After Wang Libin left, Luo Fan contacted Mr. Lei and told him about the incident.

After listening to this, Mr. Lei was not surprised by Penguin Financing Star Chat.

Penguin has always been like this, and he is used to it. It's like making a game. If you can buy it, buy it. If you can't buy it, copy it.

"Mr. Luo, what do you think?"

"Give him some shares! This will somewhat reduce Penguin's defense against our Star Chat, and it can also earn a large sum of money for the development of Star Chat," Luo Fan said.

"Is Xingyuan short of money now? As far as I know, your headlines generate tens of millions in advertising revenue every month. The idea of ​​this mobile portal shocked a lot of people." Mr. Lei said with a hint of ridicule.

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"Mr. Lei, you don't know something. I just bought a piece of land to build the company's headquarters. It will cost about 1 billion. Money is very tight."

"Renovate the company headquarters? Why do you need to repair the company headquarters so early?"

"It's not too early, I think now is the right time."

After being silent for a moment, Mr. Lei said: "Let's do this! I'll come over tomorrow, and then we'll talk to the people over at Penguin."

Mr. Lei also came over the next day, and the three parties met in the conference room at 10 a.m.

Penguin’s requirements are very simple. Their main goal is that StarChat has tested mature technology. As for the 30% stake, it can actually be reduced.

Both Mr. Lei and Luo Fan want to gain more development time for StarChat. At least they cannot allow Penguin’s social software to have Shake and Moments as soon as it is launched.

So the two sides started negotiations around this point.

This conversation lasted a whole day.

In the end, the two parties reached an agreement. Penguin spent 400 million to purchase 20% of Star Chat's shares, and Star Chat needed to share Star Chat's shake-related technology with Penguin.

After the two parties signed the agreement, Xingliao's equity became 44% held by Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd., 36% held by Rice, and 20% held by Penguin.

After the agreement was signed, the three parties had dinner together.

The next day, Mr. Lei came to Luo Fan's company again.

"Mr. Luo, yesterday you agreed to share the technology related to Shake to Penguin. Do you have any other ideas?"

"Well, our company already has the direction for StarChat's next upgrade. Here is the plan." Luo Fan said as he handed the folder on the table to Mr. Lei.

After reading this, Mr. Lei's eyes lit up: "Now, even if Penguin's new social software is Shake, it won't have much impact on Star Chat."

Luo Fan smiled and nodded.

Unconsciously, more than half a month has passed, and the time has arrived on the 1st of the month.

The 1st of every month is Xingyuan’s regular meeting. On this day, Xingyuan’s top management gathers in the conference room.

As usual, Gao Meng made this month's financial statements into a ppt and released it.

This month, except for the land purchase, Xingyuan's financial reports have been basically stable.

The small website can barely maintain a balance of payments, and the missing parts of the online store can be subsidized.

The income from games is enough to sustain the company's operations.

Daily Toutiao's advertising revenue exceeded 80 million yuan in October. According to this trend, it should exceed 100 million yuan by January to February next year.

The fact that Daily Toutiao can achieve this result is just as Mr. Lei said before, his jaw dropped.

To be honest, in the eyes of most people, the mobile Internet field is just a child's play house, a market that a large number of Internet giants do not pay attention to.

In the eyes of these people, mobile phones will not replace computers as the center of the Internet.

They don’t have much confidence in advertising on mobile phones, because mobile phones have such small screens, how to place ads? How to monetize traffic?

Moreover, without wifi, the mobile phone becomes scrap metal. The mobile phone cannot access the Internet anytime and anywhere. When you return home, you can use the computer. What is the meaning of the existence of the mobile phone?

For these reasons, even Taobao's mobile APP was only launched in 2013. Although Baidu has an APP, it does not pay attention to it. In comparison, only Penguin pays more attention to the mobile terminal.

But Penguin’s focus is not on the mobile terminal, but on online games.

Therefore, the sudden rise of Daily Toutiao has surprised countless people in the industry.

But even so, Internet giants still don't have much interest in mobile Internet, because Toutiao's monthly advertising revenue is not even as much as the amount of krypton gold generated by CF in one day. Why should Internet giants pay attention to this volume?

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Luo Fan didn't care about this either. If they didn't pay attention to it, wasn't it just an opportunity for Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. to make a fortune in silence?

"Boss, in recent months, various smart phones have begun to appear on the market, and many APPs have been pre-installed on mobile phones. Should we follow suit and take the opportunity to buy some pre-installed mobile phones?"

Wang Jing's words interrupted Luo Fan's thoughts.

It was pre-installed on the phone and had basically disappeared before Luo Fan was reborn.

The final analysis is that the competition in the mobile phone market is too fierce. In order not to offend users, mobile phone manufacturers have given up such low-return and annoying methods.

But it is still 2010. In addition to giants like Samsung and Apple, other smartphone companies are desperately trying to grab the market. Whether they are branded phones or copycat phones, there are all kinds of low-priced customized phones on the market, and advertising phones are everywhere.

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This is the type of phone that comes with free phone charges.

In order to get as much profit as possible, many mobile phone companies will cooperate with APP software companies and install these software when the mobile phones leave the factory. The mobile phone companies make profits, and the software companies gain users at low prices.

By doing this, it seems like a win-win situation for both the mobile phone company and the APP software company, but only the users will be hurt.

But in fact, software pre-installed in advance cannot be deleted, and mobile phones that are willing to accept pre-installed software will naturally not be flagship high-end models of any brand.

The running memory of this type of mobile phone is very low, and there are a lot of software in the mobile phone that cannot be deleted. The mobile phone becomes stuck after only a few days of use, which makes countless users gnash their teeth and even hate the software pre-installed on the mobile phone.

After installing it, when I see these software, I will uninstall it without even thinking about it.

This is also a huge blow to software developers.

Any software development company that values ​​its future will carefully choose whether to do this.

Luo Fan remembered that the first music company he went to in his previous life wanted to do this kind of pre-installation, and even sent someone to inquire about the price.

Factory pre-installed software seems to be divided into two types, one is the type that cannot be deleted, which costs about 3-4 yuan per mobile phone.

The other is to just install it, but the user can remove it at any time, which only costs a few cents each.

The latter mobile phone companies basically accept all comers and ask for as many as they come. This time, mobile phone manufacturers are directly making money.
Chapter completed!