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Chapter 394 Rebus came to ask for advice, the leader accepted his love, and Zhang Shuo took all the glory in the world!
Tuesday, July 5.

Maili Group issued an announcement, claiming that in order to promote the development of domestic mobile phones, it is willing to license its self-developed fingerprint unlocking technology to four domestic mobile phone manufacturers for a fee.

As soon as the news came out, it quickly detonated the Internet.

"Let me go, Germination has made another big move."

"Could it be that Maili Group wants to abolish its own martial arts? Fingerprint unlocking is one of the biggest selling points of Maili mobile phones. Are you not afraid of reducing your own competitiveness by authorizing it to friends?"

"How can you be sure that Maili Phone doesn't have any new unique secret skills?"

"This is also true. Judging from the research and development expenditure disclosed by Maili Group, Maili X2 is still worth looking forward to."

"Even so, Mai Li's move is quite unexpected."

"Didn't people say that if we want to promote the development of domestic mobile phones, we probably can't see that Samsung and the like are running out of money in the Chinese market, so we want to help our peers."

"Cute King Beep!!!"

"What I'm more curious about now is which four manufacturers can obtain the technology authorization of Maili Group."

"Don't dare to think: Is it possible, I have a share? (dog head)"

"Reminiscent of Samsung's licensing of unthinkable technologies before, this matter is really intriguing."

"I can imagine that in the future, many domestic mobile phone manufacturers will start a fierce battle for these four places. It is estimated that people's heads will be beaten into dogs."

"necessary."

"The facts are clear. Whoever can obtain the technical authorization of fingerprint unlocking will be able to secure a position in the second rank of domestic mobile phones. One step ahead, step by step."

"Then the company is probably about to cry..."

In fact, when netizens are eating melons, various mobile phone manufacturers are already taking action.

If there is a relationship, trust the relationship, if it doesn't matter, look for the relationship.

The first thing to do is to confirm the truth of the news with Maili Group, and at the same time inquire about the specific technical authorization details. The so-called paid, what kind of paid method is it.

Maili Group was also very enthusiastic and received inquiries from all parties, and then announced a more detailed plan.

Simply put——

The authorization of fingerprint unlocking technology adopts the method of charging according to the sales volume. Manufacturers who obtain technology authorization need to pay a patent royalty of one yuan for each sold smartphone with fingerprint unlocking.

Strictly speaking, it's not cheap.

Taking Xiaomi as an example, the sales volume of the original time and space in 13 was around 8 million units, which seems to be acceptable.It began to soar in the next few years, and in 18, the annual sales officially exceeded [-] million units.

Added together, the patent fee is still very considerable.

But is it worth it?Absolute value!
As netizens speculated, when fingerprint unlocking technology is still a "rare product", whoever's product can be the first to unlock with its own fingerprint will lead a new wave of sales.

Compared with the increase in sales revenue, this patent licensing fee is nothing.

Secondly, as mentioned before, the fingerprint unlocking technology will not be popular for a few years, and it is expected to be replaced by the new "under-screen fingerprint unlocking technology" soon.

Maili Group also cannot keep charging patent fees.

Still very conscientious.

In the words of Gu Mingzhang, "Mai Li Group has barely recovered its R&D expenditure."

It's very arrogant!

.........

The next day.

Zhang Shuo is processing documents in the office.

In addition to Maili Group getting the limelight yesterday, Xiami Music, a subsidiary of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, also made a breakthrough in the copyright negotiations with Jewel, and officially signed a copyright licensing contract.

Xiami Music won Jewell's non-exclusive music copyright for the next five years at a price of 4200 million.

It's not cheap either.

You know, in about 15 years, in order to obtain the authorization of Jielun music copyright from Tenda Music Group, Wangye Music only needs to pay less than 9 million authorization fees per year.

And this year is only 13 years.

Xiami Music wanted to take advantage of it and obtain a longer-term authorization, but five years was already the upper limit that Jewell could allow.

