March 7, North America.

"What? Blue Star Technology jumped out to intercept the bell?" Disney leader Bob Egg was caught off guard when he heard the news. After a moment, he said: "Does the other party really intend to acquire a merger or just want to disgust?"

The executive who received the news immediately said: "I don't know. Recently, Blue Star Pictures sent a research team to contact Murdoch. The news came out that Blue Star Technology intends to acquire 21st Century Fox for US$81.5 billion."

"Damn it!"

Whether it is intentional acquisition or simply causing trouble, it is disgusting. If the former Disney will lose 21st Century Fox, if the latter, it will definitely increase the cost of mergers and acquisitions, resulting in the failure of mergers and acquisitions or the long-term future.

It is worth mentioning that in the past decade, facing the profound impact and even transformation of the Internet new media platforms on the audience's viewing methods and the decline of traditional media, 21st Century Fox is no longer able to compete with emerging technology giants such as Costa del Azure, Blue Star Technology and Google.

Its head Murdoch had long decided to withdraw from the entertainment industry, divesting the remaining assets of Fox Radio Group, sports, news and TV stations, and establishing a new company worth about $10 billion.

Disney is also an Internet giant, including Netflix, a North American content production streaming giant, and the rapidly rising Bluestar Pictures.

Because of this, Disney spent 60 to 70 billion US dollars and urgently hoped to strengthen its weakness in copyright, international channels and distribution by acquiring 21st Century Fox. The acquisition of the company can obtain a large number of film and television copyrights, National Geographic and other more than 300 international channels. The problem of no distribution rights was also solved.

Disney, which is quite ammunition, has begun to build its own streaming platform and reclaim its film and television works authorized to Netflix and Bluestar Films to face these two cross-latitude competitors that have opened up content production and distribution channels.

In the era of rapid technological development, Hollywood producers' weakness in distribution channels has led to a decline in their voice. Relatively speaking, Disney is the fastest to react, and fear may become increasingly marginalized in the future and eventually become a content provider for emerging Internet streaming platforms such as Blue Star Pictures and Netflix.

Against this background, media giant Murdoch directly hit GG and chose to give up, while Disney chose to take the initiative to counterattack the dimensionality reduction attack launched by its competitors.

Obviously, if Hollywood producers do not want to be eliminated or become content providers of Internet giants in the future, they must embark on a cross-platform integration path that opens up production, distribution, on-demand and other links.

Bob Eiger asked: "What did Murdoch think?"

"Waiting for a price, the higher the price will get it."

"Damn it!"

Disney is a super entertainment giant with a total of 200 billion US dollars and must be powerful, but Di Baby is still a little lacking in confidence in competing with Luo Sheng for "money ability".

Blue Star Technology swallows 21st Century Fox and can even pay with all the cash. It's so powerful and so rich.

However, Disney cannot do it, and there is no such much cash at all. If you want to swallow this company, you can only trade with your own company's stock valuation, otherwise you will not be able to afford it.

At this moment, the news has been exposed to the media, which has first caused a large-scale sensation in the entertainment industry. Entertainment media such as "Hollywood Reporter" quoted reports as soon as possible, and the technology circle and major mainstream media followed suit.

The acquisition of 21st Century Fox for US$81.5 billion will be the largest merger case in history, and it is epic.

Luo Sheng's actions were extremely rapid. He wanted to swallow the 21st Century Fox Company. This was not a simple game, but a multi-dimensional struggle.

...

On March 9, new big news came out and became popular on major news websites around the world.

Bluestar Technology and Costa del Blue respectively formulated a total investment plan for the Yuyuan District in 2019 totaling 20.3 billion euros in their respective fields. Yumeng and the presidents of the two companies signed an agreement on the same day and made it public.

The speed is really fast, almost a burst of news.

In fact, it is not difficult for those who are interested to observe the past history to find that this is both unexpected and reasonable.

It is well known that the economic environment in Yuzhou has become worse and worse in recent years. In addition, the global situation is instability, which makes it even worse. Dabao is still fighting with Yujia, and the relationship between the two parties is not as close as before.

For example, the United States tried its best to prevent the laying of the "North Stream 2" energy pipeline of the Yumeng. This energy pipeline is designed to be used by Yumeng to insert a pipe into the Persian Gulf to alleviate the over-reliance on natural gas supply. Otherwise, the Yumeng will cut off the supply and the Yumeng people will not be able to pass the winter.

It would be fine if the bear jumped out and caused trouble, but the Americans also caused trouble. They knew that the baby was also very decisive, and they stopped the construction of the "North Stream 2" energy pipeline, with the purpose of beating people in the continent to buy North American energy.

You should know that since the shale oil and gas revolution, North America has changed from the world's largest energy importer to an exporter.

But the people who beat the mainland are not happy and have a lot of money, so this account is obviously not worth it.

This is just one of the fundamentals. In fact, there are more and more conflicts between North America and Yuzhou on economic issues.

At the same time, in 2108, the people of Yuzhou followed the baby to play, which led to a sharp drop in investment in Yuzhou by companies in Asia's largest economy. In the first half of the year, Yuzhou people took the initiative to restrict investment.

OK, I found something was wrong in the second half of the year.

After limiting this, I realized that no one came to play in the city. The economy was already in a recession, and the days were even more sad.

An important factor that everyone doesn’t come to play is that Germany, which is “locomotive” in the economy of Yuzhou, is no longer good. Investment is about returns. For global investors, it is nonsense to have no profit. When to invest in Yuzhou, you have to wait for Germany to usher in economic recovery.

In fact, whether global investors are betting on betting on the market is largely a major influence on the decisions of global investors and in a sense it has a weather vane.

Last year, Luo Sheng's major companies or institutions such as Shengfeng Capital only invested US$606 million in Germany, but the total investment in Germany in 2017 was as high as 4 billion euros, with a decline of not an average.

For global investors, whether to bet on Yuzhou depends on the investment intensity of Asia's largest economy in Yuzhou, and this mainly depends on several Luo Sheng's companies and institutions.

The role of the weather vane is not just about saying it, but global investors are practicing it with practical actions.

As we enter 2019, this situation has not improved. The people of Yuzhou are really anxious. At this critical moment, Luo Sheng's people visited again to ask whether there is a possibility of cooperation.

With such an obvious step and major economic benefits, the people of Yuzhou were almost hesitant and got on the bus. The two sides reached an agreement in just a few days, and the total investment of more than 20 billion euros was successfully implemented.

In just two days, new big news came again on March 11. The regulators of the League of Dows announced that they would unconditionally approve Bluestar Technology's acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets.
Chapter completed!