360 Antivirus is currently tasked with creating security defenses for PayPal and Williams online banking. As for 360 Antivirus's own products, they can be developed in the future. In addition, Henry has issued a formal acquisition request for McAfee.

McAfe was founded in 1987 and is also located in California. In three years, the performance has been outstanding. However, today's antivirus software is generally made into CD-ROMs for sale, and due to the limited channels and expensive prices, antivirus software CDs can't actually sell much! 100,000 CDs can be sold a year, and the results are already very good!

A hundred dollars for a disc is ten million dollars. Excluding channel shares, costs and expenses, McAfe makes less than $4 million a year!

Henry valued his company and gave a valuation of $50 million!!

In the previous life, in 2010, Intel, the world's largest chip manufacturer, spent 76. $800 million to acquire it. Henry thinks that taking over McAfe as soon as possible is a surefire business! Not only that, but it can also consolidate his strength!

McAfe has agreed to Henry's acquisition request, and the two parties are interested in entering the negotiation phase.

No way, money touches people's hearts.

McAfee makes less than $4 million a year, and with the rise of the Internet, CDs are getting harder to sell. Everyone copied and copied, and even piracy appeared on the Internet. As a result, McAfee's performance began to decline. And at this moment, someone was willing to pay a high price of 50 million US dollars to buy it, as the company's major shareholders, there is no doubt that they are excited!

Subsequently, Henry sent someone to contact McAfee.

In order to suppress and force McAfee to agree to be acquired as soon as possible, under Henry's instructions, there are more and more pirated software of McAfee on the Internet, which makes the sales of McAfee antivirus software discs plummet!

In a week, McAfee antivirus discs sold just 100 copies in the U.S., whereas in the past, at least 1,000 were sold.

The entire McAfee company was hit by this data, and the company immediately launched an investigation, and finally found that McAfee antivirus software was present on various pirated download sites on the Internet. Isearch searches for antiviruses, and then there's a row of pirated websites that download McAfee software. Nima, the people from McAfee saw this, and their hearts suddenly cooled a lot!

However, misfortune does not come alone. Newspapers, television, and the Internet are all singing about McAfee, believing that anti-virus technology is not good, anti-virus is not clean, and it is useless!!

This time, it's like pouring salt on the wound!

Henry, as a master of salt sprinkling, did not hesitate to spend money to buy many bags of salt. How can McAfee resist?

Under the internal and external troubles, McAfee was forced to comply!!

In fact, the people at McAfee naturally realized that someone was deliberately trying to suppress them. Just after Henry launched the takeover, so many things happened, how could it be so coincidental??? however, they were weak and weak, and they couldn't afford to wrestle with the super tycoon, plus Henry's price was very fair, and the major shareholders of McAfee held a meeting and finally decided to sell the company!

After two weeks of negotiations, the blitzkrieg generally took over McAfee.

Subsequently, Henry merged 360 Antivirus with McAfee. Dilution of shares, that's a must. As a capitalist, you must learn this skill! Even if you are given 40% of the shares, you will eventually be diluted to 10%!! but Eugene Kaspersky's shares are only 1%, and Henry is very generous to only dilute his shares to 0. 5%, and the option bonus can only get 2. In fact, McAfee's market capitalization is $50 million, 360 Antivirus is only $10 million, and Eugene Kaspersky's stake should have dropped to zero. 167%, and the option reward will also be reduced by 6 times!

But Henry is worried that he will give him too few shares, and it will be bad to do things and grind foreign workers!

And this time, Henry merged the two companies without diluting his shares to a corresponding degree. This undoubtedly shows that Henry attaches great importance to him, and Eugene Kaspersky was almost moved to tears! Eugene Kaspersky is very grateful to Henry for the death of his confidant, and even if someone spends a lot of money to poach someone, he will never change jobs!!

Henry also found that Eugene Kaspersky had a growing respect for him. It seems that buying people's hearts is also a lesson that must be learned!

After the merger of the two companies, the name is 360 McAfee (called 360 Antivirus, I'm afraid of being harmonized...... ), Eugene Kaspersky is the company's CEO and CTO.

After the McAfee company was acquired, the newly merged company had the redundant manpower to develop its own antivirus software. McAfee only sells antivirus software CDs, and that's clearly a failure.

Free is king!

Internet antivirus client is the key to dominance!

What is the profit of selling CDs?

Henry's first order to buy McAfee was to cancel the sale of CDs and instead develop an antivirus client!

Henry called Eugene Kaspersky to his office, "Eugene Kaspersky, you are going to make an antivirus client for users to download and use." And the client has to be free!!"

When Eugene Kaspersky heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, looked at Henry, and hesitated: "Mr. Williams, you said it's free?!" If the software client is free, how can the company make money? Eugene Kaspersky was puzzled.

"Yes, it's completely free, and our antivirus client doesn't charge users a penny!! you know, in the age of the Internet, traffic is the most important. And free can bring a huge amount of traffic to our antivirus client. After that, we can open various value-added services to make money. Henry explained briefly.

Eugene Kaspersky thought about it, and it seemed to make sense.

"Okay, then I'll arrange for someone to develop the client immediately!"

Henry nodded, "You go." By the way, the security detection program of online banking and PayPal has also been added to the client to ensure the safety of users' online property!"

"No problem!"

After Eugene Kaspersky left, Henry asked about the Everyday Music Company.

The daily music client has been officially launched on November 1st, the client is hung in the ICQ chat software, and users can open it by clicking on it. Also, www. mp3。 com website has a separate daily music client download option to provide download! After the daily music client was launched, it ushered in a download frenzy. In particular, ICQ has promoted it, and the huge traffic has made the daily music client have exceeded 100,000 downloads in just one week!

Everyday Music quickly became a hit and became the go-to player for playing music!

Because Tiantian Music has the largest music library, users can listen to music online. At the time, how awesome this function was!! other music players were still just players, and every day music was already tall, play online auditions!

However, there is one thing that Henry did not expect, and that is www. mp3。 The number of song downloads on the com website and the daily music client is not satisfactory.

On the one hand, it is because of the inconvenience of recharging music coins, and on the other hand, most users choose to listen to it instead of downloading music. Think about it, too, if you have an Internet, online audition is enough, why download it......

Therefore, after users spent all their music coins, the number of downloads of songs fell to the bottom in vain!

The major record companies in the United States have not seen that Tiantian Music Company has created benefits for themselves, but have caused huge losses! One by one, they only listen to it and don't download it, how can they play it?

Since everyone auditioned for music online, the physical records of the record company did not sell well, and they could not make money on the Internet. As a result, major records have protested and asked Tiantian Music to ban the audition function. Henry thought about it for a moment and turned down the record label's request. When online banking has not yet developed, users will not spend money to recharge music coins, and if the audition is banned, it is equivalent to self-destruction of the city wall and the loss of a large number of users......

In the end, the major record companies felt that they had been cheated, and they couldn't help but terminate their contracts one after another, and the previous licensed songs were regarded as "paying tuition", and then they stopped licensing the latest record songs to Tiantian Music Company!!

When Henry heard the news, his head went big.

Damn, you don't talk about credit!!

Wait for my brother's MP3 to go on the market, you can make money!!! (ask for recommendation and collection!! author Jun has built a book friend group: 424930141, welcome everyone to join...... ）