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After coming to the United States, Xia Tian first met Michelle.
Michelle's main task now is to help Xiatian collect information on American high-tech companies to facilitate his investment.
"Boss, this is the information I have collected in recent months. You can take a look." Michelle said to Xia Tian.
Xia Tian nodded, took the information, and asked while looking at it, "How is the current business of the companies we invested in?"
"All are very good. Boss, you are simply an investment genius. Every company you invest in is developing very well. Especially several companies like Oracle, Odobe, Cisco, etc., have been listed one after another, which has doubled our investment." Michelle said admiringly.
In summer, I invested in many high-tech companies in the United States. Many companies were just starting out when they invested, and there was no decent potential at all. But after several years of development, these companies have all shown their strengths.
For example, when Cisco was first founded, it was a completely home workshop. But in the following years, it shone in the field of network equipment and developed the world's first router.
"Don't praise me anymore, there is no award for praise me." Xia Tian smiled, "By the way, do you know that there is a company in Finland called Nokia?"
"I know, it seems to be in the radio business and it also provides services in the United States." Michelle nodded.
"This company will help me pay attention and buy some stocks appropriately." Xia Tian ordered, "I think it will be the era of mobile communications in the future, and telecommunications service providers like this will make a lot of money in the future."
"If that's the case, there are many telecom service providers in the United States, such as at&t, sprint, etc., who are also going to acquire shares?" Michelle immediately asked, "Does mobile phone manufacturers like Motorola also want to invest in shares?"
"Well, you can buy some of it." Xia Tian nodded after thinking about it.
Telecom service providers such as at&t and sprint are all big companies that have become famous. For example, at&t (AT&t) was established in 1877, with a history of more than a hundred years. They have long monopolized the US telephone and telegraph market and have extremely rich revenue.
However, this company had a tragic fate and was forced to split and reorganize many times because of suspected monopoly. In 1984, it was forced to split its local telephone business into seven companies, known as the "Bel Seven Brothers".
The Atlantic Bell and Nynex, two of the seven brothers, were merged to form the largest local telephone company and wireless communication company in the United States.
Because at&t has long monopolized the US telecom market, it is not a good idea to invest in the stock market now. However, with the popularity of mobile communications and broadband services in the future, at&t's revenue will definitely increase significantly, so if you invest in the stock now, you will make a profit.
In addition, since at&t is the leading telecom operator in the United States, it can also sell telephones with its channels throughout the United States.
When 3g smartphones just emerged, Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, and Shin wanted to wait for mobile phone manufacturers to cooperate with operators such as mobile, telecommunications, and Shintong to sell mobile phones through activities such as buying phone cards and charging phone bills to get mobile phones, and recharging phone bills to get mobile phones, and all achieved very good sales. In the future, mobile phones will also be sold. If they can cooperate with the largest telecommunications operator in the United States, it will undoubtedly be a big boom.
When Michelle heard this, he nodded immediately.
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Xia Tian then focused on the information Michelle collected. However, after he searched it, he did not find a very good investment project.
He has read the information about companies such as Dell, dec, Compaq, Sun Microelectronics, etc. before. To be honest, he has no interest in these companies.
Dell, dec, Compaq, etc. are all computer companies, and they are all computers designed and manufactured by themselves. They are basically competitors with Bainaohui. There is no reason to invest in their own enemies in summer, and with Bainaohui's cheap computers, it is a question whether the computers produced by these computer companies can still be sold globally in the future. Since this is the case, there is even less reason to invest.
As for Sun Microelectronics, Xia Tian is not very familiar with this company that produces servers, and does not remember hearing this name in his previous life. It is probably because it was prosperous for a while, but it declined for some reason. So Xia Tian naturally doesn't want to invest in this company.
In fact, Sun-mirosystems is a telecommunications and Internet service company, with its main products being workstations and servers.
At its peak, it had a market value of up to 200 billion US dollars and had intended to take down Apple. The famous computer programming language Java was developed by it. After it was launched, it was immediately recognized by the industry.
However, as the competition intensified, Sun Microelectronics launched its workstations and servers were gradually snatched away by its competitors. Its biggest competitors were not computer companies such as ibm, dec, and HP, but Microsoft's software company.
Because with the establishment of the indos ecosystem, many software vendors have developed software for it, making the indos system software more, rich in functions and more popular. The number of servers using the indos system has also gradually increased, resulting in the gradually losing market for Sun Microelectronics servers.
It took only a year for Sun Microelectronics to go from peak to decline, and was acquired by Oracle, and Java was also taken into account by it. Sun Microelectronics also reminded the world of high-tech companies, that is, no matter how big the company is, it is always one step away from death. Therefore, Bill Gates said that Microsoft is only eighteen months away from bankruptcy, which is not an exaggeration.
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After looking around, I couldn't find a suitable investment, and Xia Tian was a little disappointed.
At this time, he suddenly saw a piece of information and his eyes lit up. The company is called "American Online", an Internet service provider. Its name sounds very domineering, but in fact it only has more than 100,000 customers, and in the broadband service field in the United States, it only accounts for about 7% of the market. It is a very small, or even inconspicuous small company.
However, summer did not look down on it because it was small. In fact, he has long been famous for the company of AOL. In his previous life, AOL merged with Time Warner in 2000, with a total transaction volume of US$1,81 billion.
This acquisition was the largest merger case in the world at that time. Of course, it was discovered later that this transaction was also the worst merger case in history. Because less than a year after the transaction was completed, the United States burst into an Internet bubble. After the merger, the market value of the new company fell by nearly $100 billion, reaching the sum of the GDP of South Vietnam and Chile at that time.
Chapter completed!