Chapter 131 IDG Urgently Stops (Subscription Request)
In Yanjing, IDG headquarters, Peter, director of the Emerging Industry Investment Department, has just received Warwick's announcement.
Although Warwick's announcement was mainly aimed at 3G equipment and base station service layout, the content related to the pre-installation of the Extreme Browser on mobile phones made Pete pay great attention to it.
Pete has used the Jiyue browser, and IDG also sent a team to investigate it.
Know that Jiyue Browser is far superior to UC in terms of technology.
It is for this reason that IDG was not in a hurry when it discussed the third round of financing with UC a few months ago. It was just worried that Jiyue’s entry into the market competition would have an impact on UC’s market share.
If UC's market share and the number of new users continue to shrink, a third round of financing will definitely be unrealistic.
The reason why Pete was able to become the Minister of Emerging Industry Investment was not just because he was a heavy drinker or a good talker. The most important thing was his strong intelligence gathering ability, problem analysis ability and insight into the market.
The specific content of the third round of financing agreement between IDG and UC has been negotiated and is waiting for both parties to sign.
Pete quickly called the Legal Department.
I learned from the Legal Department that the contract is in the signing process and is expected to be signed tomorrow and sent to the UC headquarters in Yangcheng the day after tomorrow.
so close!
If the contract is sent to the UC headquarters in Guangzhou, it will be a done deal and cannot be changed.
Of course IDG can also default, but the cost of default is quite high.
Pete quickly stopped the contract.
The staff at the Ministry of Legal Affairs are also getting a little nervous.
In order for the financing agreement to be signed smoothly.
The legal department has also been working overtime in the past few months.
The final version is perfect in terms of legal procedures and can also well express IDG's interests.
Now all the procedures are completed.
Pete called earlier and said that the agreement should not be signed for the time being and it would be best to destroy it.
The head of the legal department had always been at odds with Pete.
I almost had an argument with Pete on the phone.
Peter was too lazy to waste time talking to the other party and said directly: "I will explain the reason to the boss, but the contract must not be signed or stamped."
Pete immediately wrote a report based on the intelligence he had in his hands and reported it to the Xia District Headquarters and the US Headquarters.
The suggestion is to suspend negotiations on the third round of financing agreement with UC.
First observe Xiaguo's mobile Internet market and make a decision after three to six months.
After the report is submitted to headquarters.
The senior management of the headquarters also attaches great importance to it.
The total amount of financing for UC in the third round reached more than 3 million US dollars.
Among them, Sequoia Capital and IDG invested the most, with IDG alone contributing 100 million US dollars.
If UC has no way to guarantee market share and user growth.
Then this investment will definitely go down the drain.
IDG headquarters attached great importance to this matter and immediately terminated the negotiations on the third round of financing agreement with UC and closely monitored the market.
as predicted.
IDG has learned through various channels that all of Warwick's recently manufactured mobile phones have been pre-installed with the Jiyue browser.
Although Warwick has not launched smartphones, most mobile phones on the market can install Java applications.
Therefore, the experience of the Java version of the Extreme Browser is not very different from the Symbian version.
Moreover, Jiyue Browser's data collection and inference algorithm on user usage habits are completed on the server, not on the user's mobile phone.
In this way, even if it is a non-smartphone, users can use the Jiyue browser smoothly.
IDG's decision to let UC take a make-up exam and wait for market feedback is also the wisest choice.
The shipment volume of Warwick mobile phones is not too large, and the shipment volume of those mobile phones bundled with operators accounts for more than 70% of the total mobile phone shipments.
If all the mobile phones shipped by some operators are installed with the Extreme Browser.
Then the crisis of UC has really arrived.
Warwick's efficiency is indeed very high.
Lu Shan soon owned an office.
The office is located in the University Science and Technology Innovation Center of Jiangzhou University Town.
It is also the most prosperous place in the university town.
It is only kilometers away from Jiangzhou University.
There are two floors of offices, located on the 7th and 8th floors of the office building.
The 7th floor is the office, with a total area of 200 square meters.
The 8th floor is where the computer room is located, with a total area of 150 square meters.
The office had already been decorated by someone else.
There are not only floors, ceilings, ceiling lights, but also central air conditioning and partition baffles.
The 200-square-meter office is artificially divided into four areas.
The working area is 100 square meters and has 30 work stations.
There are three offices in the office area, each office is about 10 square meters.
The toilet and pantry occupy a total of 10 square meters.
The tea room can also be transformed into a kitchen.
What remains is a rest suite.
There is a bed, wardrobe and TV inside.
In the computer room on the 8th floor, Warwick's chief engineer has already installed the server and connected it to China Unicom's network.
