With the advent of touch-screen smartphones and the development of wifi and wireless networks, new requirements have been put forward for people's daily communications.
Nowadays, countries all over the world are studying new network environments and doing various experiments and developments.
Because of Xiao Qian's presence, Chinese companies have almost no detours in this regard.
This time Xiao Qian came to Korea. In addition to being responsible for the activities of several groups, he also had a larger layout intention.
"Mr. Jin Beomxiu, I believe you must have gained a lot of inspiration from your trip to the United States, right?"
After making an appointment with the person she wanted to meet, Xiao Qian started the meeting.
Opposite him was an elegant middle-aged man in his forties who smiled bitterly upon hearing this.
"After I went to the United States, I realized that I was really looking for something far away. In this regard, China's TX Company is the most powerful and technologically advanced enterprise."
Xiao Qian took advantage of the situation and said: "So, cooperation between us will not be a problem?"
Jin Fanxiu smiled humorously.
“With the excellence of WeChat, do I have any better choice?”
Yes, WeChat has already been launched, more than two years earlier than in its previous life.
All of this was naturally driven by Xiao Qian.
As early as when he was working with Huawei, BOE and other companies to tackle the touch screen smartphone project, Xiao Qian instructed tx to start the research and development of WeChat.
The application of WeChat is very good, but its technical content is not very high. With the help of Starlight Technology, the research and development process was very smooth.
This also makes WeChat the world’s first mobile instant messaging software.
The Huawei P2 mobile phone newly released this year is officially equipped with WeChat.
Once launched, it was very popular and became popular. Just as the 3G mobile network was launched, the advantages of touch screen smartphones were fully demonstrated.
Domestic mobile phone manufacturers began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain, which also gave WeChat the best conditions to expand the market.
In just over half a year, WeChat has become the department with the most development potential under tx, and its profit expectations have far exceeded other projects.
The birth of WeChat made Xiao Ma and others very lucky.
Originally, QQ had already seen an obvious decline, and everyone at TX was also having headaches with the company's operations.
Well now, WeChat is here.
In the field of instant messaging software, tx is still king.
Just when everyone in TX was rejoicing at the success of WeChat, Xiao Qian was not satisfied and set his sights overseas.
In the previous life, tx started too late in the field of mobile communication software. At best, it could only rely on its abundant capital to share profits from other markets. But it is different now. tx is the leader in this industry, and of course it must expand aggressively.
Following the principle of starting in a familiar place, Xiao Qian targeted South Korea as his first overseas market.
Just this year, a middle-aged man named Jin Fanxiu came back from the United States.
Kim Beom-soo founded the famous game company Hangame in 1998. After merging with Naver in 2000, he served as the co-representative of nhn.
In 2007, Kim Beom-soo chose to resign and went to the United States.
While in the United States, he witnessed the rapid development of the mobile phone wireless network industry and clarified the future development direction. After returning to South Korea, after a series of efforts, his career finally reached its peak.
However, he did not stay in the United States for long in this life, because after deep experience, he discovered that the United States is even slightly inferior to China in the field of wireless network technology.
Especially when he compared the performance of Apple and Huawei mobile phones, this became even clearer.
After returning to South Korea, when he was still thinking about what to do with his career, he didn't expect that tx came to him.
When the person in charge of tx showed him how to use WeChat, Jin Fanxiu immediately knew that this was what he wanted.
"Now that Mr. Jin has a direction, we at TX will provide as much help as we can. We will help you with technology and funds."
Even if Xiao Qian doesn't mention it, Jin Fanxiu will ask tx for investment and help.
His own capital is limited, and if he wants to raise funds from outside, he will need to lobby everywhere. Changes will happen later, and the mobile phone instant messaging software market really cannot wait.
Under Xiao Qian's control, Jin Fanxiu led his team and signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with TX.
According to the agreement, tx invested US$3.5 billion and provided a full set of core technologies and copyrights of WeChat to help Jin Fanxiu develop instant messaging software suitable for the Korean market.
The company founded by Jin Fanxiu was named kakaotalk by Xiao Qian.
Yes, Kim Beom-soo was the founder of kakaotalk in his previous life, and he dominated the Korean mobile phone instant messaging software market. With the success of kakaotalk, Kim Beom-soo's net worth soared to 9 billion US dollars.
In his previous life, tx only invested in kakaotalk in 2012. To put it bluntly, it was just a financial investment.
In the history of mobile instant messaging software, kakaotalk is the originator.
One year after the birth of this software, WeChat was launched. It took another half a year for Line to appear in front of the world.
Now because of Xiao Qian's stirring, everything has changed.
At the end of 2008, WeChat became a pioneer in the field of mobile instant messaging with a very mature attitude.
Jin Bumxiu has just returned to Korea not long ago, and the team has not even been formed yet. Of course, kakaotalk is still far away.
At this time, when TX invests in KakaoTalk, it is not just a simple investment, but it has absolute say. KakaoTalk can also be regarded as a branch of TX and needs to be responsible to the head office.
Jin Fanxiu didn't know what he had lost, but in fact, such a change might be of greater benefit to him.
