In the general manager's office of Jiucheng, Lin Wei can be said to be very busy during this period.
Taking over CC directly can be said to have dropped a depth bomb in the domestic Internet industry. After all, there have been rumors that CC will package and sell its domestic business to focus on overseas markets.
But no one expected that Ninetowns would suddenly come out and acquire RMB 2.43 billion, completing the acquisition with the highest transaction volume in the domestic Internet industry.
You must know that before, everyone was still paying attention to what kind of satellite Weibo, which was cooperating with Ninetowns, Groom and Samsung, would release. As a result, the Weibo satellite here has not yet reached the sky, but a depth charge has arrived.
"Mr. Lin, the data collection you want." The secretary knocked on the door and walked in, placing the folder in her hand on Lin Wei's desk.
Lin Wei put down the pen in her hand and opened the folder, took a look at the various information on it and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is it true that Xuri Technology has no plans to launch any free YY activities for the time being?" Although the information collected was in her hands, Lin Wei was still a little worried.
"There is no news about this at the moment, and I have not heard that Xuri Technology has any plans in this regard. They only announced that they will increase the corresponding benefits for members, and have no intention of making it free." The secretary said.
Lin Wei nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, she is really afraid of a price war with Xuri Technology, because this battle will definitely not stop unless there are more people on one side.
This is undoubtedly a lot of pressure for her, but providing huge benefits to attract users to return is a move she has to make. Otherwise, what can CC do with its more than 1 million active users, and 90% of them are dead people hanging up?
Only by activating the business of users acquiring CC can they make a lot of money instead of losing money.
But even though it was inevitable, she was still a little worried, worried that Xuri Technology would be in trouble. After all, the boss also has a boss temper.
But now it seems that the other party is quite calm, knowing that it will not end well after the war starts, so they simply ignore it.
In this way, Ninetowns will provide benefits for one month and two months to attract users who have left, and then cancel these benefits and return to normal revenue.
In fact, The9 was a bit cheating when making this decision, because The9 must attract users to return, so these benefits must be released.
But on the other hand, YY's user activity is already sufficient, so there is no need to provide these benefits to attract users.
If there is really a price war, Xuri Technology will give up this part of its income and at the same time spend other money to fill this hole. In this way, it will lose more than Ninetowns.
Therefore, The9's strategy of attracting users to return with benefits is a bit barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
But now it seems that Xuri Technology is too lazy to pay attention to her, a scoundrel, so it has avoided a huge war involving spending money.
Lin Wei breathed a sigh of relief looking at the information collected about Xuri Technology.
Yang Dongxu, who was sitting in the office of the chairman of Xuri Technology, frowned while looking at the information handed over by Sun Yang.
"What's your opinion from the game department?" What he was holding in his hand was a piece of game information that was relatively valuable in the foreign game market, but had not yet become popular, or had not been represented by a domestic company.
"I had a small meeting with Manager Chang Hao yesterday to study it. The heads of several game groups are very optimistic about this EVE. They think this game is of high quality. If it can be done well, it can even last a lifetime." Sun Yang said. .
"What's your opinion?" Yang Dongxu asked.
"It's too difficult." Sun Yang spread his hands helplessly, "This game must be a good game. The heads of each group in the game department and I agree on this point.
But from a business perspective, it is too difficult for this game to become a hit. It's not that this game isn't good enough, it's just that it's great.
It's so good that even average computer configurations can't play it, and it's so good that people who don't have enough brains don't deserve to play it. "
Sun Yang smiled bitterly.
Yang Dongxu also laughed, with a hint of helplessness in his smile.
Is EVE good?
What a blast!
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the number one in the interstellar game, and will even be the number one in the next ten years.
But its biggest problem is that it is too good, and it cannot keep up with its pace in this era.
As Sun Yang said, it is impossible to play this game with the current domestic computer game configuration. In later generations, people often say that "eating chicken" has promoted a wave of computer hardware configurations.
But in fact, EVE has already achieved this step in this era, but it has not become popular and its influence is not as great as that of chicken.
In addition to the extremely high computer configuration requirements, if players have no brains and only know how to PK and kill, they are not worthy of playing it.
You play this game for a month or two, but in the end you are confused about even the most basic things that novices need to master, and you are directly persuaded to quit playing. How can you play?
Even though NetEase later distributed this game and made countless simplified versions, and finally turned it into a mobile game, many players still couldn't understand it. You can imagine how difficult this game is.
