Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2170 Panda Moves
From what Zhang Yiming said, Zhou Buqi immediately understood what he meant, and blurted out: "Overseas business!"

"Yes, overseas business." When Zhang Yiming said this, he revealed an excited voice, "You are right again, it really is Microsoft!"

After Ziweixing was split, there was a division of business.

Ziweixing is engaged in domestic business, and Ziweixing International is engaged in overseas business.

However, UC Group has been operating independently, so although UC Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ziwei Star, it can still develop overseas markets.

Well done!
Over the past three years, UC Group has made remarkable and great achievements in overseas markets.

For example, Ucgram, a social product that is currently popular all over the world, was actually affiliated with UC Group at the earliest.

Later, because it was so successful, it experienced the revision from UC Beauty to UCgram, and the division of Ziweixing's domestic and foreign business. The product UCgram was split from UC Group and assigned to Ziweixing International.It also changed its name from "UCgram" to "Ucgram", thus cutting off the brand of UC.

In Zhou Buqi's earliest idea, it was to sell UC Group.But the price is too high and it is not easy to sell.His plan was to split the domestic business of UC Group into two parts, sell them to Baidu and Ali respectively, and split the overseas business to sell to Microsoft.

It now appears that Microsoft seems to have a bigger appetite!
Good thing!

Good thing!
Zhou Buqi asked: "How is UC's overseas business? I forgot to pay attention."

Zhang Yiming smiled and said, "Very good, mainly two products, UC Browser and UC Mobile Assistant."

"How are you doing?"

"Very good. In overseas markets, UC Browser has 3200 million users, and UC Mobile Assistant has 1800 million users."

"not bad!"

Zhou Buqi wants to praise this.

This result is really impressive!
At this stage, there are more than 3000 million smartphone app users, which can be called the current god-level apps. UC Browser has 7400 million domestic users and 3200 million overseas users, with a total scale of more than 1 million!

Amazing!

Zhou Buqi said in surprise: "Is the scale of UC Browser the number one in the world?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "How can that be? There is Google. Google Chrome is bundled with the Android system. I estimate that the number of users may be more than Helo. Like Google Mail, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Apple iTunes, Apple Store, etc. They are all bound to the system forcibly, and are generally not included in the ranking when counting."

Zhou Buqi asked: "That is to say, in addition to Google Chrome, it is UC Browser?"

Zhang Yiming said, "Yes."

Zhou Buqi then asked, "Doesn't count as the domestic market?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "Even if the domestic market is not counted, UC Browser has more than 3000 million overseas users, and it is the second largest browser after Google Chrome. The main markets are Japan, the United States, and Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan, New Malaysia and Thailand.”

Zhou Buqi made up his mind.

Almost as he expected!

The reason why he conceived the idea of ​​selling UC Group's overseas business to Microsoft two years ago is mainly related to the general situation of the technology industry, which is the second-horse battle between Microsoft and Google.

Entering the era of mobile Internet, Microsoft has obviously fallen behind.

On the computer, Microsoft can rely on the bundling of the Windows system to give the IE browser a huge market share.For the same reason, when it comes to mobile phones, Google relies on the advantages of the Android system, and Microsoft will lag far behind in this regard.

The current industry's understanding of the mobile Internet is not deep enough, and almost no one can understand it as clearly as Zhou Buqi. He saw early on that the browser products for smartphones are actually very weak.

According to the idea of ​​PC Internet, the browser is the core product!
It is a center-level product!
As a result, Microsoft will be very anxious.

They don't want to see Google dominate the mobile browser market, but their own IE browser has a bad reputation. attack on Google Chrome.

In this case, UC browser will definitely enter Microsoft's sight.

Zhang Yiming said: "Last year, Microsoft spent a whopping $85 billion to buy Skype, which is not very eye-catching on the mobile side. This has no positive effect on Microsoft's stock price. There are already financial columns on Wall Street, saying that Ballmer and Not up to date. I guess he will make big moves this year."

Zhou Buqi was not sure about this, "You need to be hard to forge the iron."

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "It's hard. If you don't count the mobile phone apps bundled by Google and Apple taking advantage of the system, there are only 10 apps in the world with more than 1 million existing users. I'm talking about smartphones. Among them, 7 are games, "Angry Birds", "Fruit Ninja", "Crossword Puzzle", "Talking Cat", "Bejeweled Array", "Swallow Fish" and "Plants vs. Zombies"..."

"Is it just these 7 models?"

"Seems to be."

"Oh, it's okay, you can continue."

