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Chapter 580 Crazy! (Second more please subscribe!)
In the largest reception room of Hantang Media, Tang An personally received Tang Song, Vice President of Strategic Investment of Baidu Group.

Prior to this, Baidu had initiated an acquisition case with UC, and had talked with Yu Yongfu countless times.

However, Baidu, who intends to take absolute control of the company, has been rejected by Yu Yongfu many times, so he has no choice but to turn his idea to Tang An, after all, he holds 29.6% in his hands.

Taking this 29.6% stake is already UC's second largest shareholder, and it will be easier to operate next.

Tang Song, as the vice president of Baidu's strategic investment, is fully responsible for this acquisition. .

Originally, the negotiations between Ahli, Tengxun and Hantang about buying shares, Hantang literature, and Tudou collapsed one after another, making Tang Song also ready for the tug-of-war.

Tang An also had the intention of selling, but when Tang An told the number, it made Tang Song feel like he was being tricked.

Tang An is willing to sell all of the 29.6% of the shares, but he only asks for a sky-high price of 60 billion yuan.

Tang Song was so choked that he couldn't negotiate the price, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said with a dry smile, "Director Tang, we at Baidu are very sincere, if you don't want to make a move, forget it!"

Tang An shook his head secretly in his heart, knowing that this would be his reaction when he heard his offer.

But after three or four months, the 29.6% of the shares will only be sold for more than this, and they cannot be sold at a loss.

This also gave Tang Song room to bargain. Tang An didn't mind making an early move if he lost two to three hundred million yuan. It was not impossible to exchange money for time.

Tang An said with a smile, "Mr. Tang, the price of 60 billion is definitely not high. Baidu already has the largest traffic in China. From the perspective of business fit, browsers and search are definitely a natural match. A powerful Internet company in the world Once you get into one of them, you will inevitably get involved in another, such as Google and Microsoft. Once you win UC, the valuation of the entire UC will at least double, and Baidu's stock price will usher in a new era. The waves are rising."

That’s right. In 2008, the mobile Internet revolution initiated by Pingguo and Google had only begun to show its signs. Baidu began to inquire about UC, which had become the absolute leader in mobile browsers in China at that time. Expand to the mobile terminal at the fastest speed.

Because data shows that almost all of Baidu’s mobile traffic at that time came from UC, which was absolutely unacceptable to Baidu, which had the largest traffic in China, and it was easy to fall into the situation of low traffic utilization efficiency and being controlled by others.

But the high price of 60 billion is absolutely unacceptable to Tang Song. .

Let alone him, the top management of Baidu will never allow it.

Previously, Baiduo’s highest valuation of UC was only 20 billion US dollars, and the highest authority he could be the master of the 29.6% stake was only 39 billion yuan.

But Tang An opened 60 billion at once, fully half of it.

Seeing that Tang An's expression didn't look like he was joking, Tang Song remembered that Tang An was notorious for being soft and tough.

I don't know how many institutions have wanted to buy shares since Tang An founded Hantang Media Group. In the past few years, there have been at least [-] or [-] inquiries from domestic and foreign institutions.

There are also Han and Tang Literature, Tudou, and many requests for capital injection have also been rejected.

Tang Song was also speechless in the face of such a non-committal negotiating partner.

Just as Tang An said, browsers and search engines are definitely an excellent match, and they can definitely play the role of 1+1>3.

What's more, he knew the economic situation of Hantang Media, and he owed a total of 35 billion in loans to the bank, which could not be repaid with just a few movies.

He persuaded, "Tang Dong, as far as we know, you took the 80% stake from Xiaomi's Mr. Lei at a valuation of nearly 16.6 billion yuan, and it's only been two or three months now. Or if you look at 35 billion, compared to the investment, you have earned at least 10 billion."

35 million.
It's impossible for Tang An to make a move.

He shook his head and said, "Mr. Tang, let's stop beating around the bush. I'm a more straightforward person. Apart from Tengxun, who owns the QQ browser, who is not interested in UC, Ah Li is also starting to acquire UC. Compared with you , Ahli is even more anxious, after all, Taobao just blocked WeChat, and it is the time when the mobile data is extremely thirsty."

"Ah Li can buy Wenhua Zhonghua at a double premium, and I believe they will not be stingy in buying UC."

There was nothing to talk about at all, the bottom line of the two sides was too far apart, Tang An could only dissuade them, even if they made them think that they were greedy or "crazy".

Indeed, Tang Song thought Tang An was crazy.

How does a mere cultural Zhonghua compare with UC? The two are not at the same level. For Internet companies, none of the 10 cultural Zhonghua is as important as UC.

What's more, the market value of Wenhua Zhonghua is only so much. Even if the premium is doubled, the stocks that have skyrocketed after the acquisition by Ahli can be recovered, and they can make a lot of money.

If the premium of UC was doubled, it would be tens of billions in cash, and unless Ma Yun was stupid, he would spend tens of billions more.

He finally understood that Tang An didn't want to talk about it at all, so he fired a sky-high price.

There was nothing to talk about, so Tang Song chatted for a while and prepared to leave.

"Tang Dong, I will take my leave first. If you change your mind and want to make a move, please feel free to contact me."

Tang Song said some polite words before leaving.

Tang An smiled, "Definitely, Mr. Tang, please go back and tell Dong Li about my plan."

Tang Song laughed and said, "I will tell the truth."

Tell you to be paralyzed, 60 billion to buy nearly 30% of the shares, only a fool can do it, see how long you can cover it.

Send Tang Song away.

Tang An shook his head helplessly. If it were him, he would think he was crazy without foresight.

Keep these shares in your hands for three or four months, and then we will talk about them.

Before the Spring Festival, Tang An invited the whole group to get together, held a grand annual meeting, and then continued to work on the Spring Festival stalls.

In order to face the competition of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", Nuomi Films dropped 6000 million votes in one go.

5000 million were spent on "囧囧 in Hong Kong", and the pre-sale data is a lot ahead of "Journey to the West: Conquer the Devil".

And as the release time approaches, the daily pre-sale box office is also rising steadily.

It is foreseeable that on Lunar New Year 29, the day before the official release, the pre-sale box office will reach a rare peak.

Everything is developing in a positive direction. The high box office in the early stage is enough for the theaters to arrange higher films. It is not a problem to suppress "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

For Tang An, the situation is very good, but for the opponent Hua Yi, the situation is not so good.

Huayi Brothers Group, large meeting room.

In the past two days, it has been hard to suppress the negative news that "Zodiac" hit the box office, but the popularity of "Lost in Hong Kong" on the Internet is even higher than that of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

All because of the 6000 million ticket supplement!

Wang Zhongjun has also seen the power of ticket subsidies. He can push "Zodiac", which has been in theaters for a month, by nearly [-] million, so that he doesn't need to use the box office that he originally planned.

However, now 6000% of the 90 million ticket subsidies are used for "Journey to the West", and the ticket subsidies for "Journey to the West" have long been used up.

In just one month, the ticket subsidies for several movies dropped to more than 8000 million, which also made the number of installations of Nuomi movies increase day by day.

Every installed user is a potential audience.

And the popularity of "囧囧 in Hong Kong" on Nuomi Movie is much higher than that of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Devil".

Wang Zhongjun looked around and asked in a deep voice, "Do you have any ideas? The pre-sale box office of "Lost in Hong Kong" has exceeded 5000 million, and it is expected to reach 8000 million pre-sales before it is released. It will easily affect the movie schedule of theaters. .”

(End of this chapter)