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Volume One Chapter 529 Starry Sky (5)

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    Chapter 529 Starry Sky (5)

    Chapter 529 Starry Sky (5)

    Without giving reporters a chance to ask questions, Li Keqing quickly dropped a second bombshell: "As the price for Mr. Buffett's investment in Star Group, 5.2% of the shares held by Mr. Buffett will officially belong to Star Group.  Currently, Star Group will hold 50.2% of Apple¡¯s shares, officially completing its control of Apple Co., Ltd., and Apple will officially become one of Star Group¡¯s holding subsidiaries!¡±

    With a "boom", if the first news from Li Keqing just made the scene a little heated, then this second news was like throwing a white phosphorus incendiary bomb down. The scene suddenly became violent and crazy. Although  As early as when Star Group obtained 45% of Apple's shares, some people had already predicted today's outcome, but that was just a prediction after all, and although 5% of the stock seems to be a small amount, it still requires  Depends on what kind of company it is.

    Apple's current market value is hundreds of billions of dollars, and five percent is already a huge number. But just when everyone was guessing when that day would come, no one expected that Star Group would complete the acquisition so quickly.  That's not all, and it seems that there is another news, that is, Buffett seems to have entered the Star Group's board of directors through a share swap.

    Buffett is the first foreigner to join the board of directors of Star Group. Although no one quite understands how this was done, Star Group has never let anyone take advantage of it since its inception. Obviously Buffett has made a mistake.  A lot of blood.  The news that Apple was successfully acquired by Star Group was like a worldwide earthquake, shocking people all over the world.

    A super company with a market value of nearly 300 billion US dollars was acquired like this?  Everyone is trying to digest the news, but some people react quite quickly. The most direct reaction is the U.S. stock market. Apple¡¯s stock had slowly risen to $310.88 before, but when the news broke, Apple¡¯s stock  A small decline began.

    All this happened in just a few minutes. The press conference is still going on. Because this is a press conference held on American time, it is already evening in China at this time, but there are still quite a few people watching.  many.  But those who are more concerned are Apple fans in Europe and the United States. In their view, Apple's acquisition is as incredible as white people in the United States not psychologically discriminating against black people.

    But they had to accept this news, but everyone was quietly waiting for the next news from the two company executives. Since the two companies have made such big moves, it is obvious that there should be other news to be announced.  .

    "In order to maintain the better development of Apple, Star Group decided to continue to hire Mr. Jobs as the president of Apple, and gave Mr. Jobs 0.1% of Star Group shares as a reward. In addition, Star Group will transfer 100% of the shares of Star Group to  Twenty-thirds of the shares will be given to Star Heavy Industries Holdings, and Apple will invest US$20 billion to acquire 10% of Star Heavy Industries' shares." Li Keqing smiled and threw out the third piece of news.

    Transferred the shares of Apple, a subsidiary of Star Group, to Star Heavy Industries, and then asked Apple to invest in purchasing shares of Star Heavy Industries, successfully reducing Apple's shares to 30.02%, although Apple also invested in purchasing shares of Star Heavy Industries.  , although 90% of Star Heavy Industries' shares are still in the hands of Star Group, in this way, Apple is actually equivalent to buying back part of its own stocks, and Star Group's actual holding ratio has been reduced to 100%  Below fifty.

    But no one cares about this. First of all, the mutual control between the two companies is the purchase of other company's shares by the entire company. After being divided among all the shareholders of the company, there is not much left, but in this way, the two companies can  The shareholder structure is more reasonable.

    ¡° Moreover, this kind of cross-holding has the advantage of increasing the market value of Star Heavy Industries¡¯ listing. It is also beneficial to future management and avoids some villains with ulterior motives.  Because Star Heavy Industries holds 20% of Apple's shares, the Apple stock alone has added US$56 billion to Star Heavy Industries' market value, plus Star Heavy Industries' original assets and the new battery sales that Star Heavy Industries has just started.  The total market value of this gimmick is close to US$200 billion.

    In this way, after the company is listed in the future, even if Star Sky Group releases enough circulating shares, it will not have to worry about the possibility of forced acquisition by others, because the cost will be an astronomical figure.

    As Star Group's press conference ended, the whole world was in a new state of shock. Just as people all over the world were discussing Star Group's successful and complete acquisition of Apple, Zhang Yang and others had already mentioned this matter.  GiveThrow it away.

    "I saidMr. Zhang Yang, as an old Chinese saying goes, you are too unkind." Jobs looked at Zhang Yang speechlessly.  Because the secret agreement has been invalidated, Li Keqing now directly occupies more than half of the shares of Apple's board of directors, plus Li Yuxuan and Tan Yudie's 6%, and the opinions of other directors can basically be ignored.

