Global monopoly of technology

April 28.

Bluestar Group headquarters.

"Mr. Luo, Jack Stoppelman reported a message to the parent company. Our North American competitor MySpace is negotiating with Google. Netcom is conducting search-based cooperation to take full advantage of its increased users and influence. , MySpace currently has 23 million users, with a North American market share of about 12%, while our BlueSpace’s market share is over 85%."

Zhang Bowen, chief operating officer of the group company, came to Luo Sheng's office to report the matter.

At present, the international version of BlueSpace is fully in charge of Jack Stoppelman, and the parent company has basically not interfered too much. However, the BlueStar Technology Group arranges on the board of supervisors of its subsidiary BlueSpace who is absolutely trustworthy and is the parent company. People sent directly by the company.

In overseas regions, the power of the board of supervisors in the company is not the same as in the mainland, but it really has a lot of power.

The CEOs of Luo Sheng's subsidiaries in the overseas business sector are all foreign executives hired to better suit the local market, but he does not absolutely trust these foreigners.

For example, once Jack Stoppelman has a problem, or when necessary, he will be fired immediately, and within 24 hours a CEO will be airborne from the parent company to take over the affairs of BlueSpace.

Luo Sheng has invested heavily in this area, and the management's "spare tire" is also stepping up preparations, even if it increases operating costs because of this.

Have no idea.

That's in the old and beautiful territory.

Luo Sheng has not forgotten how the Americans played the French Alstom company through the senior management. In the previous life, he also read the book "American Trap", which is a story about how the North American authorities adopted non-economic Means to disintegrate the writings of business giants in other countries.

Therefore, once the Board of Supervisors discovers that Jack Stoppelman has not implemented the will of the parent company, there is something to be overstepped, such as a reminder, a second warning, and a third direct dismissal and an airborne CEO to take over.

The same is true for executives in other departments of the company.

Luo Sheng does not expect much pioneering spirit from the heads of the subsidiaries, especially the CEO of the subsidiary who is in charge of the overseas business sector. If he really has this ability, he will come to the core of the parent company.

He wants the head of the subsidiary company to perfectly execute the strategic will of the parent company, even if it is the wrong strategy.

It's not that I don't believe these senior foreign managers...Yes, I just don't believe it.

Moreover, Luo Sheng is even more unable to trust the North American authorities. Sharing benefits with Wall Street is a great guarantee, but it is not absolute. Therefore, from an absolute rational point of view, it is impossible for Luo Sheng to have absolute trust in senior managers hired outside.

They may not have thought of pitting the company, but in case the North American authorities trying to crack down on the company will give them a ploy, the result is the same.

Therefore, the investment of resources here is absolutely indispensable. This is the grand strategy of the group company to prevent it from happening.

Zhang Bowen continued: "Jack proposed to the parent company, should we go up and get involved and talk to News Corp about the acquisition of MySpace, so as to prevent the potential threat from Google to BlueSpace?"

"Acquisition of MySpace?" Luo Sheng immediately rejected Jack Stoppelman's suggestion without hesitation, and immediately added: "Today, the number of BlueSpace users in North America alone has exceeded 100 million, let alone Speaking of the global scope, the user ecological chain has taken shape, and this first-mover advantage in the field of social networking sites has taken shape. Once it takes shape, as long as we don’t commit two mistakes, MySpace is basically impossible to turn around."

Zhang Bowen said: "Nevertheless, it is always uncomfortable to allow Google to ignite wantonly in our backyard."

Luo Sheng smiled and said, "Just click. We definitely can't buy MySpace. This move is not worth the loss. Once we merge MySpace under the banner, it may cause an almost absolute natural monopoly, which will bring us huge troubles. Europeans and Americans will definitely seize this opportunity to wave the split stick. Keep it and raise pigs scientifically."

Zhang Bowen: "Uh..."

Pig raising scientifically?

This remark made Zhang Bowen quite happy, but when I think about it carefully, it really is what it is.

