Chapter 348 Losing the first place? Zhou Hongyi: Chen Yansen is my close friend for many years!
On November 29, Mao Chaorong selected a group of key personnel from Today Technology and set off from Pudong International Airport to the Los Angeles branch.
He never expected that he wanted to return to China to start a business, but in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed and he ended up back in the country of the beacon.
In addition, with the support of Senlian Capital, Qu Fang established a company called Xingyin Technology in Shanghai.
Xiaohongshu, which is modeled after Instagram, has officially entered the research and development stage.
Ma Wenteng reacted calmly when he learned about it. After all, in private, WeChat was frantically copying Orange Pay’s product functions and business logic.
Xiao Ma Ge knew that he had done something wrong, and considering the good cooperative relationship between the two parties, he did not think that the loss of Mao Chaorong and Qu Fang would have any negative impact on Penguin.
What's more, Liu Zhiping's recommendation of talents to Chen Yansen had already been approved by him.
Talent?
What China lacks the least is talent! Every year, there are seven or eight million college graduates. Even if you have to pick one out of ten thousand, you can easily find seven or eight hundred people.
In the past two days, what made Xiao Ma Ge most happy was that the result of the lawsuit between Penguin and 360 came out, and Zhou Hongyi had to pay him 5 million yuan in compensation.
In a sense, Penguin finally won the 3Q war.
The other side.
At the 360 headquarters in Yanjing, Zhou Hongyi was annoyed, but he could do nothing about it. The big boss above had spoken and forced an end to the 3Q war.
360 has to pay this money!
"Damn Ma Wenteng!" Zhou Hongyi was so angry that he cursed.
Fortunately, the popularity of 360 mobile phones gave him the greatest comfort. In the past six months, a total of 7.1 million units were sold, far exceeding the market performance of Xiaomi mobile phones.
"I've said it before, making mobile phones doesn't require any technical skills. A certain brand of whole grains holds press conferences for two or three hours each time, but users don't buy it, and the sales volume is a slap in the face! This shows that our domestic mobile phone buyers are all smart and wise!"
Zhou Hongyi was angry with Xiao Ma, so he turned around and took it out on Lei Yijun.
Although he did not mention any names, who doesn't know that he was scolding Xiaomi? Some netizens who love to stir up trouble, fearing that Lei Yijun would not respond in time, took screenshots of Zhou Hongyi's Weibo and posted them to the comment section of Lei Yijun, Li Wanqiang and Lin Bing.
Just as Lei Yijun was about to retort, he was immediately stopped by Li Wanqiang: "Boss, I'll do it!"
"Master Zhou, since you said that making mobile phones does not require any technical skills, then do you dare to develop your own operating system? A mobile phone brand that does not even have its own operating system and supply chain, is this any different from a special-purpose phone?"
Three minutes later, Li Wanqiang opened the microphone passionately and cursed without any mercy.
"If I were Mr. Chen from Senlian Capital, I would definitely terminate the cooperation with 360 Mobile Phones immediately. Let's see if you dare to say shamelessly that making mobile phones does not require technology." Lin Bing followed closely and fired at Zhou Hongyi.
"As everyone knows, Mr. Chen from Orange Technology and I have been close friends for many years. Orange Technology has core patents in mobile phone operating systems, battery management systems, camera algorithms, and fast charging technologies. How dare an assembly brand like Xiaomi come to challenge us? Let me ask you, where does Xiaomi's voice interaction engine technology come from?"
Zhou Hongyi hastened to clarify, boasting proudly about his close personal relationship with Chen Yansen, and also revealed Xiao Ai's background.
Three days ago, Lei Yijun announced on Weibo that he would launch a free intelligent voice interaction software on December 10. The functions and product name are tentatively determined, which instantly attracted a large wave of traffic.
Seeing this, Lei Yijun was furious and finally couldn't help but say: "I respect Chen Yansen and Orange Technology very much, and I always believe that one day in the future, Orange Technology will become the mountain star of China! Do what you are good at, do it to the extreme, pay tribute to your friends, and walk with them!"
Lei Yijun's reply was ambiguous, with only praise for Orange Technology.
In his words, there was no response to Zhou Hongyi's questions at all.
"Mr. Lei, I'm a Mi fan, can you tell me secretly, where did Xiaomi's voice interaction engine technology come from?"
"Is there any need to ask this? I can figure it out with my toes. It is very likely that Orange Technology provided the technical solution."
"Mr. Zhou, when will the 360 mobile phone be equipped with an intelligent voice assistant? You have such a good relationship with Mr. Chen, is it possible that you still can't get the technical authorization?"
“Can anyone explain whether Xiaomi’s smart voice assistant is independently developed?”
For a while, netizens started discussing in the comment section of Zhou Hongyi and Lei Yijun.
Seeing this, Lei Yijun knew that if he didn't clarify, the negative comments online would have an impact on Xiao Ai's launch.
