"As the specter of the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble gradually dissipates from people's heads, and people look back at the time when the entire capital market was feverishly chasing Internet companies, Time Warner's acquisition of Quora will definitely be regarded as a landmark event in the Internet bubble.

The sky-high price of what was then called the acquisition of the century gave Time Warner the limelight for a while, and Quora was the most talked-about star product in Silicon Valley at the time, and it remains one of the best Internet products in the world to this day. After Time Warner's acquisition of Quora, the stock price soared rapidly, rising by more than 500%.

Through the comparison of Time Warner's financial reports before and after the acquisition of Quora, it can be found that in terms of revenue, Quora quickly became the second largest business under the Time Warner Group, second only to the original Time Warner's HBO, a pillar industry. In terms of profits, Quora is Time Warner's largest source of profits. So judging from the results, there is no problem with Time Warner's acquisition of Quora, but there are too many debatable points in the price, is Quora really worth $90 billion? From today's point of view, it's obviously not worth it, you have to cut it in half and cut it in half.

But in the environment at the time, this deal could not be more reasonable, a large number of companies that are far inferior to Quora, just the company name can be sought after by the market value of more than $10 billion, just the company name has .com can be sought after by the market value of more than 10 billion dollars, after the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble, these companies either went bankrupt, or the stock price fell to one percent, compared to these companies, Time Warner's acquisition of Quora seems to be a very good deal.

But in any case, Time Warner's acquisition of Quora left countless talking points to the outside world, Newman also maintained a superficial dignity after leaving Quora, and did not say a word about Quora, after the Nasdaq bubble burst, there have been voices from the outside world that Newman wants to get Newman back in charge of Quora, Newman has never responded positively to this, as if Quora has nothing to do with him.

Quora is a change from the initial opposition to Time Warner's acquisition of Quora by die-hard supporters, to the habit of later on, and then to the fact that no one mentions Newman and Quora anymore, and this shift occurs because Newman is low-key and silent about this matter. This is why the re-collaboration between Newman and Quora after many years can make such waves on the Internet, because it takes us back to the era of Internet startup boom in a sense.

This partnership is a win-win for both companies, and it is undoubtedly a great benefit for Mphone users to be able to browse Quora on Mphone, Mphone will have more places to attract new users, and for Quora, they will be able to try more possibilities, and entering the mobile phone market may help them reverse the current trend of Quora's declining attraction to users."

The cooperation with Quora is the result of Zhou Xin's single-hand planning, because the developer conference itself did not have a hot spot. The outside world doesn't know what's going on at the moment, let alone discuss, the cloud service. Isn't this a more automated IDC hosting? Not to mention that this is a new company and new cloud launched by Zhou Xin, even if the cloud service is launched by Microsoft, it will not cause any splash at the beginning.

As for other apps, you can log in to Mphone, you can buy and download them from your computer, and you can update them by syncing them to your phone, which can't bring explosions.

And Zhou Xin needs to use a way to let Mphone users know that Mphone's store function will be launched for the first time, and it needs to let users use this function, rather than waiting for users to adapt to the new function after it is launched.

Under this premise, cooperating with quora is the fastest way to achieve the goal, if you make user portraits of Mphone's user group, you will find that more than 70% are senior Internet users. For them, the combination of Quora and Newman is naturally topical and engaging.

And the re-cooperation between Newman and Quora is also great news for the media, they will let most people know about it, and they will continue to publicize the significance of this matter, and in what way Quora and Newman will cooperate again. It will also introduce the Mphone Developer Conference and the Mphone App Store.

After getting this news, many Mphone users will even wait in front of the computer, waiting for the Mphone app store to open for download.

In the past six months, Mphone has been highly praised since its launch, and users who have used it deeply believe that this is a good enough product.

Not long ago, Americacan's most authoritative consumer product review magazine "Consumer Reports" launched an evaluation of Mphone, in which it said that Mphone is the best mobile phone to use.

If you take the price factor out of the equation, then Mphone is the best phone.

Consumer Reports has a strong presence at American, and in its 80-year history since the Great Depression, this is the first time they have had such a high rating of a phone.

Consumer Reports is not the only traditional media with such high ratings, and as time goes by, the outside world has gradually realized the superiority of Mphone, which is definitely not just a simple way to carry Internet applications to mobile phones, it brings a new way of interaction and a new concept.

The Mphone app store further promotes the intelligence of Mphone.

After the launch of the Mphone app store in mid-July, more than 50% of Mphone users updated their mobile apps within a week.

On the Mphone app store download charts, Quora firmly occupies the top spot, with apps such as the Apple Music Store, Prince of Persia, and FIFA firmly below it.

It seems that once Quora comes out, other apps can only compete for the second position.

According to the observation in the background, in just one month after the end of the developer conference in July, more than 50 small and medium-sized enterprises registered as Mphone developers.

For Zhou Xin and Matrix, they only need to wait, wait for the network, storage, screen and other technologies to mature, and start the mobile Internet era in person after maturity.

While Silicon Valley was boiling over Newman and Quora's re-partnership, Hu Zhengming had already completed the handover and embarked on a flight from San Francisco to Zhangjiang.

"Professor, feel free to communicate with me if you need anything, and I expect to return to China at the end of this year to participate in the Internet Conference in China.

I wish you all the best after you go to Zhangjiang. ”

After Zhou Xin put Hu Zhengming on the plane, he was thinking that he would have to talk to Zhang Zhongmou next time he came to San Francisco.

Relying on Hua Hong Semiconductor alone, the efficiency of many technical verifications is obviously not high. Although Xinxin Technology will have a head-to-head showdown with TSMC sooner or later, this will not affect the wool of TSMC now.

"Lao Guan, long time no see." On Shenhai's side, Jianying came to pick up the plane at Pudong International Airport, and Hu Zhengming shook hands with Guan Jianying after getting off the plane.

Guan Jianying said: "Yes, I haven't been back to Silicon Valley for more than a year, there are too many things here, and I haven't been on the right track for a long time."

Now, Chenming, you're going to come to this mess and sort it out with me little by little. ”

Hu Zhengming asked: "Lao Guan, tell me about the situation briefly, Newman fooled me over, he will definitely only pick a good place to say." I've come here, and we need the courage to face the difficulties head-on if we want to do this together.

So let's just be direct and get straight to the point. ”

(End of chapter)