But it doesn't matter.

After five years, the authorities have already taken action to rectify the problem of copyright monopoly.

The most important thing is that Xiami Music does not have the same ambition as Tengda. It has never thought of saying that it will use copyright monopoly to achieve the goal of unifying the rivers and lakes, and it is only for the games under Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.

The most the most.

That is to take extra care of the emotional fans.

It is not to say that because of copyright issues, he was forced into a corner by Tengda, Wangye and the like.

Especially not being manipulated by Tengda.

Because of Tengda's sudden intervention, Xiami Music must have paid a high premium for this transaction, which is not only reflected in the copyright fee itself, but also some off-site factors.

For example, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment hired Jie Lun as the spokesperson for Dota 2.

Another example is that Maili Group invited Jie Lun to be the spokesperson for Maili Mobile in Asia.

It's all money!

Fortunately, a win-win situation was achieved in the end, and it's hard to say who really suffered.

After all, from the perspective of Germination, even if they don't sign Jie Lun, they still have to sign other celebrity endorsements.

At least in the original time and space.

In the era when stars frequently had thunderstorms, Jie Lun was regarded as a relatively high-quality star.

The only thing that felt frustrating during this process was probably the loss to Xiami Music's Tenda Music Group at the last minute with a lot of cash.

After the first battle after financing, I left with regret.

Fortunately, Tenda's business strategy has always been very flexible. After it was hopeless to obtain exclusive copyright, it soon signed a five-year non-exclusive licensing contract with Jewel.

The price is said to be even higher.

After all, Tenda couldn't come up with a few endorsement contracts that would make Jay's heart flutter.

busy.

Secretary Dai Yutong knocked on the door and came in, "Chairman, Mr. Lei wants to visit you, but he's already downstairs."

"Okay, got it."

Zhang Shuo didn't expect that Rebs would be so brave that he would directly kill Germinal's headquarters.

Get up and go to the door to greet you.

"Mr. Zhang, long time no see!"

As soon as Rebs stepped out of the elevator, he saw Zhang Shuo standing at the door waiting, and he felt very happy at once. Obviously Zhang Shuo didn't show off, which made him very happy.

"long time no see!"

Zhang Shuo smiled and shook hands with Rebs, and asked him to sit on the sofa in the office.

It seemed that Rebus was not treated as an outsider.

This made Rebs even more happy, and said with a smile: "When we met last time, Mengya was still working in Lubei, and now they have their own industrial park. I'm really envious."

This is true.

Walking all the way just now, seeing that Nuoda's Germination Industrial Park is already quite large, Rebs is almost drooling with envy. Poor Xiaomi still doesn't have an independent office building.

There is really no comparison.

"It's nothing. I believe that in a few years, Xiaomi will also have her own park."

Zhang Shuo's words were a bit flattering.

In fact, Xiaomi will not have its own park until a long time later.

"Then I will accept your good words."

Rebs was even happier, and immediately got to the point: "Mr. Zhang, I'm a straightforward person, so I won't go around the bush. Needless to say, you already know the purpose of coming this time, right? How about it? Can you give me a letter?" ?"

As he spoke, he blinked and stared at Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo shuddered, "Don't worry, there must be a place for Xiao Mi among the four families."

"Okay, refreshing!!!"

Rebus was overjoyed, he really didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

Although I was already [-]-[-]% sure before coming here, after all, Xiao Mi can be regarded as one of the budding partners, and there is a little bit of friendship between him and Zhang Shuo.

The only obstacle may be the big brother.

Especially some time ago, Germination had completely torn face with that master again, and Rebus hesitated for a long time before he gritted his teeth and came to visit Binhai City in person to show his sincerity.

Just to show Zhang Shuoliang an attitude——

Between Big Brother and Zhang Shuo, he chose Zhang Shuo!
Zhang Shuo naturally understood it, so he readily agreed without any conditions attached.

