investment in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project.

To this end, Electricité de France also made concessions, allowing China General Nuclear Power Group to hold a majority stake in the Bradwell B nuclear power plant in subsequent nuclear power plant projects and use their "Hualong One" nuclear power technology.

After the agreement was reached, under the promotion of Barron, the British police also took quick action. The "environmentalists" who had previously occupied the construction site of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant were immediately cleared out, and the project was finally able to proceed smoothly.

After all, they already had extensive experience in friendly exchanges with these "environmentalists" during the construction of High-Speed ​​Rail Line 2, and were able to hit the nail on the head and prevent these people from making any waves.

As for why we didn’t act so quickly before?

Electricite de France is the major shareholder of BEP, and there is no need for United Energy, which only holds 40% of its shares, to take over the reins.

What's more, if we don't put some pressure on them, how could EDF so easily agree to the investment agreement with CGN this time?

After all, when it comes to construction projects, Barron still trusts Chinese companies more. Although the French are slightly more reliable than the British in this kind of project, the gap is relatively limited...