By the time Zhu Zi returned home, it was nearly two o'clock. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Masami Nagasawa was very caring, and also prepared some supper for Zhu Zi, Haruka Ayase and Mao Inoue.

Haruka Ayase was so tired, after eating supper, her eyes could hardly be opened, and Mao Inoue was a little better sailing, but she was tired enough to choke on this day.

After the men had finished eating, they fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Zhu Zi slept until ten o'clock before getting up, while Masami Nagasawa, Haruka Ayase and Mao Inoue had already gotten up.

"You two got up a little earlier than I thought, which is really impressive. Zhu Zi wore pajamas and greeted Haruka Ayase and Mao Inoue.

"You think we are you, but you are still ashamed to say how early you get up every day, it turns out to be a lie. Mao Inoue looked disdainful.

"Have I ever said such a thing?" Zhu Zi looked at the three girls Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, and Mao Inoue in surprise.

Haruka Ayase nodded heavily.

"Well, that's what I remembered. Zhu Zi shrugged and prepared to go to the hanger to pick up his suit.

"Why don't you eat some breakfast?" asked Masami Nagasawa.

"If you don't eat it, things in the company are important. Mao-chan, Ayase-chan, you guys have a good chat. ”

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Purple Moon Office.

Zhu Zi called a meeting of all employees.

"We are here today with only one goal, and that is for us to develop new software. ”

"President, I wonder what kind of software you're going to develop this time?" asked Shinichi Inoue.

Uesugi and Koji Sato's eyes flashed.

"What we're going to do this time is instant messaging software. Zhu Zi glanced around at everyone.

"Instant messaging software?"

"That's right, it's an instant messaging app, I've already figured out a name, let's call it LINE. Zhu Zi said lightly.

In another space-time trajectory, LINE was launched by NHNJapan, a Japanese subsidiary of South Korean Internet conglomerate NHN. Although it is a latecomer messaging app, it was only officially launched to the market in June 2011, but it has more than 400 million registered users worldwide. The most attractive feature of LINE is "chat stickers". More than 250 kinds of stickers give users a fun way to convey their emotions when using Line. Among them, LINE's cute and distinctive Steamed Bun Man, Connie Rabbit, Brown Bear, and James have been well received, and these four cartoon characters have become an important element connecting other LINE products.

The advantages and benefits of LINE are that it allows users to make free calls, free texts, 24 hours a day, anytime, anywhere, and enjoy a new communication with unlimited calls and texts

This is similar to Huaxia's WeChat, but WeChat is mainly for Chinese people, while LINE is more popular in Japan and other parts of the world.

"President, according to what you said, does this instant messaging software have no way to make money?" Natori Sprouts couldn't help but ask.

"Of course not. ”

There are two main ways to earn money on LINE, one is to pay for emoticons, and the LINE Emoji Store was launched at the end of April 2013, where users can pay to purchase emoticons. According to NHN, LINE's monthly revenue can reach 300 billion yen by selling paid emojis.

Another monetization model is the gaming platform, and in July 2013, LINE and Birzzle will launch a new game, LINEBirzzle, which offers a fun way to play. When you download the game, you'll get a set of stickers about the game for free. Inspired by this model, LINEBirzzle topped the AppStore free charts in Japan and Taiwan on its first day of launch.

Of course, Zhu Zi plans to develop this game and LINEruanjian at the same time this time.

At the same time, he also knows that once LINE comes out, it will be very popular in Japan.

Line's main stickers are a fixed number of characters, each with their own personality and friends with each other, often hanging out in each other's stickers, which forms a continuous story. , and then to the later LineTown, they are all adding stories to the characters. At first, people may think that the memes are too ugly to use, but after a long time, they will gradually feel that Moon and James are not so ugly, but the exaggerated expressions are very funny in the chat. In fact, every time I use a sticker, I empathize with that character. However, I feel that the most popular ones in Line are Cony and Brown. For ordinary otaku and otaku, such emojis are extremely lethal, because most of them are afraid of falling in love, and the use of these expressions will put them in the relationship between men and women, which is similar to the process of falling in love with couples, so this instant messaging software is also developed for otaku and otaku in Chengdu, and the stickers of the Brown series make couples particularly empathetic.

Another point is that because the anime industry in Japan is relatively developed, it is easy for such emoji characters to be recognized and liked by them.

After Zhu Zi's explanation, all the people suddenly realized.

"President, when do you plan to start working on this software?" asked Uesugi Sa.

"I hope to start working on it as soon as possible, preferably by June of this year. The trial run will start in September this year, and then in January next year, I hope this instant messaging software will be officially launched, do you understand?" Zhu Zi glanced around at everyone with a serious expression.

"Understood. Everyone said in unison.

"President, I think it will be difficult to develop an instant messaging app for the whole world in half a year with the current number of people in the firm. Yuanshan Bao said suddenly.

"Do you have any particularly good advice, Toyama-kun?"

"I suggest that the firm recruit a few more talents in Internet software, and now that the firm has grown, we can't just rely on Sato-kun and Uesugi-kun. Toyama said.

Zhu Zi's eyes flashed: "What do you all think?"

"Toyama-kun's suggestion is very good, I don't have any opinion. Uesugi shrugged.