Two old foxes!
After fulfilling his wish, Rebs immediately asked another question, "Mr. Zhang, may I know which three other companies were selected?"

In fact, to put it bluntly, I just want to know who is Xiaomi's main competitor.

It's a chicken thief!

"I don't know about that. It needs to be decided by Mr. Gu of my company, and I won't directly intervene." Zhang Shuo is naturally also a master of Tai Chi, and his answer was impeccable.

"..."

Rebs didn't bring a word of faith, and just now he decided Xiao Mi's qualifications.

But since Zhang Shuo didn’t want to disclose it, Rebs couldn’t keep asking, so he remembered another purpose of his trip, and said with a smile: “I heard that Maili Mobile will increase its expansion into the Southeast Asian market. Is it true? ?”

"Boss Lei is very well informed."

Zhang Shuo was a little surprised. These fellow businessmen have good noses. They noticed the first move of the Maili Group when they made a new move overseas.

Wouldn't it be someone who specially sent someone to watch Germination's every move?

"I'm not, I mainly want to drink some soup with the Wheat Group." Rebs was very humble.

"Oh?"

Zhang Shuo glanced at Rebus, "So Xiaomi also wants to enter the Southeast Asian market?"

"I have this idea."

Rebs generously admitted, "However, compared to Southeast Asia, our company is more optimistic about the Tianzhu market. After all, Tianzhu has a large population there, and the demand for smartphones will be very strong in the future."

the most important is.

Tianzhu has a huge demand for low-end mobile phones, which is suitable for Xiaomi.

"Tianzhu?"

Zhang Shuo had a strange expression on his face, "Then I wish Xiaomi good luck."

In the original time and space, Xiaomi entered the Tianzhu market in 14, and Rebs went to Tianzhu to attend the press conference. From this, the famous scene of "Are you ok" was born and became a unique memory of the Internet.

"What?"

On the contrary, Rebs was taken aback, and subconsciously explained: "It doesn't mean that if you enter Tianzhu now, you will conduct market research first, and you will also spend time integrating China's supply chain."

"As soon as possible, it is expected to enter the Tianzhu market in the first half of next year."

"Did I say something wrong?"

Zhang Shuo was also very confused, and told the truth: "Boss Lei, you don't need to tell me Xiaomi's overseas development plan, anyway, it will have no effect on Germination."

"..."

Rebus felt even weirder.

When he left Germination Building, Rebs was still a little absent-minded, so that the vice president waiting downstairs misunderstood, and asked worriedly: "Boss, did Mr. Zhang not agree?"

"accepted."

"Then you are?"

The vice president was taken aback and thought it was a mess, so since it was done, shouldn't he be happy?

"Is it true that Mr. Zhang's attached conditions are very harsh?"

"What are you thinking? Germination doesn't have any strings attached." Rebus shook his head.

"Ah????"

The vice president was completely confused and didn't know how to ask.

"That's right. When talking about opening up overseas markets, I said that Xiaomi plans to enter the Tianzhu market. Mr. Zhang suddenly said, 'Good luck to Xiaomi'. You said, Mr. Zhang, what does he mean by that?"

Dare Rebus is still struggling with this.

"Uh, is it possible that what Mr. Zhang said is purely literal?"

The vice president said that he could not understand the brain circuit of the boss.

"wrong."

Rebus leaned his head on the seat of the business car, and Zhang Shuo's expression when he said that sentence flashed in his mind again, "I always feel that Zhang always knows something inside, but he didn't say it clearly."

"You said, the Tianzhu Market is not a pit, right?" Rebus suddenly became suspicious.

"Isn't it?"

The vice president was not at the scene, so he couldn't resonate with Rebs. He explained: "For the Tianzhu market, the marketing department has gone through more than a month of research, and the research report alone has more than 100 pages."

