Global monopoly of technology

March 7, North America.

"What? Bluestar Technology jumped out to cut Hus?" Disney's head Bob Iger was caught off guard when he heard the news. After a while, he said: "Is the other party really interested in mergers or acquisitions, or simply wants to respond? "

The executive who received the news in return for the first time said: “I don’t know. Recently, Bluestar Pictures sent a research team to contact Murdoch. The news came out that Bluestar Technology intends to acquire 21st Century for US$81.5 billion. Fox."

"Damn it!"

Whether it is an intentional acquisition or simply messing up, it is disgusting. If the former Disney will lose 21st Century Fox, if the latter is bound to raise the cost of mergers and acquisitions, resulting in mergers and acquisitions failure or forever.

It is worth mentioning that in the past ten years, in the face of the profound impact and even transformation of new Internet media platforms on the audience’s way of watching movies, and the declining of traditional media, Fox has been unable to compete with the azure coast in the 21st century. Bluestar Technology has competed with emerging technology giants such as Google.

Murdoch, its head, has long decided to withdraw from the entertainment industry, spin off the remaining assets such as Fox Broadcasting Group, sports, news and television stations, and set up a new company worth about 10 billion US dollars.

And Disney’s biggest concern is also the Internet giants, including the North American content production and streaming giant Netflix, and the rapidly rising Blue Star Pictures.

Because of this, Disney is eager to spend 60 to 70 billion US dollars at the expense of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox to strengthen its weakness in copyright, international channels and distribution. The acquisition of the company can obtain a large number of film and television rights and National Geographic. After waiting for more than 300 international channels, the original issue of no distribution rights has also been resolved.

With plenty of ammunition, Disney has set out to build its own streaming media platform and withdraw the film and television works licensed to Netflix and Bluestar Pictures to confront the two cross-latitude competitors that have opened up content production and distribution channels.

In the era of rapid technological development, the weakness of Hollywood producers in the distribution channels has led to an increasingly weak voice. Relatively speaking, Disney is the fastest to react, and it may be more and more marginalized in the future. In the end, it became a content provider for emerging Internet streaming platforms such as Bluestar Pictures and Netflix.

In this context, the media giant Murdoch directly played GG and chose to give up, while Disney chose to take the initiative to counterattack the dimensionality reduction attacks launched by competitors.

Obviously, if the future Hollywood filmmakers do not want to be eliminated or become content providers of Internet giants, they must embark on a cross-platform integration path that connects production, distribution, and on-demand.

Bob Iger asked: "What does Murdoch think?"

"Sell for the price, and the higher price will get."

"Damn it!"

Disney is a two-hundred-billion-dollar super entertainment giant. It must be strong, but Baby Di is still a little emboldened when it comes to fighting Luo Sheng's "currency ability".

Bluestar Technology swallows 21st Century Fox, and can even use all of its cash to pay. It is so powerful and so rich.

However, Disney can't do it. It doesn't have so much cash at all. If you want to annex this company, you can only trade with its own company stocks, otherwise you can't afford it.

At this moment, the news has been exposed to the media, and it was the first to cause a large-scale sensation in the entertainment industry. Entertainment media such as the "Hollywood Reporter" quoted the report as soon as possible. The technology circle and major mainstream media followed up.

The acquisition of 21st Century Fox with US$81.5 billion will be the largest M&A case in history, and it will be epic.

Luo Sheng's actions are extremely swift and violent. He wants to swallow Fox in the 21st Century. This is not a simple game, but a multi-dimensional struggle.

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On March 9, another heavy news came out and hit the headlines of major news websites around the world.

Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur each drafted a total of 20.3 billion euros in the Ouyuan District investment plan for 2019 in their respective fields. Ou League and the presidents of the two companies in the Ouzhou branch signed the agreement on the same day and made it public.

The speed is really a bit fast, almost burst news.

In fact, it is not difficult for interested people to observe the past history and find that this is both unexpected and reasonable.

It is well-known that the economic environment in Ouzhou has become worse in recent years. In addition to the unstable global situation, it is even worse that the relationship between the two parties is not as close as before.

For example, the United States tried to prevent the laying of the EU’s "Beixi No. 2" energy pipeline. This energy pipeline was intended to be inserted into the Persian Gulf in order to alleviate the excessive dependence on the supply of natural gas. If the supply is cut off, the people of Ouzhou can't survive the winter.

It doesn’t matter if Mao Xiong jumps out to make trouble, but Lao Mei also makes trouble. He understands the baby’s idea very well and prevents the construction of the "Beixi No. 2" energy pipeline. The purpose is to beat the people in North America to buy North American products. energy.

You know, since the shale oil and gas revolution, North America has changed from the world's largest energy importer to an exporter.

But the people in Ouzhou are not happy, and they are expensive, and this account is obviously not worthwhile.

This is just one of the fundamentals. In fact, there are more and more conflicts in economic issues between North America and Euzhou.

At the same time, in 2108, the people of Ouzhou followed the Babies, which led to a direct year-on-year drop of 80% in the investment of companies in Asia’s largest economy. The people of Ouzhou took the initiative to restrict investment in the first half of the year.

Well, something was found wrong in the second half of the year.

After limiting this, I discovered that no one came to beat the continent to play. The economy was already in recession, and this day was even more sad.

An important factor for everyone not to play is that Germany, which is the “locomotive” of the European economy, is no longer working. Investment is about returns. For global investors, there is no profit. It is nonsense. When to invest in Euzhou, how can you wait for Germany to welcome it. After the economic recovery.

In fact, whether global investors are betting on Ouzhou, to a large extent, the choice of several companies or institutions of Luo Sheng has a significant influence on the decisions of global investors, and in a sense has a role as a weather vane.

Last year, Luo Sheng’s major companies or institutions such as Shengfeng Capital invested only 606 million U.S. dollars in Germany, while the total investment in Germany in 2017 was as high as 4 billion euros, and the decline was not ordinary. Big.

For global investors, whether or not to bet on Euzhou first depends on the investment intensity of companies in Asia’s largest economy in Euzhou, and this mainly depends on several companies and institutions of Luo Sheng.

The role of a weather vane is more than just talking. Global investors are implementing it with practical actions.

Entering 2019, this situation still hasn't improved. The people in Ouzhou are really anxious in their eyes. At this moment, Luo Sheng's people visited again and asked whether there is a possibility of cooperation.

With such an obvious step and a major economic benefit, the people in Ouzhou decisively got on the bus with little hesitation. The two sides reached an agreement in just a few days, and the total investment of more than 20 billion euros landed smoothly.

In the past two days, there was another heavy news on March 11 that the regulatory agency of the League announced unconditionally to approve the acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets by Bluestar Technology.

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