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  Chapter 1159 February Spring Breeze Like Scissors

   What makes Semel even more troublesome is that the Red Clothes leader who left the Yahoo camp and set up his own company, with the support of some people, established a 360 security company to fight against the Yahoo!

Although there is no evidence to directly prove that someone is causing trouble for Yahoo, but the leader in red just established 360, and immediately received a venture capital investment of 10 million US dollars, which shocked the Internet industry in Yanjing. Although 360 did not express its position, is it Who invested in it, but the domestic Internet circle is so big, and the Internet venture capital industry is just a few big players left and right.

  Yahoo entered the domestic Internet with the attitude of a lion beating a rabbit, and invested a billion dollars in Ali in one breath, making Ali the company with the largest cash reserves on the Internet in China, just wanting Ali to become the leader of the domestic Internet industry!

For the rest of the Internet companies, if they want to survive, there are only three ways to go. One is to rely on Ali, which is supported by Yahoo, the other is to defect to the Star Wish Foundation, which is also supported by giants, and the last one is to find other overseas investors. Besides, there is no other way!

The 360 ​​of the leader in red was obviously launched to compete with Yahoo and Ali. As soon as 360 was established, it immediately declared a war against rogue software. Isn't that just bombarding the 3721 company that is now under Ali? Founded by Yi Jiaozhu, he is also the initiator of the wave of rogue software promotion.

  Now the leader in red declares that he wants to start a war with rogue software. Using 360 can directly uninstall those 3721 rogue software. This is obviously a war with Yahoo and Ali.

In addition, the most important point is that 360, in addition to receiving 10 million US dollars in venture capital, is also rumored to acquire the business of Feita Antivirus in China. Asia's largest antivirus software giant!

  Fortinet Antivirus can hand over its domestic business to 360. If no one agrees behind this, even Semel would not believe it.

Semel has asked Yahoo and Ali to tell the entire Internet industry to completely block the leader in red and 360. Yahoo and Alibaba’s businesses, as well as partners and investment companies on both sides, are not allowed to cooperate with 360 companies, but this It's really hard to say how effective the identity ban will be.

But the appearance of 360 has already broken Semel's plan. He wants to directly take over the domestic Internet market, and even a 360 can't stand it. How can he make other Internet companies succumb? , Attracting countless Internet companies to move around, it is even more uncomfortable for Yahoo.

  Now Semel already knows the meaning of Yang Zhiyuan's words. Song Yang didn't come to Yanjing, but in Yanjing's Internet industry, he can feel Song Yang's influence here all the time.

   "The Wishing Star Foundation will take advantage of the opportunity of promoting World of Warcraft to promote the Internet Café Alliance and help 1,000 Internet cafes in major cities in the country to upgrade and upgrade, so that the equipment of these Internet cafes can be upgraded and they can play World of Warcraft games and other games!"

Fang Qiuyu also called Song Yang. The situation in Yanjing is different from that in America. In China, although the number of household broadband users has soared, it is in Yanjing, Shanghai, Users in large cities such as Yangcheng, as well as countless small and medium-sized cities, county towns, and even villages and towns borrow Internet cafes to surf the Internet.

  The Internet cafe industry is in the craziest era in history. It seems that no matter how many Internet cafes are opened, there will never be enough!

  However, the equipment levels of Internet cafes vary greatly. World of Warcraft has certain requirements for computer performance. It is overthinking to expect the Internet cafe owner to take the initiative to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to upgrade computer equipment for a game.

   There is gain only if you give up. If you want World of Warcraft to sweep the game market immediately, the Wishing Star Foundation needs to upgrade some of the computers in the domestic Internet cafes. It is only necessary to upgrade some Internet cafes first.

When the Internet cafes with upgraded equipment are full of Internet users because of World of Warcraft, the rest of the Internet cafes will be forced to upgrade as well, because if the equipment is not upgraded, there will be a lot less users than Internet cafes that can play World of Warcraft. They have to do it if they don't!

  Of course, the money will not be spent in vain. As long as the equipment of these 1,000 Internet cafes is upgraded, 10,000 or 100,000 Internet cafes can be upgraded to Internet cafes that can play World of Warcraft games.

  Another point, taking advantage of this opportunity, Wish Star Foundation can form an Internet cafe alliance, which is equivalent to obtaining an offline promotion alliance and game channels!

  Not to mention now, in more than ten years, Internet cafes will be an important channel for offline promotion, which can be used to promote games, Internet software and other important channels for products.

After mastering the Internet Café Alliance, for a long time, the Wishing Star Foundation will have the strongest offline promotion channels in China. This is very important for the Wishing Star Foundation. 100 million, forming an Internet cafe alliance is absolutely worthwhile, and this will become the most important card in the hands of the Wishing Star Foundation!

  Song Yang responded, "Internet cafe alliances can be formed, and the Star Wish Foundation can provide funds or parts to those Internet cafes that join the Internet cafe alliance to help them complete upgrades!"

   Taking the money from the Wishing Star Foundation, those Internet cafes are not allowed to purchase from the component manufacturers recommended by the Wishing Star Foundation, PA Semiconductor, Diamond Graphics, and Panda Screens? !

