Zhang Qianyang has been very annoyed recently. When Qiu Bosong of 361 wanted to acquire 123, he was happy to sell it when the price reached 15 million.
After all, someone has approached him before to offer 123 Browser, and the price has never been higher than 10 million. The 361 is coming fiercely thanks to the behemoth Dongxu Technology.
Unless I continue to raise funds or find a more reliable backer, the browser market share will definitely be squeezed out by 361. Therefore, it is better to sell 123 Browser to 361 if it is rotten in my hands. The hard work will only last for a year or two. It is simply not a good thing to make a net profit of more than 12 million in a period of time.
But just when he and Qiu Bosong of 361 were about to talk, Baidu stepped in. Originally, he didn't want to ignore the other party. After all, 361 was very sincere in offering a price of 15 million.
But in the end, he still couldn't hold back his greed. After Baidu quickly provided supporting services to several major portal websites, it was favored by some venture capital investors. In order to arm ourselves with a more valuable venture capital financing ratio, acquiring 123 is undoubtedly a good choice.
So Baidu came up with an offer of 16 million, and directly increased the negotiation price by 1 million. However, there is a condition that only 6 million can be paid in advance, and the remaining 10 million needs to be paid in installments within one year after Baidu financing. This makes him still prefer to trade with 361.
After all, the bubble of Internet companies had just burst in the first half of this year. I don’t know whether this storm will sweep across the country. It is too unsafe to be in this industry in one year. However, the price increase of 1 million is quite a lot, so he delayed the 361 side a little.
Then 361 increased the price to 16 million and paid it off directly, and Baidu raised the price of the 123 website to 20 million, as if it was determined to win.
This made Zhang Qianyang, who was originally inclined to trade with 361, stop being entangled in an instant. He began to sit firmly on Diaoyutai and watch the two companies fight, and finally made a profit for himself.
Although he knew that doing so might be dangerous, Zhang Qianyang also had his own confidence. After all, 123 is currently the absolute leader in the domestic browser market, accounting for almost 53% of the market share.
In other words, all netizens and most people are currently using 123. Although Qiu Bosong is coming aggressively, 361 has not yet spread in the market.
Therefore, he wants to get 123 as a springboard directly, so waiting will only benefit him and not hurt him, because as time goes by, the number of views of 123 is still rising steadily.
As the negotiation time went on, the price of 123 steadily increased. But what he didn't expect was that Baidu had just announced a price of 20 million, and Qiu Bosong ignored him.
After waiting for a while and finding no results, Zhang Qianyang prepared to trade with Baidu. Although the other party's installment payment was not what he liked, after all, he was very satisfied with the transaction price of 20 million.
What he didn't expect was that Baidu, which was undergoing financing negotiations, would need 123 Browser as an important supplement. However, after Qiu Bosong withdrew, Baidu's attitude instantly became ambiguous.
First, the negotiation progress was very slow, and then they started to argue over the price. At this time, Zhang Qianyang realized that something was wrong, so he went to Qiu Bosong again, but in the end they only offered a price of 14 million, which was even lower than the previous price.
At first, he saw the number of browser views increasing steadily. Although he felt very unhappy about being blocked by Baidu and Qiu Bosong, Zhang Qianyang was not in a hurry. Because he is still the leader in the domestic browser market.
However, the number of views has been increasing for a period of time, but the market share has not increased, but has decreased. This makes Zhang Qianyang feel uneasy as if grass has grown.
At present, the number of domestic Internet users has surged from nearly 6 million at the beginning of the year to 8 million. It was originally expected that the number of domestic Internet users would exceed 10 million next year, and it may be achieved by the end of this year. Next year, we may be able to rush toward 20 million.
So when the financial crisis broke out in the Internet all over the world, the Internet Great Wall in the Chinese market was like the Himalayas, blocking the cold wave from the outside. The domestic Internet market was booming in a mess.
Therefore, as the leader in the browser market, as the number of browser views increases as Internet users increase, the market share should also gradually increase.
But he found that this was not the case. First of all, the systems currently used in China are Microsoft systems, and the Microsoft system's own browser occupies a part of the market.
Then Sohu Browser stepped in here again, and although 361 Browser did not successfully acquire him and expanded the market a bit slowly, it started with gamers and cooperated with major Internet cafes across the country.
The browser is very reasonable in terms of page production and content design. Therefore, many netizens who are accustomed to surfing the Internet in Internet cafes will subconsciously choose to install the 361 browser instead of the 123 browser when they buy a computer.
This has resulted in the phenomenon that 123 has page views but its market share has not increased. This gave him a sense of crisis. After all, the browser is mainly about traffic.
But the traffic is not fixed on his website, but can be transferred. The browser's ability to bind users is really poor. If the traffic looks good today, it may plummet like an avalanche tomorrow.
