Chapter 1222 Evaluation (4k)

The investigation team headed by the gasoline man has been working on Japanese companies for four months.

But the results are average.

At present, there are only four companies with evidence, such as Sony's loss of 7 billion US dollars this year, Olympus has been falsifying accounts for 20 years, Toshiba has been involved in fraud of hundreds of millions of dollars since at least 2008, and Kobe Steel's steel products have tampered with material data.

These are the only things that can be confirmed for the time being. Other companies with the possibility of fraud are still thinking and looking for breakthroughs because they can't find a solid loophole.

At present, the four companies have testimonies from the heads of the companies, such as Sony's Stringer and Olympus's Woodford. The former is the news of Fang, a director who does not want to reveal his name, and the latter is Woodford's self-exposure to get the power of the company.

As for Toshiba, IDC has found abnormalities in the data that has been combed for several years, and has also found internal accusers. As for Kobe Steel, the first definite clue came from China. It once provided steel for the Three Gorges, but the first batch of products sent was inspected and judged as unqualified.

After learning about Kobe Steel's past, Kong Yu's team conducted parameter inspections on its current materials. The latest news is that unqualified products have been found.

And this also provides the team with new ideas. They plan to use a stupid method to help Japanese companies like this conduct an independent third-party inspection.

The method is really too stupid. There are many Japanese companies, and there are even more raw materials and products facing the world. Therefore, they look for those large companies with "slight losses in financial reports" and "rumors" to see if they can screen out suitable targets.

But the workload has become larger and the attributes have expanded.

Not only financial fraud, but also material parameter fraud. Companies like Kobe Steel are among the top three in Japan's steelmaking industry and have many well-known customers around the world, involving products such as aircraft, automobiles, and motorcycles. The influence may be in another category.

Fang Zhuo read the investigation report submitted by the gasoline man over and over again. He was not satisfied with the number that could be determined, but he could understand it.

Fraud is a secret, and the atmosphere of Japanese companies is relatively conservative. It is indeed not easy to find a breakthrough.

Fang Zhuo pondered the current situation.

He didn't come back to his senses until his secretary Liu Zonghong walked into the office, and asked, "Has Mr. Kong set off?"

"Just got on the plane." Liu Zonghong reported.

Fang Zhuo nodded, threw the report to the secretary, and said with a smile, "Take a look."

Liu Zonghong silently went through the report and found that except for Sony, the fraud of other companies was quite conclusive, and a lot of suspected targets were listed.

He couldn't help but say, "I have always heard about the Japanese craftsmanship... this..."

"It's quite craftsmanlike. It seems that Toshiba is a systematic fraud." Fang Zhuo said, "However, although these companies are big enough, they are still not enough."

"Mr. Kong and his team are going to continue to conduct a close investigation." Liu Zonghong put down the report.

"Whether to investigate or not..." Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly, "Sometimes it's not that important. When the fake is true, the real is also fake. If nothing can be found at that time, Panasonic and Hitachi will be taken along."

The financial situation of Panasonic and Hitachi in the past two years has been very bad.

For example, Panasonic was also selected as one of the top ten failed CEOs.

Maybe they didn't commit fraud, but if Japanese companies' concentrated fraud is exposed, their loss-making financial reports will be put on the media again, and after being processed by public opinion, it will be a disaster.

This kind of thing is prone to chain reactions, and there are gasoline men eyeing the financial market, let's see how much blood will be shed.

Liu Zonghong understood, it's just throwing dirty water, no matter whether it's dirty or not, just throw it first.

He didn't comment, and Mr. Kong, who specializes in this matter, will arrive soon, and he will definitely discuss a charter with the boss.

Fang Zhuo thought for a while and picked up another evaluation report on Nikon's lithography technology.

The possible fraud of Japanese companies is certainly exciting, but his initial goal is to see if he can get some technology needed for ice cores, and whether he can reach cooperation with ASML according to local conditions, with the goal of Toshiba, Nikon and ASML.

Among them, Nikon's lithography technology appears as a spare tire option, because, according to public information and industry news, although Nikon lags behind ASML, the gap is acceptable, and it is far more advanced than domestic ones.

However, Fang Zhuo's face darkened as he looked at the report in his hand.

"The latest Nikon lithography machine purchased by Bingxin Shencheng Factory has many small problems. Scanning and etching cannot be synchronized, and the architecture of the operating system has defects."

"Its actual overlay effect is much worse than Nikon's specification, and it has not been able to improve much."

"There is a considerable amount of exaggeration in the technical statement about EUV, which is more of a PPT display, and the actual R&D progress is seriously lagging behind."

