More and more news confirms that 99 is really going to start this business, and related companies of all sizes are studying it.
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Tencent headquarters.
They now have Soso Maps, the predecessor of Tencent Maps, and will immediately hold a meeting to discuss it.
"99 has just started and it will take time. We can just follow our own pace.
We have launched the satellite map function, with 90 cities in the first batch, and the ultimate goal is to cover 300 prefecture-level cities and 2,800 districts and counties across the country.
Next, prepare to launch the real-time location sharing feature.
The location of both parties can be displayed on the mobile phone map. For example, if two people get separated while shopping, they can send real-time coordinates to each other."
"Well, this function is very practical, okay, just follow the plan!"
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Alibaba headquarters.
I did some research and decided to wait and see.
They invested in Yitutong in 2010, but it never developed. When AutoNavi became established, they took a fancy to AutoNavi and acquired it in 2014.
So now it's a wait and see situation.
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Baidu.
Robin Li sneered again and again, as if he had already seen through Yao Yuan.
"I knew he would never let go of this cake, but this time he must have miscalculated. Navigation maps are not that easy to make. How long have we been planning? How long does he have?"
"Then what are we going to do now?"
"Don't worry about 99, Amap, Soso and other products. They are our opponents at this time. We will continue to talk to mobile phone manufacturers. We must increase the amount of pre-installed products and increase advertising efforts, but the most important thing is to reduce the price!"
"Price reduction?"
"Yes, the future trend of navigation maps is to be free, and Yao Yuan definitely wants it to be free. But you don't need it now, just reduce the price and get it.
After the price is reduced, the price will be limited and free, and the activities will be continued, and we will strive to accumulate the highest number of users before 99% of people enter the market!"
"clear!"
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Gaode.
Cheng Congwu was in a state of bewilderment as he was suddenly attacked, not by Yao Yuan, but by Baidu who had just announced "A big reward for car owners in midsummer, the navigation APP has dropped to freezing point, and it only costs 6 yuan to download!"
You know, it used to be 30 yuan.
“Baidu is not a son of man!”
Cheng Congwu cursed and said he had no grudges against Yao Yuan. He had already made it clear that day when he was drinking. Since you don't want to sell it, I will do it myself.
And I also specifically reminded myself that the Internet is very complicated and I should be careful about competitors.
Oh, Yao is always a kind person!
In short, facing Baidu's attack, Cheng Congwu felt as if he had just entered the Internet circle and was slapped in the head by the capital's price war. In the past, when working in car navigation, how could there be such a thing as a price war?
AutoNavi's annual revenue is just over 100 million US dollars, and its profit is only 30 million. How can it fight a price war with such a size?
But we have to fight!
"If they surrender, we will surrender too!"
Cheng Congwu gritted his teeth and issued the order: "We will also reduce it to 6 yuan!"
"Mr. Cheng!"
"Go for it!"
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Without Yao Yuan's interference, according to historical trajectory, Baidu would have launched its efforts at the end of the year, but now it is several months ahead of schedule.
The price was suddenly reduced to 6 yuan for both parties.
Not long after, Baidu announced again: "Offline map function is provided for free!"
But Gaode has no move, its size is not good to begin with.
"Last year, Amap became the overall solution provider for Apple's China map and currently has a dominant position in the market, accounting for 25.9% of the mobile phone market share. Baidu Maps ranked second with 19.1%.
However, Baidu Maps has grown significantly and is continuously shortening the distance with Amap.
Fortunately, AutoNavi's main income does not rely on mobile phones, but car navigation, which may give AutoNavi some breathing space and allow him to have the capital to cultivate new businesses and fight fiercely with Internet companies!"
The media has quite a lot of confidence in Gaode and believes that he has the strength to fight.
Cheng Congwu wanted to scold the public. He had to fight against everyone's opinions to let Amap transform into the mobile terminal. He formulated a comprehensive plan for the mobile terminal. But now he is forced to fight a price war with Baidu. Does Mao still have breathing room?
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"Hahaha!"
Yingshi Building, Yao Yuan couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw these news. It was too laborious to make the map by himself, so why not just buy it? What if AutoNavi doesn't sell it? Then find a way to make it sell!
No matter how bad Baidu is, it’s still Baidu, not something that can be compared with the high moral standards.
At this time, Jiang Chao asked: "Our company has been registered and how many people have been hired. Should we continue?"
"Go on, didn't I tell you? Everything is true!"
Yao Yuan leaned back on his seat, crossed his legs, and said: "They are fighting a price war, and AutoNavi can hold on for a while. If they can't hold on, they will naturally come to me. When I succeed in the acquisition, the people I recruited will either be disbanded or transferred.
Easy to handle.
Oh, by the way, pay attention to their dynamics and make them nervous at all times. If there is a trend of easing, just let the wind out and say that we will take 2 years to occupy the market and make it all free. From now on, it will be an era of free navigation.
!”
"good!"
Jiang Chao expressed admiration on the surface, but he didn't know how to complain inwardly.
This is the Thirty-Six Strategies of Stirring the Tile!
In fact, this is also based on strength. If the deterrence of 99 is not to this level, it will not be stirred up no matter how hard it is.
Historically, Alibaba would be listed in the United States in 2014.
In order to maximize the IPO and push up the stock price, in 2013, the investment department headed by Cai Chongxin carried out a series of measures.
These include:
Acquired 18% stake in Sina Weibo for US$586 million.
It acquired 28% of AutoNavi's shares for US$294 million, and completely acquired AutoNavi the following year. AutoNavi became a subsidiary of Alibaba, and completed its privatization and delisting from the U.S. stock market.
Following Alibaba, we won UC Youshi again.
He Xiaopeng, the founder of UC Youshi, later founded Xpeng Motors. Its president, Yu Yongfu, was recruited by Jack Ma and became the president of AutoNavi.
Everyone knows that when Tencent invests or acquires, it rarely intervenes. It just does your thing and makes money for me.
Alibaba has another style. We must get rid of the founder of this company and then incorporate this company into our own ecosystem.
Cheng Congwu suffered this fate. After AutoNavi was acquired, his title was CEO consultant. Note that he was not CEO, but a consultant. It was humiliating, so he left knowingly. There was no news later.
But now that Yao Yuan is causing trouble, Gao De must be in the bag first.
Secondly, there is another question as to whether Alibaba will acquire Sina Weibo. After all, Sina Weibo is not the leader now. It is ranked below 99 and competes with Tencent for the second position.
In later generations, an Alibaba executive named Jiang Fan, who was known as the third-generation successor, was suddenly exposed to a sex scandal on Weibo. He immediately became a hot search, but the hot search suddenly disappeared.
It was obviously suppressed.
As a result, several departments approached Weibo for an interview. The reason was that it "interfered with the order of online communication and spread illegal information." This matter was regarded as an official attack on the public opinion platform, because Alibaba is the major shareholder...
Yao Yuan disagrees with this. He knows better than Lao Ma what the standards of the Internet are.
Maiwo Weibo has not accepted any investment and has no plans to go public. The shares are all in his own hands - a public opinion platform! It is too cheap to sell to anyone. If the day comes that he has to sell, he will give it away directly.
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"ha!"
Yao Yuan yawned. Anyway, let Gaode hold on for a while and see how long he can hold on.
Everyone knows that Mr. Yao is not a troublemaker, he is in charge of both killing and burying, and he is very kind.
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