Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1344 Filtering Software
New year and a new look.

Zhou Buqi focuses on the Internet industry. Under the chaos of the economic crisis, many companies have adopted a series of measures in order to make a big profit by hunting down the bottom line.

Shanda wants to split off the game business and go public separately. After acquiring Hurray and Cool Six, they reorganized and established a new company, Shengshi Films. Through a series of capital operations, they want to build an entertainment empire.

NetEase is speculating on concepts, expressing its position to the capital market with great fanfare, saying that NetEase is going to take the route of "Internet + agriculture", investing tens of millions of yuan in technology to raise pigs, and broadcasting the process of raising pigs online.The stock price has reacted positively and seems to be bullish on this high-end pork industry.

Sohu has also made a big move. On January 1nd, it officially announced the good news!

After the agency contract of "World of Warcraft" is terminated with Ninetowns in April this year, it will be represented by Changyou, a subsidiary of Sohu.The news was quickly confirmed by Blizzard officials.

In this business, Zhou Buqi has contributed a lot.

In the previous life, Ninetowns had a stalemate with Blizzard, and another fight with NetEase, and there was even news that the data of 500 million gamers would be deleted.The various ups and downs that the game has gone through, such as stopping, starting, and stopping again, made all parties look bad, and also caused huge losses to NetEase, the next agent of "World of Warcraft", resulting in slow updates and delayed new copies. Too late to go online.

Zhou Buqi personally came forward to solve this problem.

Zhu Jun is a very proud boss, easy to talk and negotiate, he can do anything, he can't give a humiliating plan like NetEase.The relationship between Ninetowns and Blizzard has been very stiff in the past two years, and it is impossible to renew the contract.As long as the communication is good, the change of agency rights will not cause too much dispute.

It is now resolved.

However, the most sensational thing in the industry is Sina.

The current CEO of Sina is Mr. Cao. He is a professional manager. In the past few years, he led the management team to do a good job in business.When he first took office, Sina almost disappeared and was forcibly annexed by Shanda.

Over the past few years, the business has stabilized, and in the field of political news, it can be called the number one portal in China.

The credit is so great, how can we do it with less shares?

At his level, it is not enough to just offer a high salary. He wants to become the largest shareholder and the real owner of Sina.You know, Sina has a criminal record and once drove away the founders.If you don't make a plan early, maybe you will end up killing a donkey.

Then, he contacted the core management and issued an ultimatum to the board of directors, intending to launch an MBO acquisition of the company, that is, a management buyout.

Either, the management team bought the company and became the actual controller of Sina; or, resigned collectively, Sina loves to do whatever it wants, go play!
In fact, it is a threat to several important shareholders of the board of directors.

Either capital concessions, or management exits.

pick one of two!

You know, it's an economic crisis now, and Sina's share price is seriously undervalued.

Buying stocks at the current stock price is bargain hunting.

The capital will lose a lot.

If it's an ordinary person, they might be acting up their emotions, thinking that a group of minions I hired dare to jump up and rebel against their masters?What a shame!It must be destroyed!Take it!One shot and two parts, at worst, they die together!

Capital would not do this. Dignity is pure nonsense, and profit is the greatest decency.No one cares about a noble poor man, but everyone will go after a mean rich man.In any case, it is the most calm solution to ensure that the interests are maximized.

If Mr. Cao resigns collectively with the core management, the consequences will be disastrous.Sina is paralyzed internally, and competitors such as Sohu, Netease, and Toutiao are putting pressure on the outside, and Sina will undoubtedly die.

Compromise with management and you could lose 50%.Without compromise, it may be a 100% loss.To choose one of the two, of course, choose the former. It doesn't matter at all whether it is dignified or not.

This incident was inside information from Ziweixing's administrative office, and Zhou Buqi couldn't be more aware of it.This kind of operation is very complicated, and it can be considered fast if it can be operated well in half a year, but it will definitely be accomplished.

Similar things are not limited to Sina, Ali's old horse is also doing it. He is communicating with Softbank and Yahoo, and he is also threatening to go together, hoping to redeem part of the equity from them.In fact, it is to use the panic stage of the capital during the economic crisis to maximize their own interests.

It is a contest between the management and the controlling party.

There are also a group of companies such as Haier, Lenovo, Gree, TCL, Changhong, etc., which are more troublesome.What Sina and Ali are fighting against is foreign capital, and this group is fighting against state-owned assets. The control right is under control, and there will be troubles in the future.

However, Zhou Buqi didn't pay much attention to these matters, which belonged to industry trends that had nothing to do with Ziweixing.

But there is one thing that has to be paid attention to.

This is a call from He Yang from the capital.

He Yang's voice revealed helplessness that could not be concealed, "The matter of domestic software has a follow-up result."

"It has been expected for a long time. It is nothing more than Microsoft Office and Kingsoft WPS occupying the market."

To some extent, Zhou Buqi has done WPS a big favor this time.

WPS is powerful enough to serve some small and medium-sized enterprises and institutions, with stable performance and excellent compatibility.In the past half a year, the reason why I was depressed and dared not speak was because I couldn't afford to offend him.