The fat and water don’t flow into the fields of outsiders. The cost of these upgraded equipment has finally turned around and returned to Song Yang’s hands. He can also take the opportunity to promote the panda screen and Diamond graphics card. The next two products are estimated to It's about to explode...

   "Song Dong," Fang Qiuyu hesitated, "Who should I entrust the domestic agency rights of World of Warcraft to?!"

This is the most troublesome thing for Fang Qiuyu now. Many Internet companies invested by the Star Wish Foundation, such as Sohu, 8848, Yinghaiwei, Kongzhong, etc., are all eyeing the agency rights of World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is coming.

Now Win Haiwei, telecommunications, forums and other businesses have collapsed across the board, leaving only the agent’s Hotmail mailbox, double-clicking advertisements, barely alive, but the domestic mailbox industry is also fiercely competitive, and the mailbox business represented by Ying Haiwei has begun to lose money. The advertising business has also been surpassed by Sohu, Netease, Sina, etc. No one knows how long Win Haiwei can last.

Investing to win Haiwei may also become Song Yang's first missed investment since his debut. Of course, if he wants to save Haiwei now, there is still a chance, but it requires a large investment, and the World of Warcraft, etc. The agency right of the game is handed over to Ying Haiwei, it will be difficult, and it will bring Ying Haiwei back to life.

Fang Qiuyu asked this question because he also wanted to know Song Yang's attitude and whether he wanted to save Haiwei. If Song Yang was unwilling to intervene, then the Wishing Star Foundation would let go and win Haiwei. It won't be long before the once famous Ying Haiwei, who shook the domestic Internet, is about to collapse.

   "Let's hand over the agency rights of World of Warcraft to Sohu!"

Fang Qiuyu heard Song Yang's words through the phone in his hand, and heard Song Yang's decision. Fang Qiuyu did not expect it. Sure enough, compared to Win Haiwei, the name Sohu came from Song Yang's hand, and it was Song Yang. Yang is most concerned about.

"Let Sohu transform into the game industry and invest more in 8848. Baidu, Pengcheng Penguin and 360 companies will be the key investment targets of the Star Wish Foundation in the future. These companies, no matter how many rounds of investment, the Star Wish Fund Everyone will follow suit!"

Song Yang said to Fang Qiuyu that Yahoo wants to dominate the Asian Internet industry, so Song Yang prepared a few sharp knives for it. The e-commerce industry supported 8848 to fight against Ali, and the portal website was set by Sohu to compete with Yahoo. The search industry arranged for Baidu. Pengcheng Penguin is in charge of the social networking. It depends on how brave Yahoo and Ali are in China and how many levels they can pass!

   "The Star Wish Foundation will invest 210 million yuan to form the World of Warcraft Internet Café Alliance, invest in a thousand Internet cafes, and help them upgrade their systems and hardware..."

Just when World of Warcraft caused waves of waves on the domestic Internet, there was another shocking news that the Wishing Star Foundation spent more than 200 million RMB to upgrade 1,000 Internet cafes, just to be able to play World of Warcraft. This is almost completely paving the way for domestic agents, as long as they get the agency rights of World of Warcraft, they can lie down and make money!

  Just when the domestic Internet companies showed their talents and competed for the agency rights of Warcraft, and even the phone calls started to Song Yang, the Star Wish Foundation officially announced that the agency rights of World of Warcraft national servers would be handed over to Sohu!

As soon as the news came out, the stock price of Sohu on NASDAQ skyrocketed instantly, while the domestic Internet industry was silent, especially before it was constantly building momentum. It must win the agency right of World of Warcraft, and even the founder had to fly to In America, Zhang Shuxin, who had an interview with Song Yang, also lost his energy for a while.

   "It's over for winning Haiwei!"

  In the past few years, the number of employees has been continuously reduced, and now there are only more than a hundred internal employees of Yinghaiwei. When they heard the news, they all had such an idea.

He has supported Win Haiwei for so long, and even the internal staff of Win Haiwei held his breath. That is, Win Haiwei still has a chance to turn around. As long as Song Yang, who has invested in Win Haiwei, is willing to win Win Haiwei If so, then it will have a chance to make a comeback!

  But the agent right of World of Warcraft was taken away by Sohu, everyone in Ying Haiwei knew that there was no chance. At twelve o'clock that night, Ying Haiwei issued a "stop" announcement, which shocked the entire domestic Internet.

   Sohu got the agency right, and immediately started to prepare to bring World of Warcraft into China. When the reservation started, the number of domestic reservation users exceeded one million within 24 hours, which also announced that World of Warcraft had come to Asia, and it was still unstoppable!

At this time, the global players of World of Warcraft have theoretically exceeded tens of millions, with 4.5 million users in North America and nearly 4 million in old Europe, plus Yanjing, Hong Kong City, Singapore, the Middle East and other places. Users, in theory, World of Warcraft has become the game with the most players in the world!

   At this time, ICQ released a new product again, Skype, which claims to be able to provide professional game voice for World of Warcraft team players, was officially released!

  (end of this chapter)