Dst withdraws from the offer on ICQ!

"Fortune" suddenly disclosed the news of DST's withdrawal, which immediately caused a wave, and after DST withdrew, only Microsoft's MSN and a gold medal group from Huaxia were quoted.

Everyone is speculating about who will end up with the flowers.

Needless to say, Microsoft is the boss of the instant messaging market, and they who single-handedly defeated ICQ are completely with the intention of completing the market, so the offer is low, only $140 million, which doesn't sound very sincere, but considering ICQ's current situation and MSN's strength, he is almost the best choice.

As for the gold medal group, the price is high, but judging from the news in the hands of reporters, the gold medal group has not been involved in the instant messaging market before, and it is unknown whether they can block MSN's attack after acquiring ICQ company.

Therefore, both journalists and magazines are generally optimistic about MSN, believing that once MSN acquires ICQ, then ICQ will get a decent home, or a grave.

But then came the shocking news, Gold Group raised the offer to $300 million, and AOL Time Warner officially announced the sale of ICQ to Gold Group.

At the grand press conference, the flow of people was like a river, shuttling endlessly, this is the press conference jointly organized by AOL Time Warner and Gold Group, which attracted the attention of many financial reporters at the beginning. When Case and Li Lin, the owner of the Gold Medal Group, stood together, all eyes were focused on them.

"Mr. Lee. Are you the holder of the Gold Group? I didn't expect you to be a businessman in addition to being a star. ”

"A lot of celebrities are businessmen, aren't they?" Li Lin smiled: "Like MJ, like Madonna, etc." They're both businessmen, and of course, our little punk princess, Avril, and I'm here to bless her. ”

"Steve. Mr. Case, why did AOL choose to sell ICQ to Gold Group instead of Microsoft? ”

Why?

Isn't it because we already have an agreement with us? Damn the protocol.

Steve. Keith cursed in his heart. But he always kept a smile on his face, "because we have reason to believe that Lee's Gold Group can lead ICQ to overcome obstacles and open a new path under the siege of Microsoft." ”

"Of course. The offer of up to 300 million US dollars is also the reason why I am excited, and the gold medal group that can offer such a price definitely attaches great importance to ICQ, and I believe that ICQ can be reborn under their leadership. ”

"Mr. Lee. As far as I know. Gold Group has never been involved in the instant messaging field, why did you acquire ICQ this time? A reporter asked.

Li Lin smiled, "Because Gold Group has been involved in the network industry for a long time, and we also believe that the acquisition of ICQ will make up for our Gold Group business." ”

"And we also believe that ICQ will be a great addition to our group."

"Of course, personally, I don't want to see the ancestor of ICQ, the instant messaging software, fall like this, so I made an offer to AOL Time Warner. I wanted to acquire ICQ, but I didn't expect AOL Time Warner to have this intention. The two sides hit it off, and there is now this press conference. ”

What to be born from the ashes, what to overcome, Steve. Keith's words were simply to provoke enemies for him, is MSN so easy to defeat? Even if it defeats MSN, there is Microsoft behind it, and although Microsoft has been affected by antitrust laws over the years and has acted somewhat restrained, no one can guarantee that Microsoft will make a difficult decision.

How Netscape Browser died, he knows very well.

Microsoft first offered a binding killer, and then secretly modified the system's code to make Microsoft's system incompatible with Netscape, and finally led users to vote for Netscape with their feet.

After that, although Microsoft was sued by Netscape and compensated $500 million, Netscape at this time had completely failed, and $500 million in compensation could not save anything at all.

"As for beating Microsoft's MSN."

Li Lin paused, "We don't intend to defeat anyone, and we don't want to start a war with anyone, we just want to provide some services to users." ”

"That's all."

Who will believe it?

All the reporters present scoffed.

What is meant to be provided and what is nothing more, who would believe? Who believes who is a fool, in the mall, who would not want to challenge the industry boss?

Moreover, MSN occupies the vast majority of the market share of the entire instant messaging market, in addition to MSN, ICQ has the most users, and every time ICQ expands, it will inevitably encroach on MSN's market share, and MSN cannot let ICQ develop, and the two are bound to conflict.

But the reporters present also had to admit that Li Lin said this beautifully, at least on the bright side, giving MSN enough face, maybe MSN will let them go.

"Funny little guy."

