A few days later, Gao Tingting looked solemn and reported to Su Wanghui: "Tencent has stopped the merger plan between Dianping and our Meituan."
"I see."
Su Wang was not surprised at all. In addition to the situation reported by Gao Tingting, he also knew more information.
On the third day after he asked Wang Kaige to help Meituan raise funds for the acquisition of Dianping, Wang Kaige brought him bad news, that is, the investors behind Carlyle Investment Bank were many powerful and powerful investors.
Tencent got in touch, and the news they got from Tencent was that Tencent did not intend to merge Dianping into Meituan.
Because Tencent is only the second largest shareholder of Dianping, in order to prevent Zhang Tao from going his own way, Tencent has already negotiated with Zhang Tao and will inject another amount of capital.
The amount of this funding is terrifying. After the financing is completed, Tencent will become the largest shareholder of Dianping. However, in order to convince Zhang Tao, Tencent agreed. Zhang Tao and his founding team wanted to have the decision-making power of the company.
In other words, although the shares held by Zhang Tao and his team are not as good as those of Tencent, Zhang Tao has veto power and personnel appointment and removal rights. This plan is completely acceptable to Zhang Tao and his team.
Su Wang believed that Zhang Tao would not refuse, because if it were him, he would not refuse either.
"Is this the strength of the Nanguo Group?"
When Gao Tingting exited, Su Wang whispered, from Nokia to Tencent, the people from Nanguo Group were already flexing their muscles to force him to surrender.
"But do you think you can stop me like this?"
There was a fighting light in Su Wang's eyes. Now that he had made a decision, he would not regret it. Just like the old man setting up a stall he met that night, if he really failed, he would set up a stall selling herbal tea at the worst.
“WeChat version 2.0 is online!”
Picking up the phone, Su Wang dialed Li Feng's number. Since Tencent had already made a choice, there was no need to continue to cover it up.
In more than two months, WeChat has accumulated 8 million users, but WeChat version 1.0 is not that outstanding. In Su Wang's impression, WeChat is what really makes WeChat popular and stands out.
Version 2.5.
Relationship chain of strangers, people nearby and shake.
These two functions are the main features that make WeChat truly stand out and eliminate software such as MiLiao and Kik.
Su Wang still remembers that in his previous life, he and his roommate would stay in the dormitory and shake their phones when they were bored, listening to the sound of shaking the phone and the beautiful music that was matched in the end.
It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, in the boys' dormitory of the school, you could hear the sound of mobile phones shaking at night. For many young people, this way of making friends was very interesting.
They may be thousands of miles apart, or they may be right next door. Two people connect because they shook their phones at the same time. This kind of fate is very attractive to young people.
The social circle of modern young people is too small, and WeChat’s shake and nearby people functions can just meet this need.
Of course, there is also a drift bottle function, but Su Wang has not launched this function. It is a good thing and cannot be used all at once. Of course, this is also because the drift bottle has certain hidden problems.
For Su Wang, with the Nanguo Group eyeing him, he couldn't make any mistakes. He had to take steps step by step to avoid being caught by the other party.
…
"Dalong, I have good news for you. The company fully supports your new research on this app. It has almost been developed."
"Mr. Ma, we have already developed it, now we just need to name it and put it on the market."
"Do you have any good ideas about the name?" Ma Krypton asked with a smile.
If he was not very optimistic about Zhang Dalong's project before, now he attaches great importance to it, firstly because WeChat's user data is growing rapidly, and secondly because someone from behind said hello.
Some people don't want to see Su Wang's company develop, so he is naturally willing to take action. Although Dianping and Meituan cannot be merged, and the company will suffer losses from the perspective of interests, the other party has also made supplements in other ways.
What's more, Nanguo Group already has strong strength in the south, and Tencent is located in the south, so it still needs to be given face.
"As for the name, Mr. Ma, how about you choose one?"
To be honest, Zhang Dalong has been very happy these days, because he found that Mr. Ma's attitude towards this project suddenly changed 180 degrees, from the original indifference to the current extremely concerned one. Now this project is in
The company's priority is already the highest.
"Mobile's is called Fetion, Su Wang's is called WeChat, so let's call it Communications, which happens to be a homophone to the company name."
"Communication, that's a good name."
Zhang Dalong's face was full of joy. From the name, he could tell that Mr. Ma attached great importance to this project, which also made him more confident.