So at this time, Zhang Qianyang wanted to speed up negotiations with Baidu, and even compromised on the price promised by the other party before, but Baidu's negotiations were still tepid, and he hoped that he would lower it again.
At this time, he felt that he had been fooled, so he started looking for Qiu Bosong again. As a result, Qiu Bosong's quotation was only 12 million, and the reason given was very simple. 361 now has a certain market share.
And they also have their own plans. Even if they don't acquire 123, they are confident that they will become the leader of browsers within two years. The acquisition of 123 is just to speed up this kind of entry into the city, and with Dongxu Technology as their backing, they have no financing pressure at all, so whether it is fast or not is not that important.
"MD!" In the office of 123 Company, Zhang Qianyang hung up the phone and cursed fiercely.
I have already lowered the price promised by the other party to 18 million, but Baidu is still dragging my feet and not wanting to talk. It seems that they have also noticed that 361 Browser has entered the market and its performance is good and has begun to grow steadily. Since the demand for 123 is not as urgent as before, they will naturally not come up with so much money without competitors.
It’s not that Baidu doesn’t want to talk about it. Their previous acquisition of 123 was really sincere because it was related to their second financing.
But recently, they have found a new profit channel, 'search engine bidding ranking', which is the operating model that has been criticized by countless online games for spam advertisements in the forefront of searches.
This operating model was not actually invented by Baidu, but was developed by Google. Google is also a search engine, so it works very well when used on Baidu.
Therefore, after having its own profit model, it has begun to become stronger. It seems a bit unnecessary to spend nearly 20 million to buy a coat to disguise itself. After all, when they acquired 123 before, it was just for financing and did not intend to do browsing. The meaning of instrument.
After all, in the domestic search market, not only Baidu, but also Yahoo and Google are also eyeing it. Baidu is not the only one, but it also has competitors who cannot distract its energy.
Therefore, they have a stronger profit model, and with the withdrawal of 361 Company, their negotiations with 123 are naturally not as active as before.
While Zhang Qianyang was cursing, Yang Dongxu and Qiu Bosong were looking at good web games in the game department of Xuri Technology. Currently, Xuri Technology has established its third game department - the web game department.
The launched payment-collecting web game is "Warlords". Based on the general framework mentioned by Yang Dongxu, and with the current sufficient programmer manpower, this strategic web game was designed in more than a month and is now in progress.
"Zhang Qianyang called again and wants to resume negotiations with us?" Qiu Bosong stood next to Yang Dongxu, and the two of them were watching several programmers playing a web game.
"Baidu doesn't like him anymore?"
"Baidu has implemented a bidding ranking, and the second round of financing went smoothly than expected. After all, both Google and Yahoo are now doing English searches.
Baidu is the largest Chinese search engine in the world. Coupled with the skyrocketing number of domestic Internet users and its isolation from the Internet bubble wave, many venture capital investors are optimistic about Baidu. There is no need for it to bundle a browser with itself. "Qiu Bosong said.
"Ten million. If he sells it, it will be at this price. If he doesn't sell it, he will be pulled down." Yang Dongxu thought about it and said.
In fact, the acquisition of 123 is just to pave the way for the promotion of 361. Browsers are not very profitable in China. Even 360, which will dominate the world in later generations, always finds it difficult to find various profit channels.
According to the development history of the domestic Internet, the three major portals have now reached the peak of their historical period. In the future, the entire Internet market will transition from 1.0 to the 2.0 era.
At this time, portal websites began to decline, search engines began to become popular, and Baidu also took advantage of this opportunity to rise completely.
But whether it is 1.0, 2.0, or the era of Internet 3.0 after 2008, the browser is only an important component of the Internet, but it has never acted as the core protagonist.
Yang Dongxu's plan to build a browser is actually for the future comprehensive development chain of security guards, portals and videos. Just relying on the browser to make money, to be honest, he might as well compete with Baidu for search.
"Twelve million, this price should be acceptable to him. There is no premium on the market price." Qiu Bosong said, and then nuzzled at the web game he was testing.
If web games did not appear, he would definitely be inclined to continue to lower prices. Anyway, the 361 browser is currently promoted well, and there is no big difference whether it buys 123 or not.
But web games are a little different. This thing eats up the browser market share. And because the threshold is not too high, they can do it even if they don’t acquire 123 by then.
"I almost forgot about this thing." Yang Dongxu rubbed his chin, "You can talk about it and get it before the game is released for public testing.
In this way, during the public testing of this game, all computer users using the 361 browser will pop up a link on the webpage, just like MM and CC. At the same time, we will also have an authorized login. There are millions of players in Legend and Swordsman. cardinal. "
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