Amazon has indeed done a lot in the past two years, such as big price cuts last year and this year.
In July last year, Amazon announced that all books worth more than $20 would be discounted at 30%, and in January this year it announced again that as long as the order amount exceeds $99, you can enjoy free shipping on orders.
These price cuts brought Amazon more customers, more sales, and their cash flow soared.
The reason they are able to do this is because they have made improvements in cost control.
Amazon was able to control costs, on the one hand, because of their previous investment in distribution centers, and on the other hand, because the Deep Space Computer provided them with very good search technology and cloud services.
Thanks to better search engines and recommendation engines, Amazon's customers can now always buy what they need and are more comfortable scheduling distribution centers.
In addition, Deep Space Company has some of the best-selling authors in the world, so they can buy books more cheaply.
Amazon has been doing these things, but the numbers didn't show up until last quarter.
Investors' growing confidence in Amazon has also been reflected in the stock. Amazon released its quarterly earnings on Friday afternoon, when the stock market was closed.
After a weekend, on Monday, Amazon's stock started to rise as soon as the stock market opened. Eventually, it rose from 8.5 US dollars to 12 US dollars, an increase of more than 40%, which was also the highest single price in recent years.
The highest daily increase.
Of course, this was just the beginning. After all, twelve dollars was still low compared to the previous stock price. Another day later, Amazon's stock continued to rise, rising from twelve dollars to eighteen dollars.
Amazon's stock price has not reached eighteen dollars for a long time. There was a period of time when Deep Space Company performed particularly well. Amazon's stock price recovered for a while, but it only reached $17.5. Since then, it has been trending downward.
It fell and did not exceed ten dollars for a long time.
This time Amazon's stock has broken through the highest point in recent years, which also gave investors a signal that anything is possible. After all, Amazon's stock has reached three digits before, and it may not be impossible now.
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Therefore, in just a few days, the direction of the entire investment market has changed, and Amazon's stock is generally believed to be worth owning.
Didn't some analysts previously say they would sue Mary Meeker collectively? They actually followed through on their words. They filed a lawsuit in court just a few days before Amazon released its quarterly earnings report.
The current situation has made these people very embarrassed, because it turns out that if investors had listened to Mary Meeker, they would have made a lot of money by now. Many people have threatened to sue this group for suing Mary.
·Mikel's people think that they have delayed their own efforts to make money.
Some people predicted before that Deep Sky Company would raise its stock price and then sell it to cash out, but now that the stock price has risen, Deep Sky Company is holding onto the stock and not selling it.
In fact, the psychology of stock investors is very contradictory. They both hope that Deep Sky Company can sell its stocks, but they also hope that Deep Sky Company will not sell its stocks.
Now Amazon's stock is rising too fast, and not many people are willing to sell it, so it is difficult to buy the stock, which is why the stock is rising fast. If Deep Space Company can throw out the stock at this time, then they
Wouldn’t it be possible to buy Amazon shares at a cheaper price?
But if Deep Space really wants to sell its stocks, they are afraid that Amazon's stock will fall again after Deep Space sells its stocks.
Like Amazon's stock price, the box office of "Harry Potter 2" is also booming. The second film, like its predecessor, has a box office of more than 90 million US dollars in its first weekend. It's just a pity that the first two films did not complete their first weekend.
A feat of over 100 million box office.
Although we knew that "Harry Potter 2" would definitely be a hit at the box office, when the first weekend box office came out, a group of people in the industry were still wide-eyed.
This year's movie box office is terrible. In previous years, if a movie could gross more than 60 million US dollars in its first week, it would be extremely powerful and could potentially compete for the top spot at the box office. But this year, there are eight such movies.
The North American box office of "Spider-Man" has now exceeded 400 million U.S. dollars. The North American box office of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" has also exceeded 300 million U.S. dollars. And "Pirates of the Caribbean" has a North American box office of only 300 million U.S. dollars.
