When Chambers received a call from Yanagawa, he was not surprised at all.
Chambers is very familiar with Yanagawa's current situation. Now Lenovo is jointly suppressed by Acer and Deep Space in China, and its life is very difficult. If it can't survive the recent period, Lenovo may have a very difficult time in the future.
This is a life-and-death moment for Lenovo.
If Deep Space and Acer are completely merciless this time, and Lenovo doesn't have any good way to deal with it, it's hard to say whether Lenovo will still be a company in a few years.
But Chambers had no interest in Yanagawa's proposal to join forces with Cisco to start a war with Deep Space.
There is no other reason than Lenovo's lack of strength.
Lenovo, a company, originally only relied on the Chinese market to survive, and its development of foreign markets was very poor. Now they cannot even control the Chinese market.
How can such a company cooperate with Cisco to fight against Deep Space?
Of course, no matter how weak the power of Browning, it is still a gun, so Chambers did not give up Lenovo easily. He still kept Lenovo hanging and let Lenovo use its strength to fight against Deep Space Company.
Chambers told Yanagawa that as long as Lenovo charges quickly from the front, Cisco will definitely help them from behind.
Yanagawa was also an old fox, so he didn't believe what Chambers said.
The scene of the last time we cooperated with AOL is still vivid in my mind.
AOL, which had a close partnership with them back then, has now become a close partner of Deep Space.
Chambers asked them to charge from the front, and the best result was that Cisco would step in and push them at the critical moment. The second result was that Cisco would watch from the other side.
There is also a worst-case outcome, that is, Cisco takes advantage of Lenovo to launch a charge, uses a trick to kill Lenovo alive, and then sends it to Deep Space Company.
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In fact, Yanagawa called Chambers mainly because he wanted Cisco to help them get some money.
Their main difficulty this time was that they did not receive investment from the three investment companies and had no money to buy IBM's PC business.
As long as they have money, they still hope to start the acquisition of IBM's PC business.
In this way, they still have a chance to regroup and fight back.
But Chambers only promised to help them verbally, but in fact it was impossible to help them.
This road was not going to work, so Yanagawa was not discouraged. He lobbied everywhere, begged for help, and tried to raise funds from various institutions and units.
They also asked domestic banks.
In the end, after piecing everything together, I finally got the money.
After collecting the money, Lenovo contacted IBM and prepared to restart the PC business merger and acquisition plan with them.
But what Lenovo didn't expect was that IBM actually replied to Lenovo that while Lenovo was raising money everywhere, they had already reached an agreement with BenQ Group.
BenQ Mobile will acquire IBM's PC business for US$1.25 billion, US$650 million in cash and US$600 million in stock.
This condition is exactly the same as what Lenovo negotiated with them before, but compared to cooperating with Lenovo, IBM is definitely more willing to cooperate with BenQ Group.
Not to mention that the money provided by the Foundation Group is very simple, but the stocks provided by the Foundation Group have much more potential than Lenovo's stocks.
Some of the stocks listed by BenQ Group this time are the stocks of its subsidiary AUO. The stock price of AUO has now risen to US$18 per share, and it looks like the momentum will continue to rise.
AU Optronics' shares are already a best-seller, and it can be said that you can make money by buying them.
Lenovo did not expect that even after a short period of time, they would be stolen from them by BenQ.
Yanagawa was so angry that he called the office of the CEO of IBM China and scolded Zhou Weikun.
And Zhou Weikun was also speechless, because even the president of Greater China could not make the decision regarding the merger and acquisition of the PC business, and Yanagawa Yuki also knew about it.
It's just that Yanagawa couldn't scold the president's office at the headquarters. He could only vent his anger by scolding the president of Greater China. Moreover, Yanagawa only dared to scold Zhou Weikun. Even if the president of IBM walked in front of Yanagawa, Yanagawa would not dare to do it.
I scolded him the same way I scolded Zhou Weikun.
I have scolded and vented my anger, but I still have to live the rest of my life.
The first problem Yanagawa and the others have to face now is how they should spend the money they raised from various places, and whether they should return it to others.
In addition, the most important question is, if there is no way to acquire IBM's PC business, what should they do next?
BenQ's move has completely eliminated the power of Lenovo and left Lenovo with no way out.
The stock price, which had risen slightly two days ago because of the money raised, suddenly fell again after BenQ announced that it had acquired IBM's PC business.
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While Lenovo was in dire straits, Yu Dong and Jimmy were in a good mood because Tencent's listing plan was launched very smoothly. If nothing unexpected happens, Tencent would be able to successfully go public in a few months.
In fact, Yu Dongdu rarely asks about Lenovo now.
From Lenovo's perspective, Deep Space Company is their opponent.
But from the perspective of Deep Space Company, Lenovo is just a small stumbling block on their development path, the kind that can be kicked away with just a slight lift of the foot.
Lenovo has now been suppressed by Deep Space Company in all aspects, with no chance of turning around.
Now the Deep Space Company's main focus is actually on Motorola and Samsung.
They put it on Motorola because they wanted to take advantage of Motorola's development problems and seize a large number of patents for their company's mobile business.
After BenQ Mobile launched smartphones, it still needed these patents from Motorola. These days, without patents, it is still very disadvantageous.
The reason for focusing on Samsung is because the next strong opponent of Deep Space Company is Samsung.
Last year, Samsung began to constantly jump in front of the Deep Space Company, using secret tricks in many corners.
Now that the Deep Space Company has finished its early stages, it has freed up its hands and is ready to compete with Samsung Electronics.
Of course, Samsung is not only very large, but they also have the support of the entire Goryeo country, so there is still some pressure when fighting against them.
However, Deep Space Company is not worried, because Yu Dong and the others do not expect to be able to take down Samsung in a short time. What they want to do at this stage is to encroach on Samsung Electronics' overseas markets in various industries.
Chapter completed!