My Age of Investment

  Chapter 1599 must give us an explanation

   "Google finally couldn't help but make a move!"

Christina's solemn voice came over the phone. Before Xia Jingxing could respond, she continued without stopping: "We must take some measures! We cannot just sit and watch them successfully acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings." company!"

   "Don't worry! If I'm here, Page and the others won't be able to succeed."

  Xia Jingxing put his legs down from the desk with a smile, held the phone in one hand, and played with the Tesla car model on the table with the other, obviously not paying much attention to the news brought by Christina.

   "How can you guarantee that they won't succeed?"

  Christina was a little dissatisfied, and asked like a cannonball: "What if they take down Motorola as quickly as we bought Android?

  You must not be careless!

   If they were the first to buy Motorola, then our acquisition of Android would be a real joke. "

  Xia Jingxing gave a soft "hmm", basically agreeing with Christina's point of view.

  Because only acquiring Android and not Motorola, it is equivalent to only half of the completion of the matter, not only did not open up new businesses for Facebook, but also left a lot of hidden dangers for the company's future.

On the surface, the commercial promotion of the Android system is very successful. Mobile phone manufacturers all over the world, large and small, are actively joining the Android camp. The throne is gone.

   But it’s just an appearance!

   There are countless open and dark arrows waiting for Android.

  Taking the most frequently encountered patent disputes as an example, Android, which has been established for less than ten years, is obviously not the opponent of those old patent hooligans.

   Therefore, Android has received a lot of lawsuits in the past two years.

  Normal business competition can’t be played, and opponents can only use this kind of extra-disk tricks to slow down the development of Android.

   To put it bluntly, it is bullying you because you are young, you don’t have enough background, and the patent library lacks countermeasures. I can sue you, but you can’t sue me.

  A typical case is the current infringement lawsuit between Android and Oracle. Oracle said that Android used 11,500 lines of Java code written by its subsidiary Sun Microsystems Internet Corporation when developing the system.

  Regarding being sued, Andrew could only stare blankly. He looked in his pocket and found that it was cleaner than his face. He didn't know what technology he should countersuit Oracle for infringing upon him.

  If Android has a patent library that covers a wide enough range of technologies and is old enough, then things will not be so passive.

  For example, you can check whether Oracle has any grievances in your hands. If you have any, you can directly countersuit Oracle. Everyone fights each other for a while, and finally finds that no one can do anything, and can only choose to reconcile.

This is the motivation behind Google’s acquisition of Motorola. Once it successfully obtains Motorola’s wireless communication technology patent library accumulated for more than 80 years, whether it is kept as a defensive weapon or thrown out to attack Android, which lacks background, is very good. use.

  Google was not established a few years earlier than Facebook and Android. Even it lacks a sufficient patent library, and Facebook and Android naturally lack it.

  Motorola Mobility Holdings was spun off from the original old Motorola Corporation. Unlike Motorola Systems, which inherited government and enterprise businesses, it inherited Motorola's mobile phone business and technology patents accumulated over decades.

   How awesome is Motorola? Let me give you an example. For example, during World War II, they were making walkie-talkies for the U.S. military. They are military handheld phones that are one size bigger than the Big Brother, and they are classic props that often appear in Hollywood movies.

  With the end of World War II, Motorola has blossomed all over the world along with the bases of the US military, and has developed into a multinational enterprise, and it is also a giant that cannot be avoided in the history of the development of the wireless communication industry.

   Therefore, it is not surprising that this high-quality target has attracted great attention from Google and Facebook when it is sold to the market.

   "Page and the others have just secretly contacted Motorola, and the relevant information was disclosed to us by the Motorola people. It seems that these old white men want to sell for a price. We must be prepared to bleed."

  After reminding Xia Jingxing a few words, Christina talked about the attitude of the Motorola executives.

   Xia Jingxing was not surprised at all, and said with a smile: "It's normal, who doesn't want to sell their shares for a little more money? But don't worry, we have an advantage that Google doesn't have when it comes to the acquisition of Motorola."

  Christina immediately asked: "What advantage?"

   "Isn't it engraved on the forehead that people are stupid and have more money? After all, we are willing to spend more than 20 billion on the acquisition of Android, and we will be reluctant to buy another insurance for our new "sports car"?"

  Xia Jingxing's humorous metaphor made Christina laugh out loud, and it took a while to calm down, saying: "No wonder they are so enthusiastic, so they took us for a fool."

   "Yes, the conflicts accumulated between Google and us are getting worse day by day, and now they are facing each other in the field of mobile phone systems. It's no wonder that the Motorola people don't take advantage of this matter."

  Christina bitterly said: "Even if Motorola takes advantage of it, we have to teach Google a profound lesson. They blocked Facebook's acquisition of Android, and we haven't settled with them yet."

   "Don't be so stingy, if it were me, I wouldn't refuse to do two things that would cause trouble for my competitors."

   "Well, leaving aside the nasty people, how much do you think it will cost to acquire Motorola Mobility?"

  Xia Jingxing pondered for a moment before he said slowly: "At least tens of billions of dollars to start."

   "So much? If you add the acquisition of Android, wouldn't it cost more than 30 billion? Shareholders will definitely have opinions!"

   "If you have any opinions, please hold them back first. If you don't win Motorola Mobility, you will be blackmailed by major companies in turn."

  Christina on the other end of the phone didn't speak, probably thinking about how to deal with the shareholders. After all, their recent series of tricks seems a bit exaggerated to some people.

  Once the capital operation fails, Facebook's stock price will definitely be broken.

Xia Jingxing thought about it seriously, and felt that it was really hard for Christina to settle all the internal noises by herself, so she said two tricks: "I guess the internal pressure that Google will face in acquiring Motorola Mobility will not be greater than ours. Where to go, even they are even more troublesome.

   At least we have an Android system with the largest market share in our hands. What do they have?

  Chrome system just broke out? My hair hasn't even grown yet, so I want to learn to fly.

  Under the premise that the market prospect is still less clear than ours, I guess Page has been scolded by shareholders for spending tens of billions of dollars to acquire a patent library that is compatible with mobile phone systems.

  We can take advantage of this to keep the price down as much as possible, and don’t raise the purchase price to the sky, lest you be questioned by shareholders again. "

   "I know, I will play it by ear."

  …

  The two exchanged opinions on the acquisition of Motorola. Afterwards, Xia Jingxing cared about the growth of the pair of children. Hearing from Christina that the two little ones missed their father very much, Xia Jingxing felt a little embarrassed.

  He is indeed too busy. He only finished the fundraising activities of Vision Capital yesterday, and flew from New York to San Francisco today.

   In the last two days, I probably won’t have time to see the children, because Tesla still has a lot of troublesome things waiting for him to solve.

   No, he just hung up on Kristina's call, and was immediately notified of a meeting again.

  When Xia Jingxing rushed to the meeting room, he was still a few minutes late, and the room was already full of shareholders with different expressions.

   Seeing this scene, he laughed and teased everyone: "What's the matter? They all look preoccupied?"

  As soon as Xia Jingxing finished speaking, a shareholder stood up angrily, "Dailun, you must give us a reasonable explanation!"

  (end of this chapter)