"So, the vote I got from Cyber today carries a lot of weight," Chen Dong said tentatively.
"Putting everything else aside, just the trick you used to poach someone's partner..." Xiang Feng reminded him, "Cyber doesn't fall for that at all."
Chen Dong raised his eyebrows smugly and then explained, "I didn't expect him to fall for it, but my actions just now have planted a seed in his mind."
Seeing Xiang Feng's puzzled look, Chen Dong added, "A seed of doubt will make him pay more attention to the internal personnel assessment of Tencent when he is evaluating Tencent Technology."
"Mr. Ma's employees are all newly recruited. Although some of them have already participated in the project, they haven't been officially hired yet."
"I believe that a good working relationship is definitely not as convincing as that of veteran technologists like us."
Xiang Feng truly hadn't expected that Chen Dong possessed such a deep and calculating nature.
He said with some surprise, "So that's what you were planning!"
"Do you still think I haven't managed to handle Cyber?" Chen Dong asked.
Xiang Feng thought for a moment, "Not necessarily. Next, Yellow River Capital will send their people to visit Tencent Technology together with Cyber."
"Weren't you, your assistant, and the others going to inspect Tencent Technology together?" This arrangement was truly ingenious and surprised Chen Dong.
"This is to avoid collusion between them. Asia Travel Company is mainly responsible for investigating ICQ, while Yellow River Capital is mainly responsible for investigating QQ."
To diversify risk, investment companies often choose to cooperate. This allows them to share information and reduce the foreseeable risks of investment. Therefore, it is not uncommon for investment companies to jointly invest in accordance with certain proportions.
Xiang Feng commented, "Cyber, as the intermediary liaison in this investigation, can also be considered a referee."
That sounds pretty fair!
Yellow River Capital is an investment company in Hong Kong. Chen Dong had only heard of them before, but had never dealt with them.
The owner of Yellow River Capital is Polosky, a Russian. Once, when he came to the mainland, the people there, upon hearing his name, immediately gave him the Chinese name "Po Luo".
He was quite happy to hear this, and from then on, he had a new Chinese nickname.
That day, the boss of the firm, the investment director, the risk control manager, and the investment manager were all in the office, waiting for the market research results that Aliya brought back from overseas.
"Poro, we previously sent sales representatives around the world to investigate communication network tools, and the feedback has now been sent back." Aliya walked into the boss's office and said to the boss, "Similar products are distributed all over the world."
"In Europe and America, ICQ from DragonTech is the main business, while in China and Southeast Asia, ICQ and QQ are mainly distributed across different regions."
"ICQ has a slight edge over QQ in terms of user numbers, but given QQ's current aggressive stance, I believe it will soon dominate the Chinese and Southeast Asian markets."
"Many internet users in Southeast Asia now have both ICQ and QQ downloaded on their computers."
"What about the other regions?" Poro asked.
Aliya opened the documents and said, "We found a similar product in Israel, which is also a communication network tool with social networking and interactive dating as its main core functions."
"This Israeli software was developed by three young men."
"However, according to the salesperson, after downloading the software and trying out its functions, they found that many of the software's functions were limited and many of its designs were rather useless."
"It's like a product that copied and imitated ICQ."
Aliya presented download data for the Israeli communication software and explained, "Due to a lack of technical support and investment in promotion, although the product has achieved some success in the Israeli and Al-Stan areas after its launch, its market reach and user base are too small to make it a trend."
Aria held a stack of documents in her hand, distributing them to the company's CEO while explaining:
"As for the Longteng product, it has already occupied the number one position in terms of user ownership on social networks in Europe, America and Southeast Asia."
"Moreover, Longteng Company's investments in various industries, whether virtual products or physical products, are very stable."
"Putting the products aside, I think this company has always been quite steady in its approach."
Next, Aria presented a market research report on Penguin Technologies' new products.
"However, a few months ago, a product called QQ suddenly appeared in the China region. This product was developed by Tencent Technology."
"When QQ was first launched, the original version had very limited functions and an unattractive interface, so it did not make a splash in the market."
"However, later, Penguin secured an investment. After receiving the investment, they hired engineers and technicians at high prices and spent a lot of money on product promotion."
"They completed the upgrade and optimization of QQ in a short period of time, and the optimized version reached 500,000 downloads within a month of its launch. Currently, QQ has at least 300,000 regular users."
300,000 is a very good number considering the lagging network environment in the Huaxia region.
Moreover, those in China today who can afford computers and the internet are mostly the elite. In addition to working to support themselves, they have enough time and energy to enrich themselves using social networks.
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