It's almost there, it should be there in the next two days.
If the box office of "Harry Potter 2" and "Lord of the Rings 2" can exceed US$300 million, then there will be five movies in North America with box office exceeding US$300 million this year.
In addition to this kind of movies with high box office, there are also many other high-quality movies released today. Although the box office is not as good as these movies, they are not bad either.
Some people estimate that there will be 30 movies with a box office of more than 100 million US dollars on the North American movie box office list this year. Last year, the number was 22 the year before and the year before that.
Of course, the biggest winner is still Deep Space. If nothing else, four of the top five North American box office movies this year are related to Deep Space.
Currently ranked third on the box office list is "My Greek Wedding", with a North American box office of US$240 million. There is no way this box office can block "Harry Potter 2" and "Lord of the Rings 2".
There will be another "X-Men" from Deep Space Company later. If "X-Men" performs well, "My Greek Wedding" may not even be able to hold the sixth place. Then by that time, the top six box office movies will be
Five of them are owned by Deep Space Corporation. Such dominance has never been seen before.
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"Harry Potter 2" was released simultaneously in China and North America. In the past two years, due to the coordination between Deep Space Company, more and more movies have been released simultaneously on both sides. This was especially true for "Source Code" before.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As soon as "Harry Potter 2" was released, Acer's co-branded notebook was released.
After "Harry Potter 1" was released last year, the number of brands that approached Deep Space Company to discuss co-branding suddenly skyrocketed. Regarding the matter of co-branding, Deep Space Company was more cautious, so they only discussed a few gadgets. But there are
One exception is the notebook computer segment. Because of its relationship with Deep Space, Acer got a notebook co-branded product.
Acer's main focus of this notebook is to be thin, light, and youthful. Harry Potter elements can be seen throughout the entire computer. Its target group is college students.
In the past two years, Acer's main target is also college students, and they have also refined the group of college students. Some students value the portability and appearance of laptops, while others value the gaming performance of laptops. For these two areas, Acer
Acer has made arrangements.
Acer is doing well in the college student market, but on the other hand, Lenovo, which was late to the game, suffered setbacks one after another. They were jointly suppressed by BenQ and Acer, and their domestic PC market declined year by year.
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Lenovo, CEO office, Yang Qing looked at the data report in front of him, his brows furrowed like used toilet paper in the toilet.
Some of the new policies they introduced last month have had no effect at all, and their company's situation is continuing to deteriorate.
He hasn't heard any good news for a long time. Every time he sees the report, it can be summed up in eight words: the situation is very bad and there are many problems.
But the problem was always unresolved, and old problems were still there, and new problems came and kept accumulating, making Yang Qing breathless.
Lenovo currently ranks first in sales of personal computers in China, but it may not be long before it does.
In fact, Lenovo has made a lot of efforts in the past two years. They developed websites, invested in and sponsored football teams, and even had the idea of ​​making movies, but they either gave up halfway or the results were not good.
When it comes to website development, they saw that the Facebook website created by Tengxun was very good, and Facebook was not promoted in China, so they thought about copying it and creating one in China.
They did create a website called "Heart to Heart", but the entire website was fragmented from the inside to the outside. Not only were many Facebook functions unavailable, but even chatting all day long was stuck.
They also wanted to implement the drift bottle function, but they couldn't develop this function, which they thought was very simple.
There are also investments to sponsor football teams. They also want to sponsor teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid, but after asking about the price, the other parties are asking for high prices and will not give them a chance at all. The price is too expensive and they are simply reluctant to part with it.
They did invest in a football team in China, but the results were mediocre.
Yang Qing also knows that they are actually not on the same level as Deep Space Company. Their current market value of Lenovo is only 40 billion yuan, let alone compared with Deep Space Company. Even Huawei, which Shen Space Company just bought,
They can't compare to technology companies.
