Chapter 111: Bait and Cooperation

"At about 9 p.m. on May 6, a man surnamed Du and a woman surnamed Jiang checked in at the Royal Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai with Chinese passports, and at about 10:45, the woman surnamed Jiang bribed the hotel waiter with cash to obtain Miss Teresa Teng's room number and daily living information......"

"According to the doctors in the emergency room, when Miss Teresa Teng was sent to the hospital, her body was already extremely weak and had a variety of complications, most likely poisoning, not asthma ......"

"The top level of Beijing was worried that Teresa Teng's influence was too great and seriously shook the morale of the army, so they sent elite agents to Thailand to assassinate her in order to intimidate the Taiwanese people......"

It seems that you have to eat a tea egg at noon to suppress the shock!

No, I'm so shocked, I have to eat two!

With a playful smile on his face, Du Qiu listened to Zhou Yuan read the news in several newspapers, and said: "It's not strange, it's self-defeating, don't pay attention to these unscrupulous reports." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"Mr. Du, now it is rumored that President Clinton intends to approve Li ****'s visit to the United States at the end of May, and the situation in the Taiwan Strait is very tense, and if it is not clarified, it may cause greater misunderstanding. ā€

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, what's the matter, I'm not a politician. Du Qiu took a paper clip, poked it a few times on the computer table, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said: "Zhou Yuan, have you ever raised a goldfish? Goldfish have a very low IQ, just throw something into the water, they will come over and rob it crazy, these media in Taiwan are goldfish, and they are the stupidest kind, why don't you throw some bait out, let them swim a little happier, let's watch the show." ā€

"What bait?"

"Isn't my ID on the Internet called UN2758?" Du Qiu was ambitious at the beginning, using the number of the historic resolution of the United Nations as the ID, but he didn't expect to be able to use it to hype up at this time, so he couldn't help laughing and said: " Taiwan's group of idiots probably don't pay much attention to the Internet, and after they find out my identity, you use the historical background of this ID as a reference, make up some passionate and patriotic quotations, and use them to stimulate the glass hearts of Taiwanese people, I estimate that they will collectively climax, criticize and write, make trouble in the city, and help the company do publicity for free. ā€

Zhou Yuan is very open-minded, not as conservative and upright as traditional media people, and is not worried about hurting the fragile and cheap feelings of the Taiwan people, and praises: "Mr. Du, there is really you!"

"What is Mr. Chen busy with these days?"

"He's gone to Virginia, and he's going to move AOL to make iView the client's default browser. ā€

Yo, Fat Chen, the CEO, is becoming more and more handy......

AOL is the English abbreviation of AOL, which is the world's first Internet company with a market value of more than $100 billion, but that was in 2000, in 1995, it was only a medium-sized company, ranking third among Internet service providers in the United States, not too strong, but with great potential.

Before Microsoft bundled IE to the operating system, ordinary users didn't know how to surf the Internet, so Internet service providers sold modem, they would pre-install browsers for customers, AOL was the biggest one in the Internet bubble at the end of the 20th century, there were millions of users in 1994, and there were tens of millions of users in 1999.

"What browser did AOL use before?"

"It's a product they acquired last year, called Booklink, and the technology is relatively poor, not only is it far inferior to us, but it can't even compare to Netscape. ā€

"What's going on with Netscape?"

Mr. Chen said that they have acquired several technology-based companies in a row, gathered the best programmers in them, and are developing a new browser. Zhou Yuan was a little worried about this and said, "Mr. Du, why don't you come to the United States to see it in person?"

"Let's talk about it after a while, as long as Netscape is still charging, there is no need to worry about them. Du Qiu was more worried about Microsoft than Netscape, so he asked, "What's the latest news about Microsoft?"

