Yang Xing didn't expect that his unintentional action at that time could bring everyone's admiration for him. When he asked Wu Haijun and others to set up these branches that seemed somewhat redundant at the time, it was for the consideration of using idle pieces in Go. In Chinese Go, idle pieces offensive is a very important offensive method. In fact, there are no extra chess pieces in Go. If you jump out of the game and arrange idle pieces, you will often play an unexpected role in another battle. Go is different from Western chess. You never care about the gains and losses of a city and a pool, but you should consider the general trend of the entire chessboard in a comprehensive manner. Although Yang Xing's original business strategy focused on Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Korea and Japan, it does not mean that he did not pay attention to the United States, the pinnacle country of capitalism across the ocean.

In recent years, he has not stopped paying attention to various American industry trends related to the group business, and has quietly set up a series of offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other places on the west coast of the United States. In order not to attract attention, he also tried to minimize the probability of his group name appearing. Most offices are unrelated company name registrations. In a few years, Zhongxing International has weaved a preliminary network of strongholds in the United States.

Now, this trick is very effective. At least some of the US regulatory authorities and some of the China Star International's corporate competitors did not notice this series of actions by China Star International. This is not that Yang Xing was too careful, but that his company grew step by step, which inevitably aroused the alertness of his competitors. Americans are very allergic to the acquisition of Chinese-funded enterprises in the United States. Several attempts to acquire American companies were unexpectedly stopped. Yang Xing did not want to follow their footsteps, so it would be better to be careful to sail for ten thousand years.

He used to be drooling at a large number of future stars in the Silicon Valley in the United States. Now with the support of the Indonesian Chinese Group and domestic and Hong Kong, it is no longer a dream to plan the high-tech technology of these companies and even acquire them in full. He joked with Kan Dongtian that he wanted to hide in the United States to take refuge. He prepared tens of billions of dollars but wanted to make a big purchase during this trip to the United States.

Yang Xing quickly became nervous from his vacation as soon as he got off the plane. Shi Meiheng, Xiao Qin and other women who got off the plane with him looked at him and watched the dozen documents handed over by Wang Yiren to him. He strided hard to walk and talked with a large group of subordinates surrounded by him, showing the style of a business elite. A hint of intoxication arose in their eyes. Although they did not show it on their appearance, they had a thought in their hearts. As expected, men who work hard are the most attractive!

Yang Xing walked and looked at it. He was still flipping through the information in his hand until he got in the car. It was still a while to drive from San Jose Airport to Santa Clara, the center of Silicon Valley. He happened to hear what everyone had gained during this period. Everyone's topics in the business car were focused on the newly launched Microsoft Win98 release event, believing that the Silicon Valley software industry will face a new reshuffle. Many well-known companies will be eliminated, which is a good time for Zhongxing Group to take action. What he handed to Yang Xing was a long list of companies waiting to acquire, and the companies included in the acquisition list still needed Yang Xing to make a decision.

Yang Xing was carefully looking at the background information of these companies. The first one was Netscape, which once ranked first. As a company that once occupied 70% of the share of personal computer browsers in the last century, Netscape was also very glorious, but as Microsoft discovered the wonderful prospects of the browser, starting from the release of Win98 this year, the IE browser developed by Microsoft has been installed in the operating system. Users obviously prefer to directly use the IE that comes with the operating system. Netscape's Netscape Navigato browser's market share plummeted, and it was slumped in the trial run before the release of Win98. The industry believes that its main business browser has declined sharply this year. It is a public secret in the industry that its main business has declined sharply this year.

Yang Xing knew nothing unexpected. In November this year, Netscape will be acquired by AOL for US$4.2 billion. However, AOL has no intention of dealing with Netscape Navigato browser, but wants to use Netscape technology to file a monopoly lawsuit against Microsoft. As a result, several lawsuits were concluded. Although Microsoft was finally determined to be illegal in bundling IE browser, Netscape Navigato browser has made no progress. It has lost its features among many newly emerging browsers and has long since become the most popular. Netscape Navigato's last impression of the industry is that it released its own browser source code, allowing many new rising stars to continue to challenge IE's browser with Netscape's browser code, which is also the last blow to their old rivals.