Earlier, they wanted to unite with the behemoth AOL to deal with Deep Space Company in China, but unexpectedly, they were finally put in a way by AOL.
It now seems that even if AOL did not backstab them at the time, their end would not be too good now. After all, even AOL now relies on Deep Space to save them.
After pondering for a long time, Yang Qing picked up the phone and dialed a number. After a while, the call was picked up by the other party.
"Hello, who's there?"
Yang Qing said with a smile, "Mr. Yu, I'm Yang Qing. I didn't disturb your work."
"Oh, Mr. Yang, don't bother me, don't bother me." The person on the other side also smiled, and there was no hint that the two companies were currently hostile.
Yang Qing considered his words and said, "Mr. Yu, congratulations, your Amazon's stock has soared, and several movies are also box office hits. Not only did I go to the cinema to watch "Source Code" and "Harry Potter"
, our company’s employees even went to see it in a team building, and the movie was indeed very good.”
"Thank you for your support, thank you for your support, but the rise of Amazon's stock has nothing to do with me, and I don't care about it. I didn't expect Mr. Yang that you are listed in Hong Kong and you are very concerned about Nasdaq. I'm not afraid of your jokes.
If a colleague hadn't read the news to me, I wouldn't have known about the rise in Amazon's stock price." Yuliang said with a smile.
"Your Deep Space Company is now the leading enterprise in our country. Naturally, our other enterprises must learn from you, so we should pay more attention to you."
"Thank you for your attention, but Mr. Yang, you are also a busy person. Why did you think of calling me?"
Yang Qing said quickly, "Mr. Yu, I met Cole, the vice president of Motorola, two days ago. When we chatted, we talked about your Deep Space Company. Cole gave you a thumbs up and kept praising you.
The company has a good structure. Although we had an unpleasant experience with Motorola before, we are still willing to consider the overall situation and cooperate with them again. I was very emotional after hearing this. Your company's courage is indeed worth learning from."
On the other end of the phone, Yu Liang couldn't help but smile when he heard Yang Qing's words. This Yang Qing came to ask for peace again.
Lenovo has been having a hard time during this period. Everyone knows this, and I also know that this is not the most difficult time for Lenovo. The days to come will be even more difficult, because BenQ and Acer have other big moves in the future.
In the future, Acer will gradually let go of the domestic complete machine market, while BenQ will use its original foundry advantages to take over the domestic mid-to-low-end complete machine market. Acer itself will specialize in the notebook market and foreign markets.
By that time, Lenovo's market share will be further squeezed. Lenovo's key competitors are not only BenQ and Acer, but also domestic brands such as Founder, as well as foreign brands such as IBM and Toshiba.
The meaning of Yang Qing's words now is very obvious. Your Deep Space Company is generous. Can you put aside the past grudges and let the two of us cooperate?
Yu Liang pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Mr. Yang, please don't put your hat on us. Our Deep Space Company never engages in grievances and grudges. Everything is based on interests. Before we and Motorola, we only had interests.
There is no conflict, there is no personal emotional conflict. The reason for re-cooperating this time is because we have common interests."
Yang Qing raised his eyebrows. The meaning of Yiliang's words was also obvious. It's not that Deep Space Company doesn't want to cooperate with Lenovo, but Lenovo wants them to see that it is profitable. As long as there are benefits, no grudges are a big deal.
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"Mr. Yu, I won't tell lies in front of real people. As long as Shenzhen Sky is willing to cooperate with us, we are willing to hand over all the integrated Internet services of our company's theaters to you, and assist you in completing it in the later stage.
In the ultimate integrated Internet service system, users only need to open the browser and the homepage will be your company’s webpage.”
I have no interest in Yang Qing's proposal at all. Integrated Internet access is Yang Qing's blueprint, not Deep Space Company's. Deep Space Company's plan for the future Internet world is completely different from Lenovo's. In Deep Space's plan,
Internet terminals should be separated from software and websites.
Chapter completed!