    Therefore, the stock exchange between Apple and Star Heavy Industries, and the evaluation of purchasing Star Heavy Industries shares were naturally passed directly. This is what Steve Jobs said. Although Apple's market value is quite good now, Apple actually does not have much cash, especially even though Apple is now  The factory in China is still secretly producing iPhone 1. During this period, due to the stimulation of iPhone 2, the sales of iPhone 1 not only did not decline, but began to rise sharply.

    Just because of one sentence, that is, after the iPhone 2 is launched, Apple will give priority to people who have exchanged their purchases. This news makes people all over the world who are looking forward to the iPhone 2 crazy to buy the iPhone 1. Anyway, it will basically not cost much to exchange for it.  It just costs an extra ten or twenty dollars. People who can afford an iPhone with this money will naturally not care.

    This has caused a strange phenomenon. Even though they know that the company's second-generation products are about to be launched, people are still crazy about buying the company's first-generation products. Although the ideal is beautiful, in fact, this is nothing more than prepaying for the iPhone 2.  User!

    In just a few days, the sales of iPhone 1 have successfully approached the global sales of 20 million units. This number makes all mobile phone manufacturers in the world almost faint, 20 million!  Although mobile phones are now quite popular, the number of people using mobile phones in the world is actually only about one billion, and a considerable number of these billion people are unable to afford high-end products such as iPhones.

    Among the limited high-end users, Apple has taken away 20 million users!  This ratio is not low at all. As we all know, no matter what product it is, what kind of product is the most profitable?  Nothing more than high-end luxury goods.  And Apple¡¯s numbers are still rising crazily.

    Although Apple¡¯s income is terrifying, Apple¡¯s current liquidity is less than 30 billion US dollars, and after the iPhone 2 is launched, I am afraid that for a long period of time, there will only be expenses and no income.  Now that Zhang Yang has used the opportunity of stock exchange to withdraw US$20 billion in cash from Apple, the funds available to Jobs have been significantly reduced. Can he not be depressed?

    Zhang Yang immediately laughed, patted Jobs on the shoulder quickly and said, "Steve, there's no need for us to keep each other at bay. I'll treat you to dinner when we get to China. Do you still care about this little money?"  inside?"

    Jobs was dumbfounded. What kind of food could cost 20 billion?  Let alone U.S. dollars, even 20 billion Korean won is more than 100 million RMB. You can't even afford platinum for that much money.  Zhang Yang was also helpless. That guy Luo Gai had limited time. The earlier he bought the equipment, the earlier he could start researching.

    But now Star Group¡¯s gap is actually quite large. Overall, the cash that Star Group can mobilize now, including Apple¡¯s $20 billion, is only about $50 billion, and part of this is bank loans.  The equipment needed to buy Luo Gai would cost close to 10 billion U.S. dollars. Firstly, it was built by Zhang Yang for Luo Gai. Secondly, it goes without saying that the high-tech laboratory built with 10 billion U.S. dollars is so advanced that even if it is  After Luo Gai died, Starry Sky Group's own technical department would also need this laboratory. This expense was not considered a waste.

    The second is about the construction process of this battery production line, as well as the Xingkong Heavy Industry site, etc. These probably require billions of dollars. As for the remaining money, Zhang Yang doesn¡¯t know where else he will need to spend it.  Especially since many of Zhang Yang¡¯s ideas can already be implemented, and they are all expensive projects.

    ¡°One-third of the 50 billion was spent at once, and I don¡¯t know if the remaining money is enough.  "Okay, Apple is your company now, and I think you are also responsible for its future development, so if there is insufficient liquidity in the future, I think you should solve it." Jobs hesitated for a while and then let go.  , he is just a CEO anyway.  If there is a problem in the company in the future, Zhang Yang will be the one who is really anxious. He is a typical emperor who is not anxious but an eunuch is anxious.

    After returning from the United States, Zhang Yang was immediately called into the office by Chen Xiaowei.  "What's the matter?" Zhang Yang looked at Chen Xiaowei strangely and asked.

    "What can happen? Some officials from the Ministry of National Energy, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of National Security have come over and want to talk to us about this battery technology." Chen Xiaowei said helplessly, rubbing her forehead.

    "Oh, well, you can just send someone to talk to them. You don't have to look for me." Although Zhang Yang didn't know what these people were here for, he could guess.The purpose of ? must be multiple. The first must be to inquire about the role of this battery in the military field. Zhang Yang has long thought of this. A battery the size of a mobile phone can improve performance by more than thirty times. This has still been weakened.  of!  If the battery is enlarged year-on-year, if it is not weakened, the electric cars of the past will no longer be a dream!
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