In the past few days, the matter of winning the agency of "World of Warcraft" in the Internet industry has quietly spread, and now everyone has acquiesced to the news, only a default official announcement is missing.

$12 million in agency fees, millions of dollars in promotion fees, and a 17% profit share. This is the most expensive game ever to represent in China. Some people gloat and want to see Yoyo Network as an upstart company suffer Waterloo, while others worry that World of Warcraft will change the landscape of online games, and Yoyo Web will change the landscape of the Internet industry.

Many portals in the game section also imply that Yoyo Network is a big gamble and puts the company's future on this game. Just like the former Shanda and Nine Cities, they put all their bets on "Legend of Blood" and "Miracle MU", they succeeded, and what will be the fate of Yoyo Network?

All of a sudden, people in the industry had different opinions and expressed their opinions. All this, Liu Yun, who was in the center of the storm, didn't care at all, he knew the bottom of his heart better than anyone else.

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On the 16th floor of Zhonglang Building, Yoyo Network only rented the south side, plus the entire 15th floor. Now that it has won the game agency, the company's expansion is an inevitable choice. Liu Yun rented the seventeenth floor again. He looked at the expanding company in his hands, and he felt a full sense of accomplishment in his heart, but he felt a little weird when he looked at the layout in his heart.

It turned out that the company rented the entire fifteenth and seventeenth floors, but only half of the sixteenth floor was rented to give Liu Yun such an illusion. On the north side of the sixteenth floor is a construction and renovation company, and Liu Yueru and the company's boss, Xie Zhaohui, have brief but effective negotiations.

In the end, Yoyo Network asked the company to take care of the 17-story renovation as a replacement condition, and let them move out of here and find another office building for rent. Since then, Yoyo Network has rented the entire 15th to 17th floors of the Zhonglang Building.

Liu Yueru leaned back in a chair and said, "I originally meant to compensate him for half a year's rent and let him move out." However, this boss is worthy of being a businessman, and his brain is also flexible, and he proposed the replacement conditions for the decoration of the seventeenth floor. ”

Liu Yun thought for a while and said: "How can the rent for half a year be as much as the decoration of the entire seventeen floors, but the quality must be strictly controlled, and there must be no mistakes." ”

Liu Yueru said very confidently: "Don't worry, this boss is a smart person, and if he has done a good job in this decoration, he will have the possibility of continuing to do business in the future." ”

She said that she couldn't help but have a trance feeling in her heart, most of the year ago, the company was still very small, only a few Miao Miao, but now like this 400-square-meter office building, Youyou Network has rented three floors. The company has expanded far faster than she could have imagined.

Liu Yun was silent for a while and asked, "What is the company's financial situation now?"

Liu Yueru flipped through the documents and read: "I know you will ask, I have been prepared." The company currently has 8 million US dollars, which is the money given by Baidu to acquire half of the equity of hao123, and there are 12 million yuan in the account, which is the advertising cost of Youyou.com and hao123, and the next 50,000 Baidu shares. According to our contract with Baidu, half of all advertising revenue from hao123 will belong to Baidu starting in May. ”

Liu Yun nodded and said, "This is as it should be." ”

Liu Yueru hesitated for a moment and asked: "There are still nearly 2 months before the contract for World of Warcraft is signed, and there is still at least a year before the game's open beta is conservatively estimated, do you have any new goals in this year?"

Liu Yueru's words made Liu Yun fall into deep thought. Since he initialed the agreement with Blizzard, he has also thought about this question, what is his next goal. This year is a short time, but it is enough for Huaxia's Internet industry to undergo earth-shaking changes.

In this industry, new companies are established every month, and old ones go bankrupt. This is the case with the Internet industry, which is ever-changing and unpredictable.

Liu Yun realized that he had a traffic weapon like hao123 in his hand, had the right to operate it for three years, and had the full assistance of Baidu behind him, and he should use these to do something.

He took a pen and wrote a few English fonts "IE" on the paper, and said: "I used to think it was not the right time, because I wanted to sell hao123 to Baidu at the greatest value." Now that the money is in hand, I feel like I can take the next step. Sister, don't you think that the computer system has a lot of problems with its own browser?"

Liu Yueru raised her eyebrows and said, "You mean Internet Explorer? There are a lot of problems, do you want to make a browser?"

Liu Yun nodded, picked up the phone in the office and called Liu Shihua, the director of the technical department, to the office.

After seeing Liu Shihua sit down, Liu Yun opened his mouth and said: "I am going to develop a browser and put it into the market, do you think there will be any technical difficulties?"

Liu Shihua was silent for a moment and replied: "At present, the browser on the market is Google, in addition to the computer system with IE. Developing a new browser is a bit of a technical challenge and a lot of investment. ”

Liu Yun smiled and said, "Brand new browser? I don't have such an idea. I'm going to develop a browser that will use IE or Google as the core. To be precise, it can be an enhanced version of IE, which has faster internet speeds and more convenient Internet access. ”

Liu Shihua's eyes lit up and said: "This is a good idea, which reduces the cost and cycle of research and development." ”

Liu Yun said: "In my opinion, the two browsers on the market are not suitable for the Internet habits of Chinese netizens. The prospects of this market are very broad. ”

He drew on the white paper with a pen and said: "The browser I plan to develop is going to use IE and Google's dual cores at the same time, and we can set up two browsing modes, compatibility mode and speed mode." Among them, the compatibility mode can correspond to the IE kernel, and the speed mode can correspond to the Google mode. ”

Liu Shihua, as a former senior programmer of Sohu, quickly understood what Liu Yun meant, and said: "Some specific websites can only be logged in with IE, and the Internet speed of Google Chrome is even faster. Our newly developed browser has the advantages of both browsers if it uses dual cores. ”

The browser mode in Liu Yun's mouth is the 360 browser that will be popular in later generations and occupy the absolute leading position in the Chinese browser market in later generations. After the advent of the 360 browser, QQ browser and Sogou browser have also adopted this dual-core model to seize the market without exception.

Although the marketing model of 360 in later generations has been criticized, the market share will not lie. But he also knows a truth, the early bird gets the worm. He used the idea of a browser in advance, and he might send ideas to 360, and maybe even make a wedding dress for others.

But Liu Yun also had to take risks, 123 is the hole card in his hand, and the Baidu company behind it.