However, what Yang Xing and others valued was not the Netscape Navigato browser, but Netscape's client software in the server field. In addition to Netscape Navigato browser, what is most popular is the compatibility of its client software. It cooperated with another company called Sun Microsystems to develop it. It was later widely used in web design and mobile software. It was the first general software platform in the software, and the compatibility of client software is also the most extensive. Netscape's software is compatible with all personal computer systems at that time, such as Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT version), Macintosh, Linux, OS/2, BeOS and Unix-based server operating systems, etc., and can provide software that spans personal and business applications. It is indeed salivating for Zhongxing International.

Originally, in the field of compatibility software, the best acquisition target was Shengyang Company, which developed Java software. However, Shengyang Company was as famous as its name, and it was a veritable boss in the fields of workstations and server software. Moreover, the company can develop software and hardware. Its servers in hardware surpassed IBM and HP. Its server operation software, Solaris, is technically ahead of Microsoft's WinNT operating system, and is known as a new star who can challenge Microsoft and IBM at the same time. Yang Xing and others have money but useless, so they can only sigh and take a step back and look for the next step.

Now the technical team led by Yao Hongji in Xingdou Research Institute has developed a Linux program that can run on PDA, and the Linux program comes from the server operating system Unix. Being able to obtain NetScene's research results can at least allow StarScene to avoid a big detour in developing a general platform operating system, so Yang Xing and others are determined to win this. In addition, NetScene was also a pioneer of the "push" technology that was later popular. "Push technology" allows websites to "transmit" weather, finance and news information to the client regularly. However, at that time, customers received a large number of advertisements in the information "push" and the user experience was poor, so NetScene did not develop in depth. However, afterwards, Apple and Google took over this technology, and after redevelopment, this technology was almost a must-have in the many software they launched.

In fact, after AOL acquired Netjing, most of the software achievements of Netjing were sold directly to Shengyang to obtain a strategic partnership between Shengyang and AOL. These software were sold for only more than 300 million US dollars. From Yang Xing's perspective, it was too cheap. Since it was sold at a low price, it would be better to sell it to us. If you can get this batch of technologies before AOL and Shengyang, Zhongxing International's software strength will increase significantly.

The second place on the list was Real Networks, a unknown media playback software company. At this time, people didn't know much about it. However, when Yang Xing wanted to watch various videos with different formats on the Internet in college, he used not Microsoft's own Windows Media Player (WMP) playback software, nor Apple's Quick Time player, but a software called Real Player player.

I was impressed by it. The biggest benefit is that it is compatible with almost all known video formats, including its own RM video format, Microsoft's WAV, Apple's MOV, and more AVI video formats online. As for audio formats such as Mp3, it is not a problem. The RM format video software it developed has become a blessing for students who are being troubled by network bandwidth in China because of its small size and fast transmission and download speeds. At that time, Real Player player on domestic computers was almost a must-have software for installation.

In addition, Real Networks also actively supports emerging network streaming media. Its real player can not only play local media files in the computer, but also directly play network media files because of its own compatibility and the small size of RM files. Real Networks has many video file sharing created by netizens on the website of Real Networks. In addition, Real Networks can also download genuine music, and is also the world's largest communication area for homemade online casual games. There is no face in this.

In the world without Apple Music Download, it is undoubtedly the pioneer of these famous applications in the future. Unfortunately, like NetScene, the pioneer in the Internet world is not necessarily the final winner. When Microsoft also discovered the advantages of online media players, it was bundled in win98. After the player, the software has a small size interface that is simple and easy to use. Although its functions are slightly inferior to real player and its compatibility is poor, the life of real player player was not easy to live with when the user was enough at that time.
Chapter completed!