Because when tx invested 3.5 billion US dollars, he and his team were not just asked to develop kakaotalk.
"I know that Mr. Jin once worked at the NHS and has extensive contacts there. What do you think of us cooperating with the NHS to jointly develop the Japanese market?"
Yes, Xiao Qian has great ambitions. He even wants to win the Japanese market.
Japan’s mobile instant messaging software is line, and it is also very popular in many countries and regions.
However, many people don’t know that line was actually developed by a Korean company.
The nhn group that developed line is naver, the largest Internet search engine in Korea. Because it merged with hangame, it was called nhn at this time.
It will not be called Naver again until 2013, after Naver and Hangame separate.
Originally, as the largest search engine company in South Korea, after Naver owned Line, it should have dominated the domestic Internet field like Google.
However, the reality is ironic. Even with the support of Naver, line cannot beat kakaotalk, which started earlier and has been loved by the people in the country.
Shin Chung-ho, the boss of nhn, had no choice but to take line to Japan. Unexpectedly, it got out of hand and quickly occupied the Japanese market, truly blossoming outside the wall.
Now Xiao Qian doesn't even want to miss this opportunity.
When he informed Jin Fanxiu of his intention to join forces with Nhn Group to jointly expand the Japanese mobile phone instant messaging software market, Jin Fanxiu was also very excited and immediately acted as a middleman to connect tx and nhn.
nhn already had ideas about the mobile phone instant messaging software market.
However, we have no experience or technology, so we have to start everything from scratch. If TX wants to establish such cooperation, it will simplify the development process of nhn at once. Is there any reason not to agree?
Not only that, NHS also injected US$1.5 billion into KakaoTalk, becoming KakaoTalk's second largest shareholder.
Originally, Shin Chung-ho and Kim Beom-soo wanted to get it right in one step and directly transplant kakaotalk to Japan intact, but Xiao Qian persuaded them not to do so.
Just kidding, in any case, kakaotalk is a software with a strong Korean flavor. If it were to be launched in Japan, the Japanese would definitely resist it.
Why is line so successful in Japan?
It is because nhn wisely stripped away the Korean color and made the software more local.
After listening to his advice, Shin Joong-ho and Kim Beom-soo suddenly realized and remade the line.
In fact, whether Line, KakaoTalk, or even the original WeChat, the content, usage, and core programs are exactly the same. They are just covered in different skins, and as a result, they have unified the East Asian mobile instant messaging software market in a very short period of time.
Xiao Qian made stipulations for the three companies, tx, kakaotalk, and line, to realize the interoperability of the three softwares at the appropriate time.
In other words, one day in the future, users of the three softwares can communicate across software. After all, except for the names and different languages, the three softwares are actually exactly the same thing.
And Xiao Qian's visit to South Korea this time also contributed to a big event.
In early December 2008, Samsung officially released the first touch-screen smartphone it developed. At the same time, it was announced that this phone was equipped with the Hongmeng system.
After all, in this world, there are no mobile operating systems for Samsung to choose from.
iOS is for Apple's own use and is not made public.
Because Google's Android system has been censored, its launch is far away. It involves many patent issues, which Google cannot solve in a short time.
Nokia's Symbian system has been proven to be a complete scam.
Therefore, there is only one mobile operating system on the market that is completely open and free to use, and that is the Hongmeng system.
Samsung has no choice but to accept it.
For this reason, a fierce battle broke out within Samsung.
Some people, led by Lee Jae-yong, are very resistant to accepting Hongmeng and even plan to develop their own operating system.
Li Fuzhen, who was originally very quiet, stood up this time and strongly supported the use of Hongmeng system.
In the end, Li Fuzhen won a great victory, and the entire group got to know the eldest princess again.
Originally, the eldest princess suddenly married a security guard last year, which caused the group to encounter a huge public controversy and was very passive. Everyone thought that she could only survive at the Shilla Hotel and Everland, relying on two marginal enterprises.
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No one expected that in this battle, she would actually win.
The reason why Li Fuzhen was able to win is actually very simple.
That's time.
With Samsung’s strength, can it develop its own operating system?
Although Samsung has never set foot in this field, given its size, it is definitely possible to develop it as long as it is willing to spend money.
But time waits for no one.
Both Apple and Huawei have already conquered the new mobile phone market and are about to lose their market share.
If it really waits for its own operating system to be developed and the market fails to enter, then Samsung's mobile phone business will be completely destroyed.
The example of Nokia is right in front of us, letting all Samsung people know that the time is urgent.
Of course Lee Jae-yong felt threatened by Lee Fuzhen, but he could do nothing.
He did know that there was something fishy about his sister's marriage, but he didn't dare to reveal it.
Now is different from the past life.
In his previous life, he was the only heir. Even if he made some small moves, Li Jianxi would pretend not to see it.
But now, Lee Jae-yong has made such a mistake in major decisions, causing Lee Kun-hee's view of him to unexpectedly change.
Li Fuzhen made his debut and his voice increased greatly. At the subsequent joint meeting of the group, he was appointed as the head of Samsung's mobile phone business, officially joining the core of Samsung Electronics.
Everyone had a premonition that there seemed to be another turmoil within the Li family.