Fang Zhuo casually marked a few key points with a pen, put down the evaluation report, and said angrily: "It's Nikon's fault that it can't beat ASML! There are constant small problems, no major R&D, and they just want to lower prices to get by!"

"The stock market uses performance turnaround to cheat retail investors! They only know how to run awards and brush news to push up stock prices!"

"It smells like corruption in the consortium!"

Liu Zonghong listened to his boss scolding Nikon for a quarter of an hour in the office, and deeply felt the deep concern of Sony's external directors for Japanese companies.

Fang Zhuo's mouth was dry and he drank half a cup of tea in one breath: "Forget it, no matter how broken the copper or iron is, it is still valuable. This time, even if we collect scrap iron, we have to take back some of it."

This is because the original judgment position in the heart has been lowered, and it is still the PPT-style method.

Liu Zonghong nodded, he expected to take advantage of less, which is really annoying, but you still have to take advantage if you can.

He waited until the boss's mood gradually calmed down and then reported: "Mr. Fang, I heard from the R&D team that the processing volume of 'Siri, Siri' on the server has increased dramatically in the past few days, and everyone is very interested in this."

A salon had the impact of making it possible for Microsoft CEO to be replaced. This was extremely unexpected to the stock market, industry and even passers-by, and they quickly voted with their feet.

But apart from this, the performance of Siri, the intelligent voice assistant, is also amazing.

Yike acquired Siri. Although the App was removed from the Apple and Android stores after the official agreement was reached, many users had already tried the previous independent software. Part of this group was reactivated and tried "Siri, Siri" one after another. interaction.

Different from "Hi, Siri", this "second personality" with more intelligent performance or more fun performance has gained a lot of popularity and inspired more calls for Yike to release the app again.

Yike Company responded and will integrate it into its mobile phones before Christmas.

"What do they ask most about?" Fang Zhuo asked.

Liu Zonghong smiled and said: "Who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"

Fang Zhuo: "Yeah...that's understandable."

Liu Zonghong continued: "I also asked Siri, and it asked me to turn on the front camera. I suspect that its program made an error and failed to figure out my gender."

"There is still a lot of room for improvement, let's optimize it slowly." Fang Zhuo knew that with Siri's current performance, it is likely to appear smart at one moment and retarded at the other.

Liu Zonghong once again reported a more important matter: "The technical cooperation model with Google is still being discussed. There are two directions now. One is to push Siri across the entire Android system, but it needs to separate Siri and establish a company. The second is to simply For technical exchanges, let’s do this, we will only push it on our own mobile phones before Christmas.”

Larry, the current CEO of Google, has witnessed the performance of Siri on the spot and is very interested in the development of this field and is willing to raise the price to cooperate with subsidiaries.

According to Dai Ge, the former CEO of Siri, more users joining in training is obviously good for technology development, but...

Fang Zhuo feels that Siri has not reached that stage yet, and even the underlying architecture still has a lot of room for optimization. The most sensible positioning at present is to serve as the smart voice assistant of the Yike family.

Oh, yes, the domestic YMS may consider doing synchronization.

He said "hmm", and he had a tendency in his heart, but he did not give an attitude first. The popularity is temporary, and after this period, long-term investment and research and development are still needed.

"Let's do this for now. We'll talk about it later when we meet with Mr. Kong tonight." Fang Zhuo stopped looking at the third document. "Didn't he say that there are still people on Wall Street who want to buy the yen? Let's listen to it later."

There are rumors that Soros is interested in the Japanese yen. If he can gather a bunch of ghosts and monsters, the water may become even more muddy.

However, it was said to be evening, but Kong Yu was late because of the heavy rain on the road. When he arrived in Silicon Valley, he hurriedly packed up and came to see his boss, but he heard Liu Zonghong mention that President Founder was playing cards with Microsoft's Ballmer and others.

Kong Yu saw his boss playing cards and became curious.

When he passed the security check, he saw four rich people playing cards, Mr. Fang, Larry, Ballmer, and Kaplan, who was investing in Silicon Valley. Except for Kaplan, whose net worth was relatively weak, the other three people's combined wealth was quite large. Portion size.

The card game has been going on for a while, and judging from the expressions of the four people, the situation seems to have reached a critical point.

"Ballmer, it's your turn to speak. You don't have any chips to follow." Fang Zhuo urged.

Ballmer said angrily: "I have a cashier's check of 5 million from Morgan Bank. Isn't that enough? I think you don't have many chips."

When Fang Zhuo saw the Microsoft CEO asking the person next to him to take out the promissory note, he immediately said seriously: "I also have a $10 million promissory note from Huaxia Rural Credit Cooperative. Don't worry, it's enough to lose."

Grass!