"We still have to be cautious. In this way, let the marketing department go to Tianzhu again to do more detailed research. Anyway, there is still time, so don't worry." Rebus always felt that something was wrong.

It's bloody intuition.

"Ok."

The boss said so, and the vice president naturally followed it, anyway, he didn't need to run himself.

It's a matter of one sentence.

.........

The next two days.

Due to the blockbuster bomb dropped by Maili Group, the entire mobile phone industry is still in constant shock, especially with the news of "Xiaomi being shortlisted", each company is even more crazy.

Immediately, Warwick and OV were also shortlisted.

Seeing that there is only the last place left, manufacturers who have not yet received tickets are going crazy.

Charm Headquarters.

As early as 10 years ago, Lan Zhang, the founder of Meizhuo, had withdrawn from the daily management of the company, and he will not come back until 14, that is, next year.

The current charm arrowhead is managed by the Three Musketeers.

"Madman, how did Maili Group reply?" It was Lao Bai, the president of Meizhuo, who asked the question.

"Don't ask, it's still under study."

Crazy Li, the vice president in charge of the company's marketing, has been very depressed recently. It is obvious that Germination has hit a wall. "Old Bai, tell me, is it because we accepted Hongyi's investment that Germination doesn't want to see us?"

Huawei, Xiaomi, OV, and Meizuo were originally participants in Candle Dragon Technology.

it's good now.

Except for Meijian, the other three have been authorized, saying that Germina did not do it on purpose.

Who believes?

"Don't discuss this issue any more." Old Baimian twitched.

Although Lan Zhang retired, he was actually the master behind the scenes, and it was Lan Zhang who personally instructed him to accept the investment from Hongyi Capital. Can Lao Bai refuse?

Let alone say.

Before this incident happened, Lao Bai himself agreed with this investment.

There is nothing to complain about.

"If I were Sprout, I wouldn't wait to see us again. Isn't this an enemy?"

The lunatic is still confused.

Those who are in the industry don't know the contradiction between Germination and Dare to Think, and Maili Group, a subsidiary of Germination, is the leader in the domestic smartphone industry.

Offending Sprout because of a little investment, in the eyes of a lunatic, it is really not a wise move.

The most outrageous.

I dare not think that after the group obtained Samsung's technology authorization, it did not say that it would share it with Mizuki.

What is this called?

"It's purely picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon!"

While the two were chatting, Lao Yang, the last member of the Three Musketeers, walked in and said with a solemn expression, "The news I just received is that the fourth manufacturer authorized by Maili Group's fingerprint unlocking technology has been confirmed."

"who is it?"

Lao Bai and the lunatic stood up together.

"Qiku!"

Lao Yang said a surprising name.

Qiku, but not long ago, the brand jointly founded by Qihu and Kuπ, is completely a new player in the industry. Unexpectedly, it unexpectedly stood out and got the last ticket.

"Is it cool???"

Old Bai's face was full of disappointment.

The lunatic couldn't hold back, punched the table, and roared, "Look? This is the end of fighting with Germination. They would rather support a new brand that has just been established than deal with us."

There was an awkward silence in the office.

"Old Bai, can you communicate with Maili Group again to see if we can become the fifth company to be authorized? After all, we are also shareholders of Zhulong Technology and belong to the same camp." Lao Yang was very unwilling .

As the person in charge of technology, he is too aware of the power of fingerprint unlocking.

The charm itself has been going downhill in the past two years, and gradually has a tendency to be surpassed by new forces such as Xiaomi and OV.

"Forget it."

The one who spoke was a lunatic, who had calmed down his anger at this moment, "The situation couldn't be clearer, Germinal is clearly targeting us. Otherwise, we wouldn't have launched a public solicitation."

It is said that it is a public solicitation, but it is actually a budding internal decision.

"Sprout deliberately created momentum on the Internet. One is to try to establish in the minds of consumers that Maili mobile phones are the mainstay of domestic brands, and the other is to deliberately disgust us."

