Silicon Valley

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At the end of December 2002, Henry and others returned to California from Hawaii.

At this time, the investigation team sent by the United Nations to Iraq for investigation has already had its results. They stated that they did not find any nuclear or biological weapons of mass destruction. As soon as the news came out, the United States immediately opposed it. President Bush said: "Iraq must have made preparations in advance and destroyed its nuclear and biological weapons. Therefore, as long as you find signs of their destruction, it can also prove Iraq's crimes!"

Due to the strength of the United States, the United Nations once again sent a survey team to investigate the signs of destruction of Iraqi weapons research!

Henry was speechless after reading the news. Sure enough, there is nothing wrong with wanting to commit a crime!

Henry couldn't help thinking, a weak country has no diplomacy, and a weak country will be bullied. What should Madagascar do in the future? !

Thinking of this, Henry felt dizzy.

At the end of the year, the company's financial statements came out again.

The performance of the company under Henry's name is booming, with a revenue of 85,000 US dollars and a net profit of 500 billion US dollars. However, Japan's GDP in this year was only 15,000 US dollars. Although the GDP and the company's revenue are different, there is such a big difference, and the gap between the two can also be seen!

At this time, a company's financial statements caught Henry's attention. But this company is not Henry's company, but Lucent!

Lucent is a telecommunications equipment company backed by Bell Labs, and is a competitor of Cisco.

Henry looked at Lucent's financial statements and couldn't help laughing. Last year, Lucent lost 14.7 billion US dollars, and this year it lost another 10.5 billion US dollars. As soon as the financial report came out, Lucent's stock price plummeted instantly. When Lucent was established, it was well-capitalized and backed by Bell Labs, with a market capitalization of US$200 billion. It is a pity that Lucent has lost money year after year, and the market value of Lucent is less than 30 billion U.S. dollars. At this moment, the company is still in debt of 5.54 billion U.S. dollars, and it is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Henry has been coveting Bell Labs for a long time, but he only regrets that he has not been able to buy it. But, now's your chance! As long as the acquisition of Lucent Corporation is equivalent to owning Bell Labs! At the same time, N multiple technology patents can also be obtained. Don't look at how Lucent is losing money now, but its market value is still close to 30 billion US dollars, because of Bell Labs and a large number of patents! At present, the only company that has strength and is more interested in acquiring Lucent is Alcatel of France.

The two have been in contact since 2001, but have not reached an agreement. Now, Lucent is on the verge of bankruptcy, presumably, Alcatel also realizes that the opportunity is coming.

The combination of Alcatel and Lucent undoubtedly created a big problem for Cisco. In addition, Cisco's current development has encountered a bottleneck, and it needs to acquire large companies to expand its business and technology. Warwick is gradually rising in China, and Henry has realized that Cisco's crisis is coming, so he feels that it is necessary to make Cisco stronger.

The combination of Cisco and Lucent should be the best combination! With Bell Labs as its technical backing force, Cisco is sure to be even more powerful!

Henry immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed the mobile number of Cisco CEO John Chambers.

"Hello, Chambers, I'm Henry Williams!"

"Hello, Chairman, what's the matter?"

Henry said directly: "Have you read Lucent's annual financial statements?"

"Look, Lucent lost another 10.5 billion US dollars!" John Chambers paused and asked, "The chairman plans to let Cisco acquire Lucent?"

"That's right!" Henry said, "After the acquisition of Lucent, spin off the loss-making industries and sell them! Cisco can only keep the essence of Lucent!"

"Okay, then I'll prepare right away!" John Chambers said.

"En!" Henry nodded and hung up the phone.

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With Cisco's strength, Henry is not worried about not being able to acquire Lucent unless the US government stops it. But right now, there should be only two companies acquiring Lucent, one is a French company and the other is an American company. As long as the US government's brain is not burned out, it should obviously know how to choose.

At this time, Henry came to the Williams Center and transferred most of the companies under his name, including Apple, Williams Electronics and icq, Nicholas International Electronic Commerce, Google, Firefly Games, Facebook, IMDB, YouTube, LinkedIn, Hospital, etc. All the CEOs of the company called over to hold a very important meeting!

In the large conference room, dozens of people sat down according to the seats with names written on the chairs, each looking at each other, full of doubts. Henry had never called them all to a meeting before, this was the first time!

"What's the matter? Why did Mr. Williams call us all here?"

"Yeah! I really don't know why! Is there any important thing to announce!"

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The public couldn't help discussing in a low voice.

At this moment, the door of the conference room opened suddenly, and Henry walked in wearing a white casual suit.

“Hi Mr. Williams!!!”

Such a large group of people who can call the wind and call the wind and rain outside, but the powerful people are like elementary school students who see their teachers and immediately stand up to show respect.

"Well..." Henry nodded slightly at them, went straight to the first seat and sat down.

"Stop standing, sit down!"

After Henry finished speaking, everyone sat back in their chairs.

"Presumably, everyone is very curious, why did I call you all here for a meeting today!" Henry said, turning his gaze to Apple CEO Jobs, "Jobs, tell everyone the reason!"

"Okay!" Jobs nodded, and then connected the MacBook on the table to the LCD screen in the conference room.

"Everyone, in fact, Mr. Williams called everyone here this time to let everyone enter a brand new field - the mobile Internet!!!" Jobs paused, glanced at everyone, and said, "At this moment, someone should know Ask, what is the mobile Internet? In fact, the mobile Internet is the Internet of mobile terminals. For example, a mobile phone is a mobile terminal!"

"Next, I will solemnly introduce to you an invention capable of changing the world - the iPhone smartphone!!!"

As he said that, a photo suddenly appeared on the LCD screen in the meeting room. It was a simple and very beautiful thing with a screen in the middle and a round button below the screen. Good-looking things are good-looking, but is this still a mobile phone? Where did the button go? ?

Many people present were full of doubts.

"Mr. Jobs, is this the iPhone smartphone you're talking about?"

(to be continued ~^~)