Bill. Gates turned off the TV with a smile on his face, "ICQ is in his hands, maybe there will be some development." ”

Stand Bill. The person in charge of MSN in front of Gates immediately smiled when he heard this, "The Internet is an industry where the Matthew effect is very strict, and although ICQ is the ancestor of the industry, it is not worth mentioning compared to the powerful MSN." ”

"He hasn't beaten the mighty MSN in the hands of AOL Time Warner before, let alone in the hands of the gold group."

"This group is nothing compared to AOL Time Warner."

"That's right."

Bill. Gates squeezed his temples and said in a deep voice, "But it's always a problem." ”

"Ever since Netscape took us to court and won, I've felt more and more that the U.S. government is on our necks, making it impossible for us to act freely."

"If I can deal with ICQ the same way I can deal with Netscape, I don't need to worry about it at all."

How Netscape Browser died. Single-handedly masterminded Bill. Gates knows very well that as long as the big killer of incompatible systems comes out, Internet companies will have to kneel. And this is also a violation of antitrust laws.

"Don't worry, President." The person in charge of MSN said confidently: "At most, in one year, we MSN will defeat ICQ, what happened to the ancestor?" In front of the Matthew effect, the ancestors had to kneel. ”

"Alright, I'll wait for you to take down ICQ once and for all."

……

At ICQ's headquarters in Washington, the entire company was in a state of panic.

Ever since the news broke that ICQ was going to be sold, the whole company panicked. The founders, Wisger, Wady and Goldfinger, often get together and are a little confused about the road ahead.

As is customary in the business world, after the company is acquired. A wash will definitely be carried out.

The lower ranks are not necessarily purged, but the upper ranks must be purged, because the new boss needs to take control of the entire company through the purge of management.

"I regret selling the company to AOL." Weisg said to Wady, "ICQ was so crazy back then. More than 30 million users. Almost 1 in 10 people in the U.S. use our ICQ. ”

"But what about now? After the fortunate development of AOL Time Warner, our users have not increased but decreased, from 30 million users all the way to 10 million users, and even 10 million users are in danger under the blow of MSN. ”

"More and more people are choosing to throw themselves into the arms of MSN, and I can barely hold on."

After AOL acquired ICQ, it immediately asked ICQ to come up with a profit plan, in such a situation. ICQ had to advertise and insert all kinds of commercial links. I feel more and more bored with the user.

Although ICQ once ushered in the spring after merging with AOL Time Warner, it is a pity that AOL Time Warner was too slow to respond, although they launched a lite version, but the so-called lite version is only equivalent to the original bloated version.

Compared to MSN, ICQ is still a fat man.

Americans are mostly fat, but it doesn't mean that they necessarily like fat people, for Americans, tools are tools, and bondage is the most disgusting.

And with the popularity of MSN, MSN has won the trust of many users with convenience, speed and no ads in Microsoft's bundling policy, making ICQ gradually left behind by MSN.

It can be said that this qiē is caused by the strategic mistakes of AOL and AOL Time Warner.

"Needless to say." Goldfinger waved his hand, "The new boss is coming, and we're here to say that if he hears it, we'll only offend him." ”

"And if we don't want our children to grow up healthy, do we need to stay here?"

As the founders of ICQ, Weisger, Wadey and Goldfinger were given a large sum of money after being acquired, and if they wanted to, they could have used it to enjoy themselves and become rich people who did nothing.

But they didn't.

Even though they bought a villa and drove a luxury car, they are still working and working for ICQ, why? It's because they can't let go of their children.

ICQ is like their children for them, they single-handedly bring their children to glory, and naturally want to protect them, but unfortunately the next thing is not as they thought, on the contrary, ICQ is falling more and more.

"Let's hope the new boss can change our current situation!"

Ding Ding ......

There was a sudden knock at the door, and the three of them immediately closed their mouths, and Weisge said, "Come in." ”

A secretary walked in, "President, Director of Operations, Director of Technology, new boss is here." ”

"Let's go, let's go down and meet you."

Goldfinger got up and said, "lest our new boss think we've neglected him." ”

"If you are sluggish, you will be sluggish." Weisge said irritably, "With my current net worth, if it weren't for ICQ, I wouldn't have stayed here a long time ago." ”

"He's going to get rid of me, just in time to help me make up my mind to get out of this sad place, lest the more I look at it, the more I can't help but rush to the headquarters of AOL Time Warner to reward those people for a beating." (To be continued......)