MySpace does not pose a huge threat. The greatest value of its existence is to avoid the trouble of antitrust investigations for Bluestar Technology.

In this regard, Intel has done a very good job. It can easily kill AMD, but it always leaves some room for AMD. It won’t starve to death but it won’t turn the sky.

According to foreign news reports, MySpace was bought by News Corp. as a social networking site in the early years. It is seeking search engine partners to provide it with search and advertising services.

Obviously, this time Google ran over, and Yahoo was obviously excluded.

Yahoo, a once brilliant company, as for now... it's hard to say.

Google’s alliance with MySpace this time is simply a replica of the battle between Google and Microsoft for AOL last year. After agreeing to invest $1 billion in AOL, Google defeated Microsoft.

As for MySpace, I am afraid that it will receive strong support from the North American authorities, trying to catch up with Bluestar Technology. Anyone can buy this company. Only Bluestar Technology cannot buy it. North America does not allow it.

If Americans knew that Luo Sheng could grow to the point where it is today, they would never approve Bluestar Technology’s access to the North American market. Today, of course, Americans want to drive Bluestar Technology out of the North American market by any means. .

But it's not as easy as before, because the water in the Bluestar Technology Group has also become very deep, and Wall Street has a lot of interest in it.

The key is that Luo Sheng was very vigilant early, so that the North American authorities could not find too many excuses if there was no interest in Wall Street.

The North American authorities certainly don't reason with you, they just do it, but Wall Street's interests are different in it. Even if you want to achieve your goals, you must be reasonable, or you will cause trouble.

Zhang Bowen said: "But Google is not going well either. The news I got is that Microsoft is also taking a shot at this time, which makes Google very unhappy."

Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "This is not a weird thing. The CEOs of Google and Microsoft have recently talked about the importance of social networking sites to the future of the Internet. Bluestar Technology has grown to today's scale. It is Microsoft who dare not say that it despises us."

Zhang Bowen said immediately: “From the two sides’ battle for AOL last year, it’s hard to imagine that the two giants, Google and Microsoft, would easily hand over MySpace to their opponents. Therefore, I personally think that MySpace is likely to gain a large share of the search advertising business. Part of the income may even be an advance payment, or a partner promises a minimum payment amount."

Luo Sheng nodded: "It makes sense. Google and Google are the key points. I am afraid that Microsoft will lose again this time, and we are not as focused on Google. We have put a lot of pressure on Google, but we have not forged any bridge with Microsoft. "

Zhang Bowen pondered for a moment, then looked at Luo Sheng and said: "We can't just sit back and watch. MySpace and Google are in a mess, it must be less than a pot of pee with Yahoo. Hehe, doesn't Google want to put the fire in our backyard? We are also courteous, and we also talk to Yahoo about cooperation."

After hearing this, Luo Shengyan said two words concisely: "Yes."

Come on, hurt each other.

Although Yahoo is getting worse and worse, it can be said that it was once a king in the Internet world. When it comes to the Internet, it does not understand the Internet.

Even today, Yahoo's market value is still as high as 60 billion US dollars.

This matter is settled in this way. The purpose is not to achieve any substantive results, but to remind Peggy, don’t care about your own backyard when playing with fire in other people’s backyard, but also to allocate a little energy to look back. Look at your nest.

You can play with fire, and so can I.

But then again, Luo Sheng didn’t have much hope for Yahoo. Google’s position in the global search engine market could not be shaken. It would not be fundamental to want to set fire to Page’s backyard. Shake the foundation of Google.

Luo Sheng instructed Zhang Bowen: "Compared with this, more attention should be paid to Google's actions in the field of cloud computing services. Google's current CEO Eric Schmidt himself has a lot of roots in cloud computing. He once proposed it at the earliest. Sun, where the network is a computer, has served as the chief technology officer. There is also Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. Note that these North American technology giants are likely to become our main competition in the field of cloud computing services in the future. opponent."

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