Chapter 767: Friends Network (Part I)

It's almost 2013, and taking stock of the gains and losses in 2012, everything is surprisingly good.

As Zhou Shi's two major financial flagship enterprises, Galaxy Capital and Sixiang Fund have reined in their actions and slowed down the pace of expansion, which is commendable for Sixiang Fund's acquisition of Shanghai Jahwa. Galaxy Capital has basically made no moves, but its East West Bank continues to make overseas acquisitions, and Micron Technology has acquired Elpida in Japan. In particular, most of the companies under the two companies are doing well, for example, AIA has a market value of nearly US$50 billion because of its expansion into the mainland market. For example, Chery Automobile has absorbed the technology of Saab Automobile, adjusted the company's management, optimized the product structure, improved the dealer system, and achieved a substantial increase in sales. It was successfully listed in 2012 and now has a market capitalization of 50 billion soft girl coins (Geely's market value was about 30 billion in the same period). As for Spreadtrum, Licensed Semiconductor, Visionox, CSOT, and CATL, there is nothing bad about it.

Of course, it is not without failures, for example, the acquisition of IBM's chip manufacturing department by Chartered Semiconductor has failed, and some acquisitions of Guohug Nuts overseas have also ended without a hitch, not to mention the restrictions of Huaxia Zhengfu, but there have been various troubles one after another, even if Kali Fiorina is difficult to solve. Although Guoke is an international enterprise, it is still a Chinese enterprise after all.......

As the two largest technology companies, Zhou Shi positions them as technology-based consumer enterprises. They are also selling products, and there is not much difference between Guoke and companies like Procter & Gamble. It's just that the R&D cost of husk nuts is higher, the risk is greater, the profit is more, and the product cycle is longer.

As a consumer technology company, the purpose of Nutshell and Nuts is to produce technology products that satisfy the public, such as DJI drones, future virtual reality equipment and augmented reality equipment, and you can also learn from Microsoft's pretending to talk about mixed reality equipment. The mixed reality equipment with the highest technology content was naturally handed over to Guoke and Time Research Institute to cooperate, and virtual reality VR was handed over to Nut and Time Games to cooperate. So far, Zhou Shi's layout in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, VR/AR, and unmanned driving has been basically completed.

Friends.com, Weibo, and WeChat are actually competitors, and the first two use the information flow model, and they also have a direct competition with Yahoo News and Toutiao. WeChat's circle of friends can replace the dynamics of the friend network to a certain extent, and WeChat's official account has a great influence on Weibo's official account. Therefore, under the constraints of each other, the development of friends.com and Weibo will be affected, and there will be no advertising, and it will be difficult to eliminate clean and refreshing WeChat. However, since Facebook in the previous life was able to thrive, the friend network should also have room to survive. However, it is still unknown whether the existence of Renren and Kaixin will erode the living space of Friends.

Different from the friend network with internal and external troubles, the prospects of Time Holdings are much brighter. First of all, as the core, Time Android is the world's second largest mobile operating system, attached to the mobile operating system Felix, Waze map, UC browser, Time Cloud Storage, all occupy a pivotal position in the industry. Secondly, the Time Cloud Project Department is the second in the public cloud industry and the second in the NetSuite industry in the SaaS industry. Then there are the big data divisions, Whatapp, Weixin and Instagram, all of which have more than 100 million users, and Chrome and Time Music have embarked on the road to kingship. Time games are evolving so fast that it's only a matter of time to surpass Blizzard Entertainment.

In this case, he returned to Huaxia and prepared for the New Year's Eve speech, this time the speech was broadcast live on Yanjing Satellite TV, although the ratings of this kind of program are limited, but it is enough to force the grid, and it is very suitable for Yanjing Channel, which pays attention to integrity and correctness.

Zhou Shi's attendance has attracted much attention to this New Year's Eve speech, which has just been announced to be open source to MIPS, and now that he is back in Huaxia, the media has too many questions to ask him.

When he returned to Yanjing in advance, he first communicated with Lei Jun, Liu Chuanzhi and others, and considered the development of time and friends, as well as the follow-up cooperation plan between the two sides.

There is no big difference between the friends network and the previous penguins, an instant messenger, a social networking platform (QQ space), but the friends network is more open, there are more third-party applications, and the interface style is simple and simple. The source of income mainly depends on advertising, game sharing, in the past two years, the scale of the web game market has expanded rapidly, and Friends as the largest web game center in the country, there are many games developed by themselves and games developed by third parties, and the income in this area is increasing greatly every month. Of course, there are also virtual value-added services, adding virtual decorative items to your friend's homepage, etc. Moreover, the APP of Friends can also be used as a game distribution and promotion platform, which is also very advantageous on the mobile terminal. Although the number of users of the Friends APP has not reached 300 million, it has exceeded 200 million, information flow advertising, game promotion, in fact, his development is not as pessimistic as Zhou Shi thought.

In addition, Friends Network also has the second largest network platform in the country, as well as the country's largest film and television literature criticism center Time Network, Time Network has an online film festival and entertainment selection activities, after several years of fair and professional selection, such as the selection of the Four Little Flowers, the status and influence in the entertainment industry are increasing day by day. Time.com's scoring of movies and TV series adopts an intelligent screening mode, and the standards and proportions of various reference elements are in the hands of a very small number of people. Moreover, Time.com does not rely on this to make money, and is objective and fair...... Well, in fact, it's gone, the domestic cent party has been particularly serious in recent years, and there are too many phenomena of worshipping foreigners, even if the film and television scores are typical double standards. In order to promote righteousness and fight against such inappropriate behavior, this kind of phenomenon has naturally been deliberately combated.

In fact, it is difficult for an objective and fair platform to exist in the Chinese market, but with the support of the country's largest film and television companies, all this has become possible.

"Although Friends Network has great advantages, but WeChat, Weibo and other applications are attracting the attention of users, and FM (Friends Message) users and attractiveness are not as good as WeChat, how to maintain the attractiveness of Friends Network in the mobile era and time WeChat to maintain differentiated competition, is a big challenge for me. "Lei Jun

"Didn't you think about it before you made time?" Liu Chuanzhi

At first, we also wanted to avoid direct competition between the two companies, but later found that following the company's own strategy is the most beneficial choice for the long-term cooperation between the two companies. "Lei Jun

"That is to say, when competing, don't consider each other, and consider when cooperating!" Liu Chuanzhi asked after a little thought

"The competition between us must be a healthy competition, cooperation has a certain degree of compulsion, and each other is the core partner of the other party......" Lei Jun

"That's right, this point will not change in 5 years...... Zhou Shi added, and there are not many places where time and friends collide.

"Then the future direction of friends is social networking, what about artificial intelligence?" Liu Chuanzhi

"This should be considered according to the specific operation of the company, and now it will involve the field of artificial intelligence, but this has little to do with time, and everyone's application direction is different!"

"The director who was sent to the friend network at that time ......" Liu Chuanzhi