As a master of Internet marketing, Madman Li should not be too clear about the doorway here.

"..."

Lao Bai and Lao Yang were silent, feeling sorry for each other.

.........

It's night, Marina City.

In a box of a high-end restaurant somewhere, Zhang Shuo was having a drink with the leader, accompanied by Gu Mingzhang and others.

"Mr. Zhang, thank you. This time I owe you a favor, a great favor!" The leader's complexion was rosy, and he had already drank a lot of wine, which showed that he was in a very excited mood.

No wonder.

After learning that Rebs visited in person, the leader followed suit. Originally, he came to Binhai City with the attitude of trying it out, but Zhang Shuo really agreed to give up the last spot to Qiku.

This is a big deal.

You know, before this, there was no friendship between the leader and Zhang Shuo.

Strictly count.

When Qihu was competing with Tengda, the leader also took advantage of the conflict between Germinal and Tengda.

"We will be partners in the future, thank you for talking about it."

Zhang Shuo raised his glass with a smile.

While deciding to authorize the fingerprint unlocking technology to Qiku, the network security laboratory under the Wotu Research Institute of the Sprout Group also reached a strategic cooperation with Qihu on network security.

Although Qihu is very rogue in the industry, it has to be admitted that Qihu is really good at network security, and it is also a sharp existence among Huaxia Internet companies.

And it has been investing in research and development in this area.

With the expansion of the budding scale and business expansion, especially when it involves many Internet businesses, including a large amount of operational data, it is necessary to build a strong network security operation and maintenance team.

Cooperating with Qihu can obviously gain a lot of experience.

otherwise.

It is also impossible for Zhang Shuo to say that because the leader personally came to the door, he agreed to give Qiku the last spot.

"Yes, partner!!"

The leader is even more excited, to be able to get closer to Germinal, this trip is definitely worth it.

"..."

Seeing that the leader was so excited, Zhang Shuo hesitated again and again, but still held back not to remind the leader, let the leader beware of cool π playing backstab, hooking up with pessimism halfway.

The main thing is that this hasn't happened yet, so it's not easy to remind.

There is no way to remind.

I just don’t know, in this life, after Qiku accidentally obtained the fingerprint unlocking technology, whether Kuπ will concentrate on cooperating with Qihu and stop paying attention to the olive branch thrown by Pessimism.

After all, this was won by the leader himself, and the credit is the greatest.

.........

At the same time, Tengda Building.

Even though it was night, and even though tomorrow was Saturday, this landmark building was still brightly lit, including the second master's office on the top floor.

"Hey!!"

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the bustling night scene outside the window, the second master felt a little lonely.

Germination's first small move can turn the industry upside down. In contrast, Tenda's influence in the Internet industry is growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Like this time.

Obviously Tengda Music Group was determined to spend a lot of money, but still failed to win Xiami Music and won the exclusive music copyright of Jewel, which cast a musical shadow on the subsequent road to listing.

Tenda Music Group, which has just completed financing, wants to tell a good story when it goes public. Exclusive copyright and dominance of the rivers and lakes are undoubtedly the most attractive.

But now a hole has been torn open.

It forced Tenda to go all out when negotiating cooperation with other record companies.

Even pay a high premium.

What made Er Ye feel uncomfortable the most was that Xiami Music was just an online music platform acquired by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment under the Germination Group, and it seemed that they had never thought of going public at all.

That's what's most frustrating.

Thinking of this, the second master turned around and looked anxiously at a briefing on the table, which reported that Germination has recently been accelerating its overseas deployment, especially in Southeast Asia.

This can't help but remind Erye of Zhang Shuo's suggestion to Tengda at the end of last year.

"Do you want to expand overseas?"

What Tengda did not do, Germination is doing seriously.

"Could it be that Tenda's business strategy has really deviated?"

The second master is in a difficult mood.

(End of this chapter)