Now that the wind has turned, Microsoft rushes to the forefront, and WPS follows behind to drink soup, and it can naturally regain the market that should belong to itself.Coupled with the free personal version of WPS, the application rate has been greatly improved.

He Yang sighed, "He's not dead."

"What else can you do?"

"Office software doesn't work, look for it from other directions."

"Is the news accurate?"

"Ninety-nine percent. It is estimated that the relevant departments will call for public bidding in the middle of this month. They will build a filtering software and serve the people of the whole country for free."

Zhou Buqi raised a black line on his forehead, "What filtering software?"

He Yangdao: "Now the information on the Internet is so complicated and chaotic, full of all kinds of disharmonious content. Install this filtering software, and you can filter out these contents."

"How is this filtered?"

Zhou Buqi has a headache, this group of people can really mess with moths.

He Yangdao: "I heard that it will cost 5000 million yuan for bidding, maybe 4500 million yuan? Anyway, this is the annual license fee for the software. It probably means that the state spends money to purchase it and give it to the common people for free, in the name of protecting the health of young people online."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's easy to say, how can this matter be so simple? To filter bad information, you must first be able to identify bad information, right? What level of technology does this require? Even if it can be identified, there are so many online information, how big is it?" Amount of calculation? Can an ordinary computer run it? Open this software, and the memory will not be used up?"

He Yang said: "Yes, I asked Xu Liangjie. He said that the United States has been calling for ten years to protect teenagers from surfing the Internet. Major companies have invested tens of millions of dollars to develop various shielding technology systems, but they have no effect. it is good."

"Is this settled?"

"Almost, it's still the same group of people who go to bid for the project."

"We don't participate!"

Zhou Buqi snorted coldly.

He Yang said worriedly: "I'm afraid that the public will avenge my personal revenge."

"Ok?"

"Filtering software, in name, is to filter bad information. If you block the advertisements or some content on Youyou.com and Weibo, it will cause us a lot of losses. After all... the office software may have to be settled on your head."

He Yang's worry is not unreasonable.

This group of people has a strong background, and they have successfully obtained large orders from the country twice, so naturally they will not be afraid of the influence of Boss Zhou.

"You overestimate them!" Zhou Buqi disapproved, "Treat them coldly, pretend not to know. It's really going to be a big mess, I have a hundred ways to deal with them."

Zhou Buqi didn't pay much attention to these things.

After San Dezi came to China, he went to Focus Media with him.

Jiang Nanchun gave a warm welcome.

Mr. Jiang is no stranger to the Internet. He played with the Internet ten years ago and became a billionaire.At that time, he worked as an Internet advertising company, and he provided advertisements for Internet companies near the Yangtze River Delta.

Then the bubble crisis broke out and his company closed down.Only then did I find inspiration from the elevator entrance of the building, founded Focus Media, and played with the business model of elevator advertising.

Now it has gradually entered the Internet and started cooperation with Ziweixing.

Zhou Buqi's ideas for European stadium billboards, from online to offline, actually come from Focus Media.

However, Jiang Nanchun's life has not been easy recently.

"Oh! Don't mention it!"

"what happened?"

"You Internet companies are too careless."

Zhou Buqi said angrily, "Don't attack with shotguns."

Jiang Nanchun broke down and said: "It was originally negotiated last summer. Sina will acquire Focus's digital advertising business, and it was officially announced in December. I have also carried out appropriate layoffs and business adjustments according to their requirements. The handover is over. The result is good, and I recently gave me a message, saying that I will not buy it!"

Coincidentally, Zhou Buqi just read the internal report of the Internet industry and said with a smile: "You must have misunderstood Lao Cao."

Jiang Nanchun frowned, "He did me a terrible job!"

Zhou Buqi said: "It is true that Cao is the chairman and CEO of Sina, but he is just a professional manager, and he has no control over the board of directors."

"I know, he apologized to me, and he is also very unwilling."

"Sina's board of directors is mainly composed of foreign capital, and they value the unity of the industry. Sina is in the Internet business, and suddenly bought an offline advertising business, which is suspected of being dishonest. Your concept of 'cross-media collaboration' is not recognized. I heard that Lao Cao is very dissatisfied and wants to make trouble."

"what's up?"

"event!"

Zhou Buqi looked mysterious.

Jiang Nanchun frowned, "Is it convenient to say?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's nothing inconvenient. Lao Cao may bring his team to force the palace and play management buyout."

Jiang Nanchun opened his eyes wide, "So cruel? He never told me that!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "It's right to be more ruthless, otherwise how will the company's business develop? The business that was originally negotiated was rejected by the board of directors. Everyone feels angry. I guess this matter can be resolved in summer or autumn." .When the time comes, you can make a settlement with them and continue trading.”

Jiang Nanchun nodded.

I am very optimistic about the "cross-media collaboration" business model designed by him, Fuxing Lao Guo and Sina Lao Cao. Even if there are difficulties, I will persist for another six months!

(End of this chapter)