Therefore, with the assistance of the technical department and the public relations department, Lei Yijun carefully published a blog post, which can be simply summarized as follows: speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis technologies are provided by Orange Technology, and the core semantic technology is independently developed by Xiaomi.
In other words, it is equivalent to admitting that what Zhou Hongyi said is true.
In addition, Lei Yijun announced the product name for the first time, and the search term "Xiao Ai Tongxue" quickly topped the hot search list.
"Lei Yijun really made an intelligent voice assistant?" Huawei's Yu Chendong said in disbelief.
In his opinion, even if Orange Technology provided the development tools, given Xiaomi's technological background, it would be impossible to complete the development work within a few months.
unless……
Orange Technology's speech analysis development kit is more powerful than he imagined.
"Whether or not the smart voice assistant has a positive impact on Huawei's sales, I should not ignore this trend."
Yu Chendong frowned and made a quick decision to go to Xucheng tomorrow and get the patent authorization no matter what.
The heads of brands such as OPPO, Meizu, and Lenovo were not affected at all.
In their eyes, installing an intelligent voice assistant in a mobile phone is "not doing the job properly". What users care most about currently are performance and cost-effectiveness, as well as whether the screen is big enough, the photos are clear enough, and the games are smooth enough.
If you want to run the smart voice assistant perfectly, you have to increase the memory configuration.
The material cost of mobile phone running memory is not low. Depending on the brand, procurement scale and supply and demand relationship, the price of a 1GB RAM module ranges from 60 to 150 yuan.
Raising the product price just for a dispensable smart voice assistant is totally not worth the cost.
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Xucheng, Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.
In between developing instruction sets, Chen Yansen hurriedly watched the verbal battle between Xiaomi and 360, and muttered to himself: Their mobile phone sales have not declined, why are they starting to hype up the popularity again? Because the Orange Mobile Phone Factory has undertaken all the OEM orders for Xiaomi and 360 mobile phones, Chen Yansen can roughly guess their total sales and monthly sales.
Chen Yansen didn't think much about it. After taking a short rest, he continued to work.
at the same time.
Microsoft announced that MSN will be "retired" in a few months and its business will be merged into Skype, marking the end of the MSN era.
Sina Weibo has teamed up with Ali and started negotiations on investment in the company in order to open up new profit growth points in commercialization.
That afternoon, employees of Lashou.com's Shanghai branch clashed violently with Meituan's sales staff, and many people were hospitalized.
In fact, the people who first had verbal disputes with the LaShou employees were a few business BDs from Kuapao. However, before the LaShou people could start a fight, they were surrounded by Yunsu couriers, Kuapao deliverymen and market staff from Kuaidi Taxi.
The person who held the man's hand was so frightened that he dared not breathe and apologized repeatedly before he was spared a beating.
Then they met people from Meituan at the next intersection.
Lashou’s group purchase commission is 5%, while Meituan’s business department keeps pulling merchants, saying: “We only want 4%, which is 1% lower than Lashou.”
Take food from their bowls! You know, the income of ground-based business is closely related to the group purchase output of merchants.
Therefore, Lashou relied on its large numbers to catch up with Meituan Business.
The people who were running with chopsticks were watching the fun the whole time!
Although the group buying industry report for November 2012 has not yet been released, many practitioners believe that with the traffic support from Pinbei and AutoNavi Maps, Kuapao's group buying business has grown extremely fast, and its monthly transaction volume has most likely jumped to first place in the industry.
Meituan, the former leader in group buying websites, has seen its market share almost stagnate due to pressure from Kuaipao and Lashou, as well as the loss of Shan Jiawei.
Group buying websites are now the “number one”, and although their subsidy activities have never stopped, their market share continues to decline due to the lack of ecological complementarity between navigation and online car-hailing products.
Zhang Tao knew very well that Dianping’s position as the market leader might be lost.
Before Senlian Capital and Qiandu.com entered the market, he and Wang Xin could still fight back and forth, but in front of the capital giants, neither Meituan nor Dianping was good enough in terms of funds and technology.
In addition, the customer acquisition costs of Meituan and Dianping remain high. The longer they compete with Kuaipao and Lashou, the greater the losses will be.
It was not until this time that Zhang Tao took Sequoia Capital's Shen Nanpeng's proposal seriously for the first time, thinking that perhaps only a merger with Meituan would allow everyone to persevere.
After the merger, who would be the boss between him and Wang Xin? Thinking of this question, Zhang Tao became hesitant again.
He knows Wang Xin well, and he will never be inferior to him! The valuations of Meituan and Dianping are similar, and once they merge, there will inevitably be many conflicts between the two sides.
But if they don't merge, it will be easy for them to be defeated one by one by Kuaipao and Lashou.com, and then they will suffer the same fate as WoWotuan.
After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Tao called Shen Nanpeng and immediately expressed his attitude.
“No problem, I’ll go and communicate with Wang Xin.” Shen Nanpeng agreed readily.
He also doesn't want Sequoia Capital's initial investment to go to waste!
(End of this chapter)
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