Chapter 112: The Browser War

Ivanka and Julio have both returned to Philadelphia, and they still have more than a month of classes to attend before they can come out for internships and work on their graduation thesis.

And Alyssa appeared in his sight again, she didn't say where she went, and Chen Bo didn't ask. It's just that she is no longer given important work, just simple secretarial work, serving tea and water, distributing documents and booking air tickets.

Chen Bo also detached his focus from the student life he had just adapted, and for the time being, he ignored the dirty work of fighting and spitting, and naturally there was a community of interests to take over the baton, and the firefighters would not sit idly by.

He is now based on London, traveling between Pengcheng and San Francisco, and each time it is like a trip around the world. Don't look at the panic in Europe and the United States, there is basically no movement in China, and there are very few people who know about these things recently.

The MySpace acquisition has officially entered the process of being reviewed by the Trade Commission, mainly aimed at antitrust, after all, News Corp is a media giant, but fortunately they are not involved in the online industry, and this is only a social networking site, if you buy a news media network, then it will be a lot of trouble.

Now that the progress is accelerating, it is expected that the deal will be officially completed before Christmas, which means that Chen Bo has the capital to use again.

"Chen, we need a browser." After Pichai helped Konstantin to complete the company's structure, he found Chen Bo and gave him advice.

"Why?" He also knows the importance of the browser to web search, but the Mozilla Foundation has been preemptively agreed by Mayer, and the Thunderbird browser relies on Google's strong traffic, and has achieved tens of millions of downloads in just a few months, which is certainly not terrible, and even Microsoft feels that it doesn't matter.

But just two days ago, the latest news broke out, a genius boy from Stanford University with the help of Thunderbird's source code, on this basis, developed a 2.0 version of Thunderbird, and quickly received praise, and even won a large number of geek fans to donate $250,000 for him to advertise in New York newspapers.

This TMD is so ironic that he posted his own work on MySpace's blog, but it was an improved model of a competitor, and Chen Bo was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Firefox browser has not been introduced to the European and American markets, mainly the original choice of IE kernel, although he has been switching to the java platform, but the effect is not ideal, often crashed, which makes him very headache.

"Preempting the traffic entrance, just like skype, Microsoft has IE and does not find its value, but it is very important for us, either cooperate with them, or we develop independently!" Pichai's tone was firm, and he clearly did his homework.

"Collaboration is impossible, MSN live search is about to be released, and they want a piece of the pie too. You know, the most profitable thing about the entire Internet is not portals, but search engines! Chen Bo immediately denied that Bill Gates was shrewd, how could he let go of this opening, if he had noticed that the browser plug-ins that had been flying all over the country should have realized the importance of IE browser, and would not have chosen to hastily disband the project developers.

"Then we can develop it ourselves, we can use WebKit's engine technology, and Blink's typesetting." Pichai swore by it.

"Browsers are a must-do, but I have a better option." Chen Bo opened the laptop in front of him as he spoke, "Opera, small program, smooth experience, the most important thing is that they also have a lot of innovative applications, such as voice control function, note-taking function, the key is that he already has a lot of market share in Europe." ”

"But their kernel system is too conservative, and we should do open source software design, so that it can be better and faster." Pichai stuck to his philosophy.

"Let's first contact the conditions and technical parameters of the other party, at present, the market is more important than the technology." Chen Bo now values the fact that the other party has about 20 percent of the market share in Europe, and that it is a Norwegian company, because Norway is the only Nordic country that has not joined the European Union, which can bypass the cumbersome censorship mechanism.

In the face of Chen Bo's strength, Pichai could only choose to bow his head temporarily, and began to prepare for the acquisition of the Norwegian Opera company under his instructions.

Opera has a Chinese name called Ou Peng browser, but has not yet entered the domestic market, is an old browser manufacturer, but their market is still mainly concentrated in Europe, did not pose much threat to Microsoft, and the use of presto kernel design, relative to Thunderbird and Safari, IE these software are much more conservative.

Browser is the first entrance for netizens to contact the Internet, IM instant messaging, e-mail, personal blog homepage these important products have been gathered, just this vital piece, if you don't want to be led by others, you have to speed up the layout.

Since you have come to Europe, you should move all the nails that have been planted long ago, except for the skype that has long been hidden in Estonia. With 50,000 servers already in Reykjavík, Iceland's capital, there are only a few technical details left to make the most of it. Although Iceland is a nook and cranny place on the map, it is actually quite close to the UK, and the Internet speed is not slow, after all, the population is sparse, and this bandwidth resource is cheaper for him.