"It is said that Microsoft has integrated a software called MSN in the upcoming release of Windows95 to provide Internet access services to ordinary users, and AOL is ready to join other companies to sue Microsoft for monopoly, and Mr. Chen saw this news before going to them to cooperate. Zhou Yuan is not a computer professional, and he has not yet figured out the business rules of the Internet, so he doesn't understand it, and says: "Windows95 has not been listed yet, and it has been sued for monopoly, and Microsoft is really a big move." ā€

That's because you don't know the power of the operating system, AOL was founded in 1985 and only had 1 million users in 1994, while MSN was founded in 1995 and had 1 million users in 1996......

If it weren't for AOL's CEO, Steve Case, who abandoned Netscape in early 1996 and reached a partnership agreement with Microsoft, AOL would have been greatly damaged by MSN's vitality......

But if you think about it this way, AOL's big thick legs don't seem to be very reliable, ICQ, Winamp and other famous products were killed by AOL, Du Qiu then reminded: "Let Mr. Chen run around HP, Dell, these computer companies, to see if they are willing to pre-install the iView browser at the factory." ā€

"Mr. Chen already has plans for this. ā€

Du Qiu sighed and asked again, "How is the advertisement of icard?"

"At present, more than a dozen have been negotiated, all of which are small companies testing the waters, signing contracts on a monthly basis, and the contract price is discounted by 20......" Zhou Yuan said this, suddenly sighed, his voice was raised a lot, and he said excitedly: "Mr. Du, Mr. Chen just sent an email to say that he had reached a cooperation agreement with AOL, and he also heard Aol's CEO Steve Keys say that Microsoft wants to buy our company, which is really a good thing!"

Yo, that's a good thing......

Fat Chen did a good job!

In fact, Chen Dayou can no longer be called fat, his weight has dropped to about 70 kilograms, the fat on his cheeks and the fat on his abdomen have disappeared, and the whole person looks energetic and high-spirited, without a trace of the bear that pretended to be dead in the Institute of Quantum Physics a few months ago.

Can you not be high-spirited?

Du Qiu's skills are amazing, but can he seize the opportunity like me, talk and laugh with the famous Steve Case, and easily reach a cooperation agreement......

Steve Keys was one of the hottest business leaders in the United States in the 90s, under his leadership, not only the number of users grew rapidly, but the market value also skyrocketed year after year, which was very popular with Wall Street and major media, more dazzling than Netscape's Mark Anderson, and had a higher influence in the IT industry.

If you use an analogy, Snapdragon Software is only equivalent to a small workshop for shooting online videos, Chen Dayou is a fledgling actor, AOL is equivalent to a large film company like DreamWorks, Steve Keys is a popular superstar, the difference in status between the two sides can not be calculated, single-handedly ran to someone else's house, and it took less than an hour to reach a cooperation agreement, which is indeed a proud and proud initiative.

However, Chen Dayou was not flustered, and after discussing cooperation with AOL, he immediately rushed back to San Jose the next day to prepare for contact with Microsoft in advance.

The news of Microsoft's intention to acquire Snapdragon was said by Steve Keys himself, and the reason why he was told was because AOL was willing to pre-install the iView browser on the premise that Snapdragon could never be acquired by Microsoft!

As early as 1993, Microsoft intended to buy AOL with a market value of just over $100 million, which was a very lucrative offer, but was rejected by the board of directors at the last minute, when Bill Gates once said: I can buy 20% of your shares, or I can buy all of them, or I can do this market myself, and you will only have to wait for the fate of being buried.

AOL's market value is only a few tenths of Microsoft's, and it is not a competitor at all, so Steve Keys has a great hostility and sense of crisis towards it, and now the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, Microsoft wants to bundle MSN in the upcoming Windows95, AOL must find as many partners as possible to keep warm in order to fight this behemoth.

This is also the reason why Chen Dayou took the initiative to cooperate with AOL, because he saw the reality of AOL's external strength from the news that Steve Keys was connected everywhere, and even did not hesitate to cooperate with competitors and collectively accused Microsoft of monopoly.