Chapter 477: Forced Transformation (Third Update)
Tina Gates then made a takeover offer for Page Game Workshop on behalf of Facebook, offering to buy it wholly for $30 million.
What I didn't expect was that this acquisition was unusually easy, but the other party said that the page game workshop has the right to develop the game independently.
So, within three days, Facebook completed the acquisition of the page game workshop.
On the fourth day, Facebook and Web Game Workshop held a joint press conference.
This time, William, Tina, and the CEO of the Page Game Workshop appeared at the press conference. This is William and Tina's media debut as founders of Facebook.
In William's opinion, Facebook has succeeded, and he has proven himself to be able to appear in front of the media. At this time, people only pay attention to Facebook, and no one pays attention to the FaceToFace website anymore.
On the morning of June 5th, it was as clear as a wash.
The entrance to Facebook's corporate headquarters was bustling.
And when William and Tina appeared at the press conference, everyone was amazed.
When William walked up to the stage to introduce himself as the founder of Facebook, everyone was dumbfounded.
“Chronos· Li's son turned out to be the founder of Facebook????"
"Sure enough, the tiger father has no dog!"
At this moment, the flash flashed non-stop in the audience, William smiled slightly, faced the camera, and said loudly: "Welcome everyone to Facebook's press conference, today I will announce two things, the first thing is that Facebook spent a huge $30 million to acquire the game development company of "Happy Farm" Web Game Workshop!"
As soon as the words fell, the audience was in an uproar. Obviously, everyone was very surprised by Facebook's acquisition of the page game workshop, but at the same time, it is also very understandable that "Happy Farm" is so popular and has helped Facebook a lot.
William continued: "Quiet everyone, the second thing I want to say is that as of today, Facebook no longer restricts whether a registered user is a college student or a high school student. Facebook will open up !! to netizens around the world"
This news is even more shocking than the previous one.
There are quite a few people in the audience who are engaged in the Internet industry, and they know very well what it means for Facebook to develop into global netizens! This means that the number of Facebook users will skyrocket, and Facebook will also become one of the Internet giants!
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After the Facebook press conference, the content of the press conference immediately went viral on Weibo and Facebook.
Tens of thousands of netizens began to sign up for Facebook accounts.
Celebrities have already felt the benefits of the Internet on Weibo, and now there is a popular SNS social networking site, and these celebrities are naturally rushing to join.
"Happy Farm" is one of Facebook's most popular products, and celebrities have also begun to play "Happy Farm" without doing their jobs.
Stephen Chow: "There was once a ripe vegetable in front of me and I didn't collect it, until it was stolen, I regretted it, and there is nothing more painful in the world than this." If Heaven could give me another chance, I would say three words to the vegetable thief: 'Die!'"
Jay Chou: "Ouch, yes, I stole a lot!"
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Fans couldn't help but be surprised to see so many celebrities having fun.
"I'll it, the stars really know how to play!!"
"Hehe, I'll steal their food at night!"
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At this moment, Mark Zuckerberg was very sour and helpless, and when he started his business, he met Chronos· Li's son, he is simply unlucky!FaceToFace's failure is not a crime of war, but a competitor who is too strong!
"Zuckerberg, I'm afraid FaceToFace can't survive, you want to transform!" said a moment later, an executive director of DFJ called.
"Transformation, how should it be transformed?" said Mark Zuckerberg.
But at the moment, it seems that there is only one way to go through transformation, otherwise if it continues like this, FaceToFace will definitely go bankrupt and go bankrupt!
After thinking about it all night, Mark Zuckerberg still didn't come up with any good ideas, he turned on his computer and bored through the news, trying to find some inspiration.
"Skype VoIP?!"
Suddenly, Mark Zuckerberg thought of an idea, his eyes bloomed with a strange look, and muttered: "Maybe this idea can work!! FaceToFace can be transformed into a video voice VoIP software, with the functions required by IM, such as video chat, multi-person voice conference, multi-person chat, file transfer, text chat and other functions." It can also have high-definition voice conversations with other users, and can also make domestic and international calls, whether it is a fixed phone or a mobile phone, it can be dialed directly, and it can realize call forwarding, SMS sending and other functions!!"
Mark Zuckerberg suddenly became excited, and hurriedly called Norman Virginia, CEO of DFJ.
"Oh shit, it's only a quarter past 4 in the morning, Mark Zuckerberg, you'd better have good news for me!" Norman Virginia scolded, FaceToFace's failure, Norman Virginia put most of the blame on Mark Zuckerberg, very unhappy with him.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about Norman Virginia's attitude, as long as DFJ can continue to invest in FaceToFace.
"Mr. Virginia, I've thought about how FaceToFace should be transformed!"
When Norman Virginia heard this, his spirit was shocked, his sleepiness was half gone, and he hurriedly asked, "How do you want to transform?!"
"FaceToFace can be transformed into a video-voice VoIP software...... Mark Zuckerberg immediately began to introduce Norman Virginia in detail the development direction of the transformation.
After listening to this, Norman Virginia pondered for a while, and finally said: "Okay! Then I will give you another chance, and I will persuade the board of directors of DFJ to continue to support FaceToFace!"
Mark Zuckerberg was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Virginia, then I'll hang up the phone and don't disturb your sleep!"
"Hmm. ”
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Li Zetian didn't know that FaceToFace had decided to transform into a product similar to Skype, which would make Li Zetian very depressed. As Michael Poell, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, put it, "When I downloaded Skype, I realized that the days of traditional communications were over, and that you could use it to talk to anyone for free, and the call quality was excellent." The world will inevitably change. ”
And Li Zetian's Sprint Telecom Company is precisely the representative of the "traditional communication era", making money by collecting phone bills!
But in any case, VoIP is the trend of the times, and many people will use traffic to send voice and video in the future, which will cause countless telecom companies to decline in revenue and suffer heavy losses.
The showdown between Facebook and FaceToFace is basically settled, and Li Zetian is also a lot relieved, after all, Facebook is still very important.
At the end of this month, World of Warcraft was officially released in China.
Ma Huateng called to tell Li Zetian, but at the same time there was bad news.
"Shanda Group sues Tencent for plagiarism?!" Li Zetian smiled bitterly, knowing that putting Ma Huateng in the position of the head of Tencent's game would be problematic.
PS: Three more today, one more owed, tomorrow, well, there will be a big outbreak~~~