Chen Bo and Abu have reached an agreement to become Chelsea's official lead sponsor for £15 million a year. After all, compared with giants such as Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal, Chelsea has to raise its reputation for another two years in addition to being rich.

There are seven or eight Premier League teams in London alone, and the total population is only 8 million. The economic effects are naturally incomparable.

The LED screen at Stanford Stadium will scroll through Ant Search's ad, and now that the Premier League is in full swing, Chelsea's homegrown giants have climbed to the top of the league table. Although the Premier League is not the first league now, it is the most business-oriented.

South Asia, Southeast Asia, North and Central America, and Australia are all English-speaking regions and are most affected by the Premier League.

Ant Search's products will be unveiled in turn, translated into different versions of text and promoted to the world, which is also the first time that Chinese advertisements have appeared in the Premier League, and this kind of coverage is indiscriminate. Not only can there be billboards in the background during live broadcasts and recordings, but even the wonderful moments on the field of traditional media will be brought to the billboards, and a match between the top teams in the Premier League will receive more attention, such as the competition with Arsenal, Manchester United, and Liverpool.

Now that Chen Bo is not short of money, he needs to continue to seize the eyeball market and implant the brand of Ant Search in the brains of all users over and over again.

The $1.99 billion acquisition money is about to arrive, and the income tax alone is 35%, and who doesn't feel distressed about the more than $600 million that has been killed without doing anything? It is better to spend it first when the money has not arrived, and the profit will be reduced, so that the tax can be paid less.

After experiencing the bubble of the Internet, all competitors are more cautious in spending money, and they are mainly pragmatic operations. Since no one came to grab the advertising space, he could only be cheaper.

Especially 2004 is a big year for sports, the European Cup, the Olympic Games, and the Asian Cup have been won by Chen Bo early in the Asian Cup held in his homeland, but the attention is still mainly limited to Asia, and he is now going to enter the European market, and he must include the European Cup.

If you want to become a top sponsor, you don't have to have money to do it, you also have to have international brand awareness, and they really can't look down on a cat or dog casually. Ant Search is now relying on Chen Bo, the locomotive, to brush up on the heat recently, and its business in North America is now growing by leaps and bounds, not to mention an international brand, at least it is a little famous.

The fact that the business plan sent to UEFA headquarters was lost to the bottom of the sea and did not receive much response, which makes people wonder. There is only more than half a year left to prepare, and it is already very urgent, whether it is not satisfied with the details or other problems, there must be a response.

"Old friend, I'm afraid I'll trouble you again this time." Chen Bo dialed the phone number of Philippe Blatter, the president of Infront in Switzerland, this guy is the head snake in the football circle, and the UEFA headquarters is in his hometown, of course he has to find him.

"Dear Chen, I thought you had forgotten about me, just say anything wrong." Philip said enthusiastically on the other end of the phone, not because he had made enough money in China, otherwise he would definitely not have such an attitude.

"I want to talk to UEFA about working together next year, but I haven't received a reply, so I don't know what's going on."

"UEFA? You're not going to be the old guy Johansson you're looking for, are you? Philip's tone was momentarily unkind.

"If I knew him, why would I look for you, you are my most sincere friend." Chen Bo immediately denied that UEFA is the richest association, but FIFA is the most powerful, Johansson, the president of UEFA, has always been against the two presidents of FIFA, and has been fighting to get to the next level. It can be said that each has its own winners and losers, and Philip, of course, does not want to see his uncle's political enemies.

"Of course, I cherish our friendship very much, but it's a bit difficult, and you know what UEFA is all about, so I'll have to take care of it."

"No problem, I'll wait for your good news." Chen Bo replied directly.

It's not scary to be greedy for money, at least he'll try to help you, if he's not greedy for money, how can Blatter trust this nephew? Can you live in a Manhattan mansion by that little blood tie alone? Isn't that a big joke?

The UEFA business operation system is similar to that of the International Olympic Games, with a hierarchical management of commercial sponsorship. Top of all are exclusive global partners, including Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, JVC, Hyundai-Kia, Mastercard and McDonald's. Adidas, Continental Tyres, Castrol, Canon and are the single sponsors of the event, the second level of sponsors, and there are also three levels of local sponsors in the Portuguese region.

What Chen Bo wants to talk about is naturally exclusive to the world, so that not only the European Cup, but also the Champions Cup and the League Cup can appear in the ant search. After all, there is only one major tournament every four years, and the 2 billion fans can't just look forward to the tournament every day, and there is no doubt that Europe represents the highest level of football.