Global Monopoly of Technology

March 7, North America.

"What? Bluestar Technology jumped out to cut the Hu?" Bob Iger, the head of Disney, was caught off guard when he heard the news, and after a while he said, "Is the other party really interested in mergers and acquisitions, or is it simply trying to get in the way? "

The executive who responded immediately after receiving the news said: "I don't know, a few days ago, Bluestar Pictures sent a research team to contact Murdoch, and the news came out that Bluestar Technology intends to acquire 21st Century for $81.5 billion. Fox."

"Damn!"

Whether it is an intentional acquisition or simply doing things, it is disgusting. If the former, Disney will lose Twenty-First Century Fox, and if the latter is the latter, it will definitely raise the cost of mergers and acquisitions, which will lead to the failure of mergers or a long-term future.

It is worth mentioning that, in the past decade or so, in the face of the profound influence and even the transformation of new Internet media platforms on the way audiences watch movies, and the decline of traditional media, 21st Century Fox has been unable to compete with Côte d’Azur, Bluestar Technology competes with emerging technology giants such as Google.

Its head, Murdoch, has long decided to quit the entertainment industry, spin off the remaining Fox Broadcasting Group, sports, news and television assets, and set up a new company worth about $10 billion.

And Disney's biggest worries are also Internet giants, including North American content production and streaming giant Netflix, and the fast-rising Blue Star Pictures.

Because of this, Disney has spent sixty-seven billion dollars at all costs, eager to strengthen its weakness in copyright, international channels and distribution through the acquisition of 21st Century Fox. The acquisition of the company can obtain a large number of its film and television rights, National Geographic. After more than 300 international channels, the original problem of no distribution rights has been solved.

Disney, which has enough ammunition, has started to build its own streaming media platform and withdraw the film and television works licensed to Netflix and Blue Star Pictures to confront these two cross-latitude competitors who have opened up content production and distribution channels.

In the era of rapid technological development, the weakness of Hollywood studios in distribution channels has led to a decline in the right to speak. Relatively speaking, Disney is the fastest to respond, and fear may become 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 fight back against the dimensionality reduction attack launched by the competitor.

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

Bob Iger asked: "What did Murdoch think?"

"It's up for sale, and the one with the highest price wins."

"Damn!"

Disney is a super entertainment giant with 200 billion US dollars, and it must be powerful, but with Luo Sheng fighting for "money ability", Di Baobao still lacks confidence.

Bluestar Technology has swallowed 21st Century Fox, and can even pay with all cash. It is so powerful and so rich.

But Disney can't do it. There is not so much cash at all. If you want to annex this company, you can only trade with a valuation given by its own company stock.

Otherwise you can't afford it at all.

At this moment, the news has been exposed to the media, and it is the first to cause a large-scale sensation in the entertainment industry. The entertainment media such as The Hollywood Reporter have all quoted the report for the first time, and the technology industry and major mainstream media have followed up.

The acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox for $81.5 billion, if successful, will be the largest merger and acquisition case in history, which is epic.

Luo Sheng's movements are extremely fast. If he wants to swallow 21st Century Fox, this is not a simple game, but a multi-dimensional wrestling.

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On March 9, another big news came out and hit the headlines of the world's major news websites.

Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur respectively formulated investment plans for the Houyuan District in 2019 totaling 20.3 billion euros in their respective fields. The presidents of the Houmeng and the two companies signed the agreement and made it public on the same day.

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

In fact, it is not difficult to find that this is both unexpected and reasonable by observing the past history.

It is well known that the economic environment of Wuzhou has been getting worse in recent years. In addition to the unstable global situation, it is even worse. Knowing that the baby is still fighting with the alliance, the relationship between the two sides is not as close as it used to be.

For example, Laos and the United States have tried their best to prevent the laying of the "Beixi No. 2" energy pipeline of the alliance. This energy pipeline is a pipe that the alliance hopes to insert into the Persian Gulf, so as to alleviate the excessive dependence on Mao bears for natural gas supply, otherwise Mao bears If the supply is cut off, the Auzhou people will not be able to survive the winter.

It’s okay for the bear to jump out and make trouble, but Lao Mei is also making trouble, and it’s very fruitful to understand the baby’s idea to prevent the construction of the “Beixi No. 2” energy pipeline. 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 of the island are not happy, and they are expensive, so this account is obviously not worth it.

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

At the same time, in 2108, the people of Auzhou followed to understand the baby, causing the investment of companies in Asia's largest economy to directly drop by 80% year-on-year. In the first half of the year, the people of Auzhou took the initiative to restrict investment.

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

After limiting this, I found out that no one came to play in Wuzhou. The economy was already sluggish, and these days are even more difficult.

An important factor for people not coming to play is that Germany, which is the "locomotive" of the European economy, is not good. Investment is about return. For global investors, it is nonsense without profit. after economic recovery.

In fact, whether or not global investors are betting on the continent, 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 acts as a weather vane.

Last year, Luo Sheng's major companies or Shengfeng Capital and other institutions only invested 606 million US 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 to bet on Ouzhou first depends on the investment in Ouzhou by companies in Asia's largest economy, which mainly depends on several companies and institutions of Luo Sheng.

The role of the wind vane is not just talk, global investors are practicing with practical actions.

Entering 2019, this situation still hasn't improved. The people from Auzhou are really worried about it. At this juncture, Luo Sheng's people came to visit again and asked whether there is a possibility of cooperation.

With such an obvious step and a major economic benefit, the Auzhou people decided to get on the bus without much hesitation. The two parties reached an agreement in just a few days, and the total investment of more than 20 billion euros was successfully implemented.

In just the past two days, new heavy news came again on March 11. The regulatory agency of the League announced unconditional approval for Bluestar Technology to acquire the assets of Twenty-First Century Fox.

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