Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Buying from three parties naturally corresponds to three sets of plans.

GM is the most moderate, intending to invest no more than 400 million U.S. dollars to acquire no more than 30% of Jaguar's shares, while helping Jaguar continue to build modern factories and develop new models.

At this stage, Ford, who is proud of the spring breeze, is very aggressive, demanding full ownership of 100% of Jaguar's equity, and for this purpose, it sent a letter to Jaguar to express its inevitable desire.

Had it not been for Tang Huan to join in, the acquisition of Jaguar would basically not be delayed until this year, and GM and Ford would have won or lost last year.

The richest man who has already run several tens of billions of dollars in projects has no worse financial resources than the menacing Ford. In order to wait for him to arrive, Jaguar, who is in dire straits, has to survive for a few more months.

Sure enough, Tang Huan did not disappoint the eager Britain. The plan he put forward was equally impressive, that is, he was ready to take over 100% of Jaguar's equity.

But unlike Ford, which covets the high-end auto market, wants to acquire all of Jaguar’s equity and digest it into its own sub-brand in this field. In terms of automobiles, the richest man who belongs to the newcomer is completely controlled by an offshore company. Jaguar.

In other words, among the three buyers, GM, the weakest in strength, basically became the role of accompany the prince to study; the winner between Ford and the richest man is eligible for Jaguar, and the former has a clear background in the automotive industry. Advantage, the latter seems to be able to give Jaguar more independence and autonomy to maintain the brand’s British heritage to the greatest extent.

The general condition is this. After setting out the carts and horses, it is convenient to smash real money out-the price was raised to 4 billion US dollars as soon as the mouth was opened, and the British could not help secretly crying out "There is no vain waiting."

It has to be said that even if there is a Chelsea club that has won the championship for years, Tang Huan is not seen by the British media in every major event. Many of the people who offend him are gathered in the UK and are in control of the public opinion machine. Needless to say, Murdoch, the traditional Far Eastern commercial interest groups that have huddled back to their hometown will not let go of any chance of disrupting or even counterattack.

The British Far East commercial interest group, which was originally regarded as a rich man in the countryside, has an important turf-Xiangjiang. The trend in the past year has attracted much attention from the mainstream British media.

In addition to the turbulent wave of immigration there, the relocation of companies is also commonplace. HSBC is the most important one among them. After being severely peeled off by Tang Huan, compared with the original time and space, it has a lot less means to cover people's eyes. A company in London has been upgraded to a holding company, and all rights and interests of Xiangjiang have been transferred to Under this name, the most important step of actually relocating the register has been completed.

In sharp contrast, Qinhe's line remained unmoved, which attracted much discussion.

In fact, this belongs to the tree to attract the wind. Take another giant, the Swire Group, which also continues to place the focus of commercial interests on Xiangjiang, but only the richest man is observed with a magnifying glass.

After holding onto this point, Jaguar fell into Tang Huan's hands, seemingly not as secure as hiding under Ford's wings.

At the stalemate stage, Tang Huan simply said, "I do have a sincere heart for entering the auto industry. By the way, I have already bought Aston Martin."

Those clamours worried about Jaguar's future were immediately slapped back into their stomachs; Ford, who was struggling to make a difference with the richest man, spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

You know, Ford is also interesting to Aston Martin. After he became the queen's car on the screen of the "007" movie in 1987, he started private contact and even used the relationship with Prince Michael, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Unfortunately, the major shareholder Peter Livanos was not dealt with.

This person is also a Greek ship king, and has some connections with the female ship king Christina.

When the old ship king Aristotle Onassis was alive, he had a marriage relationship with three women—the wealthy daughter Tina Livanos, the Greek soprano Maria Caras, and the widow of former US President John F. Kennedy. Quirine Kennedy.

Among them, only Tina Livanos left children for Aristotle Onassis, namely Alexander Onassis, who was killed in the plane crash, and Christina Onassis, the super prodigal daughter.

Although Tina Livanos, the second lady of the earlier generation of Greek ship king Stavros Livanos, divorced Aristotle Onassis a long time ago, and even remarried to her own. Brother-in-law, and has passed away in the second half of the 1970s, but the only heir of the Onassis family-the ship king Christina, and the relatives of the Livanos family are beyond doubt.

Calculated by seniority, Peter Livanos, the leader of another branch of the Livanos family, happens to belong to the same generation as the female ship king Christina.

The relationship between wealthy families is sometimes the same—for example, the two major French wineries, Lafite and Mouton, belong to the famous Rothschild family, but they have different branches, but the latter has been raised from second to second. During the first-level process, the former met fierce opposition.

However, the relationship between Peter Livanos and Christina, the queen of ships, should not have reached the point of indifference to profiteering. Otherwise, it would not agree to Tang Huan after rejecting Ford.

Because of this, Ford was hit hard-he even lost a city in public relations.

Next, Tang Huan released another trick, that is, once the acquisition of Jaguar is successful, the other party's cost control plan can be postponed, and at the same time, there will be no layoffs for at least three to five years.

By this time, Ford was obviously afraid to take the move. After all, it can't compare to Tang Huan's first-generation founder who controlled the company, and said that no one dared to challenge its authority. How could its managers dare to make such a guarantee.

For a long time, Mrs. Thatcher's government, which has been accused of suppressing local manufacturing and causing a large number of long-term unemployment, knelt down-if it is done, Jaguar will be sold to the richest man.

When signing this contract with a price of more than 4.3 billion U.S. dollars, Tang Huan smiled freely at the camera-you think you are taking advantage of the fisherman's profit, and I have become a triumphant, but you can rely on your arrogance and the EU From the perspective of the physical relationship trend, it is likely that I will have to vomit back in two years.

