Time Holdings' fame in Silicon Valley is growing, and this technology company, which has not been listed, raised or given shares to employees, is blooming with a different style.

Time's Android system is the most popular mobile operating system after Google's Android, and the user scale far exceeds Apple's IOS. If IOS is a closed operating system, Google Android is an open operating system, then Time Android is a semi-closed and semi-open operating system (don't ask me how to open and how to close, I don't know!, just when its operation authority is not open to a high degree and similar to the later Google Android, it is not allowed to install the third application! Of course, you can still install it if you find a way to jailbreak. ）

In addition to Time Android, a mobile operating system, the most famous should be Time Chrome browser and his open-source chromium engine. Similar to Google, Chrome is ready to abandon Webkit, an open-source rendering engine dominated by Apple, and develop its own browser typesetting engine, Blink, because of Apple's relationship. These details are not of concern to users, but Chrome's market share has reached 33% (this data source is not the same as the results are, some say that IE is 57%, here according to StatCounter to choose a more beneficial data for Chrome.) IE is slightly lower than Chrome, firefox is in third place, then Apple's Safari and Opera, and Google's Webview browser can only be counted as the other.

This is not the most important, we have long expected this result, the important thing is the development of the mobile Internet, time through pre-installation and other means, in the world almost all the big brands of mobile phones pre-installed Whatapp and Wechat two instant messaging software, finally showed the status of the king. After the two sides exceeded 100 million users at the beginning of the year, they increased by more than 100 million users in half a year. Among them, Whatapp has 230 million by July 1, and Wechat has 250 million users. Because the composition of the two teams is different, the Whatapp team is in Silicon Valley, and the Wechat team is in mainland China, so their advantageous areas are also different. Whatapp users are mainly concentrated in Europe, America, South America, Africa, South Asia and other places, while Wechat is mainly concentrated in China and East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Russia and other countries. Of course, they are all facing users around the world, and they are intertwined with each other. However, because Huaxia's firewall is particularly powerful, Whatapp did not focus on China, while Wechat operated domestic and foreign apps separately.

The other is Yahoo Messenger, which will soon hit the scale of 200 million users by virtue of the advantages of the world's first instant messaging tool before. His users are mainly concentrated in Europe, America and the Asia-Pacific region. Then, there will be no products in the world that can compete with them. Perhaps after the integration of FF, if they fully promote their FM instant messenger, they can make a big difference, but for now, the three strong in this market have established their respective advantages. Oh, and forget that a Snapchat that burns after reading is attracting more and more young people to join the app. However, it will not threaten the status of time in a short period of time.

Time also has a picture social tool, that is, Instagram, and the number of users is almost 100 million, so that time has more than 500 million users. Although there are many overlaps, the gathering of so many users in such a short period of time still shocked the entire Silicon Valley. When an app has more than 200 million users, there will be even more in the future, although there is no possibility of making a profit at present, but in the future, is this another Google, Facebook is on the rise? Oh, no, it should be said that there are also the world's largest streaming music app Time Music and the Waze crowdsourced map second only to Google Maps, as well as the world's most popular browser, Chrome, the most data-efficient UC browser.

"If you don't look at it, you don't know that Time Holdings, a quietly rising Internet giant, is changing everything for us. "Someone said

"How could they be so powerful and launch so many popular apps at the same time......"

"Time, a giant that rose at the same time as Facebook and Friends!"

"There's something else we don't know!"

"I've used almost all of their apps, and it's hard to get rid of!"

"He's taken control of my life......."

"Yahoo acquired a headline from Time!"

The sudden popularity of Time Holdings did not expect that Zhou Shi, Lei Jun and others would inevitably have slander and suspicion along with praise. Time Holdings is a Chinese company, and although it has established a second headquarters in Silicon Valley, it is indeed a Chinese company.

"Oh my God, the founder of this company is Zhou Shi!" someone seemed to suddenly notice

Zhou Shi founded Time, which is a fact that has not been concealed and promoted.

So the news of Zhou Shi's acquisition of Baidai Music had just been released, and it was immediately covered up by the news that he was the founder of Time Holdings. Fortunately, many people have tacitly covered up the news that Zhou Shi is the boss of the two major funds of Galaxy Sixiang, if this kind of news is released, it will be too exaggerated, and it will almost completely subvert the concept of human wealth. You must know that all of Zhou Shi's industries combined, but he controls more than 200 billion US dollars of high-tech and financial enterprises.

"I am indeed the founder of Time, and I decided to do many things in the early stages of its development, such as establishing a dual-headquarters model, and establishing two independent and cooperative enterprises in China and the United States. On the one hand, it is to respond to the different regulatory and privacy requirements of various countries, and on the other hand, it is to better understand the world and serve the vast majority of people in this world. I believe that two enterprises and products that maintain healthy competition and have their own characteristics will learn from each other and learn from each other's lessons and lessons will have a good role in promoting.

Time has little to do with me, my financial resources and energy are limited, although with the help of the world's best Internet game companies, Time is still very short of money and talents, which I can't solve. Zhou Shi explained to reporters

"Do you still have a stake in Time?" the reporter asked

"I personally have it, but there aren't many of them anymore. "Zhou Shi

"How many?" journalists

"Within ten percent, it's inconvenient to disclose the specifics!" Zhou Shi

"How will the future of time develop? How to ensure the privacy and security of users, and will the Huaxia government require you to disclose user information?"

"Time will be acquired by me in the future!" Zhou Shi said, looking at the stunned reporter Zhou Shi hurriedly said: "Then I also need to have this capital, and I also need the consent of their management, the current time is Lei Jun's decision, you ask me, I don't know." As for the protection of user privacy, we have considered it at the beginning, otherwise we will not set up a dual headquarters system, the domestic time and foreign time have an equity relationship, but the management is relatively independent, we cannot deliberately violate the laws of the country, rather than in this case also worry about the privacy and security of the time, it is better to worry about the privacy and security of the Internet world, we are no different from Google, FF. The latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legendary Claw Book House" is free to read for the first time.