China Unicom directly gave Lu Shan preferential policies.
The office is equipped with China Unicom’s commercial private network, which is free for life.
Lu Shan quickly moved the server content of Jiyue Browser to the office building.
Without using the school’s server, there is no need to compete with students’ experiments, and security is also guaranteed.
Two companies were soon established.
Among them, the service company that provides base station layout model algorithms to communication company operators is called Huaxun Communication Services Co., Ltd.
The registered address of this company is directly in Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Lu Shan holds 40% of the shares. The legal representative is not Lu Shan, but a senior executive directly dispatched by Huawei. Lu Shan is not interested in this legal representative either, as this means legal liability.
Lu Shan doesn't have to worry about the company's operations at all.
As one of the company's shareholders, every service contract and every payment of the company must be approved by Lu Shan.
Lu Shan only needs to wait to collect money and points.
The second company was registered with the help of the school and Warwick.
The name is Jiyue Technology Co., Ltd.
The registered capital is 50 yuan, and currently there is only one employee and boss, Lu Shan.
Currently there is only one business, which is Jiyue Browser.
After Huaxun Communication Services Company was established.
The first business we took on was the construction of China Unicom’s base station in Chengdu.
As expected, the results calculated using the model were very different from the results that China Unicom had previously hired a professional team to calculate at a cost of millions.
It can save more than 5 million yuan.
This result attracted great attention from China Unicom's top management. After repeated calculations, they decided to adopt Huaxun's base station layout plan.
China Unicom also fulfilled its promise and sent a letter to the mobile phone company it cooperated with.
It is required that from now on, all mobile phones provided to China Unicom must be installed with the Jiyue Browser.
The installation package of Jiyue Browser was also sent to various mobile phone companies.
In 2008, domestic mobile phone companies were in a state of chaos, and competition between brands was extremely fierce.
Many mobile phone brands are in the same league as copycat brands.
Because everyone purchases the same PCB boards and the same signal processing components, homogeneity is quite serious.
The only innovations that manufacturers can make are either a marquee-style appearance, a loud speaker, or a super-long-lasting battery.
These phones cannot compete with brands like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola.
If they want to gain sales, they only have two ways.
The first is to sell it at a low price in mobile phone stores to attract a specific group of consumers.
The second is to cooperate with telecommunications companies and have the products sold by telecommunications operators.
The second model accounts for more than 2% of the sales of some mobile phones.
Telecommunications operators can purchase mobile phones of various brands.
Some brands of mobile phones only rely on communication operators for sales.
Therefore, the communication operators have a very important say.
China Unicom requires mobile phone companies to install the Extreme Browser.
It does not cost much to install a browser before the phone leaves the factory, and the space occupied by the Jiyue browser is also very small.
The mobile phone company has no choice but to follow their instructions.
It would be a big deal if we offended the telecommunications operators and had no channels to sell mobile phones.
Just one week.
The number of new users of Jiyue Browser has exceeded 15.
Among these 15 new users, the number of daily active users can reach 8.
This data is very scary.
This means that user stickiness is much higher than UC.
Early Saturday morning.
Some daily necessities from Lu Shan’s old home were moved to the independent bedroom in the office building.
The office building is actually quite lively.
The office building has a total of 13 floors, and every floor is filled with companies.
Although most of them are shell companies, at least they are popular.
And this is the most lively place in the university town.
Life is very convenient here and the school is also close.
Lu Shan also plans to get a bicycle.
This way, going to class in the morning and coming back in the evening will be faster than walking.
Boys' lives are simpler.
A few sets of clothes and toiletries are all you need.
After tidying up the room, Lu Shan turned on the computer and logged into his email.
In addition to replying to relevant academic emails to editors of some academic journals.
Lu Shan also maintains email correspondence with Tang Yi.
In addition to discussing some academic issues, the two also talked about work and life.
Tang Yi also knew that Lu Shan had already gone to college, so he specially recommended some professional books to Lu Shan.
For example, Tenisten Needham's "Visual Complex Analysis" and Euclid's "Elements of Geometry".
There are some books that are considered bibles in mathematics.
Although they are simple and their knowledge is not particularly advanced, Lu Shan has already mastered it completely.
However, when reading the original text, you learn not only knowledge, but also the way and approach of a generation of mathematical giants in thinking about problems.
This was very helpful for Lu Shan to carry out mathematical work.
There are even more classic works on cutting-edge mathematics.
Lu Shan replied to Tang Yi's email, expressing his gratitude and sharing some of his experiences after college.
Just when Lu Shan was about to close his mailbox, he discovered that there were 99+ unread messages in his mailbox.
Open it and take a look.
This is not some advertising email, but some partners have gone crazy.
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