Internet 2010

As the evening approached, the acquisition negotiations came to an end.

The whole process lasted for nearly ten hours, and it was really hard to see.

Of course, the result is probably much more important than the process. Wechat has brought whatsapp under its command, and Luzhou is more confident about the expansion of this overseas market.

In the next time, the acquisition matters only need to be carried out step by step.

Among them, Sequoia first provided WeChat with a $55 million B+ round of financing a year ago as a special fund for the acquisition at this time. WeChat needs to add 27.5 million shares to Sequoia.

This was followed by the disposal of whatsapp shares. The part held by Sequoia was fully converted into new shares of WeChat, amounting to 15 million shares.

Owned by founders Qom and Acton, 50% paid in cash and 50% in shares. WeChat needs to pay a total of 60 million US dollars to the two and 30 million shares. In each subsequent fiscal year, WeChat will also pay options of varying amounts to two people.

After the completion of the entire transaction, Sequoia has accumulated more than 57.5 million shares of WeChat, which is quite a lot, more than that held by Cheng Xuyuan in the team, but the proportion is less than 5%. .

Some people think it is expensive, but if you look at it in the future, this is really the price of cabbage.

If it wasn't for whatsapp, how could Lu Zhou let go of this Sequoia easily.

By the end of December, the dust of the entire deal had settled. WeChat took this opportunity to make an official announcement on purpose.

WeChat acquires overseas messaging app whatsapp for US$150 million!

110 million users of WeChat Huaxia, 50 million users of WeChat overseas, 50 million users of whatsapp!

This is the rhythm of 200 million users in a year and a half! Seeing many colleagues can not help but tremble.

As soon as the news came out, Ma Huateng was so angry that this Luzhou really picked up a good cabbage!

At that time, the acquisition of whatsapp by Penguin failed, and Ma Huateng immediately ordered the M&A and investment department to look for it, and finally bought a share of a Korean communication application called kakao.

how much did you spend? 60 million US dollars, 13% of the shares, the number of users will be nearly 400 million US dollars! Compared with the operation of the road boat, it is really expensive.

Of course, Ma Huateng believes that even if Luzhou is allowed to talk, it will not be much better. Because in the overseas market layout of WeChat, Japan and South Korea are late entry, and the development is not as good as the local communication application.

Wechat asks whatsapp to cost only US$150 million, because in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and other regions, whatsapp and Wechat are really fighting each other.

The next day.

Zhang Xiaolong found Ma Huateng immediately after researching Japan and South Korea. The two communication app companies across the sea have some unique product features, such as emoji store.

This is quite a two-dimensional function, and Leng Shengsheng supports a very large part of the revenue of the two companies.

Seeing how WeChat couldn't catch up, and the lack of resources could not arrive, Zhang Xiaolong naturally had to find a way to change his tactics. If you follow the exhaust of WeChat, you can't keep up with the horses, and you may have surprises if you switch to another company?

Once Ma Huateng made the decision, within a few days, WeChat immediately set up an emoji store, which included various low-cost and well-made emojis. According to Zhang Xiaolong's vision, it is not impossible to learn from Japan and South Korea in the future, and to introduce a group of painters.

But just two days later, WeChat launched a custom emoji system. The system has a few built-in expressions, including the famous "Yao Ming's face", "Xueyou brother" and "Curator Jin"...

Is there a fee for emoji? ! To be fair, this can really be played in Japan and South Korea. And the various magical expressions on WeChat made Ma Huateng a little suspicious of life.

"Do people like this now?"

I don't know if the world is changing too fast, or I'm really getting old.

Seeing that his scarf, WeChat friend circle, and button space were dominated by these various magical expressions, he embarrassedly replied to an email to Zhang Xiaolong: The store is closed, and if you want to customize your expressions, make one.

So far, the WeChat emoji store has only survived for a week.

Ma Huateng couldn't help but think that there is a certain reason why WeChat does not go to Japan, South Korea and the United States to fight head-to-head with the United States.

And just a few days away from 2012, Dream Valley is throwing a few more bombs out.

The first is Wolong of Seven Star Laboratory, which has serialized several articles in several top international computer journals with lightning speed.

"A new deep learning network based on le5, based on the relu paper in 2001..."

"Deep learning has dramatically improved computer vision..."

A few days later, Qixing threw out a so-called "artificial intelligence framework" and "longan"!

As for this so-called, it is probably because most people don't know what this thing can be used for.

It is not easy to publish the content of top journals, which indirectly shows the research and development level and ability of Menggu. However, this "longan" is just a gimmick but has no practical use. This research and development is somewhat of a waste of water. Many people think so.

However, this longan incident has attracted enough attention in the field of peers. Many companies with financial strength have formed a temporary working group to study the "artificial intelligence framework" open sourced by Dream Valley.

It's just that I don't know if I don't see it, but when I see it, I'm really startled.

As far as today is concerned, Huaxia Internet Company, the technology stack between different companies is very different. But anyway, this technology is just a tool to solve the problem. In Internet companies, machine learning and deep learning are actually used, but it is difficult to determine the scale.

I'm afraid that if this "longan" is really easy to use, in the future people will mention artificial intelligence, and the standard that can be thought of is really only the "longan" of Menggu.

Users on the market all use "longan". Are new manufacturers compatible or incompatible?

The discerning person has already seen that ~www.readwn.com~ This road boat is not small!

It has not been long before the footsteps of history have quietly crossed the threshold of 2012.

The l integrated by Longan has won the image large-scale visual challenge held by Gu Ge with a significant advantage!

During this time, Longan's achievements have attracted great attention from academia and industry, because there are too many positions to pull off the second place, and the recognition rate is terrifyingly high! This is not far from commercial use!

Who is second?

The founder of deep learning theory, the chief scientist of Google's artificial intelligence research team...

Countless foreign online media are directly surprised. Is it really a ghost? The laboratory of a little-known Huaxia Internet company inexplicably defeated Brother Gu's artificial intelligence research team? !

The frightened foreign online media hurriedly dug up all kinds of material, and finally dug up one: Brother Gu had intended to acquire this laboratory.

As for the ravaged "great god" himself, Gu Ge's chief scientist has a generous attitude. Not only did he highly appreciate Qixing's longan, but he also admitted that there was an opportunity to work together.

These words made Lu Zhou feel embarrassed, because many of his ideas were the conclusions of the great god's later achievements.

The academic and industrial worlds are noisy anyway, and it is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Lu Zhou sighed deeply, maybe, this is one betago short.