In addition, in February, the Soviet Union announced the abandonment of the one-party system, which meant that the building would be unavoidable, and the ensuing gluttonous feast of the sharing of assets, you need to create another team to participate in this. A game that doesn’t eat for nothing.

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The richest man's cross-sectoral investment with such fanfare is undoubtedly a sensational event in the automotive industry, which has attracted the continuous attention of observers. Everyone is wondering, how do you play with cars, a guy who sells computers?

Tang Huan’s first move was considered mature and serious, that is, sending a financial team to Jaguar and Aston Martin at the same time that he started blood transfusion. Naturally, the effect is immediate. Jaguar is like a housekeeper bought by the landlord's house. The malnourished face is yellowish and thin, turning into a ruddy complexion.

In addition, the Olympus Group of the female ship king Christina, the Lamborghini that was bought from the Italian government for US$27.5 million and was taken over by bankruptcy, was also ordered by Tang Huan.

The outside world is quite speechless about this-look at the male and female couple, they are really tacitly coordinated. Seeing that the British football club has finally been lifted and can play in the European arena, I don't know whether Chelsea and AC Milan, the new and old giants, can still be such a family after they meet. Of course, this requires UEFA's skills in the draw.

After a series of dazzling and natural operations, the next actions of the richest man finally let those who have been waiting to see what it means to pursue innovation in technological dreams and to burn money boldly.

After returning from the North Pole, Tang Huan paid more and more attention to environmental protection. It is said that investment in the automotive industry has this consideration-after praising its own lithium battery technology in the low temperature environment of the Arctic region, it has not performed as expected, and began to emphasize the application of new energy in the traditional vehicle of the automobile.

As a technologist, Tang Huan has always been down-to-earth in promoting applications, rather than showing off gimmicks irresponsibly.

For example, the first action on new energy application technology for automobiles this time is the hot regenerative_brake—regenerative braking.

Compared with the most common braking method that directly converts the kinetic energy of the car into heat in the form of friction, "regenerative braking" is another approach with a similar principle, but the simpler dynamic_braking—an upgraded version of resistance braking, that is, turning the motor The kinetic energy of a generator or vehicle is converted into electrical energy and stored for use. However, resistance braking usually only converts the generated electricity into useless heat through the resistance and releases it away.

Of course, vehicles that use regenerative braking will still have traditional friction braking to provide fast and powerful braking. Regenerative braking generally only regenerates about 30% of the kinetic energy, and the remaining kinetic energy is still converted into heat. The specific efficiency will vary according to different usage environments.

Obviously, after the car has the power provided by this regenerative braking, it will further consolidate the foundation of the new platform for computer technology application that Tang Huan said.

In fact, the application of new energy in automobiles is a very old topic, and quite a few other manufacturers have not stopped their research. For example, last year, Audi derived a test car version of audiduo on the highly successful audi100, but Tang Huan entered the automotive field with the halo of high-tech spokespersons, which seemed particularly eye-catching.

Tang Huan's second action full of new ideas was the driverless car that flew into the homes of ordinary people in last year's blockbuster "Back to the Future Sequel". Or, more accurately, from the current practical point of view, vehicle-assisted driving technologies such as lane departure warning systems and collision avoidance warning systems.

In this field, Tang Huan is certainly not the first to be the first. The first truly automated car has been demonstrated in the 1980s. What's more, Carnegie Mellon University promoted the plan and the alv plan in 1984; May Syders-Benz and the German Federal National Defense University jointly promoted the Eureka Prometheus project in 1987, which shows how much attention it has received.

However, Tang Huan, who was dying of the traditional tycoon ibm in the computer industry, took the initiative to promote computer applications in the automotive field, and even bought related companies and rolled up his sleeves to directly get his ambitions. All giants said, I really feel a lot of pressure." Of course, they didn't forget to add in a personable manner, "The new atmosphere brought by Tang Huan is undoubtedly a great thing for the development of the entire automobile industry."

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Tang’s richest man, who has not been seen in public for almost a year, is such a magnificent posture that UU Read www.uukanshu.com has returned to the mainstream view of the world, and with countless wonders about his financial power, he abruptly suppressed those. Unpredictable uproar.

In Europe, Tang Huan was far more than just acquiring Jaguar and Aston Martin. It was not until March 1990 that he flew back to San Francisco on the West Coast from London, England, via New York, the United States.

All American media unanimously sent out a short message about this: "After one year away, Tang Huan returned to Silicon Valley."

When the Silicon Valley One landed at the San Francisco International Airport, an extremely spectacular welcoming crowd made the entire San Francisco Bay Area mobilize police forces to maintain order.

Some reporters have tacitly thought of an eye-catching headline: "In Greater San Francisco, Tang is unparalleled in importance, not even the governor and the president."

After receiving the bunch of flowers thanking him for his selfless assistance to the San Francisco earthquake, Tang Huan gave a short impromptu speech at the airport, and finally mentioned, "California high-speed rail is about to open to traffic, which will definitely help the San Francisco Bay that has been hit by natural disasters. The district is recovering quickly. This year's Spring Philosopher Developers Conference will be slightly ahead of schedule, and it is expected to attract at least 6,500 attendees, hoping to invigorate the hard-hit tourism industry."

Although the time has been adjusted, this spring philosophical developer conference still set a record high in the number of participants. The 6,500 people mentioned by Tang Huan were based on the perspective of the participating technicians, and he made the most conservative estimate. In fact, there are no doubts about more than 10,000 people.

The reason for such a high degree of attention is not unrelated to the return of Tang Huan, the Taishan Beidou in the computer industry, and the phrase "start with html and browser" printed on the invitation letter has made people who are concerned about the development of it aware Then, the application of Internet technology will usher in an unprecedented major opportunity.