MM, that is, Parkson acquired Zhonglian World.
This news instantly surpassed the popularity of anti-addiction and became the most popular on major portal websites.
You must know that Zhonglian Vision is not a small game company. It started from a small game platform and in the past two years, it has transformed into large-scale online games and its performance has been rising.
It is said that after the previous financing news was released, a venture capital directly gave Zhonglian World, which was originally valued at tens of millions, but has increased dozens of times in less than three years, a valuation of 1 billion.
Zhonglian Vision did not agree, but directly asked for 1.5 billion. But this has not deterred venture capital investors. It is said that the two parties are still negotiating, and it is expected that a financing amount that will shock the industry will be born in the near future.
Who would have thought that the sky-high financing prices predicted by various experts and scholars did not appear, and such explosive news was dropped directly.
"How did Bao Yueshan and Jianyang agree to sell Zhonglian World?" Qiu Bosong and others sat across from Yang Dongxu in the Xuri Technology office.
The acquisition of Zhonglian Vision by Parkson shocked not only the industry. Even Yang Dongxu was almost shocked, because no matter from which perspective, there was no possibility of selling Zhonglian World.
The domestic gaming industry is so hot that everyone wants to get in. How could anyone give up and leave?
And although your capital is pouring into the game market like crazy, there is only one top game company in the country. One is Rising Sun Technology alone, followed by Zhonglian Vision and The9, and then NetEase and other game companies whose transformation has gradually improved.
Zhonglian World is firmly in the top three game companies, and the game revenue it represents has made many game companies very envious. If the company is booming, it is very likely that the company will be able to ring the bell in the next two years. No one in their right mind would sell a chicken that is still laying golden eggs.
"It is said that there is a partial share swap, and Parkson is very optimistic about the game market. And although it has tasted the benefits of the development of the avatar show, its focus is on large-scale online games. It is said that Bao Yueshan has also developed chat software similar to MAN before. But in the end I don’t know why we let it go." Qiu Bosong said.
"Is this the case where a widow meets a bachelor and they have sex?" Yang Dongxu leaned on the chair speechlessly.
This news was so sudden that I had not received any news before. By the time there was news, the two companies had already held a signing press conference.
"It is said that there is Microsoft standing behind Parkson." Chang Hao couldn't help but said.
'Microsoft' is a giant that must be feared as long as it is engaged in the Internet industry. It is currently the best Internet technology company in the world.
"The rumors may not be credible." Yang Dongxu waved his hand: "But the predecessor of MM is Microsoft's MSN. If Parkson can really show some tricks, maybe it can really get involved with Microsoft."
Parkson took the technology of Microsoft's chat system and paid a lot of patent fees, so it was naturally close to Microsoft.
However, although Microsoft is a giant, it is purely in the chat software industry. MM is actually much better than MSN. In short, although Microsoft developed MSN very early. However, it has not been carried forward for a long time.
Even though there are a lot of user complaints and complaints, Microsoft just refuses to change. The main focus is still on its own core industrial systems and CPUs.
It was not until the rise of Tencent and other companies that produced timely content that they finally opened their eyes and took a look at this industry.
But I just took a glance at it, and although I felt it was a pity that I had already entered the instant messaging industry but didn’t go deeper into it. But it's just a pity. As the best Internet technology company, it has always been a giant and will not be jealous of other companies.
However, this aspect seems to need to be rewritten in this life. After all, MM, which Parkson upgraded based on the original Microsoft MSN, can now be said to monopolize half of the domestic market, and its users are increasing rapidly every day.
Although it has never found a way to make money, there is a CC seat competitor in China, but it cannot be like Microsoft and others have to pay for using its MSN.
The valuation given by the outside world is not very high, but Yang Dongxu knows that the current difficulties in chat software are only temporary. In the future, an empire will be born in this industry.
And since the other party has now found the avatar show as a profit model, they have focused their attention on the game again. The rise of MM, which has a huge number of users, is actually only a matter of time.
The three of them were in a meeting when Yang Dongxu's phone rang.
"Hello? You said, oh, okay I got it..."
After answering the phone, Yang Dongxu said something that stunned Qiu Bosong and Chang Hao: "Jian Yang and Bao Yueshan separated. Bao Yueshan joined Parkson with Zhonglian World's game channel and agent "The King of Kings", and Jianyang I received a portion of the money and the Zhonglian Mini Game Platform, which was the original work of Zhonglian World.”
Qiu Bosong and Chang Hao looked at their boss, asking whether the news was wrong.