Only then did Zhou Buqi understand that it was no wonder Don Mattrick was so stubborn. He even said that he wanted to change the company's strategy slightly to acquire a stand-alone game company, Take-Two, but he had no intention of objecting.

It turned out to be here!

Changyou has already reached this point in the mobile game market!

There are 7 mobile games with more than 1 million players in the world.

Among them, 5 are Changyou games!
It's dominance.

Zhang Yiming felt more at ease. It seemed that Boss Zhou was not only ignorant of the data of many Ziweixing products, but also about Changyou's situation.

Well, I can understand.

He is in charge of so many stalls, it is impossible to know many business matters.

Zhang Yiming went on to say: "In addition to games, the remaining three mobile apps with over 3 million users are Helo, Facebook and UC Browser."

"No wonder!" Zhou Buqi understood now, "It turns out that UC has developed so well in overseas markets."

It seems that under his leadership, UC has done much better than in the previous life.

Not counting Google-based and Apple-based applications, UC Browser ranks among the top three users in the world.

Attracted the favor of Microsoft, it is too normal.

It's just that he didn't expect that he didn't pay much attention to UC Group, and he didn't come up with any good ideas for UC's overseas business development at all... How did UC Browser become popular overseas?

It is not surprising that it has dominated Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand; it is normal to have won the Japanese market; unexpectedly, it has even entered the US market.

Had it not been for the influence of UC Browser in the US market, Microsoft might not have paid so much attention to it.

Zhang Yiming said in admiration: "The reason why you can develop so well is because your strategic design is perfect. After the strategy is formulated, the next details are the question of winning more and winning less. You will definitely win."

"Stop complimenting me! I know, I'm not helping at all!"

Zhou Buqi spoke very frankly.

Just a little helpless.

Such a big matter was actually mentioned on the phone. If I knew it earlier, I would have gone back to my hometown later.For this kind of thing, face-to-face communication is more appropriate.

Zhang Yiming said very strangely: "How can it be? Without your overall strategic design, how could UC Browser develop so well? It is also impossible to have more than 700 million mobile phones in the United States in just half a year. user."

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was really dizzy, not knowing what contribution he had made, "What?"

Zhang Yiming said, "Fu Sheng."

"Fu Sheng..."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

It dawned on me.

Over the past year or so, Fu Sheng took the investment from Boss Zhou and established a company called Panda Mobile in the United States, mainly targeting the mobile Internet market.

At the beginning, the company's name was "Cheetah Mobile", but the market response was not positive.Later, Zhou Buqi made a suggestion, saying that foreigners like pandas very much, and they can also take advantage of the popularity of the world-famous animated film "Kung Fu Panda", and even get the animation trademark of "Kung Fu Panda" from Ziweixing Global.

Fu Sheng accepted the opinion and changed the name to "Panda Mobile".

Sure enough, it exploded at once.

The company's business strategy is also very simple.

It is by exploiting the loopholes of the Android system, and taking advantage of the unfamiliarity of users with smartphones, and through the background operation of some Apps, to do some activities that walk on the edge of the law.

Previously, Fu Sheng triumphantly reported to Zhou Buqi that his Panda Mobile Assistant, Panda Clean Master, Panda Security Guard, Panda Guardian, Panda Refresh and other product matrices had exerted great power.

In the past year, Panda earned a full $1.2 million in marketing revenue!

This year, Panda's products, technologies and business processes have matured, and the market can be further expanded. It is estimated that the annual revenue can reach 4 million US dollars!
The mode of income is mainly the promotion fee.

For example, after a user installs a Panda-related product in their mobile phone, and UC Browser purchases the promotion service of Panda, then the user's mobile phone will continuously pop up UC Browser advertisements to guide the user to download and install.

That's not a big deal, there's also bundle installation.

Products such as Panda Mobile Assistant, Panda Cleaner, and Panda Security Guard can all obtain the highest authority of the system, which is very fierce.

For example, if a user wants to download the app "Pandora", after the download and installation is successful, the user will be surprised to find that...Huh?I even bought one and got one free. After installing Pandora, I also installed the UC browser.Because users love Pandora, they may love Wujiwu and become loyal users of UC Browser.

There are more ruthless ones.

It is a direct background operation.

In the dead of night, when the people are quiet, the Panda App starts to start in the background, and then quietly downloads and installs UC Browser to the user's mobile phone.

When the user turns on the phone the next day, they will find a small change.Some users don't like it, so they may uninstall it; some users have strong tolerance and weak resistance awareness, and may become users of UC Browser since then.

(End of this chapter)