Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1850 Social Networking
Soon, the Spring Festival will come.

According to Zhou Buqi's intention, this year's Spring Festival can be spent directly in Shanghai, or go to Pengcheng, or even the Hong Kong government.It was too cold to go back north.

Parents in this generation can actually accept it, and the father even shamelessly handed over the decision-making power to his son.However, it will not work in the previous generation.

Grandpa said that he would go back to the Northeast for the New Year.

I have to go to my hometown village to give red envelopes to the villagers.

There was no other way, so Zhou Buqi could only take the whole family back to Spring City in the northeast, and came to the Zhou family compound that had been refurbished, repaired and decorated.

There are three villas in total.

The set on the left is where grandpa, parents, aunt Liu, sister Zhou Nan, and other distant relatives who may come to visit live.

The ones in the middle and the one on the right belong to Zhou Buqi.

There is no way, the villa is too small... Well, to be precise, there are too many people.

In addition to Zhou Buqi, there are Wen Zhixia, Shi Jinglin, Wu Yu, Xue Baoshan, Zhen Yu, Ning Yaxian, Ning Yameng, Sun Guanran, Ning Lu, Aunt Xue, four children, and Ning Lu She brought her cousin He Feifei to spend the New Year with her.

That is to say, Shi Jinglin didn't bring her two half-sisters here, otherwise the population would be even larger.

With so many people, the parents don't really care.

Grandpa couldn't get used to it, so he simply separated.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, Zhou Buqi took his son and his mother Ning Yameng to have a simple meal with the elders.The old man was also quite open-minded, so he let him go.

Only then did Zhou Buqi return to his den to start the official New Year's Eve dinner.

"My grandfather just issued an important instruction, let me carry it out!"

When he came back to eat here, Zhou Buqi was rude, and sat directly at the head of the long table, and then he was powerless to convey the imperial edict of his grandfather.

The other people sat on the left and right sides, but they actually sat at random.

It was so late that the children were all asleep.

Adults are also more relaxed.

At this moment, sitting on Zhou Buqi's left hand was Zhen Yu, and on the right was Sun Guanran.

Sun Guanran blinked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Buqi said: "My grandfather said that there are too few boys in the family. The most important task of our family this year is to have a few more boys."

As soon as the words fell, one after another angry eyes stared over.

Shi Jinglin snorted coldly, "You're not ashamed either!"

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, and said casually: "Why am I ashamed? It's so funny, having children is the biggest thing in life. Xinxin, Niannian, Ningning, there are three daughters, and the son is Zhou Zhou. One, it's a little less."

Of the three daughters, Zhou Xin was actually not born to her, but Ning Yaxian and her ex-husband.

But this is more taboo in the Zhou family.

Everyone treats Xinxin as their own. Except for her grandpa, who has a relatively external performance, everyone else has good personal cultivation and treats them equally.

This will warm Ning Yaxian's heart, and it will also make Xinxin grow up healthier, without the mentality of being isolated and discriminated against.

As for the son...

His big name is Zhou Jianzhou, and his nickname is Zhou Zhou.

Like the name "Zhou Buqi", it is also the handwriting of a half-baked poet grandfather from ancient times. It took him more than half a year to come up with such a name.

"Jianzhou" roughly means "everything is as simple as it is, and a boat can be formed by a single plank".It is basically another interpretation of the profound meaning of the word "buqi", which can be regarded as a continuation.

As soon as this name came out, everyone liked it very much, thinking that the old man is quite culturally accomplished.

Probably because of everyone's praise, the old man's self-confidence exploded, and he felt that Zhou Buqi's grandson should have more sons, so that he could show his talent and choose a few more meaningful and beautiful names. Good to pass on in the family.

When it came to the matter of having a baby, it was relatively private, so Ning Lu and her cousin avoided it first.Her younger sister He Feifei is only 15 years old, so it is not suitable for her to be infected by bad information on this occasion.

Zhou Buqi said: "Anyway, it's just such a thing. I thought about it...it makes sense. It would be good to have more children. But, don't force it. Whoever wants to have children, raise your hand!"

"Put a fart!"

Shi Jinglin was about to die of anger, thinking that this person was too bastard and shameless.

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "If you don't want to have a baby, why don't you let others live? Okay, let's start raising your hands now. I'll take a look at the situation and evaluate it."

Everyone at the dinner table was silent.

Eyes wide open.

Not a single hand was raised.

Zhou Buqi saw that everyone was embarrassed to raise their hands, so he gave up, waved his hands, and said, "Forget it, let's talk in private later. Sister Bao, go and call Ning Lu back, let's have dinner!"

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Even if it is Chinese New Year, Zhou Buqi's work cannot be stopped. Every night as usual, he has to hold meetings with overseas teams, mainly around the Internet industry.At the same time, it is also necessary to grasp the first-hand developments in Silicon Valley, so as to judge some new situations.

