Chapter 215: The Storm Rises
Xu Qing sat on the sofa in the villa and listened to Brooke's report.
"Boss, yesterday and today IDG President Paul went to AOL and talked to AOL President Case for a long time. ”
"Do you know what they're talking about?" asked Xu Qing.
Brooke shook his head, "We can only know that Paul and Keith met twice and for how long, but we can't know what they talked about, they met in Keith's office, and it was only Keith and Paul." ”
Xu Qing was not disappointed, as a newly rising company, it was already good to know this information.
For more than a year, Xu Qing has spent a lot of effort in collecting information about his opponent, and he can know some information about his opponent in time.
Of course, the importance of this information is relatively low, and those information with a high degree of importance are not yet known to Xu Qing.
"Is there any change between AOL and IDG now?" asked Xu Qing.
"Not yet, by the way, the community website that AOL is developing is still more than a month away. Brooke said.
Xu Qing has long known that the information on AOL's development community website is to wait and see what happens.
In the future, more and more companies will definitely develop community websites, and there may even be community websites with better functions than future communities.
However, there are also a lot of big killer features in the future community that have not been launched, in order to deal with those community websites.
AOL is strong, and the community website developed should not be too bad, and now IDG's president Paul and AOL's president Paul have met twice.
The first time they met was the day after Xu Qing refused to be acquired by IDG, and if the reason for their meeting was not because of Xu Qing, then Xu Qing was an idiot.
IDG is a venture capital company, and there are no Internet products for the public, and if they want to retaliate against Xu Qing, then they need to use other Internet companies.
AOL is a good choice, before he had a feud with Xu Qing, and now IDG is also at odds with Xu Qing, both of them have an enmity with Xu Qing, and it is not surprising that they will jointly retaliate against Xu Qing.
IDG's network in the IT community is huge, and AOL is likely to use IDG's network to speed up the development of the community network, and even add better features.
Thinking of this, Xu Qing said to Brooke: "You are staring at the information of AOL community website development with all your might, and I suspect that Paul and Keith are probably talking about community website development when they meet."
They may launch a powerful community website and the future community to grab market share, both of which are strong and should not be underestimated!"
Brooke's expression was serious, and he also knew the seriousness of the matter, and the real test of the future community was coming.
This test is far more serious than the last 59 account incident, if you are not careful, the future community will lose the leading position on the community website, or even more serious.
"Are those new features of the Future community ready?" asked Xu Qing.
"It's ready to go live. Brooke replied.
"These new features will be put in place first, and will be rolled out according to the situation after the launch of AOL's community website. Xu Qing said.
Brooke left Xu Qing's villa, Xu Qing came to the bedroom on the second floor, turned on the computer, wrote something on the document, and after more than an hour, Xu Qing turned off the computer.
Time passed quickly, and AOL's community website development was completed 21 days earlier than originally planned due to some of the top talents and companies invited by IDG.
It was still Case's office, and Paul was sitting on the couch drinking coffee and chatting with Case, and the two of them were in a good mood.
"Mr. Paul, the AOL community website was developed so many days ahead of schedule, and the top talents and companies you invited made a big difference, thank you very much. Keith said happily.
Paul waved his hand: "AOL and IDG are allies now, and it is right to help each other, no need to say any thanks." Although Paul said this, the smugness on the corners of his mouth was still obvious.
In addition to the fact that the top talents and companies invited by IDG to AOL this time are indeed to complete the development of the AOL community website in advance, another important reason is to show AOL the relationship network of IDG in the IT circle.
Paul has always been very greedy for AOL's shares, but Case will not give shares to others easily, and Paul wants to take advantage of this cooperation to see if he can buy some AOL shares.
"Has the invitation been sent?" asked Paul.
"This morning, invitations have been sent to major media outlets in the United States, and this time I am going to hold a press conference that will shock the whole country. Keith waved his hand violently.
Xu Qing's future community did not hold a press conference when it was released, but only witnessed the release in the company.
However, the AOL community website will hold a press conference for this release, at which AOL will release the community website, and then the media will broadcast the launch of the AOL community website live.
The duration of the press conference is 3 and a half hours, of which half an hour introduces the functions of the AOL community website to the media, and the remaining 3 hours live broadcast the launch of the AOL community website.
According to Case, the number of registrations within 3 hours after the launch of the future community website is about 320,000, and the number of registrations in the 3 hours after the launch of the AOL community website will exceed that of the future community.
Case has set a small goal, 400,000 registrations, and if this number of registrations can be completed, it will be a very significant blow to the future community.
In order to ensure that this plan is foolproof, Keith has also prepared some unspeakable means.
Paul clapped his hands and said, "Very good, I will lead all the senior management of IDG to attend the press conference at that time, and I hope this press conference will give the future community a fatal blow." ”
"Definitely, you've also used the AOL community, and it's only better than the future community. Keith said confidently.
Paul nodded approvingly, the AOL community was developed yesterday morning, and then Paul tried out the AOL community in the afternoon.
Paul tried it out for an afternoon and compared the future community, and felt that the AOL community was more powerful than the future community, so Paul was also very confident in the upcoming conference.
Today, many media outlets in the United States have received invitations that say AOL invites you to witness the birth of the most powerful community website in history.
The media who received the invitation were very excited, and with their keen sense of news, they knew that there would be big news about this AOL community launch.
And these days AOL has invested tens of millions of dollars to promote the AOL community, and many of these media outlets have advertised for AOL.
Tens of millions of dollars in publicity expenses, in the current Internet industry, few companies have such a large amount of money, and even most of the company's assets do not have tens of millions of dollars!
These media also heard that IDG also contributed to the development of the AOL community, and IDG helped because Xu Qing rejected IDG's acquisition of Future.
Xu Qing, future company, AOL, IDG, usually each of them can become news when they are taken out alone, but now they are mixed together, and the news is going to explode!
What could be more exciting for these media than the breaking news? No! The media that received the invitation all agreed to attend AOL's press conference.