Therefore, compared to those foreign enthusiasts, the more difficult the game, the more difficult it is. In the gaming environment in China, there are quite a few die-hard enthusiasts.
But this number is largely the result of comparison with foreign players. If compared with domestic game players, the number of these people is estimated to only account for one thousandth of the number of domestic game players.
Therefore, Ganjia Naoshao can indeed reflect the high quality of a game, but it is not the mainstream of the game market.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with EVE being an excellent game. This is not only recognized by Sun Yang and the people in the game department, but also by Yang Dongxu.
But from a business perspective, no matter how good a game is, it’s still garbage if it doesn’t make money.
"I'll study this information first, and you can leave the rest of the work to others. You can take a YY technical team to the Google headquarters in the United States.
Use YY as a template to help Google design an instant messaging software. It is best to help Google complete the construction of this software before CC and MM log in to the world. Yang Dongxu closed the folder in his hand and said.
"What does the big boss mean?" Sun Yang's eyes suddenly lit up.
In the past few days, he has also been acquired by Ninetowns. Baidu is very annoyed by the fact that he is eyeing MM.
Moreover, CC and MM not only took the opportunity to make a fortune at home this time, but the sky seems to be broader abroad.
Sun Yang felt like seeing two failed competitors suddenly turn around and leaving a lot of trouble for Rising Sun Technology domestically, and even taking the lead in seizing the market overseas.
Previously, Yang Dongxu's eyes had been on the country. Sun Yang thought that the big boss at home was a little beyond his reach for foreign matters. He never thought that the big boss would be the killer if he didn't take action.
This is Google. Last year it launched a wave of satellites that are brighter than Baidu satellites. And The9's acquisition of CC is indeed amazing, but Google also bought YouTube with real money.
And currently Baidu is only the number one search engine in China, while Google is number one in the world, and it also has the world’s number one YouTube website.
Such a giant is going to launch an instant messaging software, and it is quietly cooperating with Xuri Technology. This... is so exciting, so exciting, and Sun Yang starts to take a deep breath.
At the same time, many question marks popped up in my head.
When did the big boss talk to Google about this matter? Why was there no news at all before? Of course, he only thought about these questions in his mind and did not ask them out loud.
"Don't be so excited. This is just an initial cooperation. There will be more cooperation in the future. It depends on how you lead the past team to transform YY this time.
Your task this time can be said to be very heavy. The first problem you have to solve is not just how YY can complete the structure of the instant messaging software based on Google.
You also need to do a good job in in-depth localization, the structure of the chat window, the habits and differences of domestic and foreign users of some YY functions, as well as various language and editing issues. You have to be the best in this. It's best not to give your opponent any chance. "
Yang Dongxu's expression became serious.
Sun Yang subconsciously straightened his body and stood up, "Understood!"
Looking at Sun Yang walking out of the office, Yang Dongxu's eyes began to lose focus and fell into deep thought.
This cooperation is very important to him because it is his first clear springboard to the international market.
When Sun Yang took the technical team over and laid out the structure of the instant chat software, it was sure that it would be a blockbuster.
He would personally fly to the United States to join hands with Google's top executives and conduct a signing ceremony that would shock the world.
You can't just let other competitors launch satellites and drop bombs, but you also have to make a noise that can be called a nuclear explosion to show your status as the boss, right?
The current result of discussions with Xiaojie and the Kennedy family is that Google will use 11% of its shares and US$3.89 billion in cash to acquire 75% of YY's controlling stake in the international market.
Of course, this is just the cooperation document announced when the contract is signed. In fact, Yang Dongxu will take 70% of the controlling stake in YY's overseas market, while Jack Jr., the Kennedy family and the founder of Google will each take 10%.
11% of the shares originally belonged to Yang Dongxu, and this was not considered a bargaining chip in the transaction. The real deal was 3.89 billion. Jack Jr., the Kennedy family and the founder of Google jointly funded 30% of the shares of YY Foreign Market.
The selling price of YY seems to be extremely high now, but in fact it is still a bit of a loss. After all, YY's future is unlimited.
However, after having YY, Google will definitely take off immediately. He is Google's major shareholder and Google will make money along with it, so he can barely accept the price.
As for the Kennedy family, Jack Jr. and the founder of Google.
Although they felt that so much money was a bit much, they thought about the crazy growth of Google's stock after YY helped Google take off. The price doesn’t feel that high anymore.
As long as YY completes its overseas instant messaging software platform, it will stand on the shoulders of the giant Google and appear in front of the world.
The money now taken out by the three parties is at most two daily limit issues. This business is too cost-effective.