Sure enough, something big happened!
In the first board meeting of the new year, Google passed the proposal to remove CEO Schmidt, and then the founder Larry Page took over the position.

The news has been officially made public.

Within two days, Google's stock price rose by 16.4%, which shows that the market is full of confidence and expectations for this familiar new CEO.

What Zhou Buqi pays attention to is Larry Page's declaration of taking office——

"This is my second time as the CEO of the company. I will work hard to improve the company's turnover rate and execution efficiency, and focus on the biggest bet that can change the world!"

What is a big bet?

At first glance, I am confused and confused.

But as long as the information is not blocked and the latest developments in the Silicon Valley industry can be grasped in a timely manner, everyone knows what the biggest bet he is talking about is.

It's actually a social network!

Last year, Time magazine in the United States selected the person of the year, and it was Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.

Such a selection has actually been criticized in Silicon Valley.

Because everyone knows that many of Facebook's ideas come from Friends, the so-called social network...Ziweixing is no worse than Facebook!
Even in the latest mobile Internet field, Ziwei Star is far ahead!
Overseas mobile Internet is developing rapidly, and the general trend has risen, with hundreds of social products appearing.Among so many products, Ziweixing's Helo ranks first, and the current user scale has reached 1.2 million!
Secondly, Ziweixing is a picture social product Ucgram, with a user scale of more than 7500 million.

These are the two most popular mobile apps at the moment.

Facebook, by contrast, has had little success on mobile.

Facebook is a very complex and huge product, and the design of the product is too complicated and lacks a deep understanding of mobile apps.

Restricted by the hardware configuration of smartphones, the resulting phenomenon is that many smartphones will be very stuck and not smooth when running Facebook.

Therefore, there is a voice in Silicon Valley that "Time" is very correct in putting the annual selection on social networks. This is indeed an emerging product that has brought the greatest change to the world in this era!
In the past, there was a distance between people, and many people would never have contact in their entire lives.

It’s different now. With the platform of the Internet, social networks have connected people all over the world. Except for a few countries, people all over the world can contact each other without hindrance. This is the real globalization. great fusion.

The social network deserves the award.

However, it is not right to award Zuckerberg alone.

To give out awards, at least two people should be given out. It should be Mark Zuckerberg and Zhou Buqi who won the award together.

But there is no way, the editors of "Time" can't understand the development of the Internet situation, and they don't know a lot of inside information at all.

Not to mention those editors, even many people in the industry don't take mobile Internet seriously.Oracle's Larry Ellison has spoken publicly, claiming that "the mobile Internet is drunk driving."It is probably ironic that the mobile Internet is driven by a group of drunk drivers who are ignorant and ignorant. The risk and blindness can be imagined.

In any case, in this era, social networks are the consensus of the whole world!
In the past few years, Google has launched more than a dozen social products, all of which have failed without exception, including Google Talk, which spent more than 5 million U.S. dollars, and Helo spent several million dollars in marketing funds. The hammer exploded, and he was beaten out of his wits.

The failure of social business is the root cause of Schmidt's resignation.

After Larry Page came to power, one of the main things he did was to start the business of social networking.

Zhou Buqi is very concerned about this.

Find a way to sell Twitter to him, find a way to turn the fight with Google into friendship.

Before the Spring Festival, Zhou Buqi and Zhou Shaoning met in the capital, and the main reason was to talk about the third alternative of "WeChat".That is, Asda launched the low-end mobile phone business, and then won the market share of "China Cool Union" in one fell swoop, thereby influencing the user's choice from the terminal, forcing users to only use WeChat and not Q letter.

This is an alternative to an alternative to an alternative.

With the current development momentum of WeChat, 99.99% of them will not be able to use this trick.

However, Astar will definitely launch low-end machine business in the future.

A mobile phone with a retail price of around US$700 is actually nothing to developed countries such as Europe, America, South Korea and Japan. It is just a few days' salary at McDonald's.

But it is not enough for some developing countries. The price is too high, which is the salary of many people for one or two months.

The high-end phone market is very small, with about 20 countries in the world.Even in top developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, 25%-30% of the mobile phone market must be supported by low-end phones.

The real big head of future smartphones is actually the low-end market.

However, the brands of "Aster" and "Ziyuan" are high-end positioning. Once they use this brand to launch a series of low-end phones, they will ruin their reputation, so we can't do that.

Do you want to launch a new brand to make low-end phones?

That would be too difficult.

If you want to successfully operate and promote a new brand, you need to spend a lot of money.

Find Google, it is possible to solve this dilemma!

The case of Google's acquisition of Motorola has basically been negotiated, and the transaction price is as high as 125 billion US dollars.

The purpose of Google reaching this deal is not to make mobile phones in person. It is taboo to be both a referee and an athlete.The bigger purpose is that Google wants to obtain tens of thousands of patents from Motorola, so as to enhance Google's capabilities in mobile device technology.

Zhou Shaoning took a fancy to the "Motorola" brand.

(End of this chapter)