You must know that Jianyang and Qiu Bosong jointly founded Zhonglian World although they were partners. But Jianyang is not from a technical background, so the company and people he has been managing belong to the general manager of Zhonglian World, while Bao Yueshan is a shareholder and an engineer in technology research and development.
Under normal circumstances, it should be the general manager of the management company who wants a large amount of capital to come in for the sake of the company's development, or if the things in his hand are valuable, he doesn't mind not being able to sell them.
Technical engineers regard the things they develop as their own sons. How can a father sell his son?
So when they suddenly heard that Jianyang and Qiu Bosong had separated, everyone's first reaction must be that Jianyang wanted to make money, and Bao Yueshan didn't want to sell his children, so the two parted ways.
But now it was Bao Yueshan who sold his son, and the one he sold was his youngest son who was currently the most profitable. The eldest son, who had been cared for until there was no improvement, was left to Jianyang.
But the younger son is a proxy, and the older son is the biological one. I don’t know if Bao Yueshan gave up the small game platform he created and joined Parkson with the King of Kings. What kind of overweight did Parkson offer to make him make such a choice?
"Jian Yang signed a confidentiality agreement before, so the news has been released now. However, Jianyang seems to have little confidence in the mini-game platform. The reason for releasing the news is to see if anyone bids." Yang Dongxu continued.
Yang Dongxu was not very concerned about what happened to Jianyang and Bao Yueshan. What he is concerned about now is the small game platform in Jianyang's hand.
Parkson's sudden acquisition of Zhonglian World gave him a big shock. But the other party kicked out the small game platform that seemed to be accumulated. This was undoubtedly a surprise.
Nowadays, both capital and game companies are focusing on large-scale online games and disdain such small leisure platforms. Because at first glance, it seems that this thing can't squeeze out a few ounces of oil.
As a domestic casual game platform, Zhonglian World has made such a casual platform in the eyes of many people.
However, Zhonglian World’s previous profit model was to seek dividends from telecommunications. At that time, dial-up Internet access was available. Using China Telecom's network cable is like going to an Internet cafe to surf the Internet and you will be charged every hour.
Therefore, Zhonglian World can use the online number and duration of the mini-game platform to seek dividends from Telecom. But now the Internet charges have been falling again and again, and instead of being charged by the hour, they are charged monthly and yearly.
If you go to Telecom to ask for dividends from the Internet market at this time, do you think it will slap you with big-eared melon seeds?
And without the bulk of the money coming from telecommunications dividends, how can the small game platform still make money?
This is probably the fundamental reason why Parkson acquired Zhonglian World but kicked the casual game platform away. Taking over the prosperous Zhonglian World Parkson will definitely lead to heavy bleeding this time. How can it be possible for the opponent to bring a drag bottle?
"Is this casual game platform going anywhere?" After Yang Dongxu finished speaking, Qiu Bosong and Chang Hao couldn't help but look at each other, and then asked.
"How is our YY research going?" Yang Dongxu asked instead of answering Qiu Bosong's words.
"Starting doing the inside."
"What do you think of integrating the casual game platform into YY? I think it is a very good content enrichment." Yang Dongxu said.
Qiu Bosong did not answer immediately, but imagined in his mind that the Xiuxian mini-game platform would be added to the YY chat software, and then he said: "It is indeed a very good content supplement. But is the operating cost a bit high?"
The operating cost is a bit high is actually Qiu Bosong's euphemism. What he really wants to say is that this casual game platform can be added to the chat software, although it can greatly enrich the content of YY.
But the inability to make a profit seems very accumulated. After all, if you want to make a good casual game platform, the most important thing is that it must be free. For example, for a casual game like chess, if you charge even a dime for a user to play against each other, the users will all be gone in a matter of minutes and no one will be left.
But if it is operated for free, this will undoubtedly follow the old path of CC and MM. That is, users enjoy using their own products, but they are unable to create profit points...
Otherwise, Parkson would not be willing to bleed heavily and swallow up Zhonglian World in one bite.
And if you are simply afraid that CC and MM will block YY in the early stage. This small game platform was created just to pour user words into the chat software.
There is no need at all. Rising Sun Technology has been making such preparations for its three ace games from the beginning. Now 361’s web games and even Tieba can attract users that are several times higher than those of the casual mini game platform. There is no need to spend money. Buy this useless thing.
"Taking a longer-term view, even if the chat software is free, it is necessary to invest some money to enrich the content and make our chat software more competitive.
Compared with CC and MM, we actually have more ways to monetize users. Therefore, there is no problem at all in raising a casual game platform.
Besides, who told you that casual game platforms won’t make money? "Yang Dongxu blinked at Qiu Bosong, with a slightly mysterious expression on his face.
