Chapter 307

The stock price of Internet concept stocks has plummeted, and many experts and professors have come up with their own opinions. They think that the plummeting stock price is only temporary, mainly because of the Williams network anti-monopoly case. Once the anti-monopoly case is over, the stock price of Internet concept stocks will rise again!

Many investment institutions said: "the global Internet is in the ascendant, the stock price will rise again!"

After hearing the analysis of professionals, ordinary shareholders immediately regained their confidence.

However, many people are confused by the super high stock price and market value, and think that the stock price of Internet concept will still rise. However, Henry is the only one to keep calm, he is now thinking about how to cash out of the stock market, and can not attract other people's attention!

At this juncture, Henry did not dare to cash in his stock for the time being.

Perhaps, after the end of the anti-monopoly investigation, it's time to take action!

He is currently sending someone to contact AOL to sell his global online shares to AOL. If it is too late, it will change. Henry is not sure what the consequences will be if the investigation of the antitrust case is delayed for a long time. Now, Nicholas international e-commerce, global online, Isearch, ICQ and other stock prices are falling. Once investors lose confidence in Internet concept stocks, they will sell their stocks wantonly. Then, it will trigger an "avalanche" at any time!

AOL's business is huge. It's not just a portal. It's an IPS Internet dial-up provider. Its business scope also involves portal, instant messaging, e-commerce, search, browser and so on. Almost the whole Internet industry has been involved, but its market share is low and its influence is not big enough. Even so, AOL has benefited from the popularity of Internet concept stocks, with a total market value of more than 150 billion US dollars!

When Henry told it that he wanted to sell global online, AOL immediately expressed interest.

Then AOL prepared to raise money while negotiating with Henry's representatives.

AOL is backed by Sequoia Capital, Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and other venture capital companies or banks. As long as Henry agrees to sell AOL to it, AOL will buy it anyway.

If AOL buys global online, it plays an extremely important role in the overall layout and strategic development of the company. Buy global online, it will revitalize all businesses of AOL, whether it's e-commerce, search, instant messaging, or anything else, and expand market share with the help of global online!

Therefore, AOL is a must for global online!

So, despite Henry's offer of more than 100 billion dollars, AOL has to bite the bullet and buy!

Global online headquarters.

Conference Room.

Sitting opposite Henry are Steve case, founder and CEO of AOL, and more than 20 representatives from Citigroup, Morgan, Goldman Sachs, KPCB, Sequoia Capital, etc.

After several rounds of negotiations, the two sides have basically reached an agreement: Henry will sell 67.5% of the global online shares in hand. Among them, Citigroup, Morgan and other banks will provide loans worth $100 billion for AOL to acquire 50% of the shares, and the remaining 17.5% of the shares will be shared by other investment institutions!

Henry is quite satisfied with the result. He can sell the global online company and get $130 billion! With so much money, he can do a lot of things.

"Mr. Williams, we can sign this time!" Steve Case laughs. Global online is a hot spot. Many companies want to buy it, and so does Microsoft. Therefore, Steve case is a little anxious and hopes to sign the contract as soon as possible.

In fact, Henry will not sell global online to Microsoft. Microsoft has a monopoly on the operating system. If we give it global online, won't it be like a tiger?! AOL, on the other hand, is not as strong as Henry, so there is no need to be afraid of it.

AOL's acquisition of global online, at most like China's Sina Weibo, is far less than China's bat big three! Besides, Henry also plans to let ICQ company set up Weibo, and then fight with twitter! Although twitter was online, it didn't take long. ICQ can rely on more users, occupy the market!

When Isearch opens the website search home page, there is no need for Internet users to enter the portal to search for things, which is equivalent to robbing the traffic of the portal. If Isearch gets a navigation similar to hao123, it's going to abuse the portal!

To tell you the truth, with the development of the Internet, portal sites become more and more unimportant. E-commerce, search and social networking sites are the most important!

"OK, we can sign now!" The corners of Henry's mouth rose slightly and a smile appeared.

As soon as Henry spoke, Steve case was relieved. He had already prepared the contract and immediately sent it to Henry's negotiation team, each of whom sent a copy.

Henry's team of lawyers carefully analyzed the contract, and finally nodded to Henry, saying that there was no problem, so Henry signed the contract.

AOL acquired global online, and Henry got $130 billion!

On the same day, a press conference was held to announce the matter to the outside world.

The huge price of US $130 billion shocked the world immediately. Then, the share price of AOL soared. Within a week, the total market value rose to US $300 billion, becoming the company with the market value second only to Cisco! Cisco's market value has now risen to $350 billion.

Internet concept stocks are hot, countless people invest in Internet construction, network equipment sales increase greatly, and Cisco's market value also increases greatly!

Now, the stock price of AOL has risen so sharply, which is like a shot of stimulant to the current stock market. The stock price of Internet concept stock has rebounded immediately, and the rising momentum is very strong. Naturally, the effect of stimulants will be weak, and finally the Internet bubble will burst.

The Internet industry mostly follows the Matthew effect, that is, the stronger the strong, the weaker the weak. It is also the industry most likely to form a monopoly. The success of global online portals makes many people see the advertising profit model of cash flow. In order to occupy the market, most Internet companies spare no effort to exchange huge losses for users. There is no profit model and no profit plan. In the end, except for a few successful companies, most of them will fail!

After AOL acquired global online, it terminated its cooperation with Isearch and chose to use AOL search in its own home.

Therefore, Isearch is not a monopoly at all, and the anti-monopoly investigation on Isearch will soon be over.

Henry sold global online to AOL, just as Intel supported AMD and Microsoft helped Apple tide over the difficulties. He cultivated a much weaker opponent to avoid the anti-monopoly investigation in the United States!

Soon afterwards, AOL completed the integration of resources, and its strength in e-commerce, search, instant messaging and other aspects was enhanced, just like one of the Internet giants.

Therefore, under the influence of many aspects, the monopoly case of Williams network finally stopped!

PS: I'm a little busy these two days. The number of words to be updated is only 4000 or 5000, and it will be updated a little more tomorrow. In addition, there is another chapter at 11:30 this evening!)