Kong Yu was originally holding his breath because of the competition between the rich, but when he heard this sentence, he immediately realized... it's just fun, the boss is just having fun.

It's all about money, but why does it feel weird as soon as the name comes out?

After two rounds of poker, both Fang Zhuo and Ballmer lost all their chips, and Google's Larry won three.

This was a card game proposed by Ballmer, but he was not unwilling after losing. Instead, he directly changed the topic: "I'm almost going to retire."

When such a sentence came out of his mouth, everyone looked at Mr. Fang.

Fang Zhuo spread his hands: "You can't blame me. If you really want to blame me, then blame the stock market and blame them for being bullish on Microsoft's future."

He was just the beginning of a chat in the salon. What really verified the view was the majority of investors and institutions. They all felt that Ballmer was no longer suitable for Microsoft's development and changes.

Whose CEO resigned and the company's stock price rose sharply?

Is this a good CEO?

If Apple and Yike were replaced, the company's stock price would immediately fall when news of Jobs and Fang Zhuo's resignation came out. Oh, no need to assume, because of Jobs's physical condition, Apple's stock price has been very volatile recently.

So, as soon as the CEO Ballmer resigned, the stock market immediately expressed its attitude with a big rise - and a big rise, which undoubtedly made Ballmer very embarrassed.

Everyone seemed to be afraid that Ballmer could not make up his mind, and they all gave silent support.

"Yeah." Ballmer nodded slightly, indicating his attitude, "You can't blame it all on Mr. Fang."

"Hey, you can hardly blame me, right? It's not me who made Microsoft slow down, and it's not me who made Microsoft miss the mobile era." Fang Zhuo complained.

Of course, it's unrealistic to say that there is no relationship at all.

"I originally planned to retire in 2017." Ballmer sighed and looked at the three young rich men in front of him, Larry, Fang Zhuo, and Kaplan, who were much younger than him.

It's just that he was also very powerful back then.

Ballmer was invited by Gates to join Microsoft 31 years ago. Time flies, and he really can't keep up with the times.

Larry consoled him: "It's not bad to retire early. It's rainy in Seattle, so move out early."

Microsoft's headquarters is in Seattle.

Ballmer flew to Silicon Valley again from Seattle after the board meeting. His intention was basically confirmed. The board of directors habitually tried to retain him, but they didn't do it too forcefully...which made him feel that the times had changed.

So, after thinking about it, he decided to come to Silicon Valley to relax and take a look at the instigator.

Ballmer was silent for a while and shook his head: "My plan was suddenly disrupted. I was thinking about whether I should buy a team to play with when I retire early."

"Basketball team?" Fang Zhuo smiled, "I'll sell you the Rockets for $2 billion."

This is a number far higher than the market price.

Ballmer was depressed, but still provoked to the point of getting angry: "You denied me in front of the whole world, and you haven't settled this account yet, and now you want me to be a sucker?"

"Don't buy it, don't buy it. Oh, if you really want to buy it, it seems that the Philadelphia team is looking for a buyer." Fang Zhuo provided normal information, "Coincidentally, Philadelphia is very close to New York."

The Philadelphia 76ers are interested in making a move.

Fang Zhuo knew that Ballmer really liked basketball. Later, he bought the Los Angeles Clippers, but the current Clippers are probably not for sale.

Ballmer sighed: "What's the approximate price? I'll ask someone to ask."

"It's estimated to be around 300 million US dollars, and no more than 400 million US dollars." Fang Zhuo thought for a few seconds and gave a price range.

Ballmer nodded, thinking that it was indeed feasible to retire and start a team for fun.

"Since you are here, I invite you to visit our Yike and our new era enterprise tomorrow." Fang Zhuo made an invitation.

Ballmer accepted.

It was late, the card game was no longer continued, and the chat soon came to an end.

When the meeting was over, Kong Yu, who rushed over in a hurry, couldn't help feeling strange: "Mr. Fang, I think Ballmer doesn't hate you at all."

"Why should he hate me? The board of directors didn't want to keep me, the shareholders didn't support me, and the company didn't agree with me. I just said a few words on the side. Does he hate me?" Fang Zhuo sneered.

Kong Yu thought that maybe the people who said sarcastic things on the side were the most hated.

He didn't waste time and reported some new situations that were not in the report, such as approaching some insiders of the company, for example, Olympus has publicly said that the CEO has tarnished the company's image and is not suitable to continue this position.

"Olympus may not last too long, their contradiction is intensifying." Kong Yu said.

"How long do you think it will last?" Fang Zhuo asked.

Kong Yu thought for two minutes: "About this year."

No matter how his investigation is, Olympus is likely to explode within this year.