20 years of restarting life

Chapter 4024 Shan Qiang's Retirement

BlackBerry only invested $6000 million to acquire a 43% controlling stake in NTP.

While OneNum holds these patents, it will not file a patent lawsuit against BlackBerry. NTP, on the other hand, can continue to act as a troublemaker, launching rogue lawsuits against the four major American carriers, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, as well as Palm, Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG, and Motorola—like a locust plague.

To his disappointment, even though North America was willing to pay a silent fee of $3300, BlackBerry was still unwilling to budge.

As for Mformation, in Zhao Chang'an's previous life, it extorted $1.47 million from BlackBerry.

These two settlements, totaling $7.6 million, drained BlackBerry's coffers, leaving it without the financial strength to compete with Apple technologically. Ultimately, it withdrew completely from the mobile phone industry and turned to automotive safety software.

Mformation used this funding to grow rapidly, and by 12 it had become a leading global provider of mobile, IoT security and device management solutions.

In 15, it provided technical support and services to more than 20 mobile operators worldwide and managed more than 5 million mobile devices globally. It was acquired by Lucent Alcatel for a confidential price, which was estimated to be no less than $20 billion.

This small IoT security device manufacturing company, which has been established for less than three years, did not even realize that several of its registered patent technologies overlapped with BlackBerry's business. When OneNano North America took the initiative to approach them and offered to invest $1500 million to acquire 53% of the company's shares, the company's shareholders, who had only graduated from college less than three years ago, were overjoyed.

Last September, their company was already on the verge of bankruptcy and liquidation, but the crash gave them some orders, allowing them to barely survive.

However, regarding the future, these young people, the oldest of whom is only twenty-five, have finally become pragmatic after experiencing the harsh realities of society, and are also filled with confusion and anxiety about the future.

Therefore, the shareholders almost unanimously agreed to the letter of inquiry from OneNano North America, a great philanthropist, to purchase a portion of the shares.

After all, each of them could receive a huge sum of three to four million US dollars. After repaying their loans, each person would still have at least several hundred thousand to over a million US dollars left.

Moreover, they also hold 47% of the shares. It's good to have a big tree to lean on. With the behemoth OneNano North America as their backer, it's much better than fighting alone with just a few bare hands.

These four young people, one of whom is already married and the other three also have partners, so in their lives, in addition to their careers, they also have responsibilities related to marriage, love, and family.

So when Zhou Kexin raised the price to $2000 million, the four Mformation shareholders immediately agreed.

“If Mr. Zhao has such a strong interest in these two companies, I suggest that OneNano North America acquire them on its own.”

Prem Watsa also didn't understand Zhao Chang'an's insistence, so he didn't indulge Zhao Chang'an.

Leo De Bever and Luo Shijie also nodded in agreement.

Zhao Chang'an was so angry he wanted to curse. It was clear that if OneNano paid $6000 million to buy a 43% controlling stake in NTP and $3300 million for BlackBerry and Pro to obtain the perpetual right to use the overlapping patent technology, BlackBerry would be completely free from the shadow of the current lawsuit. However, the cost would be that OneNano North America would suffer a huge loss.

After obtaining this patent license, OneNano North America cannot possibly initiate patent usage recourse against BlackBerry, which it controls.

If OneNano's North American headquarters were a joint venture, Zhao Chang'an would need to consider the opinions and interests of other shareholders. However, as a sole proprietorship, he had no face to initiate this legal action letter seeking compensation.

"Then let's leave it at that."

Zhao Chang'an didn't say anything more. Now he roughly understood why BlackBerry was eventually squeezed out of the mobile phone market by Nokia, Apple, Samsung, and LG in his previous life.

Even without the suppression from the south, the short-sightedness of the northern shareholders and the obsession of the technical architect Mike were bound to destroy BlackBerry sooner or later.

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Because Zhao Chang'an had a social engagement that evening, Qi Xidong and the others stayed at the Nortel Networks Waterloo branch to attend a banquet hosted by Luo Shijie. Zhao Chang'an, on the other hand, drove Mike's car with Shan Jun to the hotel in the city that Qi Peng had booked for the banquet.

"So, did you understand?"

Zhao Chang'an asked Shan Jun with a smile.

"You speak so fast and with so much local grammar that I can't understand a word. It's like listening to gibberish."

Dan Jun's pretty face flushed red, her expression full of embarrassment and discouragement: "My English used to be the best in the class, and I passed the CET-4 in my sophomore year, but I still can't understand it."

"It's alright. I didn't ask you to be a stenographer. Before you graduate, your main responsibility is to be my personal secretary. Buy a voice recorder, record every meeting, and listen to it repeatedly. Over time, you'll gradually be able to understand it."

There were some things Zhao Chang'an couldn't explain to Shan Jun. Her standardized score in the college entrance examination English test was over 700 points, which was equivalent to about 130 points in the raw score, so it could be said to be a high score.

Yang Yixin took the college entrance exam a year earlier than Shan Jun. Mingzhu used raw scores, and her English score was also around 130.

However, when it comes to practical English communication, Yang Yixin is far superior to Shan Jun.

Am I really that useless?

Shan Jun was feeling a little down.

"That's a huge mistake. You are far more important to me than being able to understand these birds."

The Nortel Networks Waterloo branch is located between Toronto and Waterloo, about ten miles from Waterloo. Zhao Chang'an parked the car on the side of the road, reached out to stroke Shan Jun's pretty face, and pulled her body towards his lap.

Because she was afraid of getting Zhao Chang'an's pants dirty, Shan Jun didn't waste a single drop. She opened a bottle of mineral water and drank half of it in one go, her eyes brimming with desire.

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It was near dawn in Zhengzhou.

Shan Qiang got up early and took a shower. She had already packed everything that needed to be packed the night before. She had also explained the next changes to Green Garden to Jiang Xian the night before, and handed over all the signed documents and authorizations to her. She was responsible for liaising with Xu Wanrong, the new president of Green Garden Group, and for the Nie Danqi Law Firm to handle various lawsuits and legacy issues.

Jiang Xian and Yan Na had already gotten up and washed up, and were waiting for Shan Qiang on the first floor of the duplex.

“If you two don’t change jobs, or if you still live in Zhengzhou, you can stay here. This cat and these plants and flowers have been growing for several years and need someone to take care of them.”

Shan Qiang and the two women explained.

"Mr. Shan, where are you headed?"

Jiang Xian asked this question last night, but Shan Qiang didn't say anything. This time, Yan Na couldn't help but ask as well.

"Canada, I heard from Xiao Cai that Qi Peng built several villas by the lake there. I'm planning to buy one and rest there for a few years, a kind of retirement."

Shan Qiang smiled and said, "The two stocks I bought were recommended by Zhao Chang'an. If you two are interested, you can invest in them too, but be careful not to tell anyone outside about it."