"If possible, then arrange to go online as soon as possible. If you need anything, you can tell everyone directly and everyone will fully cooperate."
"I understand. Thank you, Mr. Ma. With the company's support, I am confident that I can defeat WeChat."
"I'm waiting for your good news."
…
"Dear colleagues, after a month of hard work, it is finally time to go online. Our product was named Communications by Mr. Ma himself. I believe everyone should be clear about what this name represents."
In the communications project department, when Zhang Dalong told all the team members about the news, all the team members showed excitement on their faces. The name of the project, which sounds homophonic to the group, speaks volumes.
"Brother Long, we will definitely succeed this time."
"That's right, I just checked WeChat. WeChat's user group is actually not active. Now that the QQ one-click login function has been turned off, the user growth rate will definitely be slow."
Seeing the excited expressions of the team members, Zhang Dalong waved his hand and said: "Okay, we will go online at five o'clock tonight. Everyone will work hard tonight and stay overtime. If you encounter any problems, you can go there as soon as possible.
solve."
"No problem."
"Even if you don't tell Brother Long, we will stay and work overtime. After all, this is a project we personally developed, just like our own children."
…
Zhang Qiang is a college student who likes to try new apps and accidentally discovered a new app.
"Communications? Let me guess. Or is it produced by Tencent?"
After looking at the introduction of this product, Zhang Qiang thought of the WeChat software on his mobile phone. He saw that the communication software was similar to WeChat, but because it was produced by Tencent, he downloaded it out of curiosity.
After downloading the software, I found a QQ account to log in. After selecting the QQ account to log in, the system prompted whether to automatically import QQ friends and address book friends.
"This function is so powerful, so I don't have to add it one by one."
Not surprisingly, Zhang Qiang immediately chose to import QQ friends, and found that five or six friends had already downloaded the communication software, and those avatars were gray. You can also choose to invite friends to download communication.
After one operation, Zhang Qiang immediately started chatting with his friends happily. He found that this communication software was better than QQ because it was very simple and not as complicated as QQ.
…
"Brother Long, in two hours, our download volume has exceeded 100,000. This is still without much publicity. If we fully launch the promotion tomorrow, we will definitely catch up with WeChat soon."
"Don't worry about publicity. Mr. Ma promised me that he will give us comprehensive publicity. Our goal is to catch up with WeChat in one month and completely surpass it in two months."
Compared with Zhang Dalong's confidence, at the WeChat headquarters, Li Feng's expression was solemn at this moment, because he paid attention to the communication as soon as it went online, and since the communication went online, the activity of his WeChat users has dropped.
Quite a few.
"Brother Li, aren't we launching the new version yet?"
There were technicians nearby who asked, because in their opinion, the new version of their own WeChat will definitely be able to kill the communication as soon as it goes online, and they cannot just watch the communication take away their own users.
"Delay one day and update at noon tomorrow!"
Li Feng shook his head and made another decision. Originally, the new version of WeChat was launched today, but after learning that Tencent launched the communication, he decided to delay the launch for one day.
"Why the delay, Brother Li?"
Everyone on the WeChat team looked puzzled. Li Feng took a deep breath and said, "Because I want those communication users to stop downloading this software after using communication once."
The current functions of communication are very similar to WeChat, and with Tencent's strong promotion power, it is estimated that the download volume will definitely increase several times by tomorrow. Wait until this time to update WeChat, so that those communication users will know the power of WeChat and choose to uninstall
Communication.
People are curious. Even if WeChat updates the version at this time, many users will not download the communication at all. But as the communication version catches up, users out of curiosity may still download it and take a look.
But the mentality of users who have uninstalled it is completely different. In their hearts, they will feel that Communication is a software that follows the trend and is outdated. So no matter what changes there are in Communication in the future, most of these users will not download it.
Li Feng, this is the effect he wants.
Download it. The more people download it now, the more users your communication will lose by then.
Of course, Li Feng didn't dare to take too many risks. One day was already the limit. A big feature of this instant messaging software was that it was easy to form a circle. Once a person's circle of friends was formed, for the sake of this circle of friends, he would probably not
Uninstall software easily.
ps: I would like to apologize to everyone for not updating yesterday. I feel a little weak at the moment when I write this book. I find that I am not very suitable for business war and I am too tired to write it, so I have been thinking about how the plot should go in the past two days.